| ▲ | torginus 5 hours ago |
| Nerds suck. They are smelly, have bad posture, manners, never leave their rooms and are generally unappealing. They also have a nasty habit of being aware of nefarious practices, will resist all attempts to and harvest their data, or lock them into your service, and will drop you if your competitor makes a 3% better product, and will reject every upsell for actually profitable services. Plus there is only so many of them. |
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| ▲ | panarky 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A wave of nausea hit when I first saw the warm, fuzzy, cutesy, kawaii, Teletubby-like avatar that Meta gave its Muse agent. And now OpenAI has done the same thing with their fuzzy, friendly, colorful dots. I am physically sick. |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | im crying and throwing up everywhere. everything i use must be brutalist. even seeing the linux penguin makes me want to punch my monitor and commit sudoku | | |
| ▲ | laserlight 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > commit sudoku Hilarious. | |
| ▲ | derefr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think you missed the point. Things should look like what they are. The Linux kernel is ultimately a friendly open-source project. There's no harm in it being marketed using a cartoon penguin. These AI services, meanwhile, are the dangled lights on the heads of data-hungry environment-threatening job-killing leviathantine anglerfish. Making the dangled light present as non-threatening is not a good thing for society, no matter how much you may personally like pretty lights. | | |
| ▲ | aquariusDue an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The one time a similar mascot to FreeBSD's would've made sense. | |
| ▲ | panarky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey with Meta's "Jolly" avatar as HAL instead of a blinking red camera lens. So much more terrifying for a cute, round, fuzzy, friendly, rosy-cheeked plushie trying to exterminate the crew. |
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| ▲ | bpavuk 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I miss o3 in that regard. if GPT-4o led people into virtual romance and over-validation, o3 gave me the same sort of "madness" but with work. when I tried GPT-5, I was sad mostly because GPT-5 had some added wordiness. fluff, if you will. o3, though, is a black hole you can talk to, and it only gave information back if there was something to give back. that kind of vibe is my dream coworker | | | |
| ▲ | waynecochran 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes, it is hard, psychologically, to grant trust to some silly perverse little thing I want crush like a surreal cartoonish cockroach. | |
| ▲ | phoghed 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Physically cringed at this comment | |
| ▲ | Anon1096 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Absolutely ridiculous comment can't believe anyone would actually post this seriously. |
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| ▲ | dpoloncsak 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I remember a while ago the discussion kinda steered from "The leading LLM provider will be the one with the better model" to "...will be the one with more user history". Tools like OpenClaw and Pi seem to remove that from the equation, letting you keep your 'history' and customization while using whatever inference provider you want. If Muse takes off, which seems to be built upon or atleast arch'd similar to OpenClaw, I think we'll see the rise of on-device harnesses. This would further the efforts to "resist all attempts to.... lock them into your service, and will drop you if your competitor makes a 3% better product, and will reject every upsell for actually profitable services.", imo. In a model-agnostic harness all you care about is speed, accuracy, and price. |
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| ▲ | giancarlostoro 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > habit of being aware of nefarious practices Not all Nerds are the same. I've been attacked for questioning why some companies still use Oracle, when most of the ones I've worked at either migrated off Oracle or were in the process of doing so. |
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| ▲ | i_love_retros 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > They also have a nasty habit of being aware of nefarious practices, will resist all attempts to and harvest their data Lol what? Most of the hackernews gang consider themselves nerds and they lap this shit up! Every new overpriced and unnecessary product that gets released by google, meta, openai, anthropic, whoever, they lap it up! |
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| ▲ | wolvoleo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not really. I use cloud AI a bit for development but I don't put personal data in it. That only runs on my local systems. I also swap all the time for whoever is cheapest | |
| ▲ | Larrikin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The usage of Chrome and even worse nitpicking of Firefox is such a strange thing about this community. | | |
| ▲ | godelski 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is everyone here actually a nerd? Or do they just work in tech. You might think they're the same but plenty of people wouldn't. There's certainly different types of nerds |
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