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by tptacek 3mo ago
On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I am paying attention to what you're saying but I think if you look at the context of this thread and take a beat you might sense, like I do, that the bar for charity is a bump or two lower than it normally is.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I can't judge how snarky I'm being overall. I'm writing like I would on any HN thread. What I was saying was: my lack of concern about AGI is not snark. It's weird to me that anybody would call that out. Are you super
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I live in Chicagoland, which has the largest water reclamation facility on Earth in order to prevent the entire region's basements from flooding under storm water pressure. It doesn't work, and I have multiple times had the pleasu
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by tptacek 3mo ago
It wasn't my starting point.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'm being serious, not trying to dunk, but can you get me to the place where DX has upped its game to the point where Claude can't just do it?
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by tptacek 3mo ago
What sucks? I strongly advise you not to axiomatically derive our product roadmap from HN comments trying to interpret that post.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Have I spoiled the solemnity of the subthread where we're litigating whether we "lost our aura" by writing a blog post?
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The funniest thing about this post is that I was writing it, in my head, to a specific group of developers I've worked with, and who I know to be smart and more talented than me. What I should have seen coming was that when I described
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'm not being snarky. I genuinely do not care about AGI. It's weird to watch people write as if I'm trying to back away from that article or hedge or whatever. I expect to wrap my career up at some point and look at that post
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Why are you so sure "DX" is the right way to compete with commodity full-stack hosting? Have you had Claude deploy on AWS recently? It one-shots deployments just fine.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Right, just go to the front page and click on the linked domain on this story, it'll take you to all the previous submissions from our blog. It's been a light summer on blog posts, to be sure! But that's nothing new.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I am, as I'm fond of pointing out, very comfortable with who does and doesn't take me seriously.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This is what I mean about the static equilibrium in 2025. That's what everyone was doing: just writing the other side off. That post of mine did a lot of things, but it did not do that.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The title was the point of the post. I have acquaintances who are still sore at me about it. But the problem wasn't that people disagreed with me about LLMs; the problem was that we were locked in an unproductive and static equilibrium
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by tptacek 3mo ago
What do you mean? We ran a big post about Litestream Writeable VFS just a couple months ago, and we've had several big posts over the last 12 months, including the Sprite launch. We got pretty busy, and there's a lot going on, and
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The CEO didn't write that article. I did. I was going to run it on my personal blog, and he asked me to run it there. Be mad at him for the right reason.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Yep.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
No. Mu. Mu.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
No, I think you're pretty overconfident here. A plumber is not in fact thrilled by the genie who permanently resolves all the world's plumbing problems. I also kind of love the subtext in these responses that there is something su
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by tptacek 3mo ago
One way to differentiate between an art or a craft and a science is that if a genie appeared and offered to trivialize all the discovery work of your career and simply give you the answers today, and you'd say "no", you'
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by tptacek 3mo ago
One frustration I have with these kinds of analyses on HN is that they're premised on an idea that cryptanalysis progress is unknowable, and that it's just a matter of time before whatever broke the last iteration of a design is g
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Right, just like every time someone posts an AI comment on HN.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
If you've really thought this through and still believe it, then you should preface your writing with all the prompts you used to generate it. They're what capture your thinking, and they allow readers to interrogate those thought
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This is probably true in the sense that it's also probably true that people are, at the margins, successfully manipulating votes, but it's part of the premise of the site that the moderators are working to counter that. And, like
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This objection doesn't make sense in the context of the thread.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The Gulf States are in fact military rivals and cold adversaries of Iran; Iran vs. the Gulf States is a more salient geopolitical conflict than Iran vs. Israel. Iran has, through the IRGC, been in hot wars with the Gulf States in the last 1
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'm sorry, you've lost me. I was responding to the claim that any man-made system was breakable. The most obvious example of a man-made system that is unlikely to be breakable in our lifetimes (so, I'll say, "ever")
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I haven't discarded any date. Pick one, and an amount to bet!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
You want to pick a date and make a bet?

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