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New comment by AbrahamParangi in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

AbrahamParangi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:38 +0000

Land that was conquered in war. It is reasonable to find this distasteful, but it is not unethical in any coherent way.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:55:49 +0000

The average efficiency improvement is closer to something like 2-3x per Anthropic’s numbers and this is only the rate at which software can advance. Do you expect to notice if 12 months of software engineering on a project you’re following gets done in 6 months? I suspect not.

The root cause is that the acceleration is pareto distributed so the modern engineering team at the moment looks like one 10x engineer, one 5x engineer, and the rest are approximately 1.5x engineers.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

AbrahamParangi — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:47:12 +0000

This is going to be an unpopular reply I imagine but this person is not well and their behavior should not be imitated. This is a classic example of omnicause anxiety, like people who refuse to have children because of all these things happening in the world as if the world hasn't always been a mess. Frankly, ridiculous.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:42:40 +0000

Most members of management were individual contributors beforehand. I say this just because it is remarkably common for people to assign malign intent or stupidity to people doing jobs that they themselves haven’t done and don’t frankly understand.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. In many cases you’d be right. I’m just saying it’s remarkable how much certainty people have even when it comes to things they know they don’t know.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:35:59 +0000

The statement that the chatbot is conscious is neither true nor untrue in any meaningful sense. The current debate is supported by very strong feelings that we must be conscious and AI must not be.

These feelings have no particular basis in material reality. Consciousness is as well defined as cooties. Does AI have cooties? idk man, do you?

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?"

AbrahamParangi — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:17:34 +0000

the author overestimates how much ~$5M/yr actually is. a business like uber isn't happy about that but it's not even in the top 10 of things they're wasting money on. moreover this isn't the engineer's sole fault it is more the fault of whoever actually approved the expense.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

AbrahamParangi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:43:07 +0000

Oh I remember this quote. I thought it was quite a good one because he’s right. At least in the US, apple maps is better than google maps for most purposes.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR"

AbrahamParangi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:02:30 +0000

I'm mostly curious how much of that revenue is actual ARR, which is to say contractually recurring. It is pretty dang rare for a hardware company to have nontrivial ARR.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

AbrahamParangi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:54:30 +0000

AI is less deranging than partisan news and social media, measurably so according to a recent study https://www.ft.com/content/3880176e-d3ac-4311-9052-fdfeaed56...

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

AbrahamParangi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:20:31 +0000

That seems shockingly naive.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

AbrahamParangi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:10:43 +0000

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New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

AbrahamParangi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:45:37 +0000

It's definitely just to get people to fly with a valid ID without ambushing the enormous number of people who have been living under a rock and don't realize they need a real ID. Otherwise they'll have a dozen or so people freaking out at the airport every single day for years.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Codex vs. Claude Code (today)"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:32:04 +0000

I wrote my own agentic coding harness (it's quite easy) but I use claude code because opus's competence with its own tools is very high.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Codex vs. Claude Code (today)"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:31:09 +0000

To be quite clear, I hate configuring my environment. I hate it. The farther I get from creating things that people can use, the less I like it. I spend most of my time on claude config not because I enjoy the experience per se but because it's SO USEFUL to do so.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "Codex vs. Claude Code (today)"

AbrahamParangi — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:23:43 +0000

Respectfully I don’t think the author appreciates that the configurability of Claude Code is its performance advantage. I would much rather just tell it what to do and have it go do it, but I am much more able to do that with a highly configured Claude Code than with Codex which is pretty much just set at the out of the box quality level.

I spend most of my engineering time these days not on writing code or even thinking about my product, but on Claude Code configuration (which is portable so should another solution arise I can move it). Whenever Claude Code doesn’t oneshot something, that is an opportunity for improvement.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

AbrahamParangi — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:41:54 +0000

You either misread or are misrepresenting my statement and either way I am not interested in continuing this.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:58:20 +0000

That's like saying that gambling is shortsighted. It depends entirely on the odds as to whether or not it's wise, but "shortsighted" implies that making the bet precludes some future course of action.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:56:30 +0000

If the plateau is reached at some higher level of capability, I will remain correct, yes. If use cases are discovered that do not exist today, I will also be correct. You said it in a silly way but you're directionally correct.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:40:21 +0000

The prerequisite for me to be wrong is that the technology needs to stop getting better entirely *right now* AND we need to discover ZERO new uses for what exists today.

That's a fairly tall order.

New comment by AbrahamParangi in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

AbrahamParangi — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:11:44 +0000

Candidly, the accusation of short-sightedness doesn't really make sense when it comes to enthusiasm in a technology which often in practice falls short today but which in certain cases and in more cases tomorrow than today is worth tremendous business value.

If anything, you should accuse them of foolhardy recklessness. They are not the sticks in the mud.