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New comment by LPisGood in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

LPisGood — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:16:27 +0000

The same reason they didn’t all sell everything to buy NVIDIA the day chatGPT came out

New comment by LPisGood in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

LPisGood — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:05:30 +0000

The risk is to the business not the consumers

New comment by LPisGood in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

LPisGood — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:04:17 +0000

There’s actually been a ton of research on how to optimize “slot machines,” at least in a generalized sense. For more reading, check out the literature on multi armed bandits.

New comment by LPisGood in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

LPisGood — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:24:28 +0000

I’m not sure if the explanation in the second part holds water. Wouldn’t the reduction in property value be the same as the ammortized free rent?

New comment by LPisGood in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

LPisGood — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:08:25 +0000

I don’t think pilots unions do much to restrict supply.

New comment by LPisGood in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

LPisGood — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:25:41 +0000

Professional athletes and pilots have unions. They both make considerably more than your average programmer, even in FAANG and even with equity.

New comment by LPisGood in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

LPisGood — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:08:18 +0000

Why not ask your AI to review their AI slop?

It feels like a new age version of “that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” Basically, “that which can be sent without thought can be responded to without thought.”

New comment by LPisGood in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

LPisGood — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:06:47 +0000

I respond starkly when sent AI generated responses at work.

“Please do not send me AI generated analysis” or “I don’t think a wall of text from Claude is helpful here.”

New comment by LPisGood in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

LPisGood — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:55:03 +0000

For what it’s worth that’s a sentence I would write if that were my paper and I was writing the abstract.

New comment by LPisGood in "Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated"

LPisGood — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:30:56 +0000

I don’t think it matters so much if LOM are better at offensive security or defensive security. I think offensive security was previously an extremely niche skill set (how many people off the street would be able to solve even a few CTF problems 5 years ago?).

Now anyone can point an LLM at any software they want and say go to town. Even if it doesn’t do a great job or better than a good human or anything like that it’s so much more than what they could do before, and a lot of security vulnerabilities are kind of low hanging fruit anyway.

New comment by LPisGood in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

LPisGood — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:44:50 +0000

I’m not gonna comment on if it’s a good idea or not, but the US government could make it illegal for any financial institution that does business in America interacting with crypto.

They could also make it illegal for any US financial institution to do business with any financial institution that interacts with crypto.

They could probably also make it a crime to buy/sell crypto in America.

New comment by LPisGood in "A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)"

LPisGood — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:02:29 +0000

How has it helped in production software? Are you writing a lot of Haskell?

New comment by LPisGood in "An AI Hate Wave Is Here"

LPisGood — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:58:41 +0000

Reluctance to build makes it a self inflicted problem, no?

New comment by LPisGood in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

LPisGood — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:04:27 +0000

Well that’s not his primary job. It’s an extra task he’s doing at his job. At a non-tech company with small/horrific engineering components, someone in the business who can do any programming (or vibeing) is indistinguishable from magic.

New comment by LPisGood in "Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request"

LPisGood — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:23:38 +0000

“The business can’t survive if it has to play by the rules” is not a compelling reason to not make rules in my opinion.

New comment by LPisGood in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

LPisGood — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:02:23 +0000

Maybe, maybe not, but clearly using them to generate bullshit citations is acting with disregard for the truth.

New comment by LPisGood in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

LPisGood — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:04:19 +0000

Hallucinating citations is “generating bullshit” in the purest sense.

New comment by LPisGood in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

LPisGood — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:16:49 +0000

It could be a prompt issue, but I write a lot of concurrent code, and I’ve given it a lot of attempts. I’ve been following model development since word2vec and friends so I think I have a good appreciation of the state of the art and how models understand context.

New comment by LPisGood in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

LPisGood — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:17:37 +0000

I have a friend, smart guy, who is writing web services and “connecting them together” for a large firm; he has absolutely no programming experience.

Talking to him, he told me he couldn’t even reverse a string. He is at once many times more valuable than ever before to his company, but also far more dangerous than ever before.

New comment by LPisGood in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

LPisGood — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:08:08 +0000

I’ve seen AI write a lot of buggy code. I’ve rarely seen AI wrote test cases that expose buggy code.