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New comment by PaulShomo in "Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing"

PaulShomo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:14:16 +0000

At a fundamental level, our society works by giving the corporate spokesperson credit for everything thought up or done in their organization. Really, credit for a whole lotta other claims too. CEOs and spokespeople are more brand avatars with megaphones, than actual people dealing in fact. Unfortunately this setup confuses hero worshippers.

New comment by PaulShomo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

PaulShomo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:07:55 +0000

This morning published a design manifesto for the Co-Wiki — a wiki-based warm storage layer that sits between LLM context windows and vector DBs, designed for human-agent co-authorship. The architecture solves chat hell, RAG chunking failures, and the missing second brain infrastructure in one brutally simple design. I'm a long-time SW architect who moved to epistemology. I’m too busy to go back to building — the design is complete, documented, and open. First to ship owns the category.

https://gist.github.com/paulshomo/69cf99e3185fa7ad0f50fc0e38...

New comment by PaulShomo in "Another possible cyberequilibrium? (from my email)"

PaulShomo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:12:01 +0000

The success locating large numbers of vulnerabilities with agentic pen testing and the recent industry product strategy of auto-feeding them directly into protection side products (e.g. HiddenLayer, Calypso) may make individual exploits a commodity.

I think it’ll probably be a numbers game going forward. Who knows how long a zero day lasts? Black hats will need to hoard exploits.

New comment by PaulShomo in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

PaulShomo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:41:13 +0000

Agreed on AI limitations in originality, but the industry sucked at UIs for so long, my expectations are low. I’m just hoping for widespread use of models that take the viewpoints of newbs for UI testing.

New comment by PaulShomo in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

PaulShomo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:20:30 +0000

When bicycles first came out people threw rocks at cyclists, claimed bikes lead to female immorality, social disorder, and health conditions like “bicycle face.” New things scare people.

So yeah, the AI backlash will be a bloodbath.

New comment by PaulShomo in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

PaulShomo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:51:47 +0000

What a blast from the past. You have to take yourself back in the ol' time-machine to remember that 2019 mindset. People were probably still reeling from a few years prior when the Microsoft Tay bot made news for soiling twitter with naughty tweets.

New comment by PaulShomo in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

PaulShomo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:47:00 +0000

There's perception of value in the quirky outliers, and there's liking a trendy cow, in the herd-mindset signaling kind of way. We definitely have both style of aficionados, each could be said to be appreciating a different kind of taste.