Hacker News: CMCDragonkai

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "AI can code, but it can't build software"

CMCDragonkai — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:59:28 +0000

What is "learn" and what is "train"? It seems weird to distinguish this atm.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "AI can code, but it can't build software"

CMCDragonkai — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:42:44 +0000

Many human devs can code, but few can build software.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

CMCDragonkai — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:27:49 +0000

Media has the follow the money, and for as long as media is paid by advertising, then they have to report on stuff that gets the most salience even if it's proportionally irrelevant.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "FSF announces Librephone project"

CMCDragonkai — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:08:36 +0000

The phone is the critical root identity anchor for most of the world now. And many countries outside of the west has already made the Sim card a root identity. Additionally to make it trustworthy (think Google wallet and digital wallets and so on) to work they cannot trust the end user because effectively you the user don't own your own identity. So that's why the phone has to be proprietary - so that it's secure element can be trusted in interactions with the state-big-tech nexus. I talked about my experience with this while attempting to cross borders in SEA. https://polykey.com/blog/architecting-anti-fragile-trust-at-...

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism"

CMCDragonkai — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:58:51 +0000

Is language still unique to humans given the rise of LLMs lol!

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs"

CMCDragonkai — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:02:18 +0000

Are you installing them onsite?

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "Dotfiles feel too personal to share"

CMCDragonkai — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:48:25 +0000

I've been keeping my personal .dotfiles publically for the past decade. https://github.com/cmcdragonkai/.dotfiles-nixos.

But I do agree that secrets need to be handled carefully. Look at my list of `.gitignore`! But (I'm biased of course) I would recommend using Polykey to manage your secrets instead leaving any trace of things on disk.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance"

CMCDragonkai — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 04:32:07 +0000

No the basic bargain of insurance is a community paying their surplus into a pool that pays out for random unfortunate events that are uncorrelated and could happen to any member of the community.

Adversarial for profit insurance does not make sense as it creates perverse incentives.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

CMCDragonkai — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:48:23 +0000

Yes exactly if workers can just up and leave and treat the job transactionally, that creates a race to the bottom. Workers have to train themselves then.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "UN report finds UN reports are not widely read"

CMCDragonkai — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:43:05 +0000

Texas is ran by property owners.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "UN report finds UN reports are not widely read"

CMCDragonkai — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:42:02 +0000

I recently had an experience at a soup kitchen. It was my first time in an entirely new group and new place. Naturally I found that everybody only interacted with each other - the volunteers, not the people lining up for food. I realised it was more like a social gathering but there was a clear divide between the volunteers and the people getting the end product. In that sense I'm not really sure that soup kitchens do much besides allow a surplus time of the more fortunate to gather socially together for a pro-social benefit (hard to see if it's actually pro-social for those consuming the food).

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone"

CMCDragonkai — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:47:02 +0000

There are such things as intentional communities. I predict multi-adult households will make a comeback. The era of nuclear families is coming to an end. It takes a village to raise children.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone"

CMCDragonkai — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:43:32 +0000

Yes but also it's important to critically engage with reality as well. Many people think they are constructing some original identity without testing it against reality. No plan survives battle.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone"

CMCDragonkai — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 04:35:57 +0000

There's not such thing as a permanent fixed identity though. "Just be yourself" raises a more interesting question. Who is yourself? Why is that way? Why should it be that way? Have you reflected on why you want what you want or why you behave the way you do? Do you think the way you are is the way you should be? Or is there a cognitive disconnect between the is and ought?

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

CMCDragonkai — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:39:56 +0000

Not gonna happen. The competition for AI models is approaching commodity.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

CMCDragonkai — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:08:26 +0000

Across most anglosphere countries and tech cities - wages and salaries far outstrip what you can get for AI. AI is already objectively cheaper than human talent in rich countries. Is it as good? Yea I'd say it's better than most mid to junior engineers. Can it run entirely by itself? No, it still needs HITL.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world"

CMCDragonkai — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:02:55 +0000

How do you decide which layers are the important ones?

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

CMCDragonkai — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:50:15 +0000

Once people take responsibility for their lives and other people's lives, lots of things change. Perhaps the zeitgeist of behaving like a child in your 20s is just an emergent behaviour coming out of a consumerist economy?

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?"

CMCDragonkai — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:55:13 +0000

You're absolutely right and one has to judge the HN consensus on AI tools through a lens of bias of the very demographic being challenged by AI tools.

New comment by CMCDragonkai in "The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge"

CMCDragonkai — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:37:51 +0000

I wrote about this last year that SSO will give way to LLMO. https://matrix.ai/learn/blog/content-commoditization-and-tru...