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New comment by Sivart13 in "The Amazon tax"

Sivart13 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:40:53 +0000

It's completely insane to me that the first search for Okta in the app store isn't the actual Okta app, it's a half-page ad for something that could easily be confused with the Okta app

substitute for literally any business name

Sure, I know the right one to click on, if I'm in a sound state of mind. What if I'm sleepy? Stressed? 65+ years old?

New comment by Sivart13 in "Discovery Loop"

Sivart13 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:10:08 +0000

I guess if we failed to Prevent Nuclear Terror the bunker denizens of the future are gonna need somewhere to hang out.

New comment by Sivart13 in "Discovery Loop"

Sivart13 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:09:30 +0000

The solution to most of these problems lies in policy, not in new tech advancements.

Maybe if our biggest companies did something other than suck up to science denying wackos, some progress could be made in these areas.

New comment by Sivart13 in "Waymo in Dallas"

Sivart13 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:56:40 +0000

Why would we want to have robot cars that only drive as good as humans can?

New comment by Sivart13 in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

Sivart13 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:42:38 +0000

no accountability so far

New comment by Sivart13 in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

Sivart13 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:05:15 +0000

when I retire I'm opening a bar for AI Agents called The Honest Caveat

New comment by Sivart13 in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

Sivart13 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:23:23 +0000

If anything Claude writes too many comments. Instead of clean code it dumps walls of text describing a given 'if' as a 'user-grained access-gated control-correcting flow-valve'.

New comment by Sivart13 in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

Sivart13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:44:58 +0000

you don't need to be an LLM to have LinkedIn brain, but it helps

New comment by Sivart13 in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

Sivart13 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:17:34 +0000

This is the major part of her argument I didn't understand.

As I see it, the "infra as code" transition means going from more ad-hoc changes to less. Predictable, auditable.

Using LLMs to replace mostly-working code with a new, nondeterministically different version seems entirely different to me. You've identified a problem in the code, great, let's rewrite it from spec. Now it fixed the problem! But did it introduce more problems? Hope you used enough tokens, I guess!

New comment by Sivart13 in "Our principles"

Sivart13 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:56:33 +0000

This is the key, every AI company makes a big deal about how AGI will be transformative but we're just supposed to take it on faith that this transformation will be good.

absolute underpants gnomes reasoning

New comment by Sivart13 in "The end of responsive images"

Sivart13 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:17:23 +0000

As someone who has seen srcset and picture but never used them in practice, the background was kind of useful. but I can understand people finding it annoying

New comment by Sivart13 in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

Sivart13 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:28:34 +0000

I don't think they changed much about the ending. There's one scene added that's not in the book, but the outcomes are all the same.

New comment by Sivart13 in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

Sivart13 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:38:08 +0000

FACO, f around and cash out

New comment by Sivart13 in "We Will Not Be Divided"

Sivart13 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:24:14 +0000

Not all tech employers are total weenies who would refuse to hire someone for taking this stance.

Most are, but not all.

New comment by Sivart13 in "How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet"

Sivart13 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:12:54 +0000

...so?

New comment by Sivart13 in "Abundant Intelligence"

Sivart13 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:05:49 +0000

> Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer.

Something I've never understood: why do AGI perverts think that a superintelligence is any more likely to "cure cancer" than "create unstoppable super-cancer"

New comment by Sivart13 in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

Sivart13 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:40:47 +0000

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New comment by Sivart13 in "IRS Direct File on GitHub"

Sivart13 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:40:01 +0000

this was supposed to be exactly that

New comment by Sivart13 in "Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles"

Sivart13 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:56:50 +0000

but anyone who gets into a Waymo that smells like dogshit can get out, report it, and wait for the next one. Are you describing a real problem or just one you imagine?

New comment by Sivart13 in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

Sivart13 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:23:23 +0000

Once you're a big enough company hiring needs to be its own workstream just to keep up with attrition.