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New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:00:01 +0000

A lot of the article is about who controls the tool, who is forced to use it and who absorbs the cost when it produces bad output

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:55:22 +0000

I suspect "same price, three days instead of three months" is a very real win for plenty of businesses

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:53:30 +0000

I think the argument is that AI changes the cost of creating that groundwork, not the definition of it

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:47:19 +0000

The real trick is recognizing when "disposable" code has quietly become infrastructure

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:43:40 +0000

AI makes it cheaper to create working fragments. It does not automatically make those fragments part of a maintainable system. In practice it may make the canonization step more important not less

New comment by KolibriFly in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"

KolibriFly — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:01:47 +0000

Everything depends heavily on the segment. Open-weight models already look good enough for a ton of internal tasks right now but there is always gonna be that small percentage of workloads where the last few percent of quality are totally worth the money.

I feel like the market is just gonna become way more mixed. Not like "everyone is switching to open" or "everyone is staying on frontier" but a mix of multiple models for different scenarios

New comment by KolibriFly in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"

KolibriFly — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:56:50 +0000

The weakest part of the article is that the forecasts up to 2029 assume the current market structure will barely change. In three years literally everything can change, like prices, models, hardware, and how we actually use LLMs

New comment by KolibriFly in "Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?"

KolibriFly — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:54:10 +0000

That is exactly why big clouds never put all their eggs in one basket, even if it is a super cheap and cold basket. The cost of protecting and backing up network lines for an isolated island quickly eats up any benefits from geothermal energy. Physical security for terabit lines is way more expensive than air conditioning these days

New comment by KolibriFly in "Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?"

KolibriFly — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:49:14 +0000

Iceland and Norway are part of the EEA so the AI Act and GDPR will reach them just like Germany or France. Running away there from regulators makes no sense. But running from bureaucracy to get land permits and substation connections - yeah maybe municipalities work faster there

New comment by KolibriFly in "Software Is Becoming Marketing"

KolibriFly — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:53:40 +0000

I mostly agree, though I'd phrase it slightly differently: software is becoming less of a moat by itself but not necessarily less important

New comment by KolibriFly in "Software Is Becoming Marketing"

KolibriFly — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:52:01 +0000

The people saying "anyone can build software now" often seem to mean "anyone can generate code now"... which is not quite the same thing

New comment by KolibriFly in "Software Is Becoming Marketing"

KolibriFly — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:49:38 +0000

Yeah, but maybe only for the visible (productized) layer of software

New comment by KolibriFly in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

KolibriFly — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:07:03 +0000

I feel like this is way too binary. I don't have to write every line of code myself to understand the system. I don't write my own compiler HTTP stack or database either

It's more about the level of abstraction. If AI handles 80% of the grunt work and I spend my time on architecture and reviews that's still a win

New comment by KolibriFly in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

KolibriFly — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:30 +0000

The funniest thing would be if in a couple years LLMs just end up being another checkbox next to PostgreSQL and Kubernetes

New comment by KolibriFly in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

KolibriFly — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:44:39 +0000

I feel like the author is jumping way too fast from "OpenAI is losing money" to "the whole AI economy is broken." A company being in the red during aggressive scaling doesn't automatically mean the unit economics don't work.

New comment by KolibriFly in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"

KolibriFly — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:57:12 +0000

That's why a hybrid approach is needed. The agent shouldn't be making up dimensions based on an image. It should use OCR to extract the size table from the datasheet, feed it into a parametric table, and only then map it onto the base enclosure template.

New comment by KolibriFly in "TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code"

KolibriFly — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:45:12 +0000

Comparing it to Leetcode is completely off. On Leetcode, you're running an isolated algorithm that doesn't need any access to internal repos or staging environments. But a CI/CD sandbox that reviews PRs by definition has to have serious permissions, or it won't be able to build anything.

New comment by KolibriFly in "U.S. science is in chaos"

KolibriFly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:33:42 +0000

Even if you leave intent aside, the effect is the same: it teaches researchers that funding is conditional on staying within an invisible and shifting political boundary

New comment by KolibriFly in "U.S. science is in chaos"

KolibriFly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:29:57 +0000

And scientists are often exactly the kind of people who will try to keep going anyway

New comment by KolibriFly in "U.S. science is in chaos"

KolibriFly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:28:14 +0000

A research system can adapt to lower funding if the rules are stable. What it can't adapt to is grants being frozen, staff disappearing mid-project, forbidden vocabulary changing