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New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:50:39 +0000

It’s not some conspiracy. If they knew how to make the AI responses better and more concise, they would. They just don’t yet.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:31:43 +0000

This reminds me of the story of Narcissus. The tragedy is that he cannot love anyone who loves him, because he cannot love himself. When he rejects the advances of the young man Ameinias, he is punished by Nemesis who proclaims that Narcissus “would never be able to be loved by the one he fell in love with.” The irony is that this was already his curse; after his punishment, he fails to recognize his own face in a pool of water, and falls in love with his wounded self, who cannot love him back.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:21:17 +0000

It’s just the wrong analogy. Harnesses, for the most part, extend an agent’s capabilities and better ground them in the real world through tools and the ability to check external sources, rather than restricting them.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:43:14 +0000

Think about how much scrolling through UIs, settings menus, and different interfaces we have for every app that are all designed differently. Is this really peak technology, or something that is just the best we’ve been able to do without “smart” agents that can manipulate these programs themselves?

Is swiping on a flat screen really the endgame?

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:37:04 +0000

OpenAI isn’t interested in useless products that sell for quick money. They want people to use it, they want to be embedded in the public’s mindshare.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:31:55 +0000

Reactionary emotional advice does no good, it just makes people want to hold their positions more defensively. If you care enough to say something, care enough to say it with reasons that might shift someone’s perspective.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Making difficulty curves in games"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:55:07 +0000

“We’ve noticed you keep dying to this boss. Would you like to play on the difficulty intended for children instead?”

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:31:10 +0000

Almost no part of that is due to people using machines they do not understand.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:56:08 +0000

Because it’s cheaper to pay for the tokens than to pay their engineers to worry about a worse, homebrewed setup.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:49:16 +0000

Are you American? I used my American drivers license for verifying a personal account and it was approved with no problem. I wonder how they decide.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:01:56 +0000

To say that students don’t benefit from getting good grades using LLMs is incredibly naive. Learning is only about the third or fourth most important “benefit” for students, after getting a degree, getting good grades, and making connections.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "They’re made out of weights"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:46:36 +0000

The only pseudo-intellectualism I see is from you. You’re missing the whole point.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "They’re made out of weights"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:33:23 +0000

It’s just a matter of perspective. Procedures and memory are the same, and they’re also different, depending on how you want to look at it.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:18 +0000

Prayer does work, through the mechanism of putting your thoughts in perspective and context and sharing them outside yourself. Whether or not people understand the reason “why” it works doesn’t matter.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

LEDThereBeLight — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:59:12 +0000

I’ve noticed this too. Any idea why modern language books get this so wrong?

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:56:10 +0000

It’s always funny to me to see people in tech, who have largely been employed to put other people out of work for the last 50 years, change their stance on tech as soon as it starts to affect them.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:38:28 +0000

Code has always been a bottleneck for any product which involves software.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:12:17 +0000

What bizarre advice. It completely misses the point.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

LEDThereBeLight — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:26:58 +0000

You’re right. Maybe a statement with something like “Never bet against America!”

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "GPT-5.5"

LEDThereBeLight — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:52:36 +0000

You’re still living in the past. It will be an LLM working on it in the future.