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New comment by baalimago in "Open source AI must win"

baalimago — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:47:45 +0000

> If intelligence becomes something people can only rent from a few closed institutions

Just your your natural born intelligence..? It's worked for the past 10k+ years, I'm sure it will work for some time longer

New comment by baalimago in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

baalimago — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:15:34 +0000

International customers might not be so keen on buying Anthropic, xAi or OpenAI products if they can be disrupted by the US government like this. The market within USA is surely not large enough to live up to the financial promises that keep this AI bubble growing.

Does the White House want the AI bubble to pop..? Incredibly dumb move.

New comment by baalimago in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

baalimago — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:39:50 +0000

That's the point: they would have. Now they spend money on tokens instead (and a equity to me who set up their environment)

New comment by baalimago in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

baalimago — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:29:51 +0000

It most certainly will replace software engineers. What's missing is, as the article suggests, the "Delivery" bit. But that's not the realm of software engineers, that's the realm of DevOps/SRE/Cloud engineers.

I work as a cloud engineer and have been contacted by multiple non-engineering friends who have now been able to create their pet projects from scratch in different languages and have it running locally, as webapps and native apps. So what they are missing is a platform to easily deploy and maintain their projects, much like a "normal" developer would. Right now it's quite tedious to set up this scaffolding, but it's absolutely possible with AGENTS.md, skills and rigid hollistic tests. Once done, non-technical people can continue developing independently without hiring any software engineers by simply telling claude/codex what they want. Claude/codex will then be able to make judgement calls based on the preset architecture, which will guide the non-technical user.

So in my anecdotal case, AI has already replaced several software engineers. Once scaffolding like this is productized, I suspect that greenfield projects can be managed entirely from a product standpoint using agentic coders + platform engineering. And that is today. Imagine in 5 years.

New comment by baalimago in "πFS"

baalimago — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:44:05 +0000

This got me thinking about the "simulation theory":

If our universe is simulated, it must be possible to snapshot the entire state for one iteration (however time now is quantized, open question). "... From here, it is a small leap to see that if π contains all possible files, why are we wasting exabytes of space storing those files, when we could just look them up in π!" (from pifs, above)

This means that not only does a singular snapshot of our universe exists in pi, but every single one does

The information for our entire universe's simulation is stored in pi (and every other number like it)

New comment by baalimago in "Claude Fable 5"

baalimago — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:00:11 +0000

I can't justify a pricetag like that when deepseek v4 pro is $0.003625/1M for cache hit, $0.435 for cache miss and $0.87 /1M tokens for output.

For the token cost of explaining some task to Fable, deepseek v4 pro is able to solve the same task many times over.

New comment by baalimago in "Zig by Example"

baalimago — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:27:29 +0000

I'm missing the concurrency model.

New comment by baalimago in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

baalimago — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:48:17 +0000

I don't understand why Google does this. If I can run this locally, why would I need a subscription or use any inference provider, including Google..?

Scorched earth tactics to make anthropic and openai IPO fail?

Show HN: Wd-41, hot-reload webserver for static sites

baalimago — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:44:35 +0000

Since everything needs an AI slogan now a days: with this you can just keep your browser open as it's being worked on agentically and see your website be built in front of your eyes!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394490

Points: 2

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New comment by baalimago in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

baalimago — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:30:21 +0000

Perhaps best to simply declare indefinite-mortem

New comment by baalimago in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

baalimago — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:25:48 +0000

Great, so now chefs are being replaced too..!

New comment by baalimago in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

baalimago — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:12:25 +0000

Hey at least Copilot AI Model Providers have 100% uptime, so there's that

New comment by baalimago in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

baalimago — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:02:42 +0000

One day I wish to be in a stable enough place that it's possible for me to pursue activities like these. It's a true privilege

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

baalimago — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:37:54 +0000

Good! Now please remove dependency of alphabet + apple for bank apps, and we're golden.

New comment by baalimago in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

baalimago — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:45:18 +0000

What happened to gemini 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4..?

New comment by baalimago in "Grok Build"

baalimago — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:43:37 +0000

Do we really need another one of these..?

New comment by baalimago in "Googlebook"

baalimago — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:16:38 +0000

Oh boy will this be dated in 2 years

Clone Yourself into Agents

baalimago — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:24:26 +0000

Article URL: https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=soulify-the-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091307

Points: 1

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New comment by baalimago in "Just Use Go"

baalimago — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:06:26 +0000

Lack of extensive standard library, for one. But yeah Java is pretty great. Spring boot/quarkus especially

New comment by baalimago in "Just Use Go"

baalimago — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:56:52 +0000

I read this, as my computer crashed while compiling a 1000 dependency CRUD rust app, for the fourth time today. Then I take a deep breath.