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by bwfan123 6mo ago
> A good percentage of cybersecurity has always been theater It is great to be in a "best-effort" business where there are no consequences for bad things happening. Cybersecurity is one of those businesses. Web search, feeds an
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
Not surprising given that they dont even know why claude-code works as before or doesnt work [1] ie, there is no known theory of operation. Explains why they are afraid of it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766092
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> I can't believe that's where we're at, as software devs Agree wholeheartedly. The premise of the bug did not make any sense to me. For instance, "unusable for complex engineering tasks", why would someone who u
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
Imagine a team of human engineers. One day they are 10x ninjas and the next they are blub-coders. Not happening. Put Claude on PIP.
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
Journalism has become theater. With slop. At least they are admitting to the error.
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
agree, great educational tool ! tied a bunch of things around coding agents for me.
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> You need both. yea, there are multiple parts to education. 1) teach skills useful to the economy 2) teach the theories of the subject, and finally 3) tweak existing theories and create new ones. An electrician can fix problems without
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> The problem isn't that we'll decide to stop thinking. The problem is that we'll barely notice when we do Most of what we call thinking is merely to justify beliefs that emotionally make us happy and is not creative per-s
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> Can anyone point a finger of why this anti take is so prominent? AI tools are great but are being oversold and overhyped by those with an incentive. So, there is a continuous drumbeat of "AI will do all the code for you" ! &q
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> You only need to login and click around for a bit to see this is not a coherent system designed by competent people Ironically, the book "Hit Refresh" hit a nerve that every azure web-page has a refresh button. Isnt that dati
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
The problem with unit tests these days is that AI writes them entirely and does a great job at it. That defeats the purpose of unit tests in the first place since the human doesnt have the patience to review the reams of over-mocked test-co
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
I have been a frustrated user as well. Their services seem to be held together by duct tape. For instance, an online endpoint creation failed after 90minutes with internal-error and no clue what the error is. Support tickets are routed over
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
brute-forcing pattern-matching at scale. These are brittle systems with enormous duct-taping to hold everything together. workarounds on workarounds.
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> time forecasting is bullshit for a model to be useful, it doesnt need to capture the behavior of a system. It only needs to capture signals which can be useful. For example, for a biased coin toss, a model is already useful if it can
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
What is the cheapest usable local rig for coding ? I dont want fancy agents and such, but something purpose built for coders, and fast-enough for my use, and open-source, so I can tweak it to my liking. Things are moving fast, and I am hesi
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> the "last step" is what takes the majority of time and effort Having worked extensively with vibe-coded software, the main problem for me is that I have tuned-off from the ai-code, and I dont see any skin-in-the-game for me.
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> This doesn't make sense to a typical English speaker You read the words like they were generated by an AI - ie, empty words which did not make sense to you. ie, you did not derive meaning from it. But for me, I derived meaning fro
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> After a while smart people will simply decline to work for him no matter the compensation. Not everyone, but enough to start to matter. Among people there are 2 types: 1) Those that gain self-esteem by associating themselves with leade
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> Formalizing those intuitions is real work, but it's not the same as generating something with no prior basis. > The fact that Euclid existed doesn't tell us much about what the other billions of humans are doing cognitivel
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> But then again, how often do humans actually reason outside their own “training distribution”? Most human insight happens within well-practiced domains. Humans can produce new concepts and then symbolize them for communication purposes
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by bwfan123 7mo ago
> This is Goodhart's law at scale. Also, Brandolini's law. And Adam Smith's law of supply and demand. When the ability to produce overwhelms the ability to review or refute, it cheapens the product.
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Make It Shitty(theregister.com)
9 points by bwfan123 8mo ago|1 comments
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
[1] https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/02/breaking-f... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ&t=239s
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
> fundamentally undefinable Incredible, how an entire religion has sprung up around AGI.
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
> We raised the national GDP by $200. Seeing this phenomenon, a silicon valley entrepreneur get an idea with the following sales pitch: "Turd-bars that will make you the fittest version of yourself , answer all your deepest question
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Future of math research in the age of AI(siliconreckoner.substack.com)
1 points by bwfan123 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
Majority of us are meme-copying automatons who are easily pwned by LLMs. Few of us have learned to exercise critical thinking and understanding from the first assumptions - the kind of thing we are expected to be learn in schools - also the
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
> Only the marketing and distribution matter in a world where it's very easy for others to clone something and sell it at a lower price Great point. AI remixes and rips-off existing code-bases in a manner that is impossible to attri
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
Heres the result [1] [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-proof-is-ai...
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by bwfan123 8mo ago
> Software will have its time in the sun again Take a look at the history of the power loom which automated weaving in the 19th century. The number of handloom weavers dropped two orders of magnitude after the power loom.

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