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New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "AI will make our children stupid"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:12:59 +0000

I stepped away from the keyboard to cool off and I just wanted to apologize for being a bit mean here. I am sorry. I did have a bad experience, but not everybody in any field is bad. Have a good day as well.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "AI will make our children stupid"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:00:19 +0000

How are you trying to help me lol? I brought up Altman because he's one of the heroes of the AI movement. For some reason anything I add to the conversation isn't a part of it though.

So I know many bad people involved in it and you know many good people. I guess that's the end of it because I have no reason to trust what some random guy on the internet says over my own extensive real life experience.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "AI will make our children stupid"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:46:44 +0000

Yea, because I actually know many, and they're not good people. Also good job missing that this thread is about Altman and friends in addition to every one involved in it. Satvik here just thinks nobody on the internet with a grievance could possibly have any merit to their feelings.

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WhyOhWhyQ — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:41:52 +0000

That's the larp I was talking about. Following fads and being a scammer is not curiosity in my book.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "AI will make our children stupid"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:57:36 +0000

I couldn't resist... Like the kid at facebook who's buddies with Altman so gets to be a billionare? Like Altman himself (when did he enter the field again? Oh yea he was a crypto huckster). Like everyone I've ever met in the machine learning department? 95% of the people in that field are just following trends and good at winning that game. Call it sour grapes, but I'm just observing reality here. And everyone who thinks following fads = being curious is just doing the larp I described earlier. Moreover, everyone who thinks following fads keeps them safe from AI is deluding themselves. The AI of 2026 can do it better than you can.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "AI will make our children stupid"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:37:30 +0000

You're right. Signing off for the day.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "AI will make our children stupid"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:03:51 +0000

Fully expecting to get banned for my comment, but I'll just go on. Look at the silicon valley heroes and they're all business types. There's a few rare exceptions.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "Two kinds of vibe coding"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:08:39 +0000

Who are you arguing against? When did I say it wouldn't? I'm glad you like it. No need to fight me?

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "What makes you senior"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:18:59 +0000

I'm deleting my hn account. Have a good day.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "What makes you senior"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:50:30 +0000

The title has always existed. I meant the obsession about being a "a junior" or "a senior", like gaining an achievement in a video game or something. I just thought every young person was a junior engineer and every old person was as senior engineer.

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WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:58:06 +0000

(I know you're replying to another guy but I just saw this.) I've been programming for 20 years, but I like the LLM as a learning assistant. The part I don't like is when you just come up with craftier and craftier ways to yell at it to do better, without actually understanding the code. The project I gave up on was at almost a million lines of code generated by the LLM, so it would have been impossible to easily restart it.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:46:32 +0000

Are they happy in their new jobs?

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:42:36 +0000

FWIW, The New York Post video on this said he will get the reward.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:35:09 +0000

I won't insult the man, but I never liked Steve Jobs. I'd rather be Wozniak in that story.

"taste, judgment, curiosity, or building good things with other people"

Taste is susceptible to turning into a vibes / popularity thing. I think success is mostly about (firstly just doing the basics like going to work on time and not being a dick), then ego, personality, presentation, etc... These things seem like unfulfilling preoccupations, not that I'm not susceptible to them like anyone else, so in my best life I wouldn't be so concerned about "success". I just want to master a craft and be satisfied in that pursuit.

I'd love to build good things with other people, but for whatever reason I've never found other people to build things with. So maybe I suck, that's a possibility. I think all I can do is settle on being the horse guy.

(I'm also not incurious about AI. I use AI to learn things. I just don't want to give everything away and become only a delegator.)

Edit: I'm genuinely terrified that AI is going to do ALL of the things, so there's not going to be a "survives the shift" except for having a likable / respectable / fearsome personality

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:29:13 +0000

Inflate whose ego? Mine? It seemed more like a swipe than ego-inflation, but I was happy to see the article anyway.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:17:49 +0000

Another thing I might throw out there is that there are so many domains and niches out there that person A and person B are almost certainly having genuinely different experiences with the same tools. So when person A says "wow this is the best thing ever" and person B says "this thing is horrible" they might both be right.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

WhyOhWhyQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:03:59 +0000

I have wondered about that actually. Thanks, I'll read that, looks interesting.

Surely Donald Knuth and John Carmack are genuine masters though? There's the Elon Musk theory of mastery where everyone says you're great, but you hire a guy to do it, and there's the theory where you make average income but live a life fulfilled. On my deathbed I want to be the second. (Sorry this is getting off topic.)

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "What makes you senior"

WhyOhWhyQ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:56:26 +0000

When did this "junior/senior" lingo get cool? I don't remember it being used when I was young. Maybe the leet code trend brought on a sort of gamification of the profession, with ranks etc..?

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

WhyOhWhyQ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:50:37 +0000

To each his own, but multi-tasking feels bad to me. I want to spend my life pursuing mastery of a craft, not lazily delegating. Not that everyone should have the same goals, but the mastery route feels like it's dying off. It makes me sad.

I get it that some people just want to see the thing on the screen. Or your priority is to be a high status person with a loving family etc.. etc... All noble goals. I just don't feel a sense of fulfillment from a life not in pursuit of something deeper. The AI can do it better than me, but I don't really care at the end of the day. Maybe super-corp wants the AI to do it then, but it's a shame.

New comment by WhyOhWhyQ in "Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?"

WhyOhWhyQ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:48:50 +0000

Claude open in another tab, hitting L to reload the file doesn't do it for you?