nicetryguy (u/nicetryguy)

nicetryguy commented on GPT-5: It just does stuff oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-... · Posted by u/paulpauper

The city demo was really unconvincing, heh. Super laggy for the amount of detail. I click "wow mode" and the whole thing disappeared. idk. feels like non-coders getting excited that they think they're getting 80% of the code when in reality the other 20% is 80% of the work and going to be exponentially harder to squeeze from the AI.

I do think the vibecoding tools are good at spitting out well-defined CRUD apps, but more creative things are still rough without experienced hands to guide things along.

nicetryguy · 14 days ago

"Vibe Coding" seems like magic at first but starts falling apart realllll quick at a certain complexity level or if you want to make changes to existing code. If you don't keep an eye on your architecture, you will end up with a bowl of untangleable spaghetti code and some comically terrible engineering choices. That said, agentic coding in the right hands with well defined tasks can have you outputting days / weeks of work in one session; it's not every task, it's not every session, but if you can drive the "idiot savant" in the right direction it's truly an awe-striking and almost alien process to behold.

nicetryguy commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

minimaxir · 17 days ago

The marketing copy and the current livestream appear tautological: "it's better because it's better."

Not much explanation yet why GPT-5 warrants a major version bump. As usual, the model (and potentially OpenAI as a whole) will depend on output vibe checks.

nicetryguy · 17 days ago

Yeah. We're entered the Smartphone stage: "You want the new one because it's the new one."

nicetryguy commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

nicetryguy · 17 days ago

Very generic, broad and bland presentation. Doesn't seem to have any killer features. No video or audio capabilities shown. The coding seems to be on par with Claude 3.7 at best. No mention of MCP which is about the most important thing in AI right now IMO. Not impressed.

nicetryguy commented on Live: GPT-5 youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_V... · Posted by u/georgehill

dang · 17 days ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826997.

nicetryguy · 17 days ago

This thread was about the livestream and the other thread was about the article, disagree but ok

nicetryguy commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

losvedir · 17 days ago

Wait, isn't the Bernoulli effect thing they're demoing now wrong? I thought that was a "common misconception" and wings don't really work by the "longer path" that air takes over the top, and that it was more about angle of attack (which is why planes can fly upside down).

It seems like it's actually an ideal "trick" question for an LLM actually, since so much content has been written about it incorrectly. I thought at first they were going to demo this to show that it knew better, but it seems like it's just regurgitating the same misleading stuff. So, not a good look.

nicetryguy · 17 days ago

Yeah, they sure clicked away from it very fast and kept adjusting the scrollbars. It was confusing what it was trying to display. Furthermore, the prompt contained "Canvas" and "SVG" while as someone with webdev experience these are certainly familiar concepts, i wouldn't consider those in the "casual lexicon" for a random user trying to help a middle schooler with homework. I'm not impressed...

IMO Claude 3.7 could have done a similar / better job with that a year ago.

nicetryguy commented on Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dk... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

nicetryguy · 2 months ago

I don't always make 6502(ish) errors, but when i do, it's usually the memory address instead of the immediate! It's a very common and easy mistake to make, and i believe Chuck Peddle himself deeply regretted the (number symbol, pound sign, hashtag) #$1234 syntax for immediate values. I made # appear bright red in my IDE, it helps, a bit... Even the ASM gods at Rare fell victim to the same issue!

nicetryguy commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

echelon · 3 months ago

> Bruh, firstly, no competitor is going to set up an army of datacenters and warehouses on the gargantuan scale of amazon anytime soon.

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI covet what AWS has. They are absolutely coming for AWS.

nicetryguy · 3 months ago

AWS? Possibly. They have a huge head start and haven't lost much ground yet. The warehouses and physical delivery? No way in hell. Any competing physical infrastructure would take a decade from the first shovel hitting the ground today.

nicetryguy commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

Izikiel43 · 3 months ago

AWS has competition in Azure and Google Cloud, and AWS is the money maker for Amazon, everything else is incidental.

nicetryguy · 3 months ago

> AWS is the money maker ... everything else is incidental.

Considering Amazon kills and steals all kinds of small businesses and ideas that would be a godsend for Americans.

nicetryguy commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

nicetryguy · 3 months ago

> Andy Jassy ... said working faster was essential because competitors would gain ground if Amazon doesn’t give customers what they want “as quickly as possible” and cited coding as an activity where A.I. would “change the norms.”

Bruh, no competitor is going to set up an army of datacenters and warehouses on the gargantuan scale of amazon anytime soon... What do customers want? How about fixing your search function accuracy and policing the disgusting influx of scam products with fake reviews!!! Ugh. How about you get AI working on THAT jackknife...

nicetryguy commented on How Nintendo bled Atari games to death thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

rvba · 4 months ago

Quote from the article:

> I would deliver my game software code to Nintendo, who would add the secret key to it

Did it really work this way on NES? I thought they only used the lockout chip and no signatures, since it would use too much processor power 40 years ago

nicetryguy · 4 months ago

The lockout chip(s) are physical chip(s) on the cart and in the console that communicate directly with each other on the cart pins. The CPU is not involved. It's not a "secret key" in the cryptography sense per se.