beepbooptheory (u/beepbooptheory)

beepbooptheory commented on Vouch github.com/mitchellh/vouc... · Posted by u/chwtutha

What's the plan to avoid a Bluesky-like bubble from forming around Vouch projects? Say what you want about wanting to avoid politically disagreeable people, but Bluesky has been shrinking gradually since the 2024 election, as people interested in political effectiveness or even avoiding a hugbox have drifted away. Or think about how new projects are generally not started as GPL anymore (except if they want to charge money by making their open source version AGPL), due to similar viral dynamics discouraging potential contributors.

beepbooptheory · 9 hours ago

What does "interested in political effectiveness" mean? Like as opposed to ineffectiveness? Is it like bluesky is really libertarian now or something?

beepbooptheory commented on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it siddhantkhare.com/writing... · Posted by u/sidk24

beepbooptheory · 19 hours ago

The weird thing at the end of the day is that we live in this world where there is this default individual desire to be more "productive." I am always wondering, productive for who, for what?

I know more than most there is some baseline productivity we are always trying to be at, that can sometimes be a target more than a current state. But the way people talk about their AI workflows is different. It's like everyone has become tyranical factory floor managers, pushing ever further for productive gains.

Leave this kind of productivity to the bosses I say! Life is a broader surface than this. We can/should focus on be productive together, but leave your actual life for finer, more sustainable ventures.

beepbooptheory commented on OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift finance.yahoo.com/news/op... · Posted by u/doener

darthnebula · 21 hours ago

What he does with his own money is none of anyone's business. I live in a state where it is pretty evenly divided between parties. I have friends who support Trump and friends who don't like him. All of them are nice people who have valid reasons for who they support. Demonizing people because they don't agree with you is detrimental to society and it is not sustainable.

beepbooptheory · 20 hours ago

Just an aside but this sentiment can't help feel a little comical just maybe at this moment. Like it all sounds right and we have heard it all before, but you can almost hear the impotent rehearsal of it in our current context.

Like where has the decency gone am I right??

beepbooptheory commented on Software factories and the agentic moment factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls

threecheese · 2 days ago

So much of this resonated with me, and I realize I’ve arrived at a few of the techniques myself (and with my team) over the last several months.

THIS FRIGHTENS ME. Many of us sweng are either going be FIRE millionaires, or living under a bridge, in two years.

I’ve spent this week performing SemPort; found a ts app that does a needed thing, and was able to use a long chain of prompts to get it completely reimplemented in our stack, using Gene Transfer to ensure it uses some existing libraries and concrete techniques present in our existing apps.

Now not only do I have an idiomatic Python port, which I can drop right into our stack, but I have an extremely detailed features/requirements statement for the origin typescript app along with the prompts for generating it. I can use this to continuously track this other product as it improves. I also have the “instructions infrastructure” to direct an agent to align new code to our stack. Two reusable skills, a new product, and it took a week.

beepbooptheory · 2 days ago

Sorry if rude but truly feel like I am missing the joke. This is just LinkedIn copypasta or something right?

beepbooptheory commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

unsupp0rted · 2 days ago

Yes, we're getting better at treating cancers, but still if a person gets cancer, chances are good the thing they'll die of is cancer. Middling results.

Because we're not good at curing cancers, we're just good at making people survive better for longer until the cancer gets them. 5 year survival is a lousy metric but it's the best we can manage and measure.

I'm perfectly happy investing roughly 98% of my savings into the thing that has a solid shot at curing cancers, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. I don't understand why all billionaires aren't doing this.

beepbooptheory · 2 days ago

Maybe it should give you pause then, that not everyone else is investing 98% of their savings?

beepbooptheory commented on Claude Opus 4.6 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy

sigmoid10 · 3 days ago

Most people still don't realize that general public world knowledge is not really a test for a model that was trained on general public world knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if even proprietary content like the books themselves found their way into the training data, despite what publishers and authors may think of that. As a matter of fact, with all the special deals these companies make with publishers, it is getting harder and harder for normal users to come up with validation data that only they have seen. At least for human written text, this kind of data is more or less reserved for specialist industries and higher academia by now. If you're a janitor with a high school diploma, there may be barely any textual information or fact you have ever consumed that such a model hasn't seen during training already.

beepbooptheory · 3 days ago

> If you're a janitor with a high school diploma, there may be barely any textual information or fact you have ever consumed that such a model hasn't seen during training already.

The plot of Good Will Hunting would like a word.

beepbooptheory commented on Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware 1password.com/blog/from-m... · Posted by u/pelario

deaux · 4 days ago

It's incredibly bad on this article. It stands out more because it's so wrong and the content itself could actually be interesting. Normally anything with this level of slop wouldn't even be worth reading if it wasn't slop. But let me help you see the light. I'm on mobile so forgive my lack of proper formatting.

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Because it’s not just that agents can be dangerous once they’re installed. The ecosystem that distributes their capabilities and skill registries has already become an attack surface.

^ Okay, once can happen. At least he clearly rewrote the LLM output a little.

That means a malicious “skill” is not just an OpenClaw problem. It is a distribution mechanism that can travel across any agent ecosystem that supports the same standard.

^ Oh oh..

Markdown isn’t “content” in an agent ecosystem. Markdown is an installer.

^ Oh no.

The key point is that this was not “a suspicious link.” This was a complete execution chain disguised as setup instructions.

^ At this point my eyes start bleeding.

This is the type of malware that doesn’t just “infect your computer.” It raids everything valuable on that device

^ Please make it stop.

Skills need provenance. Execution needs mediation. Permissions need to be specific, revocable, and continuously enforced, not granted once and forgotten.

^ Here's what it taught me about B2B sales.

This wasn’t an isolated case. It was a campaign.

^ This isn't just any slop. It's ultraslop.

Not a one-off malicious upload.

A deliberate strategy: use “skills” as the distribution channel, and “prerequisites” as the social engineering wrapper.

^ Not your run-of-the-mill slop, but some of the worst slop.

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I feel kind of sorry for making you see it, as it might deprive you of enjoying future slop. But you asked for it, and I'm happy to provide.

I'm not the person you replied to, but I imagine he'd give the same examples.

Personally, I couldn't care less if you use AI to help you write. I care about it not being the type of slurry that pre-AI was easily avoided by staying off of LinkedIn.

beepbooptheory · 4 days ago

I guess I just dont get the mode everyone is in where they got the editor hats on all the time. You can go back in time on that blog 10+ years and its all the same kind of dry, style guided, corporate speak to me, with maybe different characteristics. But still all active voice, lots of redundancy and emphasis. They are just dumb-ok blogs! I never thought it was "good," but I never put attention on it like I was reading Nabakov or something. I get we can all be hermeneuts now and decipher the true AI-ness of the given text, but isn't there time and place and all that?

I guess I too would be exhausted if I hung on every sentence construction like that of every corporate blog post I come across. But also, I guess I am a barely literate slop enjoyer, so grain of salt and all that.

Also: as someone who doesn't use the AI like this, how can it become beyond the run of the mill in slop? Like what happened to make it particularly bad? For something so flattening otherwise, that's kinda interesting right?

beepbooptheory commented on Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware 1password.com/blog/from-m... · Posted by u/pelario

danabramov · 4 days ago

I agree with your parent that the AI writing style is incredibly frustrating. Is there a difficulty with making a pass, reading every sentence of what was written, and then rewriting in your own words when you see AI cliches? It makes it difficult to trust the substance when the lack of effort in form is evident.

beepbooptheory · 4 days ago

There is surely no difficulty, but can you provide an example of what you mean? Just because I don't see it here. Or at least like, if I read a blog from some saas company pre-LLM era, I'd expect it to sound like this.

I get the call for "effort" but recently this feels like its being used to critique the thing without engaging.

HN has a policy about not complaining about the website itself when someone posts some content within it. These kinds of complaints are starting to feel applicable to the spirit of that rule. Just in their sheer number and noise and potential to derail from something substantive. But maybe that's just me.

If you feel like the content is low effort, you can respond by not engaging with it?

Just some thoughts!

beepbooptheory commented on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been jakequist.com/thoughts/op... · Posted by u/jakequist

karlshea · 4 days ago

It appears he is selling a service where he comes to you (optionally with a Mac Mini which is probably why he's buying multiple) and sets up OpenClaw for you.

beepbooptheory · 4 days ago

That truly cant be it right? This is like satire? How much do you even charge for that?

beepbooptheory commented on Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities iranintl.com/en/202602017... · Posted by u/ukblewis

postsantum · 7 days ago

Always baffled how credulous hn users are when it comes to political news

beepbooptheory · 7 days ago

I guess I thought that would be a good thing? Like shouldn't we be measured and critical? Check our sources? Recognize at least the possibility of being fooled?

I think we should always default to skepticism no matter our priors, even if that ends up being wrong, its not a fruitless position compared to the alternative.