back
user profile
ronbenton
2,022karma·354submissions·February 3, 2025
about
Bay Area
recent activity (354 total)
comment
This reminds me of when some government org leaked social security numbers in client-rendered html comments (or something similar) and people who discovered this were called hackers for using browser …
comment
Going to make this my LinkedIn headline
comment
I have done general process automation work (usually designing new web-based tools) for 20 years now. The underlying idea has always applied, even before AI: if your process is ill-defined and/or…
comment
At one point there was probably a notion that upselling better models would work, and I’m sure to some small extent it has. But to the general public the goodness of the model is too nuanced I’m guess…
comment
Can we talk about how awesome NASA's visualizations are for this? https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_1 …
comment
Microsoft being Microsoft
comment
Wow looks professional
comment
> and you just dump it in your project with limited vetting Well yes there’s your problem. But people have been doing this with random snippets found on the internet for a while now. The truth is …
comment
Currently working on getting back into a fitness routine. I got into this habit of hacking on side projects in my very little spare time but I have realized taking care of my body will pay off far mor…
comment
As someone who already has trouble with names, I endorse this. Now everyone will feel my pain
comment
I see headlines like this and always wonder how they establish causation. How do they know AI skepticism is the cause of a sell off? Is this an assumption or is there reasonable evidence of causation?
comment
Yes there are negative people here as well, and also people like you who are skeptical about the hype parts. But I’ve just noticed on other social media it’s like 100 naysayers for every proponent
comment
I have, but that should mean there is consistent backlash against it but I don’t see that. Reddit programming communities, for example, appear far more averse
comment
I too use a brittle, error-prone regular expression!
comment
it wouldn't be the first API service to disallow someone from selling a cache layer for their API. After all, this should likely result in OpenAI (or whatever provider) making less money
comment
Interesting... is it legal?
comment
Knowing this is the author makes me 1000% more interested in Wren. What a great book!
comment
$500K is like 1 or 2 fully loaded engineer salaries in the US. It’s not all that expensive.
comment
Cram it in everything, make a press release for the stockholders, and see what sticks. Microsoft is a particularly bad offender with copilot nonsense popping up all over the place. But hoo boy look at…
comment
I disagree with this take. What in the blog post sounds like overhead?
comment
Crazy how these outages ripple through the entire aviation system
comment
This guy's dedication is admirable