Hacker News: Trasmatta

New comment by Trasmatta in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth"

Trasmatta — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:07:23 +0000

The title of the post is actually:

> How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth

But the HN link is

> Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth

Is this one of those cases where HN automatically changes the submission name? Because removing the `how` really changes the meaning here.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know"

Trasmatta — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:39:21 +0000

This was my take as well. Those all seem to be second order effects of people socializing much less, which must be having negative effects on kids as well?

New comment by Trasmatta in "Dots: Always-on agents"

Trasmatta — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:51:37 +0000

Or if the agent literally just hallucinates a crime

Opus 5.5 decided to just randomly `pkill` everything on my laptop the other day. Jailbreaking models is still easy AF. Every single release like this brags about their "safeguards", but none of it really works at the end of the day.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Dots: Always-on agents"

Trasmatta — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:46:30 +0000

In actuality, it feels a lot more like project and middle managers getting rid of ICs

I can feel it in the air, every single software business is itching to get rid of as many developers as possible, and move everything to their PMs. Hiring has already almost completely stopped, and some have already started the layoffs. More will come.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Claude Opus 5.5"

Trasmatta — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:47:38 +0000

It truly was bizarre. I've used every major model since 2022, and not a single one had a writing style as bad as Opus 5

New comment by Trasmatta in "Claude Opus 5.5"

Trasmatta — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:24:03 +0000

The problem with 5 wasn't just the verbosity, but its insane way of communicating. It had this bizarre circuitous sentence structure that always buried the lede, and always tried to be faux profound. I'm okay with verbosity if it's actually readable.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Claude Opus 5.5"

Trasmatta — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:21:16 +0000

Opus 5 has made me question my sanity on a daily basis, especially as all my coworkers started lobbing Opus 5 slop grenades everywhere. It had the worst and most infuriating writing style I've ever seen.

I hope Opus 5.5 is better, if for no other reason than all the Claude slop I have to read will be at least more tolerable.

One funny side effect of all of this: realizing that coworkers that use AI for almost all the text they generate at work have their writing style change every time a new model ships.

New comment by Trasmatta in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

Trasmatta — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:32:57 +0000

I also like:

> Nothing leaves your phone and there is no account.

This is good to know, but it's the exact type of thing Claude is obsessed with putting everywhere once you tell it NOT to do something. For example, if I tell it to commit but never push changes to GitHub, it can't help but leave "Changes committed; nothing was pushed." to EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE. The model just can't help but report back about everything it's NOT doing, and it drives me crazy.

New comment by Trasmatta in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

Trasmatta — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:21:51 +0000

I love how even all the copy on the site is clearly AI generated. We're starting to completely lose even our ability to write a single paragraph of descriptive text.

New comment by Trasmatta in "If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?"

Trasmatta — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:23:23 +0000

This is incredibly adjacent to the rationalist sphere, which has been trying to reinvent religion from first principles for at least a decade now.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

Trasmatta — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:33:20 +0000

Same. I've scrubbed my presence as much as possible from the majority of the internet (except HN for whatever reason) to prevent future models from being trained on my output, but the damage is already done. Part of me exists in pretty much all AI models now, without my consent. And those models are actively stealing my career and passions.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

Trasmatta — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:21:12 +0000

And the cruel irony is that they stole our work to train the AI that devalues our work going forward, and will cause many of us to lose our jobs.

I regret every line of open source code I ever wrote.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

Trasmatta — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:18:24 +0000

Is this "escape route" in the room with us now?

New comment by Trasmatta in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

Trasmatta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:05:55 +0000

This was an incredible video, and I feel so many complex emotions after watching it. I wonder where everyone in that video is now.

Sounds like there's some controversy about this video though. There was some accusations that it was staged, and / or that this was NOT the first contact this tribe had.

New comment by Trasmatta in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

Trasmatta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:43:37 +0000

The narration in the video says its tobacco

New comment by Trasmatta in "Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)"

Trasmatta — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:55:13 +0000

I've never once gotten that impression from him

New comment by Trasmatta in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

Trasmatta — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:56:09 +0000

There is legit grief associated with what AI is doing to our craft, and we're all trying to grapple with it in our own ways

New comment by Trasmatta in "Feeling Sad about AI"

Trasmatta — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:13:07 +0000

Hopefully their advice includes: "take this advice, and then don't join the Jehovah's Witnesses. It's a high control abusive religion that will make your depression worse".

New comment by Trasmatta in "Feeling Sad about AI"

Trasmatta — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:11:54 +0000

I often feel like this as well. It's hard to talk about it with people, because they panic and immediately start sending you literature about suicidality and giving you hotlines, etc, etc, as if I haven't already seen all of that before.

I'm not actively suicidal or anything (and I know all the signs of risk, and what to do about it), but there's an underlying feeling that life just hurts and has no meaning. Currently the thing that helps me stick around is the idea of "doing it for the plot". Life ends in short order either way, so I figure I'll just stick around and keep it interesting.

New comment by Trasmatta in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

Trasmatta — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:47:17 +0000

Yes! Claude was so pleasant to use at first. It was Anthropic's biggest advantage. And now it's like nails on a chalkboard.