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monsieurbanana commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok   bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri
NooneAtAll3 · 4 days ago
that's kinda the normalization argument, not the reason behind it

"it is done because it's always done so"

monsieurbanana · 4 days ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at, physical investigation is the common procedure. You need a reason _not_ to do it, and since "it's all digital" is not a good reason we go back to doing the usual thing.
monsieurbanana commented on Anthropic is Down   updog.ai/status/anthropic... · Posted by u/ersiees
hk__2 · 5 days ago
Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

monsieurbanana · 5 days ago
Wow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)
monsieurbanana commented on Show HN: GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests   blog.rbby.dev/posts/githu... · Posted by u/rbbydotdev
nilespotter · 5 days ago
Why not just look at the code and see if it's good or not?
monsieurbanana · 5 days ago
Because they can produce magnitude more code than you can review. And personally I don't want to review _any_ submitted AI code if I don't have a guarantee that the person who prompted it has reviewed it before.

It's just disrespectful. Why would anyone want to review the output of an LLM without any more context? If you really want to help, submit the prompt, the llm thinking tokens along with the final code. There are only nefarious reasons not to.

monsieurbanana commented on Claude Code is your customer   calebjohn.xyz/blog/b2cc/... · Posted by u/mfbx9da4
galaxyLogic · 8 days ago
I recently had to fill out a PDF form to send it to the Social Security Admininistration. They didn't have the option of submitting it online so I had to print it out and take it to them.

I filled out the PDF using FireFox PDF-editor, at which point it occurred to me, this is not so different from using an application which has a form for me to enter data into it.

Maybe in a few years Government has a portal where I can submit any of their forms as PDF documents, and they would probably use AI to store the contents of the form into a database.

A PDF-form is kind of a Universal API, especially when AI can extract and validate the data from it. Of all the API-formats I've seen I think PDF-forms is the most human-friendly. Each "API" is defined by the form-identifier in the PDF-form. It is easy for humans to use, and pretty easy for office-clerks to create such forms, especially with the help of AI. I wonder will this, or something similar, catch on?

monsieurbanana · 8 days ago
A pdf can be anything and everything. It's just a wrapper around text, images, html, you can even embed javascript. There's already pdf forms that are user-editable (without a pdf editor). Not all features are available on all pdf viewers though.

If we're at the point where they use ai to make form pdfs, might as well cut the middleman and ask the ai to generate a form on a website.

monsieurbanana commented on Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet   netzbremse.de/en/... · Posted by u/tietjens
fc417fc802 · 14 days ago
> providers install their own Glass Fiber modem

It's the same in the US. The ISP fiber network falls inside their security boundary in my experience - you can't BYOD. They install a modem (these days often including an integrated router, switch, and AP) and you receive either ethernet or wifi from them.

I think the only major change in that regard has been that coaxial cable providers here will often let you bring your own docsis modem these days.

I never found any of this concerning until quite recently. With the advent of ISPs providing public wifi service out of consumer endpoints as well as wifi based radar I'm no longer comfortable having vendor controlled wireless equipment in my home.

monsieurbanana · 14 days ago
Faraday fabric is inexpensive, you can use ethernet to your own router and wrap the isp's in it.
monsieurbanana commented on You can't pay me to prompt   dbushell.com/2025/06/18/a... · Posted by u/shinryuu
stavros · 15 days ago
Aren't we all tired by this anti-AI stuff? Use it if you want to, don't use it if you don't want to, I just don't really want to hear about your personal opinion on it any more.
monsieurbanana · 15 days ago
I do hope you comment the same thing on the pro-AI articles from people trying to sell you a product. Internet is now infested by those, and without these articles you might think everybody has collectively lost their mind and still think we will get replaced in the next 6 months.

I use AI, what I'm tired of is shills and post-apocalyptic prophets

monsieurbanana commented on Giving university exams in the age of chatbots   ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam... · Posted by u/ploum
casualscience · 19 days ago
Honestly, I feel like I have to know more and more these days, as the ais have unlocked significantly more domains that I can impact. Everyone is contributing to every part of the stack in the tech world all of a sudden, and "I am not an expert on that piece of the system" no longer is a reasonable position.

This is in tech now, were the first adopters, but soon it will come to other fields.

To your broader question

> Something that I think many students, indeed many people, struggle with is the question "why should I know anything?"

You should know things because these AIs are wrong all the time, because if you want any control in your life you need to be able to make an educated guess at what is true and what isn't.

As to how to teach students. I think we're in an age of experimentation here. I like the idea of letting students use all tools available for the job. But I also agree that if you do give exams and hw, you better make them hand written/oral only.

Overall, I think education needs to focus more on building portfolios for students, and focus less giving them grades.

monsieurbanana · 19 days ago
> and "I am not an expert on that piece of the system" no longer is a reasonable position

Gosh that sounds horrifying. I am not an expert on that piece of system, no I do not want to take responsibility for whatever the LLMs have produced for that piece of system, I am not an expert and cannot verify it.

monsieurbanana commented on Scott Adams has died   youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo
LordDragonfang · a month ago
Many people have belligerent, racist older family members who only became more belligerent and racist over time. They're practically a stock character in jokes about Thanksgiving and Christmas.
monsieurbanana · a month ago
Again, not a real family member.
monsieurbanana commented on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines   twitter.com/eastdakota/st... · Posted by u/sidcool
monsieurbanana · a month ago
Or he perfectly understands what they meant but chose to create artificial outrage. "don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" has not aged well in 2026
monsieurbanana commented on The future of software development is software developers   codemanship.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
jvanderbot · a month ago
I think any further discussion about quality just needs to have the following metadata:

- Language

- Total LOC

- Subject matter expertise required

- Total dependency chain

- Subjective score (audited randomly)

And we can start doing some analysis. Otherwise we're pissing into ten kinds of winds.

My own subjective experience is earth shattering at webapps in html and css (because I'm terrible and slow at it), and annoyingly good but a bit wrong usually in planning and optimization in rust and horribly lost at systems design or debugging a reasonably large rust system.

monsieurbanana · a month ago
I agree in that these discussions (this whole hn thread tbh) are seriously lacking in concrete examples to be more than holy wars 3.0.

Besides one point: junior developers can learn from their egregious mistakes, llms can't no matter how strongly worded you are in their system prompt.

In a functional work environment, you will build trust with your coworkers little by little. The pale equivalent in LLMs is improving system prompts and writing more and more ai directives that might or might not be followed.

u/monsieurbanana

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