Hacker News: amarble

Updating IP Regulations for AI Distillation

amarble — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:12:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/copyright_vs_ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003338

Points: 1

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Updating IP Regulations for AI Distillation

amarble — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:14:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/copyright_vs_ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963759

Points: 2

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New comment by amarble in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

amarble — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:53:07 +0000

They also indicate they have a 276B A12B version, but it doesn't seem the weights are available. This might actually be able to fit in 128GB when quantized to 2 bits or so which makes it interesting.

LLMs are still just low code / no code software

amarble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:30:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/llms_are_still_just_low_code_software.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883329

Points: 5

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LLMs are still just low code / no code software

amarble — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:32:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/llms_are_still_just_low_code_software.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870679

Points: 2

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There is minimal downside to switching to open models

amarble — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:56:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/cancel_claude.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622518

Points: 407

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New comment by amarble in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

amarble — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:24:25 +0000

The point of a discussion site is to hear what other people think and get different perspectives. Just getting an LLM's insightful, well-thought-out response isn't really a big draw, if one is looking for that, there's a pretty obvious way to get it. I posted this the other day (ignore the title I realized later it's too clickbaity) but this is why IMO LLMs won't replace the workforce, people aren't looking for answers to things, they're looking for other people's takes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299988

AI doesn't replace white collar work

amarble — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:57:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/ai_doesnt_replace_work.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299988

Points: 67

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New comment by amarble in "From specification to stress test: a weekend with Claude"

amarble — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:37:23 +0000

As a counterpoint, I also tried writing something with Claude last weekend: a Google docs clone[1]. I spent $170 on Anthropic API credits, and got something that did mostly what I asked but was basically useless. It seems that for simple interfaces for which there is an exact specification, like the recent compiler and web browser examples, it's possible to write bigger projects that "work" as a demo although not in a way they'd be viable alternatives. For anything that requires taste and judgment, we've still got a long way to go. There are lots of great demos out there but few if any real examples of vibe coded (or whatever you want to call it) software standing alone as an alternative to project people wrote.

[1] https://www.marble.onl/posts/this_cost_170.html

New comment by amarble in "Eight more months of agents"

amarble — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:21:09 +0000

This weekend I tried what I'd call a medium scale agentic coding project[0], following what Anthropic demonstrated last week autonomously building a C-compiler [1]. Bottom line is, it's possible to make demos that look good, but it really doesn't work well enough to build software you would actually use. This naturally lends itself to the "everybody is taking about how great it is but nobody is building anything real with it" construct we're in right now. It is great, but also not really useful.

[0] https://www.marble.onl/posts/this_cost_170.html

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler