We need AI
Whyalla, South Australia
Joined December 2016
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John Merchant retweeted
I love that modern wifi 6 routers from fritzbox still look like dsl modems from the 90s. Massive respect for brand that don’t change their branding for decades . It’s extremely goated.
John Merchant retweeted
DOOM now finally running on a Power Bank😅
Specifically the Anker Prime 27650mAh one.
Since we got only one button the control is a bit tricky but surprisingly well working.
Find a full video:
youtu.be/Qb_BR02aldo
Source Code:
github.com/atc1441/Anker_Pri…
John Merchant retweeted
‼️BREAKING: Grok Build has left 35,000+ of its users' apps open to anyone, including apps from SpaceXSI.
The open apps held 3,784 medical exams of workers and a Tesla technician scorecard, plus a Navy contractor's roster and SpaceXSI's own sales plans.
The "secret" words in each app's link sit in its web address, which DNS logs record, security firm Claroc found.
Cursor, which SpaceXSI bought, says apps are private by default. Claroc's tests show otherwise.
SpaceXSI pulled its 24 apps after Ars asked. Most other data was still exposed when Ars published.
John Merchant retweeted
Big Walk developers disclosed the use of AI to meet the final stretch of production.
The outcome shows two things:
1) A studio as big as House House required AI to survive the market.
2) A smaller studio would have not survived the very people demanding disclosure.
John Merchant retweeted
this was a surprisingly tuff 😤 line from Tony Burke on updating Australian criminal law around AI:
"It should never be the case that there's an argument that someone didn't know that the computer was loaded"
John Merchant retweeted
Linus Torvalds says one Linux team may be fixing bugs faster than AI can report them.
In the Linux 7.4-rc2 update, Linus shared what eBPF maintainer Alexei Starovoitov told him. Fixes are now coming in faster than new bug reports.
Linus thinks most of the kernel is still catching up, but he sees eBPF as a sign that things might be turning around.
As Linus put it, “that sounds lovely if true.”
Source: phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-…
John Merchant retweeted
So we published last night thinking this was surely Craig Scroggie hanging out with Jensen’s suspected Chinese spy.
Someone has sent us better vision showing yep it’s NextDC’s ceo being very chummy.
John Merchant retweeted
i turn down life changing amounts of money from (trustworthy) VPN companies multiple times a year to not compromise my reporting, i didn't realize i could shill predatory investment products just fine
John Merchant retweeted
Fable 5.2 animation test
I don't think it's a significant upgrade from opus, it has all the usual claudisms but it seems smoother.
John Merchant retweeted
the clowns will never ever know the beauty and power of true knowledge and skill, which is still relevant in 2026, despite what the clowns want to make you think.
don't be a clown. eat some humble pie while you're at it.
John Merchant retweeted
man, who should i trust? a bunch of nerds who made linux run on apple silicon, reverse engineering that pesky gpu isa among a gazillion other things, all pre-ai.
or the guy who thinks having your agent rewrite shitty rust he never looked at in x86_64 is excellence?
John Merchant retweeted
“Wow grok bot is amazing”
*continues to book me 5 times for the same sport class as it keeps booking if a new spot frees up*
And yes before the cancellation deadline of course.
Now gotta make an awkward phone call about how my bot went off the rails and don’t want to pay hundreds of euros
John Merchant retweeted
There is a reason. Bad-faith actors were taking credit for volunteers work. Asahi only exists if people keep maintaining it. If they leave, the BSDs are losing the drivers anyway, GPL or not.
John Merchant retweeted
It looks like the AI layoff boom has started to backfire.
I was just going through a Reuters investigation on Meta, and holy shit...
They drew up plans to cut some teams by as much as 60% and let AI agents do the work. THEN Zuckerberg called off the next round of layoffs hours before the first one even started.
And when you look at the numbers... they tell you why.
Engineers were pushing out 220% more code, BUT major technical and security incidents jumped 40%.
So people spent 70% more time putting out fires.
AI cranked out way more work, and humans spent way more time cleaning it up.
A different report I saw this week showed something similar.
32% of hiring managers said they brought back the exact jobs they cut for AI.
Think about how dumb that is. You fire people, pay a fortune for AI, then pay again to hire the same people back.
Look, I’m no AI bear. I use AI every single day.
It saves me a shit ton of time and I’m not going back. It’s an incredible tool.
But market forces are still market forces.
Every boom in history has been overhyped, and every CEO wanted to stand up and tell Wall Street he could do more with half the people.
Now from what I’m seeing, reality is kicking in.
It costs way more than they thought, it breaks shit, and you still need people who know what the hell they’re doing.
Even the AI companies are feeling it. Elon just cut Grok’s usage limits and admitted it costs more to run than it brings in.
I still think AI is a great bet, and I’m still buying the companies building the data centers. But you need balance, and the guys who went all in on firing everyone are learning that the hard way.
Be careful out there.