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by sponnath 3mo ago
I think it's being silently downgraded. Can't tell for sure.
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by sponnath 4mo ago
I feel like they're also ignoring the increase in actual real world use costs due to reasoning. Just looking at token costs doesn't capture the whole picture.
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by sponnath 4mo ago
It's actually baffling that Github struggles to load a 1000 comments. It can't even load a single one it seems like. It just straight up silently fails. How is this a thing in 2026?
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by sponnath 4mo ago
I don't think people's main concern is just the use of AI. The main concern seems to be that a PR of this scale was merged probably without a proper review process.
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by sponnath 4mo ago
I don't think something like this and an entire rewrite of your codebase in 9 (?) days is the same thing.
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by sponnath 5mo ago
I think Studio Ghibli has made some of the most beautiful films I've ever seen and I make it a habit to rewatch many of them every year. I think Sam and the others overusing the Ghibli artstyle is absolutely a petty dig at Miyazaki say
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by sponnath 7mo ago
While the whole "Claude Code is just like a game engine" tweet was silly, this comment seems too derisive. I highly doubt engineers at Anthropic are lacking in talent.
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by sponnath 8mo ago
I have to agree. It's off-putting to me too. I'm impressed by the performance of their models on this take-home but I'm not impressed at their (perhaps unintentional) derision of human programmers.
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by sponnath 8mo ago
Absolutely. I honestly wouldn't ever recommend doing this. Imo, you should just spent a little extra time cleaning your display over taking dubious preventative measures.
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by sponnath 8mo ago
It's not silly when you consider what longnow stands for. They look at "now" on a 20,000 year scale so the extra zero is just emphasizing that 01931 is still the "long now".
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by sponnath 8mo ago
There's honestly not much you can do to prevent the "oily cubes" problem, especially if you keep the laptop docked often. You'll just have to clean the screen more often. I've seen some people place a keyboard-sized
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by sponnath 8mo ago
There are "ungodly geniuses" within mathematics but no one is saying every mathematician is an "ungodly genius". The quality of results you get from an LLM can vary greatly depending on the environment you place it in an
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by sponnath 8mo ago
Not disagreeing with you, but I don't think Tao is blowing this out of proportion either. I think it's a pretty reasonable way of saying, "Hey, AI is now capable of something it wasn't able to do before".
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by sponnath 8mo ago
I think at this point it's not easy to accurately detect whether or not something is AI written. A real person can definitely write like this. In fact, that's probably where the LLMs got their writing style from.
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by sponnath 8mo ago
Refactoring does always cost something and I doubt LLMs will ever change that. The more interesting question is whether the cost to refactor or "rewrite" the software will ever become negligible. Until it isn't, it's sho
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by sponnath 8mo ago
It does not recursively install dev-dependencies.
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by sponnath 9mo ago
Why do you think the models are AGI? I also like to think that Einstein would be smart enough to explain things from a common point of understanding if you did drop him 2000 years in the past (assuming he also possesses the scientific knowl
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by sponnath 9mo ago
Reading is usually more passive than coding. I'm often never sleepy if I'm actively coding something late at night but reading a book (no matter how engaging) or watching a tv show can very easily make me sleepy. That said, everyo
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by sponnath 10mo ago
How is a compiler and an LLM equivalent abstractions? I'm also seriously doubtful of the 10x claim any time someone brings it up when AI is being discussed. I'm sure they can be 10x for some problems but they can also be -10x. The
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by sponnath 11mo ago
I've tried to make AI work but a lot of times the overall productivity gains I do get are so negligible that I wouldn't say it's been transformative for me. I think the fact that so many of us here on HN have such different e
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by sponnath 11mo ago
Wouldn't say it's transformative.
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by sponnath 11mo ago
This is peak pseudo-intellectualism.
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by sponnath 1y ago
Why would these things not be relevant for humans?
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by sponnath 1y ago
I don't think it's correct to generalize front-end work like this. I've found it very underwhelming for the kind of front-end stuff I do. It makes embarrassing mistakes. I've found it quite useful for a lot of the braind
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by sponnath 1y ago
I would even argue the hard parts of being human don't even need to be automated. Why are we all in a rush to automate everything, including what makes us human?
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by sponnath 1y ago
Something big is definitely happening but it's not the intelligence explosion utopia that the AI companies are promising. > Who cares if AGI isn’t five minutes away. That’s not the point. The point is we’ve built the closest thing t
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by sponnath 1y ago
The human brain demonstrates that human intelligence is possible, but it does not guarantee that artificial intelligence with the same characteristics can be created.
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by sponnath 1y ago
True but this only works well if the natural language "processor" was reliable enough to properly translate business requirements into code. LLMs aren't there yet.
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by sponnath 1y ago
There's some minor content overflow in the x axis. I think it wouldn't hurt to tweak the max width of the page content as I feel like it's a bit too much right now. Also not sure if I'm a fan of the animation you have go
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by sponnath 1y ago
I think the only places where the entry-level coder is being killed are corps that never cared about the junior to senior pipeline. Some of them love off-shoring too so I'm not sure much has changed.

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