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by znnajdla 1mo ago
So use another AI to find and fix the vulnerabilities in the harness.
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
Peter Thiel famously went to the Vatican and started giving lectures about AI and the Antichrist. Pretty rich for a guy who built his billionaire fortune on an AI-powered spying company.
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
I disagree. I think the best-case outcomes for AI are actually quite positive. AI might actually fix many of the problems with the tech world that we have right now, like monoculture and consolidation.
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
What about the best-case optimistic outcomes for AI? Here are some amazing positive outcomes which I think AI may bring us: - the breakup of tech monoculture and tech monopolies as it becomes impossible to secure bloated overcomplicated ope
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
This sounds like it was written by someone who has never actually built a company. No, it's not possible to do most of the things you listed purely online without physical, in-person communication. Silicon Valley still hires engineers
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
We are seeing the decline and fall of an empire in realtime, it's just the cycle of life, nothing lasts forever. It's one of the reasons why I decided to do my own thing and build my own small bootstrapped startup outside of the W
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
> With Sites (opens in a new window) in ChatGPT, Astra can create, host, and share websites, web apps, and games directly from a prompt. Oops, shots fired. A direct attack on the vibe coded app market. Replit, Lovable, etc.
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
One major point of disagreement: LLMs are not necessarily better at writing React because they have seen a lot of React. In fact, some benchmarks which ask the question: “which languages are LLMs better at” often show that LLMs excel at cer
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
I did read the article. It just didn't occur to me that their combinatorial explosion of diffs was scrape-able. To be honest that sounds like an scrapers tarpit / honeypot now, because there is no value in scraping trillions of di
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by znnajdla 1mo ago
AI has changed everything. Mythos/Cyber has made the Linux virtual machine sandbox useless: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyb... > The only way it might hold here is if no o
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Put a CDN in front and let them absorb the load? Seriously, this is static content, which is so cheap to serve it should be free.
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
The real nightmare scenario is not just finding a vulnerability in the Linux network stack but finding vulnerabilities at the protocol level in TCP/IP itself or HTTP. That’s a problem that cannot be fixed. Has there ever been a precede
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
This article might be a bit tongue-in-cheek but it's actually something I've been thinking seriously about for a while. I can imagine a future where every country and company writes their own operating system and that might actual
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
holy shit. I was just tinkering with my production Laravel stack serving thousands in production trying to figure out how to improve worker concurrency (running out of RAM) and I encounter a random comment on HN which appears to solve my ex
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Yeah I haven’t had a problem yet which was too difficult for Fable to solve. I do have problems which Sol does not do well on. But if I could get Fable-level intelligence faster/cheaper and less restricted, that’s all I need.
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Because it’s not about being “good at things”. You missed the whole point of the article. It’s not about AI vs. human capabilities, even a human could not build software if they are not in the right context. Here’s an example: back in the 2
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
No the AI cannot. Did you even read the article? The principles in the article are not rules that can be applied or handed to a prompt. They are questions, not answers. Questions that are impossible to answer and that have no right answer e
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Sure but you only look at it when optimizing some performance critical code, usually the hot path. That is usually a tiny fraction of the codebase. I also use AI to generate large amounts of code but I only inspect the actual code when crit
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Yes, but the entire point is, you can't have a reasonable chain of command or any kind of sensible decision process without human judgement that has engineering expertise, so no, engineers are not going to be entirely replaced. The rea
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
> I don't think you end up with a good solution More precisely, a "perfect solution" doesn't exist. It's all tradeoffs given your goals. Someone needs to make the decision: 1. which tradeoffs are worth given your
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Such an AI would be unusable in production because there is no bound on the work that can be created and external side effects that could happen. All projects have real world constraints and side effects, budget, customer requirements, etc.
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Sure, maybe step 2 can eventually be replaced by AI. But step 1? Why would the AI even conceive of the idea of doing a rewrite in the first place? And rewriting is just an example. There are tons of architectural decisions that need to be m
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
The article gives the example of Bun's successful Zig to Rust of why this is the end of programming. I think that rewrite is a perfect example of why it's NOT the end of software engineering. A non-programmer could not have prompt
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Editing a document without mixing edit instructions into the final document. Claude and ChatGPT do this all the time: I tell them to change X in a planning document or email draft, and instead of just changing X they also frequently add the
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
I don't understand what this tool offers over simply querying pg directly and reading pg logs?
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
This happened before with “real” engineering. Engineers a hundred years ago used to be proficient with slide rules and mental math and 3D assembly by hand. Products designed in that era often lasted a hundred years, like Singer sewing machi
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
"learned their lesson well now" - I don't think Russia has learned any lessons at all since Ukraine. Russia's sheer incompetence keeps getting worse and worse, as Prigozhin exposed on the inside. The war went from total
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Read Ben Thompson to understand aggregation theory. Many of the largest internet companies, like Google and Amazon, are simply aggregators. OpenRouter is an aggregator of AI tooling. Stripe itself was just a convenience layer on top of merc
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Both are the most popular developer api in their space.
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by znnajdla 2mo ago
Sol is my daily driver but there are still times I reach for Fable when Sol doesn’t cut it. Just yesterday for example, I was trying to build a self-modifying hot-reloaded agent harness in Elixir for fun and Sol just kept doing silly things

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