andrelaszlo (u/andrelaszlo)

andrelaszlo commented on Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations youaretheassistantnow.com... · Posted by u/iamwil

andrelaszlo · a day ago

When I opened it, it said it was a multilingual dictionary so I just typed a (nonsense) Swedish word:

Me: gurkburk

Reply: #include#include#include (4096 times)

Seems useful!

andrelaszlo commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

jdelman · 18 days ago

Whenever OpenAI releases a new ChatGPT feature or model, it's always a crapshoot when you'll actually be able to use it. The headlines - both from tech media coverage and OpenAI itself - always read "now available", but then I go to ChatGPT (and I'm a paid pro user) and it's not available yet. As an engineer I understand rollouts, but maybe don't say it's generally available when it's not?

andrelaszlo · 18 days ago

I asked GPT about it:

> You are using the newest model OpenAI offers to the public (GPT-4o). There is no “GPT-5” model accessible yet, despite the splashy headlines.

andrelaszlo commented on Hexatetrahedral Rails blog.julik.nl/2025/07/hex... · Posted by u/julik

ryandv · a month ago

Some historical context and one of the more provocatively titled writeups during the last time this was widely debated: https://dhh.dk/2014/test-induced-design-damage.html

andrelaszlo · a month ago

Great article. The overall idea is summarized by its closing statement:

"strive for overall system clarity as your principle pursuit

andrelaszlo commented on AI could have written this: Birth of a classist slur in knowledge work [pdf] advait.org/files/sarkar_2... · Posted by u/deverton

mgraczyk · a month ago

I'd like to brag that I got in trouble for saying this to somebody in 2021, before ChatGPT

andrelaszlo · a month ago

I put a chapter of a paper I wrote in 2016 into GPTZero and got the probability breakdown 90% AI, 10% human. I am 100% human, and I wrote it myself, so I guess I'm lucky that I didn't hand it in this year, or I could have gotten accused of cheating?

andrelaszlo commented on Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware lists.archlinux.org/archi... · Posted by u/rrampage

ASalazarMX · a month ago

The only thing I've seen Arch exploding in popularity has been memes. It's a fun distro for hobbyists, but too inconvenient as a daily driver.

andrelaszlo · a month ago

I've been using Arch as my daily driver for over fifteen years. I'm not a fanatic, it just works really well.

andrelaszlo commented on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on? · Posted by u/_false

andrelaszlo · a month ago

I met a dev who's mom had been working on legacy banking systems her whole career. She had started in the eighties and she still did some urgent jobs at a crazy rate despite officially having retired.

andrelaszlo commented on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs newsletter.vickiboykis.co... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

andrelaszlo · a month ago

I would have flagged that they're logging their Redis URL, if I was reviewing this. Most of the time this includes credentials.

Normally I think it's a bit rude to criticize the code of blog posts, bit I thought it was relevant here for these reasons:

"I often don’t even remove when I’m done debugging because they’re now valuable in prod" - think about where your production credentials end up. Most of the time, logging them won't hurt, just like keeping your password on a post-it doesn't hurt most of the time.

The arguments about letting an AI reduce the mental overhead is compelling, but this shows one of the (often mentioned) risks: you didn't write it so you didn't consider the implications.

Or maybe the author did consider it, and has a lot of good arguments for why logging it is perfectly safe. I often get pushback from other devs about stuff like this, for example:

- We're the only ones with access to the logs (still, no reason to store credentials in the logs)

- The Redis URL only has an IP, no credentials. (will we remember to update this log line when the settings.redis_url changes?)

- We only log warnings or higher in production (same argument as above)

Maybe I should stop worrying and learn to love AI? Human devs do the same thing, after all?

andrelaszlo commented on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hacke... · Posted by u/doener

WhyNotHugo · a month ago

Modern IT practices don’t really contemplate disaster recovery. Even organisations with strict backup procedures seldom test recovery (most never at all).

Everything is quickly strapped together due to teams being understaffed. Preparing infrastructure in a way such that it can easily be recreated is easily twice the effort as “just” setting it up the usual way.

andrelaszlo · a month ago

Just the other day one of my clients had a production critical server failing and we started restoring it from backups.

Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server.

It turns out that the company that made this important piece of software doesn't even exist anymore.

andrelaszlo commented on I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years gist.github.com/Kaldaien/... · Posted by u/haunter

c048 · 2 months ago

Am I reading this wrong? He complaints that Valve deleted items and posts, despite them promising that it would not happen... only for the quote he provided to state that "they might not delete everything".

"Might" is not "will".

andrelaszlo · 2 months ago

Yeah, I think the author was referring to community posts. The linked FAQ article says this:

"Your personal information is removed, but some content you’ve posted in community areas is not. This includes things like discussion posts, or content that you posted in Steam community hubs, as well as comments you made on other Steam account’s profiles."