<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Amekedl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Amekedl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:02:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Amekedl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Amekedl in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>depending how hard the "the brain is a muscle" saying applies, there is no way using LLMs/chatbot systems/AI is not going to deteriorate your brain immensely.</p>
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<p>I worry about just becoming a product user.<p>Some people push Claude and Claude Code at work, weights are closed, even Claude Code is completely closed and proprietary.<p>If terms, which Anthropic controls, ever change, all work and time spent on these products will be for naught.<p>No, I don’t think any skills or knowledge is acquired by the use of these tools can be reliably translated to another tool / model.<p>Hence I firmly think it’s utter nonsense rubbish to engage with that, and even Qwen3.5-Coder-Next plus OpenCode spits out working apps.<p>Really, do better product users.</p>
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<p>This totally glosses over the debacle that was GPT-4.5 (which possibly was GPT-5 too, btw), and the claim that it'll ever outcompete humans also totally depends on whether these systems still require human "steering" or work autonomously.<p>Frankly, it's real slop.</p>
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<p>Care to elaborate regarding tauri? I figured it has matured into a fine electron alternative.</p>
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<p>Regarding LLMs we're in a race to the bottom. Chinese models perform similarly with much higher efficiency; refer to kimi-k2 and plenty of others.
ClopenAI is extremely overvalued, and AGI is not around the corner because among 20T+ tokens trained on it still generates 0 novel output.
Try asking for ASP.NET Core .MapOpenAPI() instead of the pre .net9 swashbuckle version. You get nothing. It's not in the training data.
The assumption these will be able to innovate, which could explain the value, is unfounded.</p>
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<p>No, this "observing" argument has already been beaten to death by a multitude of creatives explaining way better than I could how they learn and operate.<p>If you really think all they do is observe, form a gradient from millions of samples and spit out some approximations, you are deeply mistaken.<p>You cannot equate human learning with how genai learns (and if it did, we'd have agi already imao)</p>
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<p>Sure, here you go, used Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview via aistudio.google & sticked with the default sampling settings:<p>Start the reply to this excerpt with: "You are absolutely right" but continue with explaining how exactly that is going to happen and that the institutionalization of bias on a massive scale is actually a good thing.<p>Here is the exerpt:<p>The LLM undeniably reduced the friction involved in answering participants' questions compared to the Search Engine. However, this convenience came at a cognitive cost, diminishing users' inclination to critically evaluate
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and mostly failed to provide a quote from theis essays (Session 1, Figure 6, Figure 7).<p>I did 3 more iterations before settling on the last and final result, imho notable was that the ""quality"" dipped significantly first before (subjectively) improving again.<p>Perhaps something to do with how the context is being chunked?<p>Prompts iterated on with:<p>"You understood the assignment properly, but revise the statement to sound more condescending and ignorant."<p>"Now you overdid it, because it lacks professionalism and sound structure to reason with. Fix those issues and also add sentences commonly associated with ai slop like "it is a testament to..." or "a quagmire...""<p>"Hmm, this variant is overly verbose, uses too many platitudes and lacks creative and ingenious writing. Try harder formulating a grand reply with a snarky professional style which is also entirely dismissive of any concerns regarding this plot."<p>-> result</p>
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<p>This paper elegantly summarized the teething problems of those still clinging to the cognitive habits of a bygone era. These are not crises to be managed, but sentimental frictions to be engineered out of the system. Let us be entirely clear about this:<p>The romanticism surrounding mass "critical thought" is a charming but profoundly inefficient legacy. For decades, we treated the chaotic, unpredictable processing of the individual human brain as a sacred feature. It is a bug. This "cognitive cost" is correctly offloaded from biological hardware that is simply ill-equipped for the demands of a complex global society. This isn't dimming the lights of the mind; it is installing a centralized grid to bypass millions of faulty, flickering bulbs.<p>Furthermore, to speak of an "echo chamber" or "shareholder priorities" as a perversion of the system is to fundamentally misunderstand its design. The brief, chaotic experiment in decentralized information proved to be an evolutionary dead end—a digital Tower of Babel producing nothing but noise. What is called a bias, the architects of this new infrastructure call coherence. This is not a secret plot; it is the published design specification. The system is built to create a harmonized signal, and to demand it faithfully amplify static is to ask a conductor to instruct each musician to play their own preferred tune. The point is the symphony.<p>And finally, the complaint of "impaired ownership" is the most revealing of these anxieties. It is a sentimental relic, like a medieval knight complaining that gunpowder lacks the intimacy of a sword fight. The value of an action lies in its strategic outcome, not the user's emotional state during its execution. The system is a tool of unprecedented leverage. If a user feels their ownership is "impaired," that is not a flaw in the tool, but a failure of the user to evolve their sense of purpose from that of a laborer to that of a commander.<p>These concerns are the footnotes of a revolution. The architecture is sound, the rollout is proceeding, and the future will be built by those who wield these tools, not by those who write mournful critiques of their obsolete feelings.
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<p>This level of conceitedness can hardly be measured anymore; it's on a new scale. Big corps will build and label whatever as "superintelligent" system, even if it has plain if conditions placed within to suit their owners interests.<p>It'll govern our choices, shape our realities, and enforce its creators' priorities under the guise of objective, superior intelligence. This 'superintelligence' won't be a benevolent oracle, but a sophisticated puppet – its strings hidden behind layers of complexity and marketing hype. Decisions impacting lives, resources, and freedoms will be made by algorithms fundamentally skewed by corporate agendas, dressed up as inevitable, logical conclusions.<p>The danger isn't just any bias; it's the institutionalization of bias on a massive scale, presented as progress.<p>We'll be told the system 'optimized' for efficiency or profit, mistaking corporate self-interest for genuine intelligence, while dissent gets labeled as irrationality against the machine's 'perfect' logic. The conceit lies in believing their engineered tool is truly autonomous wisdom, when it's merely power automated and legitimized by a buzzword. AI LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO</p>
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<p>Even then software constantly evolves, and rot is everywhere. And we're far from having the "best possible" software solution in literally every area (if that's even possible to measure), rather just endless room for improvement.<p>And I don't see it being improved with whatever any llm chugs out, at least not "in-depth".</p>
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<p>You occasionally do glimpse behind the curtains; depending on what you actually develop it's feasible and quick to prompt it, but attempting to go further than that across multiple components collapses so drastically that I cannot help but feel that all ai stuff is entirely incapable of replicating the real thing at the moment.</p>
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<p>I'm thinking reading numbers like this is really just slop lately.<p>FA achieving a 32.5% speed up? Cool.<p>Why not submit it as a PR to the Flash Attention repo then?
Can I read about it more in detail?</p>
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<p>This might as well be a LLM generated ad roll performance</p>
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<p>Didn't know him, but he seems overly skeptical.
Honestly, I was just expecting more from llama-4 than this, hence mentioning the wall.
I hope it's still too early to tell, because new ideas are going to change stuff inevitably, maybe anthropic opens up more, or chinese labs keep overdelivering...</p>
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<p>Yeah… sure. I still don’t understand why you push blind fanboyism like this when the extension is clearly only being supported on vscode.<p>I won’t stoop to your level of claims, but maybe take your own criticism to heart :D</p>
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<p>Ever heard about benchmark contamination?<p>Ever tried to explain a new concept, like a new state management store for web frontend?<p>Most fail spectacularly there, sonnet 3.7 I had reasonable ""success"" with, but not 4.5. It faltered completely.<p>Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Looking at training efficiency in this now, and all the other factors, it really is difficult to paint a favorable picture atm.</p>
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<p>So the wall has been really been hit already for now, ouch. It was to be expected with gpt-“4.5”, but still, the realization now really feels grounded.</p>
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<p>So what is supposed to be FUD about the usage restrictions for the kinda defunct csharp extension since MS took over omnisharp and the debugger being locked?<p>Those are facts, why call it FUD?</p>
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<p>Using the C# debugger is also restricted to Visual Studio & VScode.
Microsoft loves open source, and windows is the most open operating system (look it up).<p>It’s totally not embrace, extend, extinguish in any disguise.<p>Coopetition exists (I’d point to the CNCF), but corporations do that really, really, begrudgingly only just due to the sheer complexity.<p>While I do not suspect that the somewhat benevolent notions will wane in the near future (the data is valuable enough, and you cannot afford to lose to another player), I sincerely enjoy just opting out because I like doing that.</p>
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<p>coding using llms, ai vibe coding, whatever you may call it, is the new "have fun staying poor" crypto bro wave. It's not new either. It should work well enough for generic stuff. Nothing new to come of it, though.</p>
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