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elif commented on CIA to Sunset the World Factbook abc.net.au/news/2026-02-0... · Posted by u/kshahkshah
Dooming the workplace is peter thiel's stated position, as he attempts to crash the currency to better control the future corporate economy
elif commented on Self Driving Car Insurance lemonade.com/car/explaine... · Posted by u/KellyCriterion
Where I live isn't particularly challenging to drive (rural Washington), but I'm constantly disengaging FSD for doing silly and dangerous things.
Most notably my driveway meets the road at a blind y intersection, and my Model 3 just blasts out into the road even though you cannot see cross traffic.
FSD stresses me out. It's like I'm monitoring a teenager with their learners permit. I can probably count the number trips where I haven't had to take over on one hand.
it's edging into the intersection to get a better view on the camera. it's further than you would normally pull out, but it will NOT pull into traffic.
Here you go HN commenters. Last month when I made the observation that "from what I've read recently, I've started to get the impression that the explosion in mental health problems (depression, autism rates etc) has more to do with the western diet than genetics"[0]
Y'all called me MAHA and down voted me into the negatives. Please, insult your own analytical ability by doing the same here. This time I'll just revel in your ideologically confined science denial this time.
[0] https://scitechdaily.com/simple-three-nutrient-blend-rapidly...
elif commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels
Why am I not surprised that a blog was written about LLM coding going from 20% to 80% useful, yet all of the HN comments are still nit picking about some negative details rather than building positive ideas toward some progress...
Is the programmer ego really this fragile? At least luddites had an ideological reasoning, whereas here we just seem to have emotional reflexes.
elif commented on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable nobelpeaceprize.org/press... · Posted by u/karakoram
Maybe the denigration of the award process should be the basis for revoking the award in question
elif commented on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon labs.ramp.com/rct... · Posted by u/iamwil
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I’ve always found it crazy that my LLM has access to such terrible tools compared to mine.
It’s left with grepping for function signatures, sending diffs for patching, and running `cat` to read all the code at once.
I however, run an IDE and can run a simple refactoring tool to add a parameter to a function, I can “follow symbol” to see where something is defined, I can click and get all usages of a function shown at a glance, etc etc.
Is anyone working on making it so LLM’s get better tools for actually writing/refactoring code? Or is there some “bitter lesson”-like thing that says effort is always better spent just increasing the context size and slurping up all the code at once?
Surely there is an embedding for emacs giving it full elisp control
It's somewhat strange to regularly read HN threads confidently asserting that the cost of software is trending towards zero and software engineering as a profession is dead, but also that an AI dev tool that basically hooks onto Git/Claude Code/terminal session history is worth multiples of $60+ million dollars.