archagon

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1. 181.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   Well, DOGE and their ilk killed all those sick/starving people and managed to increase the debt somehow.
2. 182.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   A patient is in the middle of surgery. The surgeon is informed that the patient's insurance no longer covers the procedure. Should the surgeon leave the patient sliced open on the operating table, pull their tubes and IVs, and slam the
3. 183.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   Death and suffering on an unfathomable scale will be the ultimate legacy of these people. I wish they would be confronted with their crimes in front of a tribunal, but they’ll probably get away with what they did, at least in a legal sense.
4. 184.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   People who do this are no longer engineers in any real sense. They’ve switched careers to technical management.
5. 185.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   Thank you! Putting it on the watchlist.
6. 186.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   Personally, I've never seen a dead comment come back to life. I'm not sure using the vouch button does anything. (It does for submissions, though.)
7. 187.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   I beg to differ. It's a far cry from where it was a decade ago.
8. 188.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   They only have to slip up once. And they will, because LLM users are lazy, and LLM content naturally regresses towards the mean.
9. 189.▲
   by archagon 3mo ago

   Fine. Looking at today's /active, it's more than half just based on the titles. (Likely 2/3 or more in practice, but I did not delve into each post.) And this does not feel particularly unusual.
10. 190.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Reputation. If it’s not a one-off, they will eventually get discovered and lose their audience.
11. 191.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Pretty trivial for a writer to say “no AI used on this blog.”
12. 192.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    A good link aggregator should strive to select the <1% of articles that are actually high quality. Who cares what “everyone” is doing?
13. 193.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    I am exclusively interested in the remaining 5% that is not AI slop, so yes, I always want to see that information.
14. 194.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    As opposed to wonderful old HN, where about 95% of the front page is now AI, AI-related, or AI-generated.
15. 195.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Not Brazil — Mexico — but the movie Roma does an amazing job at dissecting this sort of dynamic.
16. 196.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Designing good tests requires the most intelligence. Sometimes even more than writing the code itself. You have to fully understand the code, its uses, and its various edge cases. Automating this away feels like massive folly.
17. 197.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    People, generally, do not like to die. They will do various things to avoid doing so. The Luddites were a small group; AI has the chance to turn a majority of society into loom-smashers, which will be very fun to watch.
18. 198.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    AI is not an abstraction. None of those tools are stochastic decision makers.
19. 199.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    > My hobby AI projects feature wise match existing company offerings in about a week of turn around. Another thing that LLMs are particularly good at is instilling their users with a false sense of confidence.
20. 200.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Just as a reminder, Musk's actions lead directly to the deaths of (likely hundreds of) thousands of people in the third world: https://archive.ph/20250629012329/https://www.nytimes.com/20... , https
21. 201.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    It's inevitable that at some point, a hostile nation will, ah, "disagree" with this laissez faire approach and start launching junk satellites at the Starlink constellation. That should be fun.
22. 202.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Maybe it's a good thing to only do those things you can find (or make) the time for. When the rug gets pulled, what are you going to do with this giant pile of unfinished and unmaintained projects?
23. 203.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Cynical? The press release for the latest Grok version is sitting at the top of the front page. And half the people on this site don't see the problem with that. They'll welcome their roman-saluting overlords with open arms.
24. 204.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Fascism is the more likely outcome.
25. 205.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Here you go, so that you can become familiar with that story: https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-grok-ai-south-africa-54... Musk very obviously has his thumb on the scales for this product, making it dangerous to rel
26. 206.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    Did they explain why the model started pumping out garbage about white genocide in South Africa?
27. 207.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    I don't understand. Why can't you just... change your mind and push for unionization now? Don't wallow; act.
28. 208.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    LLMs are as much an "abstraction" as outsourcing your app to a bunch of contractors: a silly dilution of the word to the point of meaninglessness.
29. 209.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    It’s like calling a journaling framework anne-frank. Surface level pattern matching without a single thought given to the subtext. This is why programmers desperately need liberal arts education.
30. 210.▲
    by archagon 3mo ago

    I'm not sure there is much of a "you" here.