drudolph914 (u/drudolph914)

drudolph914 commented on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code sanity.io/blog/first-atte... · Posted by u/kmelve

drudolph914 · 17 hours ago

to throw my hat into the ring, I am in no way shy about using the AI tooling and I like using it, but I am happy we're finally seeing people talk about AI that matches with my personal reality with the tools.

for the record, I've been bullish on the tooling from the beginning

My dev-tooling AI journey has been chatGPT -> vscode + copilot -> early cursor adopter -> early claude + cursor adopter -> cursor agent with claude -> and now claude code

I've also spent a lot of time trying out self-hosted LLMs such as couple version of Qwen coder 2.5/3 32B, as well as deepseek 30B - and talking to them through the vscode continue.dev extension

My personal feelings are that the AI coding/tooling industry has seen a major plateau in usefulness as soon as agents became apart of the tooling. The reality is coding is a highly precise task, and LLMs down to the very core of the model architecture are not precise in the way coding needs them to be. and it's not that I don't think we won't one day see coding agents, but I think it will take a deep and complete bottom up kind of change and an possibly an entirely new model architecture to get us to what people imagine a coding agent is

I've accepted to just use claude w/ cursor and to be done with experimenting. the agent tooling just slows my engineering team down

I think the worst part about this dev tooling space is the comment sections on these kinds of articles is completely useless. it's either AI hype bots just saying non-sense, or the most mid an obvious takes that you here everywhere else. I've genuinely have become frustrated with all this vague advice and how the AI dev community talks about this domain space. there is no science, data, or reason as to why these things fail or how to improve it

I think anyone who tries to take this domain space seriously knows that there's limit to all this tooling, we're probably not going to see anything group breaking for a while, and there doesn't exist a person, outside the AI researchers at the the big AI companies, that could tell ya how to actually improve the performance of a coding agent

I think that famous vibe-code reddit post said it best

"what's the point of using these tools if I still need a software engineer to actually build it when I'm done prototyping"

drudolph914 commented on Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics twitter.com/SebastienBube... · Posted by u/marcuschong

drudolph914 · 14 days ago

interesting if true, but this isn't the first time we heard of something like this

quanta published an article that talked about a physics lab asking chatGPT to help come up with a way to perform an experiment, and chatGPT _magically_ came up with an answer worth pursuing. but what actually happened was chatGPT was referencing papers that basically went unread from lesser famous labs/researchers

this is amazing that chatGPT can do something like that, but `referencing data` != `deriving theorems` and the person posting this shouldn't just claim "chatGPT derived a better bound" in a proof, and should first do a really thorough check if it's possible this information could've just ended up in the training data

drudolph914 commented on AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/thm

drudolph914 · a month ago

I imagine it depends on the kind of search people are making.

if I just need a basic fact or specific detail from an article, and being wrong has no real world consequences, I'll probably just gamble it and take the AI's word for it most of the time. Otherwise I'm going to double check with an article/credible source

if anything, I think aimode from google has made it easier to find direct sources for what I need. A lot of the times, I am using AI for "tip of the tongue" type searches. I'll list a lot of information related to what I am trying to find, and the aimode does a great job of hunting it down for me

ultimately though, I do think some old aspects of google search are dying - some good, some bad.

Pros: don't fee the need to sift through blog spam, I don't need to scroll past paid search results, I can avoid the BS part of an article where someone goes through their entire life story before the actual content (I'm talking things like cooking website)

Cons: Google is definitely going to add ads to this tool at some point, some indie creators on the internet will have a harder time getting their name out.

my key takeaway from all this is that people will only stop at your site if they think your site will have something to offer that the AI can't offer. and this isn't new. people have been steeling blog content and turning into videos for ever. people will steel paid tutorials and release the content for free on a personal site. people will basically take content from site-X and repost in a more consumable format on site-Y. and this kind of theft is so obvious and no one liked seeing the same thing reposted a 1000 times. I think this long term is a win

drudolph914 commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp

drudolph914 · a month ago

wow is the uber moment for AI already over? that was fast

drudolph914 commented on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public honest-broker.com/p/the-f... · Posted by u/imartin2k

bethekidyouwant · 2 months ago

You guys are lying if you don’t use ChatGPT instead of Google now

drudolph914 · 2 months ago

I think a lot of people are flipping back to google. google AI mode is pretty good and better than what ever free tier openAI offers

drudolph914 commented on 3 Years of Remote Work brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe

Pet_Ant · 3 months ago

No mention of loneliness? There are times when I end up going days without seeing another human soul. You don’t always notice it until you start disassociating and reflect. I try to go out to buy lunch just to see people.

drudolph914 · 3 months ago

I’m always surprised by this take. Do people not see their friends outside of work?

drudolph914 commented on The game designer playing through his own psyche newyorker.com/culture/per... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

SamBam · 5 months ago

Can either game be played on a modern Mac? Steam says it's only for 32-bit Macs.

drudolph914 · 5 months ago

I've had this problem with a few older games that came out in the 2010s. The easy thing to do is to run it with a tool like crossover, or run the game through Apple's Game Porting Toolkit. I recommend just using crossover's 2 week free trial if this is the only game you're having trouble with

Crossover - https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover?gad_source=1&gbraid=0A...

drudolph914 commented on The little book about OS development littleosbook.github.io/... · Posted by u/ibobev

xmprt · 5 months ago

My favorite OS book (less about development and more about how it works) is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Free in HTML and PDF form but they sell a printed book as well. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

drudolph914 · 5 months ago

just got recommended this and read a good chunk of it! it’s a great read

drudolph914 commented on AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/01-_-

Aurornis · 6 months ago

It's interesting to see the strong negative reactions to this. I people are reading this and imagining themselves on the receiving end of an AI-enhanced profile or chat.

Contrast that with the reactions any time there's an article about AI-assisted resume generation or job applications: The sentiment in HN comments (and in many places across the internet) is that using AI to write a resume and apply for jobs should be fair game because it's all a dumb process and companies can't accurately judge resumes anyway. You just need to say the right things to get past the gatekeeper so you can impress them in person (sound familiar?).

I think the primary difference is whether people think of the AI as helping them, or being used against them (with a layer of anti-corporate angst, of course).

Regardless, the premise appears to be the same: Use AI to game the system that people use to filter introductions, then hope that you can impress the other party once you're in front of them and talking naturally.

Personally, I feel like I've seen this fail more than it succeeds. Even before AI it wasn't uncommon for people to use misleading dating app photos or to exaggerate claims on resumes. Once the other party discovers you've been misleading them, they begin to wonder what else you're lying about.

The best case I can think of for these AI tools is people who struggle to write positively about themselves or who have poor self-awareness about the things they write. I've met a lot of people who are simply bad at writing, especially when it comes to themselves. Having an AI act as an impartial coach could help.

Using AI as a bot to flirt with people on dating apps through chat (mentioned in the article) just feels like a losing strategy, though, unless your goal is to play a numbers game.

drudolph914 · 6 months ago

> Contrast that with the reactions any time there's an article about AI-assisted resume generation The sentiment in HN comments (and in many places across the internet) is that using AI to write a resume and apply for jobs should be fair game

These 2 scenarios don’t have any commonality. You’re comparing how AI is being used in two different types of “social games” that have wildly different stakes. The stakes make this incomparable.

Dating apps are about fostering human connection. AI posing as a person is the opposite of human connection

Meanwhile, not having a job for the vast majority people means you can’t eat. The system shouldn’t punish people for using a tool that helps them find work to survive

drudolph914 commented on Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev? · Posted by u/vsroy

drudolph914 · 8 months ago

My team tried it, my conclusions were: - it took just as much prompting as a using an LLM to get simple tasks done - took many hours to come to wrong conclusions for simple problems - the examples in their site are definitely cherry picked