Hacker News: avbanks

New comment by avbanks in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

avbanks — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:55:12 +0000

I agree, this is clearly an indictment against LLMs. If LLMs and agents were capable they'd 100% write it natively but they realize the current limitations.

New comment by avbanks in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

avbanks — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:52:57 +0000

No it's because LLMs aren't that good yet.

New comment by avbanks in "Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant"

avbanks — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:30:34 +0000

I second this, OP I do truly emphasize with your situation (I graduated right before the 2008 crash and had to join the Army). You should look into creating a startup or make significant contributions on a major open source project. Don't think that just because you're fresh out of school VC's won't be willing to fund you. If you're dead set on being a cog on a wheel feel free to send me your resume and I can give you some feedback.

New comment by avbanks in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

avbanks — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:32:23 +0000

I've been trying to articulate this exact point. The problem w/ LLM's is that at times they are very capable but always unreliable.

New comment by avbanks in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

avbanks — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:24:14 +0000

I'm starting to realize that this is most likely what will happen. They'll be available in select major cities, for certain areas, under certain weather conditions.

New comment by avbanks in "Driverless Waymo vehicle goes through tense police stop in L.A"

avbanks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:58:47 +0000

The drivers who can't handle the edge cases face the justice system. If You or I did that we'd face repercussions.

New comment by avbanks in "Driverless Waymo vehicle goes through tense police stop in L.A"

avbanks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:29:13 +0000

How exactly will driverless cars work, the edge cases are infinite. They would have to be limited to certain routes, conditions, and cities.

Driverless Waymo vehicle goes through tense police stop in L.A

avbanks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:26:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driverless-waymo-vehicle-inadvertently-takes-riders-tense-police-stop-rcna246994

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164370

Points: 2

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New comment by avbanks in "Clojure Zippers (2021)"

avbanks — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:56:27 +0000

This tutorial was extremely helpful, I was having a hard time grokking the power of zippers.

New comment by avbanks in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

avbanks — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:02:32 +0000

I don't think people fully realize how good the open source models are and how easy it is to switch.

New comment by avbanks in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

avbanks — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:38:21 +0000

I've noticed this with TikTok and I'm almost certain YouTube 1P metrics are wildly inaccurate in particular views and non-bot comments.

New comment by avbanks in "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change"

avbanks — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:31:10 +0000

A lot of big tech companies are being very opportunistic and reducing hiring/laying-off under the guise of A.I. but really it's weak economy.

New comment by avbanks in "Visitors travelling to Europe will face new digital checks"

avbanks — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:24:25 +0000

Its incredible to see that was once possible.

New comment by avbanks in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end"

avbanks — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:09:27 +0000

Congrats! A great achievement.

New comment by avbanks in "Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs"

avbanks — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:54:24 +0000

That makes a massive difference, if true.

New comment by avbanks in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

avbanks — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:09:05 +0000

This is such an overlooked aspect of coding agents, the code review process is significantly harder now because bug/vulnerabilities are being hidden under plausible looking code.

New comment by avbanks in "Adults Are Going to Sleep-Away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Work"

avbanks — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:09:04 +0000

This is why music festivals are so popular.

New comment by avbanks in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

avbanks — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:00:47 +0000

He's been well ahead of the curve on this, he's been saying for years that scaling/synth data won't work.

New comment by avbanks in "AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser"

avbanks — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:32:58 +0000

This is exactly how I've been seeing it. If you're deeply knowledgable in a particular domain like lets say compiler optimization I'm unsure if LLM's will increase your capabilities (your ceiling), however, if you're working in a new domain LLMs are pretty good at helping you get oriented and thus raising the floor.

New comment by avbanks in "Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it"

avbanks — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:29:23 +0000

This imo is the biggest issue, LLMs can at times be very capable but they always are unreliable.