Hacker News: CuriouslyC

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

CuriouslyC — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:20:18 +0000

Not sure if it's the only blocker, but I wanted to use containers with UDP/SRT.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

CuriouslyC — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:01:46 +0000

It's an argument for moving more autonomy towards the people actually doing the work, whether in government or corporations.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

CuriouslyC — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:24:01 +0000

If we're hand waiving how an open source model from a Chinese lab that you can use a nearly unlimited amount for <100/mo's 9% difference from the premier, unavailable, expensive when it was available American frontier model, we've already lost.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

CuriouslyC — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:21:17 +0000

Not true, blank page syndrome, inertia and write vs edit flows are a known thing across disciplines. You might not think about it as much because you have a command in your package manager or framework to bootstrap projects, but imagine if you had to hand code _everything_. I'll guess there are languages/frameworks where you consider yourself quite proficient but where you couldn't bootstrap a project without checking the docs if not for the tooling.

It matters. If LLMs are like alcohol, useful but potentially dangerous, they should be treated very differently than if they're just poison. If someone's a drunk and they can't keep their lives together, it's not the alcohol's fault, it's the person's.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:32:48 +0000

I'm all for protecting kids from facebook/insta/snap/etc, they have love hate relationships with all of those, but YT is a bridge too far, is's more a knowledge sharing platform than a social network.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:31:21 +0000

The whole idea of this is broken, since so much of our collective knowledge is locked away in YouTube/Reddit. It's making a law against children in libraries because there are adult books in it.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:35:31 +0000

Something spicy must have happened internally at Google. This rapid fire high level attrition isn't just down to the bureaucratic quagmire.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:28:39 +0000

I recently did a manual exercise to force myself to keep my skills from decaying too much after about a year of using agents exclusively. My ability to go from a blank slate to software was indeed in the toilet, but my ability to reason over and edit code seems to be surviving fine. I suspect that your LLM-pilled coworkers' judgment issues are related to laziness that LLMs have enabled, rather than an inherent property of LLM use.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:50:25 +0000

All the same problems exist in corporations. That disconnected idiocy is a function of size, not government vs private.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:47:06 +0000

The system is broken. Hence Luigi.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

CuriouslyC — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:45:03 +0000

It's hard to actually show ROI from any programming methodology or tool. You can show ROI from a product or feature, but the tool/methodology is a multiplier on the velocity of creating that which is not directly observable.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

CuriouslyC — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:35:12 +0000

What you've described is Claude's "secret sauce" and the reason some people love it and some people hate it. It's not really possible to turn off, you can try to prompt against it but it's not reliable, the solution is to use Claude when you want that behavior and other models when you don't.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:17:19 +0000

*appearance of compliance

New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:34:30 +0000

This was a problem with older Qwen/MiMo/Kimi models mostly. GLM has always been on the more robust side, and newer iterations from all those labs have improved as well. The only lab I've seen regressing this way is DeepSeek, 3.2 was fairly robust but 4.0 feels more benchmaxxed.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:28:32 +0000

Opus has the nickname "Slopus" in a lot of circles for a reason. It can write nice code in isolation, but the way it organizes that code and its rigor in addressing edge cases/making sure things are robust leave a lot to be desired. Opus is particularly famous for having a real problem reinventing stuff that already existed in the codebase because it wanted to get to work before exploring sufficiently.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:41:26 +0000

Be careful about unofficial providers, a lot of them misconfigure models or stealth quantize them. For a while the difference between Kimi on the official API and most third party providers was 20-40%.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:37:37 +0000

I've been playing with this model a fair amount over the last 24 hours, and I can confirm it's quite capable, while being a little bit verbose (I've seen it reconsider things 3-4 times in thinking traces before deciding on a path forward), and not being quite as good as GPT5.5 at working through complex abstract requirements.

Honestly it's good enough that I feel comfortable recommending a Z.AI sub + a $20/mo OpenAI sub for all but the most AI pilled multi-orchestrators, or the die hard Claude fans. GLM writing + GPT reviewing/debugging feels pretty unlimited and minimally worse than just doing everything in GPT with the $200/mo plan.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:10:45 +0000

Probably forcing them to review each other's work to panopticon "quality," and keeping track of the average throughput per engineer so if people fall behind the taskmasters can pay them a visit.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "After AI takes everything"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:57:45 +0000

I worked in Taiwan for a while on defense related stuff.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "After AI takes everything"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:45:29 +0000

No, but it satisfies a number of algorithms that drive traffic to websites better, and there are honestly people who will upvote something that starts strong and is long without reading the whole thing, who wouldn't upvote that same strong start if it wasn't padded with filler to make it look more exhausitive.

Not a fan either but there are real game theoretic reasons to do it.