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Madmallard

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About Madmallard

mattthemallard@gmail.com

Ex-FAANG engineer, long-term hobbyist programmer and game developer

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    Comment #49226106

    Saying AI can do all the code isn't even accurate either though that's what's weird about all these takes As soon as the context builds up high it just starts doing things straight…

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    Comment #49207649

    Engagement farming has found its way to Hacker News.

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    Comment #49167192

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49141254

    it's not really comparable IMO Eventually AI will be able to just bootstrap solid security, payment, accounts, DB management, backups, customer support services that automatically …

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    Comment #49079489

    Too bad. We'll have to deal with it. There is no way to stop the weaponization of models now. But more people having access to the potential tools for defensive is the best possibl…

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    Comment #49077168

    Not open source Not interested

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    Comment #49076559

    Boris here. This post does not give us good publicity so I will refrain from commenting. Please wait for another demo thread of a new feature of ours or AI appraisal blog post and …

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    Comment #49030041

    How exactly would they even shut off Chinese open weight AI?

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    Comment #49013554

    Man that's depressing to read someone defending this

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    Comment #48972819

    Reddit has been trash for a very long time. But you know it's worse, because you get punished for criticizing AI comments on those subreddits.

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    Comment #48915633

    Is the major issue here that 3 degrees Celsius is like an average so all the hot tropics places just become uninhabitable whereas temperature rises are more moderated in higher lat…

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    Comment #48900668

    It probably should apply. The spirit of HIPAA is the protection of health information.

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    Comment #48900317

    How does this not violate HIPAA?

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    Comment #48880805

    I think the majority of dev work will be gone. We already demonstrated just throwing more compute at it is leading to better and better results. We'll likely have advancements that…

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    Comment #48868990

    "In fact, all evidence points to the contrary." Um. No? I'd like to see how you conjured up that one. Because evidence does indeed point exactly to things just being as they are. "…

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    Comment #48868962

    What? What is rational about faith-based comments? Literally nothing is rational about that. It's also just flat out off-topic.

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    Comment #48843997

    Where's Dang? The amount of rule-breaking comments in this thread is pretty much out of control.

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    Comment #48843978

    That's pretty funny considering the comments in this thread hahahaha

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    Comment #48843419

    I think and hope we see a lot more of this before the adversarial imperative returns from the company side. People using Claude Fable to just make replacements for disgustingly ens…

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    Comment #48840947

    Could probably do this with a much older model given that it's something that probably has thousands of github repositories for source code to do so.

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    Comment #48811017

    they thrive the people in their own country struggle to survive not seeing a problem with this is very suspicious

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    Comment #48810942

    I mean only people with billions of dollars can make competitors to anthropic because of necessary compute costs that's the barrier to entry

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    Comment #48792510

    That sounds nowhere near adequate