Hacker News: Seattle3503

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Goodbye Google"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:39:57 +0000

Trades could dry up quickly when as we develop effective robots, and there seems to be a lot of energy dedicated in that direction.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:03:14 +0000

"Outside the box" is out.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

Seattle3503 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:37:19 +0000

> It likely is, but at some point it very well might stop being true.

Thats kinda the point right? It depends on how we train them. It is self fulfilling.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:38:10 +0000

Are there ideas coming from Burning Man?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:25:45 +0000

Did you get anything out of the attempt?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:41:44 +0000

> truth be told the more time that passes the smaller the gap will get as the agents get more capable

Yup. A lot of work is going in to reducing the skill required to operate AI agents.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:37:05 +0000

AI is built to adapt to you. ICs aren't.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:10:37 +0000

With the speed AI moves, a lot of technical decisions become reversible. And while engineering often makes decisions that could lie elsewhere in the business, outside of engineering, I could imagine those decisions moving elsewhere in a fully AI world.

Do you have examples of things that would be hard to train for? One that could be compensated for with changes elsewhere in the business process?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:37:33 +0000

> one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms.

I see this a lot and I'm not sure why people don't think AI will be able to do this too. The self-play training that got them writing code can be used for this too.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Feeling Sad about AI"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:48:59 +0000

At work the pace has increased so much that there really isn't room for writing by hand.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Feeling Sad about AI"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:27:06 +0000

There is a sort of conceit here that tech is everything. There doesn't need to be "no jobs", it could just (or mostly) be the tech sector that is impacted and jobs are displaced. In the history of concentrated sector losses, the US public hasn't been kind to those displaced. The world marches on, no matter how important we think we are.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Feeling Sad about AI"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:23:03 +0000

Yeah, some people are is saying "Oh coding is solved, but we still need people to guide the architecture."

But coding was "solved" by self-play against "small" problems. Is there any reason training couldn't be scaled up to even longer horizon tasks like evolving an architecture in a growing business? The increasing load from a growing business, both in terms of usage and product accretion, can be entirely simulated in a data-center, and therefore trained against.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:52:26 +0000

Maybe true, but it's not dollar denominated. Cash is.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:10:07 +0000

A lot of them do complete re-writes frequently. When code is cheap and you get stuck, thats what you do.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:37:14 +0000

I want crypto to work like cash so bad, but in practice it's too complicated for your average person and I'm not sure anyone has the incentive to make it simple.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:24:51 +0000

Where does NPM play in to the build?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:34:09 +0000

Rust and Go can create a single statically linked executable and they are very popular. It could become a thing.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:59:56 +0000

I'm a frequent Reddit user. Recently they have been bringing some of the more poisonous elements of social media over to their platform. Pushing a "for you" feed, and prioritizing a "Best" sorting algorithm over "new" or "hot".

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:18:28 +0000

It might also be a case where the moderator didn't have access to those levers because they are simply a moderator and not a true administrator.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "The revolt of the reader"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:15:53 +0000

Pangram 4.0 was released after your blog post. I've found it to be an improvement over 3.3