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New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Incentives are for losers"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:37:26 +0000

I loved this. Unfortunately, I don't know how realistic it is at this point. The entire modern Western system is built on incentives, and it would require dramatically changing the social order and economic system.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

Ozzie_osman — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:10:25 +0000

Yes, writing code that (appears to) work was not the hard part. Even before LLMs you could find very cheap contractors on Upwork or through offshoring companies to write "code".

Well-engineered code is hard. It still is. Code that is reliable, extensible, maintainable, scalable, legible, understandable is hard. Code where the specs and the "why" behind it were pressure-tested via thought and good intuition.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:26:24 +0000

There are people rich enough to do that in our current world. They don't because either they have a moral compass or because they fear the law.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The Cold Email"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:33:46 +0000

  > but my dad kept saying it wouldn’t hurt to really make it clear I wanted to get into the school.

My mother convinced me to do the same after I was also wait-listed at my top choice university. I sent them an email updating them on things I had done since applying (in May, two weeks before graduating), and two days later, I got my acceptance letter.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:06:44 +0000

This looks awesome. I'm very excited about how learning will evolve harnessing AI. I'm also a huge fan of Andrew Ng.

I wish they hadn't raised so much money. I'm not sure "large funding round" sets up the right dynamic for what he's trying to do.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:54:26 +0000

This is how it has always been throughout history (and still is in most parts of the world).

Individual is part of nuclear family, nuclear family is part of extended family, extended family is part of tribe, etc. When one part is in need, the others jump in to help.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:21:42 +0000

I wonder whether this applies more to coding agents, or whether it'll apply as well to other types of agents.

It feels like coding agents get better at a faster rate and are easier to train.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:08:59 +0000

I would personally love to see an end to the universally existing bait-and-switch of brokers listing unavailable units just to get you on the phone, then when you contact them, saying "Oh sorry that unit just got rented (or sold), but, I have another one that might suit you"

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:26:10 +0000

AI can make individuals 2x or 5x or 10x (?) faster. Lack of trust, alignment, and ownership can make _teams_ 2x or 5x or 10x slower.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:53:26 +0000

Decisions are special things. One of the golden rules of life is that a person (or entity) making decisions is somehow impacted or otherwise getting feedback on the repercussions of those decisions.

When you cognitively surrender to AI, or to another person (be it a leader/manager, or a subordinate/report), you are asking for trouble.

Netflix accidentally shipped a Claude.md file

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:39:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/AgentsOfAI/s/GYaEDTim0U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903050

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "How to read more books"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:27:43 +0000

One thing that changed reading for me was Readwise. One of my favorite products. Super simple concept, I just highlight quotes I like, then I get a daily email of random things I've highlighted. Great way to retain info from non-fiction books, and to retain the feeling of special parts of fiction ones.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:13:50 +0000

This is really cool. Can it play nice with gdrive or Dropbox? For better or worse, that's just where my data lives now but I'd love this layer.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:20:33 +0000

Anecdotal and more for unskilled than skilled workers, but having traveled to Germany a bunch, I found that taxi drivers and delivery drivers seem pretty unhappy there. They mention not feeling accepted, feeling constantly looked down upon, etc. There's a bit of that in every country, but generally, the immigrants I've found in Germany seem a lot less happy than the ones I've met in other countries.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History"

Ozzie_osman — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:46:30 +0000

"writers who wrote the most in history"

Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:39:30 +0000

An org that big doesn't "see". A triager with very little context and authority is probably the one making this call and my guess is the process is failing to direct or escalate it to the right person.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

Ozzie_osman — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:47:07 +0000

AI has caused a lot of leaders to overreact. Great leaders find a balance between overreacting and waffling. It's often wise to dampen your response a little bit, without dragging your feet.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:45:06 +0000

100% this. This is why it's so hard to trust AI on code reviews, at least for now.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Bring back crappy forums"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:54:58 +0000

The main thing is the old forums were sorted by recency (how new a post was or how recently it was replied to) rather than some AI-driven engagement mechanism. They were structured (you'd have several rooms for different topics on the same forum).

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "[dead]"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:09:47 +0000

Notable is that this in Fureidis, which while in modern Israel now, was part of British Mandate Palestine, and was one of the only Arab towns left in tact (and is still primarily Arab and Muslim). It accepted a lot of refugees from neighboring villages after 1948, for example Tantura, in which a horrendous massacre took place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre, https://archive.org/details/tantura_2022).