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> Iran doesn't torture its citizens

Wow, I can't believe someone would say this. In January, they basically killed tens of thousands of us with machine guns. After the war, the first thing they did was cut off the internet to prevent an internal uprising. They deployed many Basij checkpoints with machine guns just to warn Iranians. This is a sample scene, don't you consider it torture?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/video/2026/01/12/ira...


It's easy to dunk when you just cut off half the statement!

Since you said "us", are you there right now? How was the oil rain in Tehran, no big deal for the greater good?

In my experience, Windsurf was significantly more effective when working with a big codebase.


Windsurf goes looking into the codebase and learning context before attacking the problem in my experience. Often Cursor tries it's best to just guess the solution without context and only really resorts to going deeper when you tell it they fails.

I find if I tell Windsurf to look at something it will, Cursor I sometimes lay everything out for it and it just doesn't even read it.

Ultimately though once you run out of requests on Windsurf it's very weak without Claude though, and the top up requests are burnt through too quickly.


I trialled Cursor for a month and then Windsurf. Cursor read entire code files in while Windsurf would read the first 100 lines (or was it 50?), then the next 100, and often stop before it got to the part of the file with the method in which was needed.

So I went back to Cursor.


Think how inconsistent this all is becomes one of the most frustrating parts of it.


Have you checked Augmentcode.com? On reddit/youtube people are praising it for how well it handle large codebase compared to Cursor and Windsurf


Your other comments indicate you work there, you might consider mentioning that.


Boo I hate when people do that.


Comparing JS frameworks to LLMs is like comparing a bike to a spaceship—completely different beasts.


Yeah, it’s just ComfyUI replacing Photoshop


By "view that humanity," do you mean alignment with the effective altruism cult?

Repressive laws on open AI/models—giving elites total control in the name of safety?

And this alternative perspective from the cult should disqualify someone from a Turing Award despite their achievements?


No, a "view that humanity ought to be replaced" is Sutton's, not an EA view. I'm not quite sure how you read that otherwise, except that you seem very angry. I sure hope our alternatives are better than human extinction or total control by elites...


Hinton is not the "father of modern AI." This overlooks the contributions of many others.

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/physics-nobel-2024-plagiari...


Sure the ideas go away away back - but most people had given up on neural nets after the initial excitement, and sure others were also working on it - however the difference for me is he used it to solve real world interesting problems - and by showing what was possible - that ignited the resurgence.

Now you could argue that the people in the 60's and 70's didn't have the compute available to make non-toy networks, and it was only applying the same techniques on bigger datasets with more compute that was the real difference.

Sure - but that happens all the time in science - every innovation is building on the shoulders of others and the assignment of the Nobel prize is as a result often rather arbitrary.

Also don't underestimate the value of reducing to practice - the difference between coming up with an idea and actually making it work in practice.


Still better than than Hinton.



The article is pure nonsense, and even the author added an update admitting it missed important context.


> AI scrapers are parasites.

I've been making crawlers for a living! Thanks for informing me that I'm a parasite.


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