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logsr commented on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/whiteboardr

logsr · 20 days ago

IP exists in your head. You have knowledge that no one else has and it is your property.

IP law recognizes this ground truth and creates a legal framework that allows IP to be traded in the economy which creates an incentive for people to share their IP.

logsr commented on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/danielhanchen

zkmon · a month ago

At my work, here is a typical breakdown of time spent by work areas for a software engineer. Which of these areas can be sped up by using agentic coding?

05%: Making code changes

10%: Running build pipelines

20%: Learning about changed process and people via zoom calls, teams chat and emails

15%: Raising incident tickets for issues outside of my control

20%: Submitting forms, attending reviews and chasing approvals

20%: Reaching out to people for dependencies, following up

10%: Finding and reading up some obscure and conflicting internal wiki page, which is likely to be outdated

logsr · a month ago

5% is pretty low but similar to what i have seen on low performing teams at 10K+ employee multinationals. this would also be why the vast majority of software today is bug ridden garbage that runs slower than the software we were using 20 years ago.

agentic coding will not fix these systemic issues caused by organizational dysfunction. agentic coding will allow the software created by these companies to be rewritten from scratch for 1/100th the cost with better reliability and performance though.

the resistance to AI adoption inside corporations that operate like this is intense and will probably intensify.

it takes a combination of external competitive pressure, investor pressure, attrition, PE takeovers, etc, to grind down internal resistance, which takes years or decades depending on the situation.

logsr commented on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com/news/154... · Posted by u/antirez

on_the_train · a month ago

If LLMs were actually useful, there would be no need to scream it everywhere. On the contrary: it would be a guarded secret.

logsr · a month ago

posting a plain text description of your experience on a personal blog isn't exactly screaming. in the noise of the modern internet this would be read by nobody if it wasn't coming from one of the most well known open source software creators of all time.

people who believe in open source don't believe that knowledge should be secret. i have released a lot of open source myself, but i wouldn't consider myself a "true believer." even so, i strongly believe that all information about AI must be as open as possible, and i devote a fair amount of time to reverse engineering various proprietary AI implementations so that i can publish the details of how they work.

why? a couple of reasons:

1) software development is my profession, and i am not going to let anybody steal it from me, so preventing any entity from establishing a monopoly on IP in the space is important to me personally.

2) AI has some very serious geopolitical implications. this technology is more dangerous than the atomic bomb. allowing any one country to gain a monopoly on this technology would be extremely destabilizing to the existing global order, and must be prevented at all costs.

LLMs are very powerful, they will get more powerful, and we have not even scratched the surface yet in terms of fully utilizing them in applications. staying at the cutting edge of this technology, and making sure that the knowledge remains free, and is shared as widely as possible, is a natural evolution for people who share the open source ethos.

logsr commented on How bad are childhood literacy rates? vox.com/culture/419070/ch... · Posted by u/pseudolus

SchemaLoad · a month ago

There's not just one kind of literacy though. I have no problem reading books or blog posts on HN, but someone handed me a research article and I realised I struggled to understand it at all and had to re read and concentrate hard. Almost like there was some kind of performative obtuseness to the writing to appeal to an in group of other researchers.

logsr · a month ago

language is one of the basic mechanisms for social differentiation and status. in academia specialized language is how different disciplines are differentiated and abstruse literary references are how people demonstrate their knowledge and status in the field.

knowing how to read ("knowing your letters") is not literacy. from an academic perspective the majority of the population is illiterate.

logsr commented on How bad are childhood literacy rates? vox.com/culture/419070/ch... · Posted by u/pseudolus

dec0dedab0de · a month ago

Maybe reading books is less important than ever, and the kids are adapting to the new world.

I am reminded of this xkcd, which I just realized Im about a decade behind on.

https://xkcd.com/1414/

logsr · a month ago

literacy is only important if you don't want to live a subsistence poverty lifestyle. other than that, completely useless.

logsr commented on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf cognition.ai/blog/windsur... · Posted by u/alazsengul

nikcub · a month ago

> divorced from any kind of fundamentals

Anthropic ARR went $1B -> $4B in the first half of this year. They're getting my $200 a month and it's easily the best money I spend. There's definitely something there.

logsr · a month ago

growing ARR is easy when you are selling dollars for cents. people hyping ARR as an meaningful investment indicator are a dead giveaway that we are in fact in a bubble.

logsr commented on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B marketwatch.com/story/sle... · Posted by u/aorloff

adastra22 · 2 months ago

This isn’t like lottery odds. The space of keys here is vast. Like unimaginably so. 2^256 is a lot of keys.

If someone had a faster method for breaking elliptic curve keys, fast enough to have a realistic chance on GPUs, the repercussions for that would be waaaaaay larger than merely stealing some bitcoin. This is the same math upon which nearly all digital security in common use today is based. It’d be full-on cryptopocalypse.

logsr · 2 months ago

the most likely weakness is in the ECC implementation. i don't understand the math (who does?) but what the debate over https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ tells me is that very few people know what a "weak curve" is but people agree that they exist. this has always made me sketch on ECC in general, especially since it is also used in Tor. Another possibility is compromising the RNG used for creating the pvt sig? which since these are early addresses they would have been from a very early version of the software, and might have used a shitty RNG. If this is a crack it could definitely be state level actors (who has the US pissed off lately? who have they not?). Whether it is state/private the goal would be to extract as much real money as possible before creating a panic, so will be interesting to see where the money goes.

logsr commented on Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking dmitriid.com/everything-a... · Posted by u/troupo

tiahura · 2 months ago

Everything? As a lawyer, I’m producing 2x - with fewer errors. Admittedly, law is a field that mostly involves shuffling words around so it may be the best case scenario, but much of the skepticism comes off as cope.

logsr · 2 months ago

computer programming and law are very similar. computer code is called code because it is the law that dictates the behavior of the computer. law is a bit different because it is a program that runs on people, who aren't as deterministic as machines, but in theory law and the interpretation of law are also supposed to be completely logical, and you can translate back and forth directly from the logic of law to a logical expression in a computer program.

i specialize in programming, and LLMs are very good right now, if you set them up with the right tooling, feedback based learning methods, and efficient ways of capturing human input (review/approve/suggest/correct/etc).

with programming you have compilers and other static analysis tools that you can use to verify output. for law you need similar static analysis tooling, to verify things like citations, procedural scheduling, electronic filing, etc, but if you loop that tooling in with an llm, the llm will be able to correct errors automatically, and you will get to an agent that can take a statement of fact, find a cause of action, and file a pro se lawsuit for someone.

courts are going to be flooded with lawsuits, on a scale of 10-100X current case loads.

criminal defendants will be able to use a smart phone app to represent themselves, with an AI handling all of the filings and motions, monitoring the trial in real time, giving advice to the defendant on when to make motions and what to say, maximizing delay and cost for the state with maximum efficiency.

with 98% of convictions coming from guilty pleas (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...) which are largely driven by not being able to afford the cost of legal services the number of criminal defendants electing to go to full jury trial could easily explode 10-20X or more very quickly.

fun times!

logsr commented on Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet research.roundtable.ai/pr... · Posted by u/timshell

catlifeonmars · 2 months ago

In this few years scenario why would there be a need for websites anyway? The bots can just use APIs.

logsr · 2 months ago

we have had GUIs and CLIs for the same functionality for many decades. i doubt the branded website/app layer will go away. AI agents will become the predominant use case, but you still need a human accessible manual control interface. websites and apps are also the on-ramp for acquiring users from advertising, and that is not likely to go away. consumer interest in using AR products is limited and it may take generational timelines to see broad adoption of AR tech (if ever) so physical display advertising will likely remain a thing for a long time.

logsr commented on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' wired.com/story/sam-altma... · Posted by u/spenvo

delfinom · 2 months ago

This is just a CEO gaslighting his employees to "think of the mission" instead of paying up

No different than "we are a family"

logsr · 2 months ago

> “I have never been more confident in our research roadmap,” he wrote. “We are making an unprecedented bet on compute, but I love that we are doing it and I'm confident we will make good use of it. Most importantly of all, I think we have the most special team and culture in the world. We have work to do to improve our culture for sure; we have been through insane hypergrowth. But we have the core right in a way that I don't think anyone else quite does, and I'm confident we can fix the problems.”

tldr. knife fights in the hallways over the remaining life boats.