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GorbachevyChase commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used   blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk
rglover · 2 days ago
A significant number of developers and businesses are going to have an absolutely brutal rude awakening in the not too distant future.

You can build things this way, and they may work for a time, but you don't know what you don't know (and experience teaches you that you only find most stuff by building/struggling; not sipping a soda while the AI blurts out potentially secure/stable code).

The hubris around AI is going to be hard to watch unwind. What the moment is I can't predict (nor do I care to), but there will be a shift when all of these vibe code only folks get cooked in a way that's closer to existential than benign.

Good time to be in business if you can see through the bs and understand how these systems actually function (hint: you won't have much competition soon as most people won't care until it's too late and will "price themselves out of the market").

GorbachevyChase · a day ago
Every single CVE at least prior to the last couple years was written by a human. Azure and AWS have failed or have been compromised in embarrassing ways. I don’t take this human good, machine bad argument seriously. On the bright side, high integrity software may finally be an expectation for customers paying for software as “barely works” is becoming practically free.
GorbachevyChase commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
wat10000 · 3 days ago
There's a big difference in terms of frequency and availability.

Physical design of stores gets you when you're shopping, then it's done. Organized religion tends to get its hooks into you once or twice a week. Marketing, PR, ads, all sporadic. Social media is available essentially 24/7 and is something you can jump into with just a few seconds of spare time.

If more traditional addiction machines are a lottery you can play a few times a week, social media is a slot machine that you carry with you everywhere you go.

GorbachevyChase · 3 days ago
I don’t know what personal religious experience you’re speaking from, but my church is a little more oriented toward helping people overcome addictions and personal failings. If you’re in Europe, then I think the messaging in the mosques about consuming alcohol are pretty strict. I can’t speak from firsthand knowledge.
GorbachevyChase commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
eggy · 3 days ago
I'm skeptical about banning design patterns just because people might overuse them. Growing up, I had to go to the theater to see movies, but that didn't make cliffhangers and sequels any less compelling. Now we binge entire Netflix series and that's fine, but short-form video needs government intervention? The real question is: where do we draw the line between protecting people from manipulative design and respecting their ability to make their own choices? If we're worried about addictive patterns, those exist everywhere—streaming platforms, social feeds, gaming, even email notifications. My concern isn't whether TikTok's format is uniquely dangerous. It's whether we trust adults to manage their own media consumption, or if we need regulatory guardrails for every compelling app. I'd rather see us focus on media literacy and transparency than constantly asking governments to protect us from ourselves.

You can't legislate intelligence...

GorbachevyChase · 3 days ago
I don’t think the addictive argument is being made in good faith. Any platform with an infinite scroll feed and titillating content is intentionally made to be like a slot machine. Just keep swiping and maybe you’ll get that little dopamine hit. The idea that TikTok is dangerous, but Twitter, Instagram, porn, alcohol, and Doritos are fine doesn’t come across as an internally consistent argument. I think that the reality is that those who have an actual say in legislation perceive these platforms as a mechanism of social control and weapon. Right now the weapon isn’t in the “right“ hands.
GorbachevyChase commented on Claude Opus 4.6   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
tedsanders · 4 days ago
We don't vary our model quality with time of day or load (beyond negligible non-determinism). It's the same weights all day long with no quantization or other gimmicks. They can get slower under heavy load, though.

(I'm from OpenAI.)

GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
Hi Ted. I think that language models are great, and they’ve enabled me to do passion projects I never would have attempted before. I just want to say thanks.
GorbachevyChase commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless
geraneum · 4 days ago
> This was a clean-room implementation

This is really pushing it, considering it’s trained on… internet, with all available c compilers. The work is already impressive enough, no need for such misleading statements.

GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335

Check out the paper above on Absolute Zero. Language models don’t just repeat code they’ve seen. They can learn to code give the right training environment.

GorbachevyChase commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless
eek2121 · 4 days ago
Also: a large amount of folks seem to think Claude code is losing a ton of money. I have no idea where the final numbers land, however, if the $20,000 figure is accurate and based on some of the estimates I've seen, they could've hired 8 senior level developers at a quarter million a year for the same amount of money spent internally.

Granted, marketing sucks up far too much money for any startup, and again, we don't know the actual numbers in play, however, this is something to keep in mind. (The very same marketing that likely also wrote the blog post, FWIW).

GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
Even if the dollar cost for product created was the same, the flexibility of being able to spin a team up and down with an API call is a major advantage. That AI can write working code at all is still amazing to me.
GorbachevyChase commented on AI is killing B2B SaaS   nmn.gl/blog/ai-killing-b2... · Posted by u/namanyayg
bawolff · 5 days ago
> If I were a CTO trying to save money

A CTOs job isn't to save money but to spend money effectively. Saving money by increasing risk is not neccesarily a prudent move.

GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
Even if AI were erased today, most SaaS companies wouldn’t exist in 5-10 years. Doing business with a small tech company that could run out of borrowed money or sell to someone who will destroy the product or just arbitrarily change the terms of service tomorrow is a liability. That’s assuming the hypothetical tech spend isn’t just eroding margin anyway.
GorbachevyChase commented on CIA to Sunset the World Factbook   abc.net.au/news/2026-02-0... · Posted by u/kshahkshah
i80and · 4 days ago
Unfortunately, the citations are generally quite low quality and have in my experience a high rate of not actually supporting the text they're attached to.
GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
This is on par with humans, honestly. I’ve dug into cited studies by consulting firms that were 100% false.
GorbachevyChase commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems   wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77
ChuckMcM · 5 days ago
I expect this is the crux of the problem.

There aren't any "AI" products that have enough value.

Compare to their Office suite, which had 100 - 150 engineers working on it, every business paid big $$ for every employee using it, and once they shipped install media their ongoing costs were the employees. With a 1,000,000:1 ratio of users to developers and an operating expense (OpEx) of engineers/offices/management. That works as a business.

But with "AI", not only is it not a product in itself, it's a feature to a product, but it has OpEx and CapEx costs that dominate the balance sheet based on their public disclosures. Worse, as a feature, it demonstrably harms business with its hallucinations.

In a normal world, at this point companies would say, "hmm, well we thought it could be amazing but it just doesn't work as a product or a feature of a product because we can't sell it for enough money to both cover its operation, and its development, and the capital expenditures we need to make every time someone signs up. So a normal C staff would make some post about "too early" or whatever and shelve it. But we don't live in a normal world, so companies are literally burning the cash they need to survive the future in a vain hope that somehow, somewhere, a real product will emerge.

GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
To be fair. MS Office product defects should be regarded just as harmful as hallucinations. Try a lookup in excel on fields that might have text.
GorbachevyChase commented on CIA to Sunset the World Factbook   abc.net.au/news/2026-02-0... · Posted by u/kshahkshah
hk__2 · 4 days ago
At least Wikipedia is supposed to cite its sources, while AIs don’t.
GorbachevyChase · 4 days ago
Have you used one recently? The big providers all cite sources if give a research prompt.

u/GorbachevyChase

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