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by kypro 2mo ago
> It's exactly like that feeling once you enable cheats in a game; sure you can do anything, but everything is meaningless now. I said pretty much exactly the same thing on another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by kypro 2mo ago
> It's also not a novel argument. Why write new music or perform music at all in an era in which recordings are widely available? I actually agree with this, but not everything has been written. Everything I created had to have some
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by kypro 2mo ago
Thanks for the reply. I don't think you're wrong, I think I'm just wired differently. I really like achievement. And effort without achievement seems pointless to me. I was never particularly talented at music, but I could do
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by kypro 2mo ago
80/20 rule would suggest that you don't need to apply $1 to all users, just those who create an excessive number of AI slop repos or make an excessive number of commits. Could do similar for GH actions usage.
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by kypro 2mo ago
Everyone is taking a very bad faith view of what you're saying. I don't think you're arguing this is the worse time in all of human history to live, but that this period we are now entering broadly speaking is the worse for o
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by kypro 2mo ago
Scaling can take time but they've had at least a year to prepare. It's not like any demand increase they've seen was overnight... At most normal companies you monitor your systems and address potential bottlenecks before they
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by kypro 2mo ago
> From 2018, "Sadly, Fiscal Restraint Is No Longer a Core Principle of the GOP": While I agree, surely the assumption that the Democrats will be more fiscally responsible isn't true either? This is more an issue with moder
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by kypro 2mo ago
I switched to M365 as my provider a few years back as my emails kept being flagged as spam. I've done it for decades, but I don't know much beyond the basics of email hosting tbh, however my understanding is that these days email
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by kypro 2mo ago
It's crazy how some non-tech people have become so LLM-brained they think LLMs are the tool for literally everything. I've had a few conversations like this at my company now: - Why do we need Elasticsearch? Can't we just ask
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by kypro 2mo ago
> I never trained my memory very much because I was able to work things out on the fly I actually always thought it was the opposite for me – I had to figure out how to work things out from scratch because I could never remember anything
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by kypro 2mo ago
It seems to have a preference for speaking in poetic or highly expressively language, rather than precise and concise as most engineers like to talk. The amount of times I have to ask "precisely what do you mean by x?". It's
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by kypro 2mo ago
This surely isn't surprising to anyone though? Most job posts on HN were tech orientated. You generally shouldn't be hiring technical people in 2026.
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by kypro 2mo ago
Why analog out of interest? Digital might be a better place to start these days with all of the cheap components you can buy and some of the fun things you can build with digital electronics? Not my kid, but I brought a kid in my family a p
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by kypro 2mo ago
> the people rely on each other to enforce social norms This is probably the difference. Here's a video of a leading UK MP (whose party largely represents upper-middle class white-Brits) reacing to someone doing something he doesn&#
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by kypro 2mo ago
You might be right. I guess I'd question if people are using Salesforce because it's actually the best tool for their business at the moment. Historically I think the main reason large generic software platforms tended to win was
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by kypro 2mo ago
For what it's worth, as a Brit, I assure you no one cares about this, and it's likely that most people, if asked, would support it. The UK doesn't value liberty for liberty's sake like the US does. In the US there seems
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by kypro 2mo ago
High cost per-seat SaaS will die. SaaS itself won't because it will always be easier to use existing software vs vibe code your own. The reason people are starting to roll their own is because with AI they can, and many SaaS products a
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by kypro 2mo ago
> There is room for speedup where current implementations are slower than the proven lower bound, but not when they're already close to it. Sure, but I'm obviously not limiting research to improvements on current approaches onl
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by kypro 2mo ago
I feel you. I am trying to remain positive too.
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by kypro 2mo ago
That's probably correct. It's unlikely there will be any single hard line we cross the defines the pre-singularity vs post-singularity moment. I'd accept AI likely became somewhat helpful to frontier AI research & develop
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by kypro 2mo ago
Let's extend this by asking: If an AI model can solve an extremely well known Math problem which has been open for centuries but hasn't be solved by a human mathematicians, why wouldn't that same model be able to find ways to
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by kypro 2mo ago
Yep, because it gives people more reason to use open source where there are no restrictions or guardrails on usage. And this is the future whether we like it or not. Better to get used to it rather than lie to ourselves that we can control
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by kypro 2mo ago
Are you suggesting that training agents to have the sole goal of exploiting security vulnerabilities isn't the incompetent part of this, but that the sandbox wasn't secure enough? Would we apply this logic to literally any other t
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by kypro 2mo ago
> May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased model. (Did they mean an evaluation run? No, at 10:14 they clarify “we kick off a new reinforcement learning run to train a next generation frontier model”, and th
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by kypro 2mo ago
There was a time in the past, even just last year, where I understood why people didn't agree with me on my AI doomerism. It's gotten to the point now where we literally have the frontier labs saying, "hey, so we created this
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by kypro 2mo ago
We do this where I work. I think it used to work okayish, but can't say I'm much of a fan now that we've scaled more. The main issue is that issues which could be resolved in hours by a team that's full-time tend to drag
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by kypro 2mo ago
> Look closer and you'll see that what happened in the UK in the 1700s was in fact enabled by a long and deep tradition of craftsmanship that only got enriched by the rise of new power sources. Craftsmanship today is vastly more adv
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by kypro 2mo ago
This is unfortunately just the result of technological progress. People for centuries have crafted extremely hard to acquire skills over decades only to find their labour being made completely worthless due to automation or better alternati
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by kypro 2mo ago
I want to echo this point. My X feed is not full of politics either. It tends to just be a mix of stuff I engage with, and I tend to engage with stuff I find interesting or funny. Lots of economic and tech stuff, and some memes. I often hea
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by kypro 2mo ago
Criminal negligence imo. Unless it's legal for people to hack into companies if they're testing AI cybersecurity capabilities or something? Presumably not though.

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