chaos_emergent (u/chaos_emergent)

chaos_emergent commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

beAbU · 2 days ago

Isn't the struggling with docs and learning how and where to find the answers part of the learning process?

I would argue a machine that short circuits the process of getting stuck in obtuse documentation is actually harmful long term...

chaos_emergent · 2 days ago

Isn't the struggle of sifting through a labyrinth of physical books and learning how and where to find the right answers part of the learning process?

I would argue a machine that short-circuits the process of getting stuck in obtuse books is actually harmful long term...

chaos_emergent commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

chaos_emergent · 18 days ago

BuildBetter is the product operations platform for customer-led teams. We've built an AI-first product that lets our customers, like Rappi, n8n, Posthog, and Brex automate the operations work that lets them provide their customers with world-class product experiences.

We're looking for two senior engineers to join the team; our headcount has remained small while growing revenue, and we're now bottlenecked by development speed in a way that will make you invaluable. You'll have real ownership over your code from product ideation to customer support, and we'll be making substantive product updates weekly. We're looking for team players who are as fun to work with as they are productive, and are willing to compensate these two rolls commensurately - our aim is to be in the 95th percentile of equity compensation, and we expect that in exchange we'll have value-aligned employees who will help us grow the business.

Joining us will mean solving hard problems at the frontier of AI adoption, including:

- maintaining performance at scale

- building and maintaining rich frontend user experiences that maintain the standards of usability and delight that our customers know us for.

- building agent and workflow systems that automate real work for customers

- playing around with the latest models to figure out new experiences that we can offer our customers as cutting-edge models get released monthly

- building automation that's grounded in supporting product teams rather than automating them - our bet is that this is the likelier outcome out of the current generation of AI systems

Stack: Postgres / TS (Nest + React) / Hasura / EKS / S3 / LLM APIs / Python

Benefits:

- unlimited PTO

- $100/mo education stipend

- flexible hours: we measure productivity in terms of outcomes, not time, so as long as you're able to stay aligned, productive, and in regular communication, we don't really care what hours you work

- health insurance

Please reach out to: nikhil (at) buildbetter (dot) app

chaos_emergent commented on Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs” abzglobal.net/web-develop... · Posted by u/birdculture

WhyOhWhyQ · 23 days ago

What's a white collar job than can be automated with LLMs plus scaffolding?

chaos_emergent · 23 days ago

Most QA, most analyst positions, a good chunk of the kludge in intellectually challenging jobs, like medical diagnostics or software engineering, most administrative work, including in education and in healthcare, about 80% of customer success, about 80% of sales, are all within striking distance of automation with current-generation LLMs. And taht's entirely ignoring the 2nd-order effects in robotics and manufacturing.

chaos_emergent commented on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem blog.cloudflare.com/18-no... · Posted by u/eastdakota

chaos_emergent · a month ago

Just a moment to reflect on how much freaking leverage computers give us today - a single permission change took down half the internet. Truly crazy times.

chaos_emergent commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

chaos_emergent · 2 months ago

BuildBetter is the product operations platform for customer-led teams. We've built an AI-first product that lets our customers, like Rappi, n8n, and Posthog, automate the operations work that lets them provide their customers with world-class product experiences.

We're looking for two senior engineers to join the team; our headcount has remained small while growing revenue, and we're now bottlenecked by development speed in a way that will make you invaluable. You'll have real ownership over your code from product ideation to customer support, and we'll be making substantive product updates weekly. We're looking for team players who are as fun to work with as they are productive, and are willing to compensate these two rolls commensurately - our aim is to be in the 95th percentile of equity compensation, and we expect that in exchange we'll have value-aligned employees who will help us grow the business.

Joining us will mean solving hard problems at the frontier of AI adoption, including:

- maintaining performance at scale

- building and maintaining rich frontend user experiences that maintain the standards of usability and delight that our customers know us for.

- building agent and workflow systems that automate real work for customers

- playing around with the latest models to figure out new experiences that we can offer our customers as cutting-edge models get released monthly

- building automation that's grounded in supporting product teams rather than automating them - our bet is that this is the likelier outcome out of the current generation of AI systems

Stack: Postgres / TS (Nest + React) / Hasura / EKS / S3 / LLM APIs / Python

Benefits:

- unlimited PTO

- $100/mo education stipend

- flexible hours: we measure productivity in terms of outcomes, not time, so as long as you're able to stay aligned, productive, and in regular communication, we don't really care what hours you work

- health insurance

ALSO LOOKING FOR: Senior Product Designer | $105k - $180k USD | Design + code in HTML & CSS (Tailwind)

For engineering roles, please reach out at: nikhil (at) buildbetter (dot) app

For the designer role, please reach out at: adam (at) buildbetter (dot) app

chaos_emergent commented on The LLM Lobotomy? learn.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/sgt3v

briga · 3 months ago

I have a theory: all these people reporting degrading model quality over time aren't actually seeing model quality deteriorate. What they are actually doing is discovering that these models aren't as powerful as they initially thought (ie. expanding their sample size for judging how good the model is). The probabilistic nature of LLM produces a lot of confused thinking about how good a model is, just because a model produces nine excellent responses doesn't mean the tenth response won't be garbage.

chaos_emergent · 3 months ago

Yes exactly, my theory is that the novelty of a new generation of LLMs’ performances tends to cause an inflation in peoples’ perceptions of the model, with a reversion to a better calibrated expectation over time. If the developer reported numerical evaluations that drifted over time, I’d be more convinced of model change.

chaos_emergent commented on Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts · Posted by u/davidgu

orliesaurus · 3 months ago

Congrats on ur launch. Amanda has the strongest LinkedIn game I have ever seen in my life. On the other hand the product is IMHO at risk? Models like Whisper, DistilWhisper, TinyLlama, miniGPT-4, OpenHermes, Vosk, and Llama.cpp make Recall.ai meeting transcription easy to replicate. IMHO in 1 weekend you can build an open-source tech stacks that can rival or EVEN surpass the value brought....or am I tripping?

chaos_emergent · 3 months ago

Customer here, you're tripping. Recall provides transcription as an auxiliary service, not their core value prop.

Recall is, at its core, an API for bot recording. As someone building an application that relies heavily on conversational data, recording meetings is really important. Recall makes that process as easy as an API call, standardized across various meeting platforms. It's a huge PITA to set up infrastructure to get bots to join meetings that handle each platforms' proclivities, encoding and storing video data, etc.

The transcription service is just something they do to make transcribing recordings - one of the most common first post-processing steps for any conversational data - easier and lower friction.

chaos_emergent commented on ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access platform.openai.com/docs/... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

simonw · 3 months ago

Wow this is dangerous. I wonder how many people are going to turn this on without understanding the full scope of the risks it opens them up to.

It comes with plenty of warnings, but we all know how much attention people pay to those. I'm confident that the majority of people messing around with things like MCP still don't fully understand how prompt injection attacks work and why they are such a significant threat.

chaos_emergent · 3 months ago

I mean, Claude has had MCP use on the desktop client forever? This isn't a new problem.

chaos_emergent commented on Search engine referral report for 2025 Q2 radar.cloudflare.com/repo... · Posted by u/vgeek

highwaylights · 4 months ago

If you go Google something right now you’re not doing a web search like you were even a year ago - the first thing that comes up (and takes up most of the screen depending on your device) is a Gemini response to your query.

At the least it can be inferred that Google has fundamentally changed their main product to mimic a competitor, which is something you just don’t do if everything’s OK.

chaos_emergent · 4 months ago

knowledge cards at the top of Google results have been around for at least 12 years, I'd interpret the LLM-based responses as an iteration of a feature that's been around for a while rather than mimicking a competitor.

chaos_emergent commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam

mritterhoff · 4 months ago

I agree methane leaks (and monitoring programs cuts) are a problem. But even with them, methane burns much more cleanly than coal. The former primarily emits CO2 and H2O, while the latter emits SO2, NOx, heavy metals and more.

chaos_emergent · 4 months ago

I think the problem is that methane is 20x more powerful a GHG than CO2