Hacker News: ambicapter

New comment by ambicapter in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

ambicapter — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:13:02 +0000

You can refer to it however you want, the outcome is the same.

New comment by ambicapter in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

ambicapter — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:12:20 +0000

The AI should be subservient the way same way a ladder is subservient. A ladder is not a human.

New comment by ambicapter in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

ambicapter — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:27:54 +0000

This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money.

> It isn't as if there are enough projects around to keep the other 2/3 busy

I've never worked at any company where there was any limit to the work to be done. Sales people don't give a shit what your product can do, only what they can sell, and they never sleep.

New comment by ambicapter in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

ambicapter — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:05:14 +0000

They don't need to spend that much to convince people, Americans are already predisposed to hate unions (see the comments in this thread).

New comment by ambicapter in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

ambicapter — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:08:35 +0000

Agree to disagree. Lock-in is a thing that companies design for.

New comment by ambicapter in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ambicapter — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:38:18 +0000

I don't think Karpathy has nearly the portfolio of accomplishments. I think of him more as an educator.

New comment by ambicapter in "Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security"

ambicapter — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:05:49 +0000

> Imagine somebody finding a flaw in a mathematical proof and everybody being sad because a beautiful proof got invalidated rather than being glad future work won't build on flawed assumptions.

Is this supposed to be hard to imagine? I can completely imagine this, especially if the mathematician is a celebrity in their field.

New comment by ambicapter in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

ambicapter — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:22:34 +0000

What's your definition of "successful people"?

New comment by ambicapter in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

ambicapter — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:21:26 +0000

> Sitting in on a talk on autism diagnoses, one of a series of scientific talks, watching an animation they used as a diagnostic aid, hearing everybody around me laugh as if the shapes on the screen made sense, only then truly understanding myself, and feeling more alone than I have ever felt before or since.

Anybody have any idea what diagnostic shapes he's talking about?

New comment by ambicapter in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

ambicapter — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:12:47 +0000

The AI boom started a war with Iran and dismantled American public institutions?

New comment by ambicapter in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

ambicapter — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:35:53 +0000

So, you don't think any government program at all will work in this case?

New comment by ambicapter in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

ambicapter — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:39:03 +0000

The stock market is over 60% passive investment, it's starting to get unmoored from the financial realities of the underlying companies. What that means for the future is [shrug emoji].

New comment by ambicapter in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

ambicapter — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:34:15 +0000

Sure, anything can mean whatever you want if you redefine anything to suit your whims at the time.

New comment by ambicapter in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

ambicapter — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:32:53 +0000

I think this is pretty much what Mark Carney said at his speech in Davos.

New comment by ambicapter in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

ambicapter — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:29:13 +0000

How do LLMs help with the mechanics of switching infrastructure stacks? Does writing code faster make infrastructure swap easier?

New comment by ambicapter in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

ambicapter — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:13:25 +0000

This sounds like a "depression isn't real" and "if you're addicted, just stop" type of comment.

New comment by ambicapter in "Learning Software Architecture"

ambicapter — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:59:08 +0000

Sounds like you need better emotional regulation.

New comment by ambicapter in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

ambicapter — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:26:39 +0000

It is if more training data results in better performance. In which case, GP will continue to use the language that is likely to have the most training data available.

New comment by ambicapter in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

ambicapter — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:25:06 +0000

LLMs don't actually semantically parse the error messages. They will generate the most likely sequence resulting from the error message based on their training data, so you're back to the training data argument.

New comment by ambicapter in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

ambicapter — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:22:51 +0000

To play the devil's advocate, if the issues are systemic, the elders are the ones that have been cultivating that system their whole lives.