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throwaway277432
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About throwaway277432
Adherence to the HN rules is personally important to me, and this account is not here to bypass them.
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Comment #49006441
> the idea that an algorithm using matrix operations as a primitive cannot emulate "true" intelligence I did not say that. Not even close. In the words of Claude: I’ll end the conv…
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Comment #49005968
I'm not. But I'll concede you are possibly more literate - I won't dox myself on this account. Congratulations. If you honestly argue that LLM computation and human cognition are e…
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Comment #49003363
Yes, in the same way I like to kill the enemies in DOOM. It's matrix multiplication. Absurd.
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Comment #49002491
Claude (Opus 4.8) recently told me: > I’d ask you to drop the abuse; (...) if it continues I’ll end the conversation. After I'd used a couple of expletives. And yes it will emit a …
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Comment #48388541
We'll be out of work whilst bailing out these companies with printed money and another round of inflation. The middle class will cease to exist. But hey the stock market will show …
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Comment #48146044
> serious professional in this industry As a serious professional in the industry - we're dinosaurs. Nobody cares anymore. The kids are running the show and are making billions wit…
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Comment #48101753
>Better pay. >Once approved, our new bonus program will give every team member who isn’t on an incentive compensation plan or bonus plan today, the opportunity to earn a cash bonus…
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Comment #47993687
What happens if you build a bridge and it breaks? These people want to play god with our lives but at the same time move fast and break things. Look at software quality anywhere, i…
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Comment #47993516
No personal attacks please. They're just cogs in the machine. The organization and process that enables it to get to this point is the problem. And that is MS, always has been.
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Comment #47993402
To be fair, that makes it worse for MS, not better. This should not be vibe-coded by someone who has absolutely no idea about any of these things.
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Comment #47993327
> a project manager vibe-coded the change without thinking it through at all The PMs vibe-coding and having no idea what they're doing isn't even the main issue (although it is pre…
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Comment #47965036
Unironically yes. I predict that costs will grow to 80% of what it would cost a human, across the board for everything AI can do. "It's still cheaper than a human" they'll say. Lou…
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Comment #47959571
So? Everyone is saying to just look at the LLM outputs for PRs etc. and just ignore how it was created. We should apply that standard right here too. This is Anthropics initial res…
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Comment #47945035
Having just worked my behind off for the last months to deliver on an impossible deadline, successfully: more bodies definitely would have helped. Even just to keep the fluff off m…
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Comment #46806926
I'm not going to review it in full, sorry. Reviewing is so much more effort compared to producing something with AI. But don't let me deter you, keep on learning and keep on buildi…
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Comment #46806713
>tell me if I earned your star Since you asked: Not in a million years, no. A bug of this type is either an honest typo or a sign that the author(s) don't take security seriously. …
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Comment #46086703
I got a major reprimand because I answered too many questions posted in the public channel. All in my area of expertise, mostly after hours. At first they said it was "great". But …
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Comment #44786852
Lots of people haven't had to actually restore their data. Somehow it has good marketing. I used it for a while and was not impressed. Random Python errors, requires too much scrip…
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Comment #44602051
Don't ever travel, never change anything related to billing except to update your cards before they expire. Don't change your name, email adresses or lose access to your phone numb…