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Apple Is Putting Employees On an AI Budget

According to Bloomberg, Apple is cutting employee AI spending limits to reduce costs, lowering some engineers from $300 to $200 per day and considering limits as low as $100, with some teams capped at $25. Employees are also being encouraged to use cheaper models or on-device AI. MacRumors reports: Engineers at Apple have the largest budgets because using AI for coding can consume a large number of tokens. Apple lets employees use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other models. Some Apple employees told Bloomberg that few were using their full $300 daily limit, so the savings may be small. Apple ha

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So according to the recent talk Reflections on Haskell@Meta by Simon Marlow, Haskell is no longer used in Meta (Facebook, Instagram, ...) as the main language to specify automated moderation tools. Instead, they use Hack, their version of PHP. As Simon explains in the talk, the decision to drop Haskell was made whilst knowing that many of Haskell safety guarantees will have to be dropped in the new system. I wonder if we should now expect to see many more unexpected moderation missteps in the coming years 🙂. #facebook , #haskell

WebNest of Tomas Jakl · EN

Forcing OpenWRT on a WD N600 router

According to the OpenWRT wiki, 1 there are three tested methods to install OpenWRT on a WD N600 router. However, when I got my hands on one, neither method worked. Every time I tried to flash the factory image (version 24.10.0 at the time), the router’s light would slowly turn on and off, as if the image was being flashed, but it would never stop. The router would get stuck and never reboot. After a couple hours of tears and frustration, I managed to figure out what the issue was. After giving the factory image a shorter name and following the wiki’s first method, the router would

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