Hacker News: amarble

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

# Comments: 104

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

I paid $170 and all I got was this demo

amarble — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:01:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/this_cost_170.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959157

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

I paid $170 and all I got was this stupid demo

amarble — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:17:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/this_cost_170.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944425

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs

amarble — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:51:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/tapping/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545587

Points: 69

# Comments: 22

Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs

amarble — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:01:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/tapping/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528918

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Intelligence is not just about task completion

amarble — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:37:41 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498586

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him (2024)

amarble — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:06:25 +0000

Article URL: https://nautil.us/if-you-meet-et-in-space-kill-him-917243/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466870

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Intelligence is not just about task completion

amarble — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:26:25 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458190

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Gen AI Writing Showdown

amarble — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:45:17 +0000

Article URL: https://writing-showdown.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364522

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ifrro member Kopinor signs agreement on newspaper content for AI in Norway

amarble — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:00:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ifrro.org/page/article-detail/ifrro-member-kopinor-signs-historic-agreement-on-newspaper-content-for-ai-in-norway/?k=e202512221427431997

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359019

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Comparing language model performance on creative writing transformations

amarble — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:17:49 +0000

Article URL: https://writing-showdown.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354787

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amarble in "Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell"

amarble — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:30:53 +0000

Since we're sharing, I have a "claude" command that lets me get quick answers but also saves the conversation and outputs an identifier so in the rare case I want a follow-up, I can ask a question with the ID to continue the conversation.

https://gist.github.com/rbitr/bfbc43b806ac62a5230555582d63d4...