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So GPU-backed securites sliced into tranches to improve ratings?

Why would Cloudflare do that? They shouldn't help bad actors.

That seems like such an easy thing to estimate with a bit of basic napkin math.

I thought walled towns died not due to state authority becoming stronger, but because offensive weaponry simply became effective enough to overcome walls. Walls can protect you fro…

https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/oracle-ai-boom-hidden-deb... goes into more detail about this same issue.

It's not really "lucky" to have a sense of identity outside of work. The opposite is just unhealthy, even if common.

People have been thinking about that a long time though. For that objective, LLMs don't seem to open up any new capabilities. If that problem could be solved, with really clean abs…

> no amount of "fix this slop" prompting can fix AI prose What's the proof for that? What fundamental limitation of these large language models makes them unable to produce natural…

Because it is. Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, etc. all aim to own software production capabilities. It's quite clear. Using free software and not giving away ones own abilities to c…

The code is also recognizable as slop to those who know how. Not the tropey "Not X, but Y" kind that's super easy to spot. But tons of repetition, deeply nested code, etc. A counte…

The connection to Amdahl's law is totally on point. If you're just using LLMs as a faster way to get _your_ ideas down, but still want to ensure you validate and understand the out…

NYT doesn't like digital advertisers and the programmers who make that possible. They're directly in competition.

NYT has it out for digital advertisers, who directly compete with them. I do sense some schadenfreude here that the tech nerds who work at these places might be in trouble. "Silico…

In my experience, code validation (unit testing, code review, manual testing, etc.) was more of a bottleneck than producing code for the most part. This means that faster code gene…

I think this is for a different article currently trending on HN.

https://archive.ph/Eo4Sd

"As a friend who works in AI told me, AI heightens the contradictions. It is a boon to those with the motivation and background to cultivate knowledge but it spells total destructi…

https://archive.ph/RsCHa

Windows in 1998: this is the worst it's ever going to be. Uber is 2010: this is the worst it's ever going to be. There's some triumphalism here. What happens when training data bec…

My favorite piece: "The developers who thrive in this new agentic era won’t be the ones who run the most parallel sessions or burn the most tokens. They’ll be the ones who are able…