johnpaulkiser (u/johnpaulkiser)

johnpaulkiser commented on This website is for humans localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f

pessimizer · 20 days ago

This website could have been written by an LLM. Real life is for humans, because you can verify that people you have shaken hands with are not AI. Even if people you've shaken hands with are AI-assisted, they're the editor/director/auteur, nothing gets out without their approval, so it's their speech. If I know you're real, I know you're real. I can read your blog and know I'm interacting with a person.

This will change when the AIs (or rather their owners, although it will be left to an agent) start employing gig workers to pretend to be them in public.

edit: the (for now) problem is that the longer they write, the more likely they will make an inhuman mistake. This will not last. Did the "Voight-Kampff" test in Bladerunner accidentally predict something? It's not whether they don't get anxiety, though, it's that they answer like they've never seen (or maybe more relevant related to) a dying animal.

johnpaulkiser · 20 days ago

Soon with little help at all for static sites like this. Had chatgpt "recreate" the background image from a screenshot of the site using it's image generator, then had "agent mode" create a linktree style "version" of the site and publish it all without assistance.

https://f7c5b8fb.cozy.space/

johnpaulkiser commented on This website is for humans localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f

johnpaulkiser · 20 days ago

I'm building a sort of "neocities" like thing for LLMs and humans alike. It uses git-like content addressability so forking and remix a website is trivial. Although i haven't built those frontend features yet. You can currently only create a detached commit. You can use without an account (we'll see if i regret this) by just uploading the files & clicking publish.

https://cozy.space

Even chatgpt can publish a webpage! Select agent mode and paste in a prompt like this:

"Create a linktree style single static index.html webpage for "Elon Musk", then use the browser & go to https://cozy.space and upload the site, click publish by itself, proceed to view the unclaim website and return the full URL"

Edit: here is what chatgpt one shotted with the above prompt https://893af5fa.cozy.space/

johnpaulkiser commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

reorder9695 · 21 days ago

I am not that well versed in crypto. I understand the concept of a blockchain and what an n block reorg is, but what is the downside of a reorg? Like who can profit financially and why?

johnpaulkiser · 20 days ago

You get all the money from the block rewards for those blocks if you reorg other miners blocks out.

johnpaulkiser commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

chomp · a month ago

That’s not what the parent commenter asked though, they wanted a price for not being concerned about limits. The API pricing is that.

johnpaulkiser · a month ago

I doubts thats what they want. They want a static fixed price, $5k a month for example and never have to think about it.

johnpaulkiser commented on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 twitter.com/alexwei_/stat... · Posted by u/Davidzheng

rafael859 · a month ago

Interesting that the proofs seem to use a limited vocabulary: https://github.com/aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs/blob/main/pro...

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick :)

Also worth pointing out that Alex Wei is himself a gold medalist at IOI.

johnpaulkiser · a month ago

Are you saying "see the world?" or "seaworld"?

johnpaulkiser commented on "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing sparktoro.com/blog/ai-wil... · Posted by u/botanicals6

qoez · 3 months ago

I can't make up my mind if I'd prefer an AI boss or not. Human bosses can be quite terrible and not having to deal with an emotional being seems kinda nice.

johnpaulkiser · 3 months ago

Let me help you. An AI boss would be 100x worse.

johnpaulkiser commented on Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills dawidmakowski.com/en/2025... · Posted by u/makowskid

mg · 4 months ago

Refactoring is indeed one of the areas where LLMs already shine bright. And I love it.

I have been coding since I am 12 years old. I always loved writing code. But I also always loved reading code. I don't know, for me code is a kind of art. Never met anyone else who sees it like this. When a friend was hiring for his startup a while ago, I was happy to sit down for multiple hours and read all the code the applicants wrote and gave him advice on whom to hire.

So for me, the new times are paradise. I try to not touch code directly anymore. I write prompts that would enable a really good developer to implement features and then let various LLMs work on it. Afterward, I rate the results so I have an overall score for each LLM. I pick the best solution for my codebase and manually finetune it to perfection.

After each commit, I also ask the LLMs if they can find anything in the files that can be refactored to make the code shorter or more logical. The result is that the codebase becomes better and better. Because the LLMs often find stuff to improve. They usually come up with 10 ideas I dislike, but also one idea that I like. And so the codebase becomes better and better over time. Instead of worse and worse like in the past when you had to keep a balance of refactoring for the sake of beautiful code and building new features. Nowadays, refactoring becomes more and more free.

johnpaulkiser · 4 months ago

Man, I must really suck at this stuff. This is not at all my experience. Asking LLMs to refactor almost always results in hasty abstractions that I want to keep out of my codebases at all cost. Am I not letting go enough?

johnpaulkiser commented on Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code browsermcp.io/... · Posted by u/namukang

namukang · 5 months ago

Of course, you're sending data to the AI model, but the "private" aspect is contrasting automating using a local browser vs. automating using a remote browser.

When you automate using a remote browser, another service (not the AI model) gets all of the browsing activity and any information you send (e.g. usernames and passwords) that's required for the automation.

With Browser MCP, since you're automating locally, your sensitive data and browser activity (apart from the results of MCP tool calls that's sent to the AI model) stay on your device.

johnpaulkiser · 5 months ago

I think we need to be very careful & intentional about the language we use with these kinds of tools, especially now that the MCP floodgates have been opened. You aren't just exposing the users browsing data to which ever model they are using, you are also exposing it any tools they may be allowing as well.

A lot of non technical people are using these tools to "vibe" their way to productivity. I would explicitly tell them that potentially "all" of their browsing data is going to be exposed to their LLM client and they need to use this at their own risk.

johnpaulkiser commented on Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code browsermcp.io/... · Posted by u/namukang

johnpaulkiser · 5 months ago

> Private > Since automation happens locally, your browser activity stays on your device and isn't sent to remote servers.

I think this is bullshit. Isn't the dom or whatever sent to the model api?

johnpaulkiser commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927

johnpaulkiser · 5 months ago

A platform for indie devs to publish WIP web games: (https://flipkick.gg)

The goal is to build a discovery system/algo that surfaces stickiness and fun to give developers a tighter publish/iterate feedback loop so they can really hone their craft on a shorter time frame.

If you have a prototype of a game that can be hosted as a static frontend web rotting away in your "projects/" directory feel free to toss it up on the site. Bugs beware :)