Is the US going to sanction Intel for being a SOE now?
Readit Newslbrito commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
How much of the code do you review in a third party package installed through npm, pip, etc.? How many eyes other than the author’s have ever even looked at that code? I bet the answers have been “none” and “zero” for many HN readers at some point. I’m certainly not saying this is a great practice or the only way to productively use LLMs, just pointing out that we treat many things as a black box that “just works” till it doesn’t, and life somehow continues. LLM output doesn’t need to be an exception.
That's true, however, not so great of an issue because there's a kind of natural selection happening: if the package is popular, other people will eventually read (parts of, at least) the code and catch the most egregious problems. Most packages will have "none" like you said, but they aren't being used by that many people either, so that's ok.
Of course this also applies to hypothetical LLM-generated packages that become popular, but some new issues arise: the verbosity and sometimes baffling architecture choices by LLM will certainly make third-party reviews harder and push up the threshold in terms of popularity needed to obtain third party attention.
The trick is to not give a fuck. This works great in a lot of apps, which are useless to begin with. It may also be a reasonable strategy in an early-stage startup yet to achieve product-market fit, but your plan has to be to scrap it and rewrite it and we all know how that usually turns out.
This is an excellent point. Sure in an ideal world we should care very much about every line of code committed, but in the real world pushing garbage might be a valid compromise given things like crunch, sales pitches due tomorrow etc.
I completely agree.
On a side note.. ya’ll must be prompt wizards if you can actually use the LLM code.
I use it for debugging sometimes to get an idea, or a quick sketch up of an UI.
As for actual code.. the code it writes is a huge mess of spaghetti code, overly verbose, with serious performance and security risks, and complete misunderstanding of pretty much every design pattern I give it..
It's one of those you get what you put in kind of deals.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about what you want, describing the inner workings, edge cases, architecture and library choices, and put that into a thoughtful markdown, then maybe after a couple of iterations you will get half decent code. It certainly makes a difference between that and a short "implement X" prompt.
But it makes one think - at that point (writing a good prompt that is basically a spec), you've basically solved the problem already. So LLM in this case is little more than a glorified electric typewriter. It types faster than you, but you did most of the thinking.
>teach “how do you think and how do you decompose problems”
That's rich coming from AWS!
I think he meant "how do you think about adding unnecessary complexity to problems such that it can enable the maximum amount of meetings, design docs and promo packages for years to come"!
lbrito commented on Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
After the crash, tech "industry leaders" will struggle to explain why/how they were conned into believing that intelligence was a simple database function with some probability and statistics sprinkled on top.
But who's to say humans are any different than simple databases with probability and statistics firing neurons??
/s
I think on-device models will be the breaking point for AI. Nobody wants to pay for a trillion dollar cloud bill. We've made consumers think that the only way you're paying for software is if you have to buy hardware that comes with it. If you want AI to truly blow up, make it run on potatoes. It doesnt have to do EVERYTHING, just specific needs.
That said, what is with Android phones and their back cameras? They look silly. I thought Apple adding 3 to theirs for the 12 was a bit silly, but at least they made it look nice. One of those models looks like a Battlestar Galactica villain...
>That said, what is with Android phones and their back cameras? They look silly.
Isn't it a market thing though? Doesn't Apple have a phone with horrendous, trypophobia-inducing camera nests?
> Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details.
Reminds me of https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...
I guess we'll never be able to trust any photos taken with a Pixel 10 or above.
Yeah.
So basically the trend now is to stop actually improving things and have AI make shit up to fill the gaps and pretend we're improving things.
lbrito commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
The background video looks like an AI video for "generate a video of Counter Strike 1.4 gameplay"
Fond memories of 1.4 and 1.5, when it was still a Half-Life mod.
lbrito commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
If there were an expensive but good service that aggregated the major networks - sorry, I mean, streaming services - then I'd pay for it. But managing 3-4 subscriptions is dumb.
Also the Linux experience for every streaming service typically sucks because of DRM, capping resolution to 720p.