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New comment by avinoth in "Genie 4"

avinoth — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:35:40 +0000

Probably too much of the training data that has Magic wands were from a video game.

New comment by avinoth in "Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model"

avinoth — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:29:24 +0000

Because humans have basic needs like food, shelter and they can be put it jail. And they have loyalty, patriotism, feel part of the society. Those threats & incentives have made it for a good society to function so far.

New comment by avinoth in "Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model"

avinoth — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:26:32 +0000

I think that line is getting blurrier by the day with the current administration. The companies very quickly fell in line before even any consequence of note. Donations to the ballroom, calling it super intelligence, renaming the gulf, etc.

Would you really trust that OpenAI wouldn't skew the results to tend to a certain way or that Grok will always be neutral in how it operates?

From a third world, there was a time when US products & companies were more trustworthy, I agree. But, there has been enough display from these Cos to show that they have lost that badge.

New comment by avinoth in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

avinoth — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:55:48 +0000

But in Twitter or Facebook, the complexity is not in the app but with the scale. How do you support the network, graph, querying, fetching, etc. That is not the case for a self-contained binary like Claude code CLI that talks to the same API irrespective of 100 people are using or 1M people are using around the world.

New comment by avinoth in "Tesla Roadster"

avinoth — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:35:53 +0000

I don't think it does either, but it's surely overvalued and have to sustain it's ridiculously high forward P/E. Hence the semi-regular news about FSD, TeslaCab, Optimus Bots, and now Flying cars. Seems it's working. It's always priced in with the "potential future".

New comment by avinoth in "Tesla Roadster"

avinoth — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:42:49 +0000

Yeah, true. It’s sad to see the Market forces being nothing more than a whimper on these massive untenable mergers.

New comment by avinoth in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

avinoth — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:58:39 +0000

Exactly. What they’re doing, repeatedly, is setting a narrative that this is how software engineering should be. Always be reliant on tokens. Don’t worry about uptime or errors - agents can address it, don’t worry about security - agents can address it, don’t worry about code comprehension - agents will always be there for you.

New comment by avinoth in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

avinoth — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:49:56 +0000

This is like one of Google’s infrastructure blog. Google scale things are only relevant and appropriate for them. We had lots of bitter lessons from smaller engineering teams following the process with the justification that “this is how Google does it”.

Similarly, Anthropic can afford to do this because they have virtually unlimited tokens and labs to train models for their specific usecase. The rest of us need code comprehension lest we become dependent on continuous supply of tokens (which is a state these labs badly want to achieve)

So, unless you work at a lab, or have unlimited tokens guaranteed through the life of your company, it would do both the company and you good to continue to read the code and not let these 30k PRs per engineer be the norm.

An excerpt from the article makes my point

> Nobody on the team keeps a complete mental model of Claude Code in their head, and we don't think anyone needs to. When someone wants to understand a part of the codebase, they ask Claude to write an explainer for exactly that slice. It takes minutes and reflects the code as it is today.

New comment by avinoth in "Tesla Roadster"

avinoth — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:24:21 +0000

Mark my words, these thrusters and flying car stunts will eventually be used as a justification to merge Tesla into SpaceX, the same way how they justified space datacenter to merge X.ai onto SpaceX.

There was optimus robots already on Tesla side and inference / r&d funded by x.ai (now spacex).

New comment by avinoth in "Gemini 4 Argon"

avinoth — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:29:24 +0000

One thing I've observed Gemini being the best is in the context of non-western stuff. Like, when I ask about obscure srilankan food, or chat about Indian/Tamil movies or songs, Religious customs & beliefs, Gemini almost always answers accurately and very close to how helpful they are in Anglosphere related topics. ChatGPT also does do a bit better recently, but Claude/Grok are absolute trash on those fronts.

Google's years of research project into Indic scripts, image trainings, translation efforts & transliteration efforts is literally paying off. The AI adoption from non-English, non-Chinese population will only if you have these contextual localisations, which I think Gemini is poised to do well.

For example, you can ask for a shopping list for a marriage function in a town from Tamil nadu (the marriage custom varies by districts), and Gemini provides contextual and helpful answer (like what is the custom followed there, what is gifted traditionally, etc), whereas if you ask Claude/ChatGPT, it talks about marriage registeries or pretty generalised answers which is not relevant or useful.

Show HN: Keepjson – Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers

avinoth — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/avinoth/keepjson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072956

Points: 1

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New comment by avinoth in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

avinoth — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:55:56 +0000

Is it only me or is the changing background disturbing for others as well? Maybe it's my ADD brain finding the hook, but it takes the focus away from the content whenever it shifted.

New comment by avinoth in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

avinoth — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:51:35 +0000

The quickest sign I have right now to find if the developer/team don't read their code is looking at their recently AI-generated test cases. Often, coding agents go too verbose in their tests and they are most often overlooked even during normal reviews. If there are verbose tests, like declaring a constant and asserting it's value, you know that the code isn't being read much.

New comment by avinoth in "State of Devs 2026"

avinoth — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:47:57 +0000

I moved the opposite direction. Few months back, I was absolutely sure that the days of me being a software engineer are numbered. The programming I used to love and fun was gone. But, as I got to work more with Agents, factory & the infrastructure surrounding it, I'm more optimistic about the kinds of problems we could tackle with this, that wasn't possible/cost-effective before. We've only barely scratched the surface with what AI could be leveraged in the real world.

New comment by avinoth in "Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)"

avinoth — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:55:02 +0000

I'd say if it's both doing it, it's a strong signal for the opposite.

New comment by avinoth in "The Tao of Backup"

avinoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:45:56 +0000

Is it possible to do that through Veracity? I don't want to use a non-Veracity based solution when Veracity already supports it.

New comment by avinoth in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

avinoth — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:38:34 +0000

Comic aside, I can’t help but wonder how come these one-off websites are all using .ai domain when at the latest check they cost $80 per year with minimum 2 year commitment. So $160 for a comic that is at best few news cycles away from redundant, and at best a recurring comic series about AI..? Why not just use a cheap tld like .fyi or .art, or something.

Here I am trying to find appropriate AI prefix or suffix so that I can continue using .com , while these pet projects are all flaunting .ai domains

New comment by avinoth in "Muse Gadgets"

avinoth — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:49:55 +0000

I said it before, and I'll say it again. The winners of the AI race are going to be the ones who control the products to deliver the AI features to the end users. The obvious ones are Google with its myriad of consumer tech, then we have Apple, Meta, Microsoft, etc. That's why OpenAI, Anthropic are desperate to build the applications themselves than being just an API provider. Meta is better off focusing on such initiatives than trying to complete with the labs on the model strength. They seem to have realised that finally, so that's refreshing. Whether the solutions they bring are useful or not is a different question, but this is definitely how you reach the end users, not with the strongest models.

New comment by avinoth in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

avinoth — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:17:32 +0000

This is in line with what I was discussing with my friends recently. Governments across the world weaponised their border protection for all their invasive data collection citing terrorism and other threats. This more or less started post 9/11, and used that as the reason. Now, the AI agents and their hacking is exactly going to be used as an excuse to introduce the real ID verification they've been trying to implement for a while now

I recently wrote a short blog post about exactly this worry. Link if anyone's interested https://www.vinoth.net/internet-for-humans/

The most praised thing I ever built was a dropdown

avinoth — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:05:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vinoth.net/littlethings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921119

Points: 1

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