Hacker News: LEDThereBeLight

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.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:43:08 +0000

Give me a break.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

LEDThereBeLight — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:50:02 +0000

Right now, you’d use skyscanner directly for finding flights. Maybe Expedia for hotels. What if instead of needing to know about what app to use for every different type of thing you wanted to book, and dealing with their own separate UIs and dark patterns to upsell you, you just ask ChatGPT to curate a list for you, and then tell it to book once you’ve chosen?

In 20 years, we may not be writing UIs for apps anymore. We may just be writing tools for AI agents to consume.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:17:49 +0000

Anyone who’s trying to make money through stuff like this (versus just experimenting) is using one of the many paid captcha-solving APIs, which cost a cent or two per solved captcha.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

LEDThereBeLight — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:06:07 +0000

We have all hurt our fellow man, just as we all hurt ourselves. We even have a word for it: sin!

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:52:42 +0000

It it was the case, Iran underestimates how vindictive Americans are.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:57:59 +0000

What is good code now is only good code because of the bad programming languages we’ve had to accept for the last hundred years because we’re tied to incremental improvements. We’re tied to static brittle types. But look at natural systems - they all use dynamic “languages.” When you get a cut, your flesh doesn’t throw an exception because it’s connected to the wrong “thing.” Maybe AI will redefine what good code means, because it’s better able to handle ambiguity.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:19:41 +0000

It’s a useless skill to keep sharp. It will never again be important. It’s like the electrical engineering professors who insisted we needed to understand how the circuitry worked in order to be good programmers. We didn’t.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

LEDThereBeLight — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:43:10 +0000

They have unlimited, free money.