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by zzzeek 4mo ago
I think it's not going to be a straight line upwards, it's going to get weirder. LLMs are still riffing on what we humans have done. If we stop giving them good examples because we aren't architecting anymore I don't
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
You can use LLMs heavily without ever actually "vibe coding". I do think to the degree "vibe coding" continues to exist there will always be work to do in turning some portion of vibe coded work into more robust produc
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
Sure but I'd still use an LLM to do the grunt work
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
> execs cargo culting on using AI as a pretext for layoffs. reading this article I think that is not what happened in this specific case: > Over the last three years, Ford says it has hired 350 veteran engineers, many of them former
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
As I said - on mainland. That study was done on a peninsula community surrounded by water, except on the north side, which was mostly a nature preserve where a 6 foot high fence on that side prevented new deer from entering. So yes "k
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
the "bubble" is all about, "companies are burning tons of money to provide these models and not recouping their investments" open source models would strictly be the usual army of free labor getting paid elsewhere
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
the sovereign AI thing is fascinating to me for many reasons: * it's time to build out stacks! servers, deployments, things! Especially in Europe. Hence sovereign AI is already a big sales buzzword for lots of hardware and hardware
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Sovereign AI: Why Owning the Full Stack Is the New Strategic Imperative(forbes.com)
2 points by zzzeek 4mo ago|3 comments
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
and then Chomsky goes on to form a deep online friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
and the rabbits and chipmunks and mice and squirrels, as well as that you have to kill basically all deer to the point of about 8 deer per square mile, since one deer can carry 2000-3000 new ticks. which is basically impossible on mainland
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New Super Pac Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I(nytimes.com)
5 points by zzzeek 4mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
claude because it would be more ethical, grok because I can just trip it and it will shatter into pieces
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
We definitely noticed behavioral differences in 3.14 regarding gc which could show up in particular test suites we have that are purposely ensuring all objects of a certain type were collected after a gc.collect() run. Between this and o
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
> Palantir, whose software is widely used by US defence and intelligence agencies, has faced growing scrutiny in parts of Europe as governments reassess their dependence on American technology companies. I think it's great. Europe
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
yes. github has very minimal controls for PRs (either shut them off completely, or not at all) but through GH webhooks you can essentially script "auto-close" of PRs that dont have correct preliminary approval. it's time for
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
one paragraph in the three mile long TOS the homeowner clicks OK on and problem solved ?
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
sorry what ? I'm personally responsible for getting Democrats elected? Can you show me a Democratic campaign that is calling half the country racist ?
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
> I don't know the demographics of that cohort here it is: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/demographics-us-military this is upper military leadership. Black individuals account for 6.5%-9% of general office
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
(back from my two hour Hacker News ban - "make sure all the tempban knobs are turned to the max for that zzzeek guy" look this is the thing with racism - racism to the degree "races" are fit (randomly, or forcibly) into
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
> If he starts passing racist policies, that's bad, but otherwise we don't give a shit. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/pentagon-pet... > Since Trump returned to office i
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
tribalism is totally how people work when they lack culture, education and critical thinking skills! here's some basic reading on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
have you talked to Trump voters? I have talked to many, many, in my family, in my neighborhood, everywhere. If there is one view that ties them all together, it's racism (and misogyny). Loud and clear. If any president of any party
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
> if you really believe the 40% number or anything like it, you're giving yourself a false worldview. > The majority of people aren't racist nor do they have a problem with government helping them out. 40% is ....not a majo
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
the parent poster is trying to say "well where's your evidence that a society not based around human labor is possible?" which is sort of a silly question you can't claim an invention is invalid because there are no &quo
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
did Chad, or whoever posted this for him, post this as a jpg with no alt text? wow, thought Chad was a bit better than that (I can't even read this thing easily and im not considered to be visually impaired) "but it's a re
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
This story is one I posted, and nobody replied to it. Not to mention I did no such thing as "post verbatim from a Google search" as though I wrote it, I would never do that and feel free to look through my nearly two decade posti
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
Jeff Bezos went on NYT dealbook and had the gall to say "we did layoffs at the WP because it needs to be profitable; if it's not profitable, it's because people are not willing to buy the product it's selling" after
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
well then parent posters inaccurate doomerism will sit there unchallenged a gemini query is like a google search with natural language embedded. ill do my "google search" and just rewrite the text next time, ta unless google sea
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
I dont think it's welcome on hacker news here but I pasted your comment into Gemini and it has a lot of interesting things to say about it (needless to say it's skeptical and points out a lot of reasons for this), I recommend tryi
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British Airways Boeing 787 Pilot Clashes with New York JFK Controller(aviationa2z.com)
4 points by zzzeek 5mo ago|0 comments

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