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New comment by beernet in "Unsloth Studio"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:00:40 +0000

Agreed, feels like a vibe-coded frontend based on already given backend features.

Also, never saw any Unsloth related software in production to this day. Feels strongly like a non-essential tool for hobby LLM wizards.

New comment by beernet in "OpenAI to Cut Back on Side Projects in Push to 'Nail' Core Business"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:55:59 +0000

Well, who would have possibly thought that going from 'AI for the benefit of humanity' to becoming a software vendor for the Department of War is the ultimate rug-pull?

Meanwhile, the actual enterprise market, i.e., the adults in the room, already left for Anthropic. Why? Because Anthropic doesn't treat their core model like a weekend side-quest while they're busy chasing hardware fantasies and search engine clones.

OpenAI’s moat is evaporating in real-time, and it’s well-deserved. You can’t build a 'padded room' for the military and expect the tech world to keep buying the safety-first copium. They fumbled the trust, and now they’re fumbling the market.

New comment by beernet in "Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:50:43 +0000

The paper's critique of the 'data wall' and language-centrism is spot on. We’ve been treating AI training like an assembly line where the machine is passive, and then we wonder why it fails in non-stationary environments. It’s the ultimate 'padded room' architecture: the model is isolated from reality and relies on human-curated data to even function.

The proposed System M (Meta-control) is a nice theoretical fix, but the implementation is where the wheels usually come off. Integrating observation (A) and action (B) sounds great until the agent starts hallucinating its own feedback loops. Unless we can move away from this 'outsourced learning' where humans have to fix every domain mismatch, we're just building increasingly expensive parrots. I’m skeptical if 'bilevel optimization' is enough to bridge that gap or if we’re just adding another layer of complexity to a fundamentally limited transformer architecture.

New comment by beernet in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:53:50 +0000

Just to elaborate, as I am getting downvoted by tech bros:

OpenAI restructures after Anthropic captures 70% of new enterprise deals. Claude Code hits $2.5B while Codex lags at $1B ahead of dual IPOs.

Src: https://www.implicator.ai/openai-cuts-its-side-quests-the-en...

New comment by beernet in "Show HN: I made PDF tools that work with no internet – full offline PWA"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:41:18 +0000

Pdf24 has been supporting offline usage since forever and works like a charm. What you state in your post in simply wrong and misleading. I guess the "vibe" got too heated...

New comment by beernet in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:29:48 +0000

Crazy how OAI is way behind now and the only one to blame is Sam, his ego and lust for influence. Their downwards trajectory of paying accounts since "the move" (DoW deal) is an open secret. If you had placed a new CEO at OAI six months ago and told him to destroy the company, it would have been hard for that CEO to do a better job at that than Sam did. Should have left when he was let go but decided to go full Greg and MAGA instead. Here we are. Go Dario

New comment by beernet in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

beernet — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:37:19 +0000

I was never talking about a knitting machine in the first place. Rather, I was referring to the old lady sitting on her sofa, knitting a sock she could also buy for a dollar, but decides to do it herself for the love of the game and nostalgia: a hobby.

The "art" of programming is going exactly that route, maybe with a little fewer ladies and more men.

New comment by beernet in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

beernet — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:11:33 +0000

> In fact, knitting machines have quite a lot of manual input that goes into the final product, including careful programming.

Equally true for today's AI coding agents

New comment by beernet in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

beernet — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:35:13 +0000

Coding is not dead. No one stops you guys and nobody intends to.

I like the knittling analogy that was made by the OpenClaw inventor recently. Programming will continue to exist as a hobby, not as a profession.

New comment by beernet in "Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering"

beernet — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:32:19 +0000

Agreed. The idea is nice and honorable. At the same time, if AI has been proving one thing, it's that quality usually reigns over control and trust (except for some sensitive sectors and applications). Of course it's less capital-intense, so makes sense for a comparably little EU startup to focus on that niche. Likely won't spin the top line needle much, though, for the reasons stated.

New comment by beernet in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

beernet — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:06:37 +0000

Literate programming sounds great in a blog post, but it falls apart the moment an agent starts hallucinating between the prose and the actual implementation. We’re already struggling with docstrings getting out of sync; adding a layer of philosophical "intent" just gives the agent more room to confidently output garbage. If you need a wall of text to make an agent understand your repo, your abstractions are probably just bad. It feels like we're trying to fix a lack of structural clarity with more tokens.

New comment by beernet in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

beernet — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:57:05 +0000

This feels like a desperate attempt to stay relevant in a post-LLM world. They’re basically wrapping an LLM in a "professional" skin and calling it an expert review. The problem is that once you start letting an AI "expert" dictate tone and logic, you effectively lobotomize the writer’s original intent. We’re reaching a point where AI is just reviewing other AI-generated text, creating a feedback loop of pure mediocrity. Copium for middle management, if you ask me.

New comment by beernet in "GPT-5.4"

beernet — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:44:55 +0000

Sam really fumbled the top position in a matter of months, and spectacularly so. Wow. It appears that people are much more excited by Anthropic and Google releases, and there are good reasons for that which were absolutely avoidable.

New comment by beernet in "Don't become an engineering manager"

beernet — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:21:41 +0000

> I have people under me who [...]

Instant red flag. You're a manager. You are managing. There is no one "under you".

New comment by beernet in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

beernet — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:39:37 +0000

> When they cost more to serve than they bring in, customer switching cost is vanishingly low, your competitor has revenue from other things and you don't.

What? "Other things"? This is really vague. Who says competitors have lower CAC? It's rather likely competitors pay more for a new customer, due to, very simply, brand.

New comment by beernet in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

beernet — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:58:36 +0000

Sam in very particular here. This guy will say whatever for status and "power".

New comment by beernet in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

beernet — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:52:08 +0000

How are ~1B active users not "moat"? Might have to pull out the "Haters gonna hate" like it's 2007

New comment by beernet in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

beernet — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:46:13 +0000

> At this stage in the game I don’t really understand where this skepticism of the value these tools provides comes from.

Fear

New comment by beernet in "Layoffs at Block"

beernet — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:30:43 +0000

> They'll overlook the fact that the work AI tools provide only encompasses 10% of your job even if they're 100% efficient.

Time will tell. As of today, there are strong indications this statement stands on weak knees. Copium is a term I recently heard in that context, and it fits.

New comment by beernet in "I’m joining OpenAI"

beernet — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:51:19 +0000

> Is there someone you think _could_ interview Putin responsibly?

No, and no one should, see next answer.

> Implicitly being the key word here and is certainly subjective. If the body of evidence you're presenting is "would interview Putin" and "spoke Russian to Zelensky", I don't find that convincing.

"Would interview Putin" implies "is willing to provide a huge international platform for a terrorist and still-active mass murderer who is best known for his effective propaganda of peoples' minds". If you do not find that convincing, you are not alone at all. This has been the objective of Russia all along.