Hacker News: William_BB

New comment by William_BB in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

William_BB — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:16:10 +0000

> This is a forum filled with experts

Half of HN commentators probably work on basic CRUD. Armchair experts, maybe.

New comment by William_BB in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

William_BB — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:24:19 +0000

This is such a bad take. I'm impressed how often this gets parroted online.

Next time, please check how many Poles left Poland for western EU since they joined.

New comment by William_BB in "GPT-5.5"

William_BB — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:47:24 +0000

yeah. In the future when? 2, 3, 5 years from now on? Do you think current LLMs don't get confused by shitty code?

That code they're writing now will need fixing tomorrow, not 5 years later.

New comment by William_BB in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

William_BB — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:33:34 +0000

I have the same feeling ever since his infamous LLM OS post

New comment by William_BB in "GPT-5.5"

William_BB — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:59:32 +0000

> I'll make more progress than mentally wearing myself out reading a bunch of LLM generated code trying to figure out how to solve the problem manually.

Most engineers realize that there's currently more tech debt being created than ever before. And it will only get worse.

New comment by William_BB in "GPT-5.5"

William_BB — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:58:22 +0000

> I'll make more progress than mentally wearing myself out reading a bunch of LLM generated code trying to figure out how to solve the problem manually.

I feel sorry for whoever has to work on that codebase. This is the literal definition of tech debt.

New comment by William_BB in "GPT-5.5"

William_BB — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:50:11 +0000

Totally agreed, this has been and will continue to be a problem for all existing models.

> Like are programmers and engineers using LLMs completely differently than I'm doing

No, but the complexity of the problem matters. Lots of engineers doing basic CRUD and prototyping overestimate the capabilities of LLMs.

New comment by William_BB in "GPT-5.5"

William_BB — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:44:14 +0000

Good luck arguing with SWE benchmark purists

New comment by William_BB in "GPT-5.5"

William_BB — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:41:00 +0000

> what's needed is knowledge of solution techniques

That's definitely in the training data

New comment by William_BB in "Codex for almost everything"

William_BB — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:13:36 +0000

Ah right! Reminds me of AGI by 2025 :D

New comment by William_BB in "Codex for almost everything"

William_BB — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:02:43 +0000

> The idea that code is something sacred and only devs can somehow do it is dying, and I personally love it, as I am watching it enable so many of my friends and family who have no idea how to code.

People on HN are seriously delusional.

AI removed the need to know the syntax. Your grandma does not know JS but can one shot a React app. Great!

Software engineering is not and has never been about the syntax or one shotting apps. Software engineering is about managing complexity at a level that a layman could not. Your ideal word requires an AI that's capable of reasoning at 100k-1 million lines of code and not make ANY mistakes. All edge cases covered or clarified. If (when) that truly happens, software engineering will not be the first profession to go.

New comment by William_BB in "Codex for almost everything"

William_BB — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:53:13 +0000

Yeah, good luck trusting the output!

New comment by William_BB in "Codex for almost everything"

William_BB — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:28:10 +0000

Yeah, that's indeed a hot take. I am curious what kind of code you write for a living to have an opinion like this.

New comment by William_BB in "Codex for almost everything"

William_BB — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:24:03 +0000

> well it actually implemented a normalization pipeline and a tax computing engine which then did the taxes, but close enough

You can't seriously believe laymen will try to implement their own tax calculators.

New comment by William_BB in "Claude Opus 4.7"

William_BB — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:00:38 +0000

Are you one of those naive people that still take these coding benchmarks seriously?

New comment by William_BB in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

William_BB — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:08:07 +0000

If you randomly sample letters from the alphabet and those letters make up actual words, then actual sentences. Did you think about it? Probably not

New comment by William_BB in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

William_BB — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:40:52 +0000

You should read the article you posted before you write a comment. Hint: check P_F=0 in tables 2, 3 and 4.

"Factored" is doing a lot of lifting here and is borderline deceptive. Plenty of researchers have long ago pointed out that this won't scale, see M Mosca for reference.

New comment by William_BB in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

William_BB — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:36:26 +0000

To me, Github has always seemed well positioned to be a one-stop solution for software development: code, CI/CD, documentation, ticket tracking, project management etc. Could anyone explain where they failed? I keep hearing that Github is terrible

New comment by William_BB in "747s and coding agents"

William_BB — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:44:37 +0000

If this happens to software development, this will happen to most mental jobs.

New comment by William_BB in "This time is different"

William_BB — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:56:17 +0000

CRUD