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Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 11:04 PM

I find it kind of infuriating when someone doesn't respond to their posts.  (And maybe this was just a bot). 

But someone posted on Reddit that they made a One Piece mobile game, using the logo and characters and everything. And they posted it on like 8 subreddits. 

The r/gamedev post has hundreds of comments talking about copyright law. And OP isn't acknowledging it. 

#2

Gaming Community / Re: Which videogame protagonis...

Last post by Legend - Apr 14, 2026, 09:45 PM

One of the sadder parts of this gen for me is that Portal isn't playable on PS5.

Portal 1 and 2 are both playable on Xbox Series X through their BC efforts.

But I only have Portal 2 on ps3 

#3

Gaming Community / Re: Which videogame protagonis...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 14, 2026, 09:32 PM

Hmm yeah I knew that from portal 2. It's a great game. I love it.

One of the sadder parts of this gen for me is that Portal isn't playable on PS5.

Portal 1 and 2 are both playable on Xbox Series X through their BC efforts. 

#4

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by Legend - Apr 14, 2026, 07:58 PM

I don't know if this is actually the case, but I almost feel like a lot of people look at AI as if it's this box, and they're trying to get the box to be capable of everything they want it to be.

But I've been viewing it under a lens that each LLM is it's own personality.

If you try 10 different LLMs, they might be generally capable of most of the same things. One might be better at X and worse at Y. But you also find that they generally like different phrasings, they use different names when you ask them to come up with names.

There's different model temperament, even if you're asking them to do the same things.

True.

When I was training for my marathon pre injury, I had the same convo repeating across Gemini, Chatgpt, and Grok. I copy pasted my post to each one to keep it in sync. That way I could get the best info.

But gemini started yelling at me for not doing exactly what it was saying 

#5

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 14, 2026, 06:47 PM

I don't know if this is actually the case, but I almost feel like a lot of people look at AI as if it's this box, and they're trying to get the box to be capable of everything they want it to be. 

But I've been viewing it under a lens that each LLM is it's own personality. 

If you try 10 different LLMs, they might be generally capable of most of the same things. One might be better at X and worse at Y. But you also find that they generally like different phrasings, they use different names when you ask them to come up with names.

There's different model temperament, even if you're asking them to do the same things. 

#6

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Apr 14, 2026, 02:24 PM

yeah, policy wise i'm only suppose to use the company AI tool.  

...but if my question doesn't contain any company specific information i ignore the policy.  my SQL question was pretty generic.   I have a table the represents a heirarchy.   So there are basically 3 columns:
- ID
- ParentID
- Name

So the topmost items has a Null ParentID and all of the other records have a parent.   I needed to calculate the full path:
- <<Name Top>>\<<Name Middle>>\<<Name Bottom>>

there is a recursive SQL query using "Union All" that i didn't know existed but it was very well documented use case and nothing about what i'm doing is IP.  

#7

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 14, 2026, 02:14 PM

I knew about Relevance AI, I was just wondering if you had any more specifics. 

Asking Copilot about Relevance AI  (Asking AI to learn about AI, sure is a funny thing). 

And it also thinks you're getting rate limited by the company, probably per model.

We don't have any official system at work yet. Not sure if that'll change.
But a lot of use Copilot in the Edge Browser.

Sometimes I use Duck AI:
https://duck.ai/

I think two of my coworkers (one of which is my boss) uses the actual claude.ai on occasion. 

(I'm sure it's against your company policy to use either of these.)

#8

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Apr 14, 2026, 01:50 PM

That makes little sense to me. What service were you using when you got these long response times?

I could understand if your company has a single queue, and you're waiting for other employees (without even being aware of it). But I haven't seen anything like that. 

Although Copilot goes down sometimes for me... 

"relavance AI" but as I mentioned before it seems like that is just a "business security layer".   The actual AI is:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
- Claude Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, or Opus 4.6
- OpenAI GPT 5.2, 5 mini, 4.1

#9

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 14, 2026, 01:27 PM

so i just don't know what to say about my companies AI tool. 

I tried to use it yesterday to solve the hangman question.  I also used it to write some SQL queries. 

My hangman question has a little flag on it that claims it took "2 seconds" to process the request but in real time it took over 10 minutes to get a response to my question. 

one of my questions about a SQL query took "41 seconds" but it was over 20 minutes to get an answer.  while I was waiting for that answer I did a google search.  Google's AI gave me a response in way less than 41 seconds.  At a glance I thought it was pretty good but then i looked at the source and it was almost straight up plagiarism of a MS help page.  when i finally got an answer from my companies AI it was also a straight up plagiarism of the same MS help page.

the overall theme though is by the time my companies AI gives me an answer I have already finish with my work and moved onto the next thing.  i just don't understand why it is sooooo slow.  google's public (and free) AI is just soo much faster and frankly gives better answers.  ...and i appreciate that it provides sources.

That makes little sense to me. What service were you using when you got these long response times?

I could understand if your company has a single queue, and you're waiting for other employees (without even being aware of it). But I haven't seen anything like that.  

Although Copilot goes down sometimes for me...  

#10

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Apr 14, 2026, 01:16 PM

so i just don't know what to say about my companies AI tool.   

I tried to use it yesterday to solve the hangman question.   I also used it to write some SQL queries.   

My hangman question has a little flag on it that claims it took "2 seconds" to process the request but in real time it took over 10 minutes to get a response to my question.   

one of my questions about a SQL query took "41 seconds" but it was over 20 minutes to get an answer.  while I was waiting for that answer I did a google search.   Google's AI gave me a response in way less than 41 seconds.   At a glance I thought it was pretty good but then i looked at the source and it was almost straight up plagiarism of a MS help page.   when i finally got an answer from my companies AI it was also a straight up plagiarism of the same MS help page.

the overall theme though is by the time my companies AI gives me an answer I have already finish with my work and moved onto the next thing.  i just don't understand why it is sooooo slow.   google's public (and free) AI is just soo much faster and frankly gives better answers.   ...and i appreciate that it provides sources.