Hacker News: Alex_L_Wood

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

Alex_L_Wood — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:17:31 +0000

Yeah, my immediate picture was a blue hobo tent with some extenders sticking out of it.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Apple WWDC 2026"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:10:50 +0000

I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Claude Opus 4.8"

Alex_L_Wood — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:24:31 +0000

How much must one tie their self-worth to a chatbot to debase themselves like that? To think that a winner in the arms and intelligence race of animal kingdom, a member of the species that made this chatbot, would put down themselves like that in the defense of the thoughtless silicon is absolutely laughable and depressing at the same time.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Leave Me Behind"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:59:05 +0000

You don't even know what "main character syndrome" is.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:14:47 +0000

They aren't, it's just populating context window until "memory" is pushed out.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:42:43 +0000

I heard that a year ago, I guess we still need to wait a bit more. Thought agents were fast!

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:37:48 +0000

LLM proponents always use some language like "these old, stuck up dinosaurs with their manual labor vs us cool smart kids with automated labor", but they forget one thing - with automated labor the performance and cost difference was easily measurable in favor of the automation. With LLMs it's neither measurable nor visible (no better software, no faster delivery overall in the industry), and the costs are pretty bad. Besides personal anecdotes of someone toiling away at yet another AI harness project on GitHub.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:30:12 +0000

It's not just that, but the core is just that, even with reasoning models. Harness can only get you closer to the good result, but can't save you from every pitfall. As for PM analogy - don't forget that models don't learn and keep doing same stupid stuff they were doing a month ago.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:41:13 +0000

Well, since the fundamental underlying structure is still the same, yes.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:40:30 +0000

Not only we are looping, we are also adding layers of Idiocracy upon each loop. I kinda envy retired software engineers now, they can just grab the popcorn and watch this dumpster fire without a worry.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

Alex_L_Wood — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:30:36 +0000

Gary Tan building something AI-related on top of your work is an anti-flex.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The sigmoids won't save you"

Alex_L_Wood — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:50:32 +0000

I can’t take anyone who puts probability on events like that seriously. How would you even explain the calculations behind that with a straight face?

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The sigmoids won't save you"

Alex_L_Wood — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:27:20 +0000

For basic primitives with known output it’s verifiable, but as long as you’re dealing with real systems with tons of inputs and side effects this no longer holds true.

> research showing with the right policy, Rest of the owl.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The sigmoids won't save you"

Alex_L_Wood — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:53:42 +0000

Coding is anything but “easily” verifiable.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design"

Alex_L_Wood — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:34:46 +0000

This article has all the correct conclusions and solutions based on one assumption that doesn’t have any hold in reality - that someone would be insane enough to allow direct DB access to an AI agent.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "GPT-5.5"

Alex_L_Wood — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:18:06 +0000

Well, they obviously are going to say that, they have vested interest in OpenAI and thus Nvidia stock price growing.

Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

Alex_L_Wood — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:58:21 +0000

I think at this point it’s all but confirmed that LLMs sycophantic tendencies coupled with yes-man attitudes produce AI psychosis and AI fanaticism. Especially if you’re already of high opinion of yourself (be it deserved or not).

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Alex_L_Wood — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:51:52 +0000

Yeah, this while video I honestly couldn’t stop chuckling because it’s built on assumption that bicycles somehow either can’t brake at all or will take five business days to brake like a freight train. Though looking at Berlin cyclists the assumption seems to be true - so many of them insist on just plowing headfirst into an obstacle instead of braking that I start to think that the video was made by one of such cyclists.

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

Alex_L_Wood — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:29:26 +0000

Commenting every method, how pedestrian! I comment every letter of my code!

New comment by Alex_L_Wood in "Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code"

Alex_L_Wood — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:41:59 +0000

If you care about the product, you double-so-much care about code correctness and the alignment with the expectations of the stakeholders.