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I think they are lying to you [video]
- bitwize 4mo agoPretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn't know improvement if it landed on their lap and started twerking, and AI cannot do a job without strong human intervention into what the goals and guardrails actually are. I'm kind of reminded of when Microsoft claimed it took a team of Ph.D.s to write a terminal application that updated at 60fps, and then Casey Muratori did it over a weekend. And this was before AI was writing code in earnest; when LLM-induced brainrot really sets in, civilization is in for a world of fresh hurt: lots more generated code, almost all of it garbage. And the promised AI crossover point where it becomes AGI, or indistinguishable from for software design purposes, recedes into the infinite future.
- wasabinator 4mo agoAgreed. Watch for a rise in cases of early onset dementia over the next few decades.
- gdjdhdheb 4mo agoNo, we'll just find harder problems.... Coding is boring now
- Jblx2 4mo ago"The Feeling of Power" by Arthur C. Clarke
- SpaceNoodled 4mo agoIsaac Asimov, but yes.
- Jblx2 4mo agoargh
- andrei_says_ 4mo agoReading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible. A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality. Idiocracy presents a naively gentle positive version of such future but there are many darker ones possible. Kali Yuga, indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga
- Papazsazsa 4mo agoIgnorance is too generous a word. This is epistemic collapse.
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- Retric 4mo agoCustomers abandon companies that fail. Remember how they used Brando to water plants and it kills them? Eventually mistakes break critical systems and you fail.
- _doctor_love 4mo agoThe pralaya is not far away. Soon Shiva will begin his dance. I give us until 2036.
- kshri24 4mo agoPralaya happens after complete age of Brahma. That would be 100 Brahma years. Or 311.04 trillion human years. We are in the 51st year of Brahma. Kali Yuga lifespan is 432,000 years. Of which we are 4000+ years into it. So that's another 428,000 years of hell on Earth.
- triyambakam 4mo agoYeah like he said, not far away :D
- ai_slop_hater 4mo agoPretty much the same point I made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500537
- rvz 4mo ago> I'm kind of reminded of when Microsoft claimed it took a team of Ph.D.s to write a terminal application that updated at 60fps, and then Casey Muratori did it over a weekend. This is the same Microsoft that is now rewriting the TypeScript type checker, parser and its developer tools in Go after realizing that the bottleneck was...the performance of TypeScript itself, which is a basic compiled vs interpreted difference. > And this was before AI was writing code in earnest; when LLM-induced brainrot really sets in, civilization is in for a world of fresh hurt: lots more generated code, almost all of it garbage. Some folks using LLMs wouldn't realize why it makes zero sense to use TS / JS for building performant and optimal applications. This is why people were experiencing significant rendering bugs in terminal apps (they are not designed for that) and slow starts with Claude Code, which was completely vibe coded with Ink. If you don't understand the basic fundamentals of what you are working on with LLMs and bugs are creeping up left and right, then you are just sinking in your own comprehension debt.
- panarky 4mo agoI watched the video and I wish I could get those 13 minutes of my life back. He could have done it in 13 seconds instead of 13 minutes: "Anthropic is lying about the effectiveness of agentic loops because there's this one screen flicker bug in Claude Code that took a year to fix." Yeah, like when United Airlines claims a plane can fly 300 people 6,000 miles they are lying to you. I can prove they're lying to you because people have been complaining about uncomfortable seats and flight delays for literally decades and those issues still aren't fixed.
- Retric 4mo agoHe spent that much time and you still misunderstood the direct message and missed the subtext. The lie is coding is solved, the proof is they had an outstanding coding issue they were working on for over a year while saying coding is solved. There’s a great number of other issues with their own software that disprove their premise, but you only need one counter example to disprove something. And because you missed it, the subtext was they want you to use loops not because they work but because they burn lots of tokens thus making them more money.
- panarky 4mo agoOne unresolved bug does not disprove anything.
- slopinthebag 4mo agoAnd saying coding is solved doesn't prove anything either.
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- ryan_n 4mo agoThe point is if "coding is solved" was true, there would not be any unresolved bugs.
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- antonvs 4mo agoIt goes beyond lying. It's kind of war, and they're the aggressor. Everyone else needs to start treating them that way, or you're going to regret it once you realize what's actually happening.
- phendrenad2 4mo agoPlease please tell us so we're prepared. sad puppy eyes
- antonvs 4mo agoThere's plenty of discussion of this if you look for it. Some examples: "Sanders Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs": https://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/news-sanders-releases-report-on-big-tech-oligarchs-war-against-workers-warns-ai-could-eliminate-nearly-100-million-us-jobs https://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/news-sanders-... "How the American Oligarchy Went Hyperscale": https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/american-oligarchy-hyperscale-data-centers-meta-openai-oracle-x-musk-altman-zuckerberg-bezos/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/american-oligar... "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear": https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-is-a-threat-to-everything-the-american-people-hold-dear/ https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-is-a-threat-to-ever... To be clear: I'm an extremely experienced software developer. I use AI daily. I'm currently working on training a DNN that's used in production by enterprise companies around the globe. But there's absolutely no doubt that AI is being deployed as a weapon by the capitalist class against everyone else, and that's only going to amplify and get much, much worse. The issue is not necessarily the technology itself. The issue is how society permits it to be used.
- phendrenad2 4mo agoWhat does this have to do with the video?
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- orangebread 4mo agoI think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.
- thraway3837 4mo agoYup. The only caveat I'd add is that I'm using an alternate account to agree with people who say that AI coding has been amazing, because there is a seemingly a good chunk of people who dislike it and it will be met with downvotes. Also because my real account has my real name in the profile along with projects I work on, and a simple search could reveal my pro-AI coding views and these same folks who downvote could also be a future interviewer. I think the world changed. And it's changed for the good. AI is a tool, and we should not be afraid of this tool for the coding world. I am only speaking about coding, I'm not speaking about other uses of AI, just so that we're clear on the scope of what I mean by good change. For the first time, I see people who had all these ideas finally bring them to reality and watch it blossom. They wanted to build something to share with their communities, but the walls were too high. Too much gatekeeping. Too much of thinking that programming was a task for the elite few and not for the masses. Along the way, we all forgot that we build tools for people. And having an additional tool help us make better tools for people is a win. Just below this comment, I see people talking about dementia, "lots more generated code, almost all of it garbage", "future where garbage software". I think the only delusional ones are the idea that humans were better at coding. Have you never had to work on an older project? One that you did not have to start fresh on? Or did you come into either one and go "wow, this is perfect! everything is so beautiful!" Do you seriously consider your fresh project (that didn't use AI) to be the best most perfect beautiful code ever? The fact is that nobody cares. People want to use good things and have fun with their lives. They're not worried about whether you wrote a method that parses some strings beautifully or did it with a one-liner. That never mattered, and I think a lot of you can't let go of that world view change and instead lash out at people who simply embrace that programming was simply a tool, not some elite special skill. And we're going back to those beliefs. It's done. It's over. Get over it.
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- nhinck2 4mo agoI mean you can go through Boris' history here on hn to see he is a liar.
- mikgp 4mo agoThe one thing that gets me is - Boris must know what everyone is thinking when he says he merges 300 MR’s per day, but I think everyone knows it doesn’t mean what he’s implying - it just can’t. He can’t read 300 open source contributions per day to determine if they fit into the spirit of Claude Code. Even if he’d fully automated the testing and integration process. And 300 people per day submitting contributions? He could mean a few other thingsc one would be, he has like 20 version tags and he merges 15 features into each version (does he explicitly say merge to main?) The other thing he could mean is he has like a software engineering agent and that software engineering agent like loops through GitHub issues and his personal notepad and maybe uses a few different branches to test things out and build I dunno adversarially, running all sorts of experiments. Which would be genuinely cool! But using Mr’s to say tweak bunch of variables back and forth isn’t what 300 MR’s implies. But then the ultimate question is - it may be cool to fully automate a software engineering agent, and certainly is the type of research Anthropic and someone of Boris’ stature (and pay level) should be working on. But is it efficient? I guess yes hems talked about this: https://karozieminski.substack.com/p/boris-cherny-claude-code-workflow https://karozieminski.substack.com/p/boris-cherny-claude-cod...
- Alifatisk 4mo agoThis YouTuber is very knowledgeable, this video in particular was very good to follow along and take in what he says. Usually, I can barely watch any of his videos when they popup as recommend because his humor and way of behaving feels directed towards kids to entertain. So I avoid his channel. This time, I actually enjoyed the video. I wish he continued with this style instead. Another point I would like to bring up is this, I do not believe the idea of ”solving coding” is appropriate. I do not see these agents as replacement for our crafts, but rather, as a assistive tool for us. Its an extension of us. If you are at the beginner stage of something, and have a wrong approach for something, the agent amplify that issue (a bit of prompting can help mitigate this for beginners ofc, for example the agent can act as a teaching instructor). I feel like some people don’t know how good Claude Code (the harness) is at general tasks as well, not just coding. It have helped me troubleshoot a lot of issues in a variety of environments, from things in the local machine to external services to the web. It has truly shortened my time of sitting stuck infront of the desktop, starring at the screen while out of ideas.