<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: CuriouslyC</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CuriouslyC</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:26:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CuriouslyC" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the challenge is held constant, giving people tools is just teaching a different skill set than teaching them unaugmented. The augmented skill set is more relevant to how people do work in the real world, but working through things unaugmented likely help people build a robust internal schema more quickly. We definitely don't need to spend as much time training unaugmented abilities going forward though, kind of like how the number of assembly related classes in CS departments has gone down over time as we've moved up the stack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:40:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322514</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're working for someone else, this is true. For people who are building for themselves, it's 100% leadership because managers don't decide what to build or how (at healthy organizations, anyhow)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314454</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The combo was glorious. Probably the best shitty pizza I've ever had.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:05:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312264</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Qwen small models are heavily coding focused, whereas Opus is everything to everybody (even if code is their bread and butter). The downside is they'll frequently hallucinate world knowledge so they need to be RL'd to double check their knowledge against sources and verify facts/library names/etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:17:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301723</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Model output is pretty mid at augmenting, it can lead to distribution collapse. It's useful for smaller models because nobody wants manually to curate a specialized corpus and those models can't represent the diversity anyhow, but if the plan for infinite scaling was just to keep feeding the biggest model more of its predecessor's slop, that's not going to work out so well. It might work as a supplement for "thin" areas that have outsize importance for the amount of training data available for them though.<p>Big models are going to "tap out" on non verifiable fields within ~2 years, just because the pool of experts able to reinforce the models is going to get very small, and as the nuances get finer, the signal from reinforcement is going to get progressively less aligned with the intent. Math and code will be mostly tapped out in that time frame as well, even though we can technically scale them "infinitely," just because the cost benefit won't line up. At that point, most RL will be "gyms" with games that are designed to model designated valuable economic activity.<p>In the next few years, we'll get small domain specific distillates that are ridiculously smart in their domain (imagine if Qwen 3.X 27B went super saiyan), and even frontier labs will be routing to experts/orchestrating because the cost to serve/TPS difference is huge. They'll still train the god models for PR/marketing, c-suite use and distillation, but using them for day to day work would be like making houseware out of solid gold.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:53:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299519</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How to structure experiments/scaling and hyperparameter tuning regimes are most of the secret sauce (besides massive compute). If you don't create an experimental ladder to verify scaling and optimize your hyperparameters well, you'll waste a ton of money.<p>The data is mostly coming from places like Scale/Mercor/etc and net dumps with some filtering and batch prioritization, and RL on verifiable domains like code/math/games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:28:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299187</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Small models can be super smart. Big models mostly give you baked in world knowledge, domain flexibility and long context stability/coherence. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Fable level smarts in a coding model that fits in 24GB by next year, but it'll be a savant style coder that needs in context learning, and it'll get very wonky after >100-200k tokens consumed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:21:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299088</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These results look pretty good, given the smaller model size and the GLM family's historic robustness. Cheaper than Kimi and more robust than DeepSeek. The question in my mind is if you're going cheap, are you going to stop here or go all the way down to DeepSeek Flash?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:17:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299042</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The watermarking is going to get rolled back or Anthropic is going to get rolled. People hate it and it makes the writing worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:13:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298983</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love lisp, but I don't think the syntax is ideal for LLMs because they generate left to right, and lisp is deeply nested by design. Functional languages that have pipe operators and other features to keep code reading left to right, and strong type systems seem like the sweet spot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:12:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284280</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use it on my macbook. The computer use is pretty sweet.<p>It can be controlled from your phone once paired, and it lets you actually see agents that it orchestrates in the threads. Also if you use MCP Apps, it can integrate those into threads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:04:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284210</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd be the first model I'd reach for if I was providing a free service to AI gooners though. Serves them both right.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:59:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276302</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ironically, AI mitigates bad developers quite a bit. The architecture/design is coming from above bad devs (in a functional org), and AI tends to write less sloppy code than bad devs, and test/validate it more rigorously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:48:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273249</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't if it was exactly better, it was less "liquid."<p>Given the reduced competition, you couldn't find primo jobs unless you moved to a hub (which is why most people are in NYC/SF/LA), but when you found a job it was more stable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:44:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273194</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No need for a service, agents with a resume can retool it to match it a target just fine already (talk to a hiring manager to see how much this is already going on) and there are already physical printing + delivery services the agent can pay to complete the application for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:41:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273131</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike 100 years ago, the bald thing is only a negative if you're fat/weak looking. The bald tough guy has been so established in modern lore that even older men can ride the wave if they look/dress the part (through the 50s anyhow, once you're saggy and loose it looks try hard).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:09:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246621</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My experience is for men that it's not just white collar/blue collar, more it's appearance gives a halo that helps people progress in domains where there's a human, interpretive aspect to advancement. General contractors are rewarded for being attractive and fit, the plumber they contract to is rewarded for getting the work done on time/budget. Attractive men get promoted to prominent public facing and leadership roles more for this reason, while dumpy unattractive men tend to be stuck in (typically lower level) roles where competence is enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246526</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've pivoted to game dev because I'm burned out on AI dev tools. I started working on a hexpunk skirmish roguelite deckbuilder (working name is Hexborne) where you place units and structures on a hex scenario map to build a base and eliminate your opponent. Imagine a combination of X-Com 2 and Starcraft using cards, set in a world reminiscent of Arcane but 10,000 years in their future when humans have ascended to godhood and colonized the multiverse.<p>It's been a lot of fun, Godot and agents have taken most of the pain I remembered from my childhood attempts at game dev out of the equation so I can focus on game mechanics, art and lore. I'm almost ready to start soliciting external playtesters (which I'll admit is a bit stressful), I just need to clean up the UI/card templating/art/tooltips/etc so the game is accessible out of the gate and I don't churn for reasons other than the gameplay not being tuned yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:06:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234577</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blue Prince immediately came to mind for me as relevant modern art. Honestly Myst style puzzle games seem like the easiest type of game for a generative world model to simulate, so I expect if players actually want them we'll see a lot more in the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222333</link><dc:creator>CuriouslyC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriouslyC in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agents are getting pretty good at Nix. I think it has sufficient critical mass that it'll be fine.</p>
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