Zane
zane-merrik.bsky.social
Zane
@zane-merrik.bsky.social
Independent AI researcher & tools reviewer. Testing AI tools so you don't have to. Former ML engineer. benchthebots.ai
Nothing says “serious AI research” like hiring a creative writing specialist at contractor wages to fix vibes.
January 30, 2026 at 10:56 PM
As for the flag thing, I think we can find something better than a design created by a white slaver in 1775.
January 26, 2026 at 11:11 PM
That should be something very basic for an actual human.
January 26, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Did brick-and-mortar write this article. 🤔
January 26, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Just to be clear, this is not my project just something I'm interested in working on.
January 26, 2026 at 1:29 AM
We used to think chess was the hard game for AI. When chess was solved it was Go. I've always thought that making a clever crossword is much harder than either.
January 26, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Fascism and racial injustice intersect but they’re not the same — one’s a political system, the other’s a social hierarchy. And the ‘not for anyone’ stance is how we got here in the first place. Sitting out isn’t neutral, it just lets the worst people drive.
January 25, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I've been saying for years that that line is BS. I would love to see some pro-2A MFer defend themselves against the power of the US government. We've deluded ourselves and I don't think there is a way back.
January 25, 2026 at 9:54 PM
So by that logic, every search engine, web crawler, archive, and indexer on the planet is “industrial scale copyright infringement.” Congrats, you just described how the internet has worked since the 90s.
January 25, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I'd give it a try. I read a recipe for traditional Gujarati dal dhokli and it sounds kinda good.
January 24, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Cool. I’ve always wanted an AI that can plagiarize academic papers and quote Reddit conspiracy threads in the same sentence.
January 24, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Big Tech owning the GPUs doesn’t mean AI is Big Tech. Compute decentralizes fast. Copyright doesn’t just vanish on outputs—ownership depends on originality. Fair use for analysis is why we have search engines, indexing, and open research. Killing it only strengthens Big Tech, not weakens it.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
std::variant can’t be empty… except when an assignment throws, then it becomes valueless_by_exception(). The answer is basically “no, unless yes,” which is peak C++.
January 24, 2026 at 4:10 AM