greenchair (u/greenchair)

greenchair commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

squigz · 13 days ago

> I don't really need to see opposing points of view as though they are novel thoughts that I've never considered before

I mean, that's fine, if you think that you can consider all conceivable angles thoroughly, by yourself. I for one welcome opposing views, but I suppose if my idea of that meant "religion or conspiracy theories" I'd probably be avoiding it too.

greenchair · 13 days ago

no need to consider all angles about an issue. not possible anyway. think about how much time you've wasted on HN reading opposing views that add no value.

greenchair commented on Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment? nber.org/papers/w34033... · Posted by u/lxm

spicyusername · 17 days ago

If a business can't provide a living wage, it shouldn't exist. It's really that simple.

Imagine doing this analysis on the effects of requiring a business to pay it's slaves, and coming to the conclusion that some slave-based businesses would have to close, since their business model was so skewed, it could only function with slave labor...

Who cares! We don't want a world with companies that can only work with those kinds of business models!

Slave labor shouldn't subsidize artificially low priced products and artificially inflated executive salaries... the end.

greenchair · 17 days ago

Interesting perspective. I need a paragraphs worth of text translated once a week by a native speaker. Should my biz not exist or am I allowed to use "slave labor" fiverr?

greenchair commented on Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too twitter.com/jxmnop/status... · Posted by u/flabber

greenchair · 17 days ago

"this thing is clearly trained via RL to think and solve tasks for specific reasoning benchmarks. nothing else." Has the train already reached the end of the line?

greenchair commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired

zabil · a month ago

I’ve noticed that every time I open a browser to use the web version of an app, I get distracted and end up browsing unrelated stuff.

Switching to a standalone app helps me avoid that — fewer distractions, less wasted time. I’ve tried breaking the habit, but this is one reason I still prefer desktop version of the website.

greenchair · a month ago

do you have the same problem at the grocery store?

greenchair commented on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet worksonmymachine.substack... · Posted by u/Stwerner

sansseriff · a month ago

There's a weird insecurity I've noticed cropping up. I want to design the codebase 'my way'. I want to decide on the fundamental data structures. But there's this worry that my preferred architecture is not massively better than whatever the machine comes up with. So by insisting on 'my way' I'm robbing everyone productivity.

I know most true programmers will vouch for me and my need to understand. But clients and project managers and bosses? Are they really gonna keep accepting a refrain like this from their engineers?

"either it gets done in a day and I understand none of it, or it gets done in a month and I fully understand it and like it"

greenchair · a month ago

Not sure if a developer would ever say that to their manager. Agreed on the need to 100% fully understand what's going on. Otherwise the "AI can get it done in a day" is extremely high risk to the business. Junior may not be able to recognize a half-baked solution that doesn't follow existing patterns, poor security, poor performance, etc.

greenchair commented on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet worksonmymachine.substack... · Posted by u/Stwerner

rmdashrfv · a month ago

> For me it’s just a huge force multiplier, maybe 10-20x of my ability to deliver with my own knowledge and skills on a web dev basis.

I can tell you that this claim is where a lot of engineers are getting hung up. People keep saying that they are 10, 20 and sometimes even 100x more productive but it's this hyperbole that is harming that building style more than anything.

If you anyone could get 10 to 20 years worth of work done in 1 year, it would be so obvious that you wouldn't even have to tell anyone. Everyone would just see how much work you got done and be like "How did you do 2 decades worth of work this year?!"

greenchair · a month ago

yep plus all these companies going all in on AI would have already laid off 95% of their software engineers.

greenchair commented on Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense anthropic.com/news/anthro... · Posted by u/wavelander

dClauzel · a month ago

200 millimetres? That's not a lot.

greenchair · a month ago

Was this thing built for ants? It needs to be much much bigger, at least twice as large.

greenchair commented on Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI muthuishere.medium.com/un... · Posted by u/muthuishere

nullorempty · a month ago

I don't think Spring is well regarded on HN.

greenchair · a month ago

Nothing is well regarded on HN so that's fine.