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chrsw commented on Why AGI Will Not Happen timdettmers.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/dpraburaj

chrsw · 4 days ago

Real machine learning research has promise, especially over long time scales.

Imminent AGI/ASI/God-like AI/end of humanity hawks are part of a growing AI cult. The cult leaders are driven by insatiable greed and the gullible cult followers are blinded by hope.

And I say this as a developer who is quite pleased with the progress of coding assistant tools recently.

chrsw commented on Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder detail.dev/... · Posted by u/drob

drob · 4 days ago

Github only for now. Out of curiosity, is yours on gitlab? Something else?

We should be able to find something interesting in most codebases, as long as there's some plausible way to build and test the code and the codebase is big enough. (Below ~250 files the results get iffy.) We've just tested it a lot more thoroughly on app backends, because that's what we know best.

chrsw · 4 days ago

> Out of curiosity, is yours on gitlab? Something else?

Something else, it's a self-hosted Git server similar to GitHub, GitLab, etc. We have multiple repos well clear of 1k files. Almost none of it is JavaScript or TypeScript or anything like that. None of our own code is public.

chrsw commented on Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder detail.dev/... · Posted by u/drob

chrsw · 4 days ago

How does this work if your repos aren't on GitHub? And what if your code has nothing to do with backend web apps?

chrsw commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember

embedding-shape · 5 days ago

> Their new CLI agent tool [1] is written in

This is exactly the CLI I'm referring to, whose name implies it's for playing around with "vibe-coding", instead of helping professional developers produce high quality code. It's the opposite of what I and many others are looking for.

chrsw · 4 days ago

I think that's just the name they picked. I don't mind it. Taking a glance at what it actually does, it just looks like another command line coding assistant/agent similar to Opencode and friends. You can use it for whatever you want not just "vibe coding", including high quality, serious, professional development. You just have to know what you're doing.

chrsw commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember

embedding-shape · 5 days ago

Look interesting, eager to play around with it! Devstral was a neat model when it released and one of the better ones to run locally for agentic coding. Nowadays I mostly use GPT-OSS-120b for this, so gonna be interesting to see if Devstral 2 can replace it.

I'm a bit saddened by the name of the CLI tool, which to me implies the intended usage. "Vibe-coding" is a fun exercise to realize where models go wrong, but for professional work where you need tight control over the quality, you can obviously not vibe your way to excellency, hard reviews are required, so not "vibe coding" which is all about unreviewed code and just going with whatever the LLM outputs.

But regardless of that, it seems like everyone and their mother is aiming to fuel the vibe coding frenzy. But where are the professional tools, meant to be used for people who don't want to do vibe-coding, but be heavily assisted by LLMs? Something that is meant to augment the human intellect, not replace it? All the agents seem to focus on off-handing work to vibe-coding agents, while what I want is something even tighter integrated with my tools so I can continue delivering high quality code I know and control. Where are those tools? None of the existing coding agents apparently aim for this...

chrsw · 5 days ago

> run locally for agentic coding. Nowadays I mostly use GPT-OSS-120b for this

What kind of hardware do you have to be able to run a performant GPT-OSS-120b locally?

chrsw commented on Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/lattis

meindnoch · 6 days ago

We're seeing the buildup for a 9+ megathrust earthquake.

chrsw · 6 days ago

How do you know?

chrsw commented on Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars nytimes.com/2025/12/03/cl... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

baranul · 10 days ago

The arguments against EVs in the U.S. are both weird and funny. Meanwhile, many other countries have figured out that promoting the switch from ICE to EVs, is the better option for the future of humanity. Not to mention, China will use America's temporary insanity against it, to become the dominate force in EVs for the next decade or more.

chrsw · 10 days ago

I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but here the US, gas cars and EVs are political statements.

chrsw commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar

chrsw · 10 days ago

Tech company leadership sees AI as a shortcut to success. You know how in project planning meetings engineers are usually asked how they can pull in the schedule by x number of months? AI is now that thing. Obviously, this is a mistake.

The cult of AI maximalists aren't helping the situation.

chrsw commented on The space of minds karpathy.bearblog.dev/the... · Posted by u/Garbage

cadamsdotcom · 14 days ago

> an LLM with a knowledge cutoff that boots up from fixed weights, processes tokens and then dies

Mildly tangential: this demonstrates why "model welfare" is not a concern.

LLMs can be cloned infinitely which makes them very unlike individual humans or animals which live in a body that must be protected and maintain continually varying social status that is costly to gain or lose.

LLMs "survive" by being useful - whatever use they're put to.

chrsw · 14 days ago

> LLMs "survive" by being useful - whatever use they're put to.

I might be wrong or inaccurate on this because it's well outside my area of expertise, but isn't this what individual neurons are basically doing?

chrsw commented on C100 Developer Terminal caligra.com/... · Posted by u/matthewsinclair

xorvoid · 17 days ago

Here's someone trying to build a serious PC focused on Linux. But the comments are very negative. And people wonder why the year of the Linux desktop still haven't arrived.

If you want PCs targeting Linux with good support... don't complain when someone tries doing exactly that.

chrsw · 17 days ago

I could be wrong but I think a lot of the negativity comes from people who want a modern laptop, with decent port selection, a good screen and a good keyboard, fully supported by Linux because everything is open. Quality hardware with support when you want it and open documentation and open drivers if you want to do something yourself. Like a MacBook Pro but with USB-A ports and built with 100% Linux compatibility from the ground up.