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New comment by argee in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

argee — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:43:48 +0000

With LLMs (and colleagues) it might be a legitimate problem since they would load that eval into context and maybe decide it’s an acceptable paradigm in your codebase.

New comment by argee in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

argee — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:59:17 +0000

At least two of YC's early (mid-aughts) "huge" successes come down to PG unilaterally (or with some help from JL) making some kind of "weird" call. AirBnB and Reddit come to mind. Even Stripe can be traced to him since he basically created the Auctomatic team (Patrick Collison's previous YC entry).

In other words, PG had the "knack" for sometimes encouraging the right weird thing. I'm not sure it's been the same since he handed off the reins, like any other formerly-founder-led company. Nowadays it really gives off the vibe of bean-counting and hype-chasing.

I don't think it's gotten quite as bad as this [0] article suggests, though.

[0] https://stanfordreview.org/is-yc-for-cowards/

New comment by argee in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

argee — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:29:33 +0000

Unintelligent people can also be right, or lucky, etc, and someone judging on those criteria can end up getting swept up in making some very bad decisions based on dubious advice.

New comment by argee in "SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code"

argee — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:43:40 +0000

This likely takes 500mb+ RAM, TFA probably didn't account for tauri://localhost in their calculation, which by itself takes 200mb+ RAM. Then your app process will take 100mb+ RAM, and there will be a couple of other processes besides.

Tauri is no better than electron in terms of RAM, just like people calling it "lightweight" are no better than flat earthers. Let's hope they come around.

New comment by argee in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

argee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:01:17 +0000

This wasn't even just greenfield work, it included the exact type of work where AI arguably excels: extracting working code from an extant codebase (SQLite) as a reusable library. (It also included the type of work AI is really bad at: designing APIs sensibly.)

New comment by argee in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

argee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:23:58 +0000

Going 100x faster is the problem. As they say, “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,” when going for product market fit this is very important (and understated, in my opinion). It doesn’t help that your thread is spinning out at a hundred yards a second when what you’re doing is trying to thread the needle.

New comment by argee in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

argee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:42:07 +0000

This is what Semiont is trying to do, to some extent [0].

Doesn't really feel that useful in practice.

[0] https://github.com/The-AI-Alliance/semiont

New comment by argee in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

argee — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:03 +0000

Neither. "Leaving YC" or "being removed from Y combinator" really just means you (more precisely, your YC/HN account) loses access to internal resources like bookface. This does have the knock on effect of essentially isolating you from the community. It's not entirely a punishment, it can be as simple as you are a person who isn't working on a YC company anymore, for example.

This has zero bearing on equity, which would be a different conversation. In this case, I think the YC SAFE is likely to remain as-is, unless the founders choose to return the money, or YC chooses to levy a heavier allegation of fraud (which they don't seem to have done here).

New comment by argee in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

argee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:53:15 +0000

If you open any of my middle school notebooks you'll find around 5-10x more doodles than notes, by surface area.

New comment by argee in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

argee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:40:36 +0000

Mike Tyson once said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth". I think you are underestimating the underhanded tactics and emotional tools available to scammers to keep you on the line.

New comment by argee in "The AI Marketing BS Index"

argee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:43:54 +0000

I thought the author was talking about market positioning [0] E.g. Apple calling Vision Pro a spatial computing headset rather than VR. That didn't quite mesh with the hedging/motte-and-bailey reference. So I suppose they are really trying to say that you overpromise and underdeliver, using weasel wording to cover the difference? I'm not sure I would call even that a motte-and-bailey, but at least it makes more sense than my original interpretation.

[0] https://www.aprildunford.com/post/a-product-positioning-exer...

New comment by argee in "The AI Marketing BS Index"

argee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:07:36 +0000

The author has gone so far as to link to Motte-and-Bailey fallacy (doctrine?) [0], but after reading it I see no relation to "It's not X, it's Y"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

New comment by argee in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

argee — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:21:18 +0000

"Are you not entertained?"

New comment by argee in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

argee — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:25:01 +0000

That’s what they do. Ever heard of a hand truck?

New comment by argee in "Semiont: Build a Knowledge Base Collaboratively with AI"

argee — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:39:35 +0000

Just found this project and checked it out. Had a bit of trouble getting started, but seemed interesting once I had it working — I could annotate entities and analyses. Doesn't seem like you can currently generate articles or edit them once created, though, and one of the submodules of semiont-workflows appears to be private, which is likely an error.

Leans rather heavily on LLMs.

Semiont: Build a Knowledge Base Collaboratively with AI

argee — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://the-ai-alliance.github.io/semiont/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553649

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by argee in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

argee — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:25:56 +0000

> Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?

Apparently Lotus Notes did something like that, but I wasn’t around then so I can’t speak to the veracity of that claim.

New comment by argee in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

argee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:40:30 +0000

Jeff Bezos famously said “your margin is my opportunity,” I feel like Steve Jobs could’ve just as easily said “your slop is my opportunity.” (And he sort of did with “insanely great”)

New comment by argee in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

argee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:57:52 +0000

Could you elaborate on what makes Clickup "trash software", is it something specific to Clickup or your opinion around this entire "class" of all-in-one workspace?

New comment by argee in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

argee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:53:03 +0000

I want to know why this [0] needed to be co-authored by Claude. Especially because it seems like the kind of change you'd explicitly want to make without Claude's "help" (presuming that's how that got in there).

[0] https://github.com/smgdkngt/dobase/commit/597684fc67b67f5a2a...