Hacker News: ChrisLTD

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:03:53 +0000

Something else they want to price us out of?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"

ChrisLTD — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:37:03 +0000

> AI agents are just software, after all. I wasn’t going to understand them by reading prompt guides. I had to use them for real work, see where they failed, change the prompts, tools, or environment, and try again.

AI agents are just software, so the only way to understand them is trial and error?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"

ChrisLTD — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:33:04 +0000

I'm not sure how you can be confident the things "you" built won't crash if you're not at least scanning the code that you're generating.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents"

ChrisLTD — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:31:11 +0000

Some people like doing DIY plumbing and related tasks around their own homes. Work might not be "fun" in the traditional sense, but it can be satisfying to build and fix things.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

ChrisLTD — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:23:15 +0000

Would you say that the government telling those people that they should be afraid of vaccines will help or hurt in this case?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Don't be a meat proxy"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:21:33 +0000

> Yet, we all trust these things.

We trust them - in large part - because we know that professionals took the care and responsibility to build the foundations correctly.

And if the foundations failed in some way, those same professionals would suffer a hit to their reputation.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:11:22 +0000

> upper management who are already eliminating these assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker software jobs en masse

Is there any proof of this?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "The End of an Era"

ChrisLTD — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:05:03 +0000

> I fully admit that we have been surpassed by the machine in the ability to entertain.

Why though? Daily here on HN, posts are pilloried for being AI generated and full of AI tropes.

AI generated content might be drowning out human generated content, but I wouldn’t say that it’s surpassed human content in a qualitative way.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do?"

ChrisLTD — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:02:49 +0000

This is certainly overstating the difference between compiled code and the source code. If I write an if/else statement, I understand what the computer is going to do when it's evaluated even if I don't know or see the literal machine code.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:31:38 +0000

There are other benchmarks for that

New comment by ChrisLTD in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

ChrisLTD — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:13:20 +0000

"Our AI makes your workers X times more productive"

"Our AI takes the drudgery out of X, Y, and Z"

New comment by ChrisLTD in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:53:16 +0000

The datacenter antipathy is odd, but then again so are the AI corps' marketing strategy of making everyone afraid for their jobs and the future of the species.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:36:45 +0000

If Linux doesn't qualify as open, then what does?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:28:57 +0000

and if you're an author that lives outside the United States?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:24:03 +0000

If the US implements export controls and China doesn't, it would kill the market for OpenAI and Anthropic.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:08:36 +0000

Why would this law make things worse?

What would your proposal be for fixing what you’ve identified as the underlying problem?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:05:58 +0000

You have to start somewhere, no? We have laws against stealing and murder and folks don’t usually go around saying they should be removed from the books because some people still steal and commit murder.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Hating AI in 2026"

ChrisLTD — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:18:03 +0000

So why do you recycle? Based on your argument, you're just wasting your own time or "shooting yourself in the foot".

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

ChrisLTD — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:21:37 +0000

I've been using Parakeet Multilanguage locally, and it's super snappy

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site"

ChrisLTD — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:25:32 +0000

It's illegal to build dense cities like Manhattan in most of the United States. And while most people want to live in a Manhattan'esque area, plenty (like me) do.