Hacker News: bauerd

New comment by bauerd in "Claude Opus 5"

bauerd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:46:30 +0000

Because these productivity increases will be to the detriment of the average person. We won’t get to reap the benefits.

New comment by bauerd in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

bauerd — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:03:12 +0000

You don’t think there are causes worth fighting for? Or that deterrence is immoral? Help me understand.

New comment by bauerd in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

bauerd — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:55:09 +0000

>I don’t know how I could work in any of these military industry companies.

You'd sing a different song quite quickly once the threat stops being abstract as you don't get to free-ride on the security a defense industry provides.

New comment by bauerd in "The dead economy theory"

bauerd — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:07:09 +0000

It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.

New comment by bauerd in "The dead economy theory"

bauerd — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:55:31 +0000

>What on earth do you do with that many devs on a project like Messenger? I mean, really?

What makes you think it's a simple system to develop at scale?

New comment by bauerd in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

bauerd — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:43:45 +0000

>Having said that, some components need to live outside the sandbox (otherwise, who creates the sandbox?).

I run a single-node k3d cluster on each of my MacBooks which uses Agent Sandbox[0] to keep harnesses isolated. Harnesses access models through LiteLLM only. I have aliases for `kubectl exec`ing into whatever harness I need.

[0] https://agent-sandbox.sigs.k8s.io

New comment by bauerd in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

bauerd — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:58:29 +0000

Fully agree, I only pay the minimum for frontier models to get DeepSeek v4 output reviewed. I don't see this changing either because we have reached a level of good enough at this point.

New comment by bauerd in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

bauerd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:43:32 +0000

They can't afford to care about individual customers because enterprise demand exploded and they're short on compute

New comment by bauerd in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

bauerd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:46:40 +0000

>On March 4, we changed Claude Code's default reasoning effort from high to medium to reduce the very long latency—enough to make the UI appear frozen—some users were seeing in high mode

Instead of fixing the UI they lowered the default reasoning effort parameter from high to medium? And they "traced this back" because they "take reports about degradation very seriously"? Extremely hard to give them the benefit of doubt here.

New comment by bauerd in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

bauerd — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:32:32 +0000

Health insurance and opportunity cost

New comment by bauerd in "Claude Design"

bauerd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:22:41 +0000

It would be interesting if they’re dogfooding it by building these research projects on those building blocks

New comment by bauerd in "Claude Design"

bauerd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:31:21 +0000

They are building infrastructure components that they will soon wire together with an orchestration layer. Managed agents, scheduled tasks, workflow webhook automation.

New comment by bauerd in "Claude Design"

bauerd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:15:36 +0000

This is a really verbose way to say that using generative AI has a detrimental effect on the user because one deprives themselves of the learning experience.

New comment by bauerd in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

bauerd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:14:19 +0000

No because the technology will be used against you.

New comment by bauerd in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

bauerd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:36:39 +0000

The argument isn't that LLMs are bad because they can hallucinate. Author (clearly) argues that LLM use has negative cognitive effects on their users and on society as a whole. Plus, the technology would wipe out a large, large number of jobs.

New comment by bauerd in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

bauerd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:37:25 +0000

>They still have a long way to go before they can master a domain from first principles, which constrains the mastery possible.

Mastery isn't necessary. Why are Waymos lacking drivers? Not because self-driving cars have mastered driving, but because self-driving works sufficiently well that the economics don't play out for the cab driver.

New comment by bauerd in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

bauerd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:19:48 +0000

Not sure what you're insinuating. What do you think is the statistically average job on this planet? It's still going to be cultivating a smallholder farm in developing countries, or working in logistics, manufacturing or the broader service in developed countries.

All of these average jobs are structurally repetitive. Yes, humans do constantly inject creativity, but it's a means to an end, to getting the job done.

You apparently mistook my descriptive comment for a value judgment, but it isn't.

New comment by bauerd in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

bauerd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:12:06 +0000

The vast majority of people on this planet work repetitive, uncreative jobs.

New comment by bauerd in "World Happiness Report 2026"

bauerd — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:33:06 +0000

>a lack of imagination on what could be better

I'd argue it's likelier that people are more informed about their absolute position globally. Any screen gets you the mental image of the top of the ladder. So happy people would end up scoring themselves low, because there's a globalized vision of wealth nowadays.

Besides there's a difference in life self-evaluation and experienced happiness, so the report really is a misnomer.

New comment by bauerd in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

bauerd — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:09:41 +0000

>Testing workloads that take hours to run still take hours to run with either a human or LLM testing them out (aka that is still the bottleneck)

Absolutely. Tight feedback loops are essential to coding agents and you can’t run pipelines locally.