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This sort of ridiculous “criticism” is why I have a hard time taking libertarians seriously.

good observation comrade!

No, that's not at all the same thing: ai-generated contributions from people with a track record for useful contributions are still accepted.

Right. AI submissions are so burdensome that they have had to refuse them from all except a small set of known contributors.

The fact that there’s a small carve out for a specific set of contributors in no way disputes what Supermancho claimed.


A powertool that needs discretion and good judgement to be used well is being restricted to people with a track record of displaying good judgement. I see nothing wrong here.

AI enables volume, which is a problem. But it is also a useful tool. Does it increase review burden? Yes. Is it excessively wasteful energy wise? Yes. Should we avoid it? Probably no. We have to be pragmatic, and learn to use the tools responsibly.


I never said anything is wrong with the policy. Or with the tool use for that matter.

This whole chain was one person saying “AI is creating such a burden that projects are having to ban it”, someone else being willfully obtuse and saying “nuh uh, they’re actually still letting a very restricted set of people use it”, and now an increasingly tangential series of comments.


Yes, but technically no different than "good contributions from humans are still accepted, AI slop can fuck off".

Since the onus falls on those "people with a track record for useful contributions" to verify, design tastefully, test and ensure those contributions are good enough to submit - not on the AI they happen to be using.

If it fell on the AI they're using, then any random guy using the same AI would be accepted.


Video encoding uses dedicated silicon, it's not using the card's compute.

If my 10 year old card can't encode in hardware, it's a nonstarter.

The inflection on his voice…

“Access Advance and Avanci have published rates for a pool asserting content royalties across AVC, HEVC, VP9, VVC, and AV1 that could push major platforms toward nine-figure annual exposure.”

Yes, they've made claims on AV1, claims that have never been tested in court.

You need to understand that these are parasitic businesses. They didn't develop AV1. They didn't contribute to AV1. But they will make any claim they think they can get away with.

Show me the court case they've won that validates their claims on AV1.


AV1 was created by a consortium of some of the biggest tech companies in the world, and "all technology was vetted in a rigorous patent review process before being integrated into the final spec."[0]

On the other side, you've got patent trolls who are upset that their shitty business model is coming to an end. They're just being loud as they're losing.

[0] https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...


Looks like this is the court case to keep an eye on: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-fr...

Gmail is not an Outlook replacement. Gsuite as a whole has more or less the required pieces, but there is no single google product that covers the feature set of Outlook + Exchange.

They're almost certainly using an Exchange server; Outlook is not (just) an email app. Attachments are not being sent via smtp.

Great, one more thing that can fail. Does anyone remember, that some time ago lots of people were in panic, because Exchange servers had a vulnerability on "high severity" level, and people everywhere had to patch their Exchange servers, if they didn't rent them from a service provider? Can't wait to see that happening again, this time affecting an Exchange server used by astronauts in space!

These aren't mission critical systems, they can lose their email

The main title of the office is still “secretary of defense”, the executive order added a secondary title of the department and the office, it didn't replace the primary titles.

I think we might be getting to the point where submissions for projects that are primarily written by ai and/or ai agents need to be tagged with [agent] in the title

If this were 2+ years ago perhaps, with industry adopting more agents in their SDLCs (ie Stripe minions or Ramp background agents), I think we're more a matter of time before we treat agent/human built products the same unless we're branding smth as artisanal human-crafted software

Well, we're not there today. Generated code and prose are still trivial to spot.

And even mass-produced products benefit from thoughtful design by a human.

Why didn't the blog post explain anything about why the rewrite is faster? Or about Zig, or C, programming, at all?


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