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tossandthrow commented on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC   harshanu.space/en/tech/cc... · Posted by u/unchar1
usrusr · 2 days ago
Not sure what exactly you're referring to, but legal is a very interesting field to observe, right? I've been wondering about that since quite early in my LLM awareness:

A slightly sarcastic (or perhaps not so slightly..) mental model of legal conflict resolution is that much of it boils down to throwing lots of content at the opposing side, claiming that it shows that the represented side is right and creating a task for the opposite side to find a flaw in that material. I believe that this game of quantity fits through the whole range from "I'll have my lawyer repeat my argument in a letter featuring their letter head" all the way to paper-tsunamis like the Google-Oracle trial.

Now give both sides access to LLM... I wonder if the legal profession will eventually settle on some format of in-person offline resolution with strict limits to recess and/or limits to word count for both documents and notes, because otherwise conflicts fail to get settled in anyone's lifetime (or won by whoever does not run out of tokens first - come thinking of it, the technogarchs would love this, so I guess this is exactly what will happen barring a revolution)

tossandthrow · 2 days ago
Ah, sorry. I am not referring to using LLMs for legal work.

I am referring to the act of merely pasting the output of a model as a comment.

Have the decency to understand what the LLM is writing and write your own message.

tossandthrow commented on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC   harshanu.space/en/tech/cc... · Posted by u/unchar1
onion2k · 2 days ago
When I started I first had a long discussion with the AI... and made a big Markdown file with a detailed architecture description.

Yep, that's how you get better output from AI. A lot of devs haven't learned that yet. They still see it as 'better autocomplete'.

tossandthrow · 2 days ago
While this technique works for new projects, it takes no more than a couple of pivots for it to completely fail.

A good AI development framework needs to support a tail of deprecated choices in the codebase.

Skills are considerable better for this than design docs.

tossandthrow commented on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC   harshanu.space/en/tech/cc... · Posted by u/unchar1
Alupis · 2 days ago
I'm reminded, once again, of the recent "vibe coded" OCaml fiasco[1].

The PR author had zero understanding why their entirely LLM-generated contribution was viewed so suspiciously.

The article validates a significant point: it is one thing to have passing tests and be able to produce output that resembles correctness - however it's something entirely different for that output to be good and maintainable.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

tossandthrow · 2 days ago
The Ai legal analysis seemed to be the nail in the coffin.

Adding Ai generated comments are IMHO some of the most rude uses of Ai.

tossandthrow commented on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it   siddhantkhare.com/writing... · Posted by u/sidk24
tossandthrow · 2 days ago
The cognitive load is in the lack of a "defined problem break".

With Ai, the situations where you know what you are building and you get into flow are fewer and further apart.

So much more time is thinking about the domain, and the problem to solve.

And that is exhausting.

tossandthrow commented on Beyond agentic coding   haskellforall.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/RebelPotato
tossandthrow · 3 days ago
I whole heartedly prefer chat interfaces over inline ai suggestions.

I find the inline stuff so incredibly annoying because they move around the text I am looking at.

tossandthrow commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs   fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino
pfisherman · 3 days ago
FDA regulates the marketing of drugs and medical devices. This is a case of Hims and Hers (and other compounding pharmacies) marketing drugs without having been granted approval.

There is an abbreviated application for new drug approval (ANDA) pathway meant for generics, but it does not seem like H&H has gone this route. It does require you to open your supply chain up to inspections and to provide evidence that your generic version basically works the same as the brand name.

In my opinion there two things going on here that I strongly feel are true.

1. Something is systemically wrong in the US when we are cutting off people’s access to meds, like GLP-1s, which have profound health benefits.

2. Hims and Hers are also in the wrong. The rules and laws are there for a good reason. It is not just for us to arbitrarily pick and choose when to enforce them.

tossandthrow · 3 days ago
> Something is systemically wrong in the US when we are cutting off people’s access to meds, like GLP-1s, which have profound health benefits.

The US is a funny thing: no issue cutting access to Healthcare in general, education, healthy food etc.

But it is all the rage when a pill can undo people's bad habits.

tossandthrow commented on Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out   boxc.net/blog/2026/claude... · Posted by u/fugu2
the_harpia_io · 6 days ago
Interesting approach for cost management, but one angle nobody seems to be discussing: the security implications.

When you fall back to a local model for coding, you lose whatever safety guardrails the hosted model has. Claude's hosted version has alignment training that catches some dangerous patterns (like generating code that exfiltrates env vars or writes overly permissive IAM policies). A local Llama or Mistral running raw won't have those same checks.

For side projects this probably doesn't matter. But if your Claude Code workflow involves writing auth flows, handling secrets, or touching production infra, the model you fall back to matters a lot. The generated code might be syntactically fine but miss security patterns that the larger model would catch.

Not saying don't do it - just worth being aware that "equivalent code generation" doesn't mean "equivalent security posture."

tossandthrow · 6 days ago
Yes, models are aligned differently. But that is a quality of the model.

Obviously it must be assumed that the model one falls back on is good enough - including security alignment.

tossandthrow commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled   economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas
lateforwork · 8 days ago
> The fear is that these [AI] tools are allowing companies to create much of the software they need themselves.

AI-generated code still requires software engineers to build, test, debug, deploy, secure, monitor, be on-call, support, handle incidents, and so on. That's very expensive. It is much cheaper to pay a small monthly fee to a SaaS company.

tossandthrow · 8 days ago
That would justify a good multiple of 5 to 10. Not 30 or above as for high growth companies.
tossandthrow commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon   wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite
Noaidi · 12 days ago
No one will ever get the timing right, but if you see the fundamental flaws of the economy, you know a crash is going to come. There were a lot of people who predicted the housing crash, not the timing but the crash. There are several signs that this is happening and the one no one is talking about is gold and silver prices. Don’t worry about the timing, you’ll never get the timing right, just worry about the fundamental economics and the flaws and protect yourself.

I happen to agree just because of golden silver prices that it’s going to happen sooner than later, regardless if war breaks out with Iran.

tossandthrow · 9 days ago
The issue is that you don't know magnitudes.

If the market go up 80% before dropping 20% then you want to have bought in.

tossandthrow commented on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native   theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/jamesblonde
atmosx · 11 days ago
Comparing EU cloud providers to AWS is like comparing a 1963 Zastava to 2025 high end BYD because both of them are cars and can drive from point A to point B.
tossandthrow · 11 days ago
I promise you, a person buying a vehicle for their business will be looking at ROI rather then smart features.

Computing at this scale is not marketed to flashy fanbois.

u/tossandthrow

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