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New comment by SwtCyber in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

SwtCyber — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:06:43 +0000

There’s a night-and-day difference between frontier and budget models, no question. But the issue isn't the tooling at all : if you put someone who doesn't know the rules of the road on a $15k carbon road bike, they're just gonna slam into a telephone pole at 30 mph instead of 6 mph

New comment by SwtCyber in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

SwtCyber — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:03:41 +0000

Just let him take down prod on a friday night once and leave him to deal with the PagerDuty alerts solo. Cures the urge to vibe-code infrastructure real fast

New comment by SwtCyber in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

SwtCyber — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:57:36 +0000

Two wires and two C cells? Careful, someone is going to put a subscription layer in front of that

New comment by SwtCyber in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

SwtCyber — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:54:30 +0000

Every individual product is "easy", but the moment you want two ecosystems to talk to each other you become a part-time distributed systems engineer

New comment by SwtCyber in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

SwtCyber — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:42:12 +0000

Truly a flawless strategy: convince every government and large company on earth that depending on US-hosted AI is a geopolitical risk.

New comment by SwtCyber in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

SwtCyber — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:41:12 +0000

The harder problem is designing remedies that make illegal government action actually expensive enough to discourage it, without also making officials afraid to make legitimate decisions.

New comment by SwtCyber in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

SwtCyber — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:39:39 +0000

Yeah, the internal research could be far more damaging than the existence of the harmful effects themselves

New comment by SwtCyber in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

SwtCyber — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:37:36 +0000

The distinction between punishment and prevention seems important here. Meta's intent might matter when deciding liability or penalties, but if a design pattern is demonstrably harmful, "we only wanted more engagement" isn't much of an argument against regulating it

New comment by SwtCyber in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

SwtCyber — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:34:32 +0000

That's fair. A lot of regulation seems to work this way: first you recognize a real harm, then spend years arguing over where exactly the boundary should be

New comment by SwtCyber in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

SwtCyber — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:29:29 +0000

Investors not panicking seems rational. Companies this large can survive astonishingly large fines...

New comment by SwtCyber in "Show HN: Doberman: The AI watchdog that stops Claude from deleting your database"

SwtCyber — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:55:28 +0000

Give the agent a read-only postgres user. Boom, I just saved you a startup

New comment by SwtCyber in "Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive"

SwtCyber — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:44:37 +0000

Architecture is secondary right now. How Anthropic cleaned up the datasets for training and tuned the alignment - that's the real engineering magic. OpenAI came up with GPT, but Anthropic turned it into a fully functional tool for engineers

New comment by SwtCyber in "Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive"

SwtCyber — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:42:00 +0000

Journalists just took whichever numbers fit the Apple narrative better

New comment by SwtCyber in "Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive"

SwtCyber — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:38:13 +0000

Vercel data as proof of market dominance is hilarious. Obviously next.js pet projects are mostly generated by Claude, it's just unmatched for frontend right now. But enterprise with their rag pipelines is sitting on Azure with OpenAI, and there are completely different budgets spinning there that simply don't make it into any Vercel dashboards

New comment by SwtCyber in "Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter"

SwtCyber — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:43:48 +0000

Maybe, although I think cement would trade one set of manufacturing problems for another

New comment by SwtCyber in "Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter"

SwtCyber — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:41:26 +0000

The passive cooling is almost as clever as the filtration

New comment by SwtCyber in "Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter"

SwtCyber — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:40:06 +0000

There is something very satisfying about sawdust being a feature rather than an impurity

New comment by SwtCyber in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

SwtCyber — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:42:27 +0000

Disney killing the FiveThirtyEight archives is just basic s3 cost optimization, not `ai devouring humanity's memory`. A dead site just doesn't run ads

New comment by SwtCyber in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

SwtCyber — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:12:11 +0000

The "100% accurate and free of hallucinations" claim should probably be replaced with something much weaker

New comment by SwtCyber in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

SwtCyber — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:09:56 +0000

I think there's an underrated difference between information generation and pedagogy here. LLMs are very good at producing more explanation, yet "more explanation" is often exactly what you don't need when learning something difficult