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xyzal

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    Comment #49229224

    Even if you think you cannot escape incentives - there exists a thing for shaping them - it is called "regulation". Some still consider it a dirty word though.

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    Comment #49033385

    No need to hide "penis" behind asterisks. It is proper -- even medical -- terminology, in contast to "c*ck", "d*ng" or "schl*ng".

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    Comment #48555764

    I am curious how the workflow of people, who do not write code at all, looks like, or what products do they build. In my experience LLMs are an excavator, but you still have to twe…

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    Comment #48500356

    How about reviving key signing parties?

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    Comment #48487011

    Given that according to some we can code at 10x speed for at least half a year, I wonder where there are some autocoded softwares with 5 years' worth of equivalent human engineerin…

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    Comment #48486916

    By socializing the losses of course.

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    Comment #48486911

    I think it is time to start shorting.

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    Comment #48435629

    I'll root for DeepSeek v4 Flash as well. It surprised me just how "good enough" it is for most of my needs, and also dirt cheap. Everyone should try it at least once.

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    Comment #48435226

    Which other profession has the same amount of training data freely available for the taking?

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    Comment #48433895

    Given that we can code at 10x speed for at least half a year, one would expect to see at least some pieces of machine-created software with 5 years' worth of equivalent human engin…

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    Ask HN: What are some agent-coded masterpieces?

    Given that we can code at 10x speed for at least half a year, one would expect to see at least some pieces of machine-created software with 5 years' worth of equivalent human engin…

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    Comment #48423994

    YC indisputably has a financial incentive for AI sentiment to be positive on HN. The structural conflict of interest is worth being aware of.

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    Comment #48422918

    Mind that the host of this site has an interest in keeping the hype going on ...

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    Comment #48422011

    To me it was just a few weeks ago discovering just how good and dirt cheap the recent flash models are, in particular Deepseek V4. Previously used Claude's variants almost exclusiv…

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    Comment #48381430

    So, telemetry and surveillance.

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    Comment #48381093

    This contradicts my anecdata. Recently, I tasked Opus 4.6 to study a new Czech building permit law in conjunction with some waste disposal regulations and the result was disappoint…

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    Comment #48372882

    Not sure about flawed code logic, but it is embarassingly easy to plant false information into models. Make a few static sites with random info, crosslink them, reference them on r…