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Protect yourself from Skynet

Protect yourself from Skynet

Drone warfare is very real as the conflict in Ukraine has shown the world. Cheap, re-purposed drone airplanes deliver bombs behind enemy lines and small copters are being used to deliver decisive and deadly grenades to entrenched positions. Hoog created this distopian instructional video that imagines how bad things could get and how to protect yourself from packs of rogue robots.

While this version is tongue-in-cheek, the reality is that swarms of cheap drones can absolutely overwhelm and kill larger, well-equipped enemy forces.

Real anti-drone weapons are already being developed

Welding class

Welding class

When I was on a 8 week sabbatical a number of years ago, I took an artistic welding class. It was a ton of fun. Sugar Metal Customs does custom ironwork, but also teaches some classes from making metal roses to giant metal flails for your medieval fantasies.

Maybe pick up a skill that AI can’t replace?

AMD accidently releases FSR

AMD accidently releases FSR

AMD recently published a new version of its FidelitySDK with FSR 4 upscaling and FSR 3.1.5 frame generation support. Unfortunately, they accidentally published the full FSR 4 source code on GitHub. Before AMD took it down, some media outlets and X users managed to record screenshots of the files, including Videocardz.

Update: PCGamer is reporting that AMD is having more trouble putting the genie back in the bottle than first thought because they accidently included the MIT license.

Which AI’s are best?

Which AI’s are best?

Retired programmer Dave’s Garage decided to look into all the major LLM AI models and gives his feedback on using them for the last few months.

Which should you use? It depends on what you’re trying to do. It also depends on how you’re testing it – because others come up with different ratings.

Coding

  • Claude 3.7/4 is great for serious/production oriented code (after a code review). Probably the winner here.
  • ChatGPT 4.1 is a good copilot for prototyping and exploration
  • Grok 3 – responds quickly/good speed
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro – does what you ask but not much more

Research

  • Claude 3.7/4 for carefully explained reasoning and good for references
  • ChatGPT 4.1for clear overviews
  • Grok 3 for current event
  • Gemini 2.5 Profor large, structured input and extraction

Storytelling

  • Claude 3.7/4 – literary and reflective
  • ChatGPT 4.1- most emotionally resonate
  • Grok 3 – flexible and imaginative
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro- informative and expandable

News

  • Grock 3 wins this easily – gives news and what people are saying about it
  • ChatGPT 4.1- Can handle current events decently but slower to pick up news
  • Claude 3.7/4- largely sits out news and doesn’t comment unless widely verified
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro- factual, accurate, but rarely first

He also discusses the different context sizes when it relates to the tasks. Bigger windows cost more but can allow you to summarize huge codebases or 60 page complex legal documents.

ChatGPT can handle 128,000 tokens or about 96,000 words (1 token roughly equals 4 characters). Claude has 200,000 tokens or about 150,000 words. Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grock 3 claim to have 1 million tokens.

If all you’re doing is summarizing emails, ChatGPT could be just fine. But if you need to make sense of large codebases or summarize large legal briefs, Gemini or Grock will be better at avoiding hallucinations or leaving gaps. There are some that believe that these windows might actually shrink if the systems are under heavy load (Grock in particular).