Viewing profile — Bukhmanizer

This is just how authoritarian governments operate. It’s not some Machiavellian set of dominos. It’s more of a test of loyalty to The Administration than anything else.

Sure, but let’s not pretend that people treated the statements of these ceos as strategic messaging. People very clearly treated what Altman, Zuck, Amodei etc have been saying as p…

I recently wrote a tool to help me read AI generated PRs and it’s pretty sad that it’s got to this point.

I would assume at least hackerrank is? I don’t think the point of a lot of this is to optimize your resume. It’s to show how arbitrary these systems are.

I’d argue most businesses have had their start through yak shaving. I’ve found that the overuse of AI papers over a lot of problems. Then if things start failing people have no ide…

Part of this is definitely cultural and class snobbery. Europeans are seen as being high class. So if you put cream in your Alfredo you are seen as being as ignorant and not knowin…

The rule of thumb I have in my head right now is that AI will benefit people with deep specialized knowledge a lot, but people with shallow knowledge or skills can’t build anything…

I think a lot of the discourse around LLMs fails because of organizational differences. I work in science, and I’ve recently worked with a couple projects where they generated >20,…

You don’t use pots or pans? Ovens are a special occasion thing in my house because our oven is huge and I can usually do the same thing in the air fryer, which is just a small conv…

For me it’s that usually I can figure out if I’m going to like something way more easily if I’m just clicking through and watching samples of a show. I don’t want to be constrained…

This essay somehow sounds worse than AI slop, like ChatGPT did a line of coke before writing this out. I use AI everyday for coding. But if someone so obviously puts this little ef…

I generally don’t have faith that many consumer boycotts will work, but boy is it ever easy to switch away from openAI.

I’m not sure this is a good thing..

Having lived in Vancouver and NYC and now LA I think I’ve seen both sides of things, and I don’t think these things are quite as insurmountable as you think. I don’t think public t…

As with most continuous arguments in SWE, it really depends. I used to do a lot of debugging of random (i.e. not written by me) bioinformatics tools and being able to just fire up …

I agree that’s kind of what should happen. What seems to have happened is that people have figured out it’s easier to game the system than produce more complicated or technical pro…

You’re right best reserve such observations for small nations like China

Also when you factor in the age of the wedding participants it almost seems like a regression. A couple in their 30s should be able to afford more than a couple in their 20s a gene…

I don’t think my concern is that AI is going to make everything too awesome for people to cope. The fact that I can now DoorDash lunch doesn’t really matter when I can’t afford a p…

You’re absolutely right. I hate AI writing — it’s not that I hate AI, it’s that it makes everything it says sound a specific combination of smug and authoritative — No matter the c…

As a coincidence there are 3 ShowHNs on the front page right now all with “boat” in their name. Showboat, Rowboat and Paperboat.

This seems absurdly naive to me with the path big tech has taken in the last 5 years. There’s literally infinite upside and almost no downside to constraining the ecosystem for the…

Personally in LA I had a Waymo try to take a right as I was driving straight down the street. It almost T-boned me and then honked at me. I don’t know if there has been a change to…