Hacker News: bendbro

New comment by bendbro in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

bendbro — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:42:58 +0000

I take it you've never met another human before

New comment by bendbro in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

bendbro — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:50:14 +0000

tl;dr The best ~AI's~ LLM's slop asymptote is 10 hours.

Restated, if you let the best LLM chomp on a task for 10 hours, the output becomes slop.

* These tasks are of the type that you spend 1% of your SWE career working on.

* Each task is primed with an essay length prompt.

* You must play needle in the haystack for bugs in 10 hours worth of AI generated slop.

My experience trying AI coding at work and my observations of AI evangelists makes me believe AI coding is exclusively the purview of people who willing to handhold an AI at half pace to achieve the same result while working on software which amounts to greenfield/toy problems.

The danger of LLMs to thought work is enormously overstated and intentionally overhyped. AI : StackOverflow :: StackOverflow : graybeard in basement

It would be cool if AI kills all thought work, but what will actually happen is a undersupply of SWEs and a second golden age of SWE salaries in like 15y.

https://github.com/METR/public-tasks/tree/main

New comment by bendbro in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

bendbro — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:25:42 +0000

If you're buying an appliance, why have it manufactured by Ferrari? Modern cars, especially electric ones, are not exciting in any way as cars. Only agenda motivated e car foamers pretend otherwise. Electric cars are exclusively exciting as commodity transportation.

New comment by bendbro in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

bendbro — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:18:04 +0000

Even if their negative impact is a fantasy, they provide no benefit. There is no reason we shouldn't ban them.

New comment by bendbro in "Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership"

bendbro — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:27:10 +0000

H1Bs risk deportation when they are fired. It is inconceivable for this to not impact their performance and behavior. Combine that with Amazon's Jack Welch style stack rank and firing of the bottom and it becomes even worse

New comment by bendbro in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

bendbro — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:58:59 +0000

I don't want to compete with pollution, child labor, slaves, extreme hours, and poverty-tier living conditions

New comment by bendbro in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

bendbro — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:57:13 +0000

> These are the sort of things the poor and middle class voted for. To make the rich, richer.

Experts show saving 7.1337% at Walmart is worth losing your job to offshoring!

I haven't seen meaningful change for poor or workers with a decade of Democrat policy, so pardon me while I ignore that and vote for some tariffs.

New comment by bendbro in "Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna"

bendbro — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:11:19 +0000

Ah that makes quite a lot of sense and I'd definitely find myself with that bad habit if I tried flying. In a sim my purpose is to have fun flying the plane by the seat of my pants but flying in reality would have me anxious to avoid breaking any rules.

New comment by bendbro in "Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna"

bendbro — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:41:36 +0000

Flight sim experience causes "over-fixation on instruments"? I'm surprised, I would have expected the opposite.

New comment by bendbro in "Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf]"

bendbro — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:28:39 +0000

Tabula Rasa bros... our response?

New comment by bendbro in "Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now"

bendbro — Mon, 05 May 2025 01:12:18 +0000

> There was also something really peaceful about coding at 5a on Sunday while everyone else was fast asleep

Great times

New comment by bendbro in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

bendbro — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:56:35 +0000

Yes, occam's razor would suggest the government randomly decided exactly now was the time to start working in our best interests, and also those interests are super secret and have absolutely nothing to do with recent geopolitical happenings nor anything to do with the stated beliefs of the politicians driving the government.

New comment by bendbro in "Fraud, so much fraud"

bendbro — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:31:32 +0000

Aw shucks, better luck next time. I bet each of you hackers possess exactly the humanist, ethics focused, inclusive, science based, data driven solution "we" need to fix this problem. If only it wasn't for those bad people who made this bad system turning all the good people into bad people!

New comment by bendbro in "FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't"

bendbro — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:21:59 +0000

So each factory is purpose built to its ingredients OR you pray you don't get thrown in jail because a crumb of sesame was missed in the deep clean and some dysgenic child had an asthma attack?

What's weird is you pretending your model of the world is tied to reality when all it is tied to is ideology. Make bullying legal again.

New comment by bendbro in "FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't"

bendbro — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:16:21 +0000

Great point. We should remove all the ramps too, to ensure we remain ideologically pure while having cheap, possibly allergenic bread.

New comment by bendbro in "British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces"

bendbro — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:52:52 +0000

Interesting argument!

New comment by bendbro in "British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces"

bendbro — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:48:19 +0000

> It doesn't seem unreasonable to receive more punishment when you have more control over your negative behavior

I think it should be the opposite. Because I am superior, I should receive less punishment. Inferior people should receive more punishment so they are incentivized to become superior or disappear.

New comment by bendbro in "How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?"

bendbro — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:44:05 +0000

Your perspective is the product of a rebellious worldview two decades out of date. Your enemies are long dead and your ideas long purposeless. We've contorted ourselves legislating freedom to people who squander it. No group or force limits the common man anymore save himself and the state.

People have shorter lives, less children, lower IQ, lower income, less friends, less wealth, less homes, and less happiness. Your system is broken and your answer is more of the same.

New comment by bendbro in "How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?"

bendbro — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:06:04 +0000

No yes.

New comment by bendbro in "How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?"

bendbro — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:03:12 +0000

> While Generative AI can give everyone the confidence and the joy to create wonderful images, there is a big lesson in this story for all marketing teams: these tools must be used responsibly," she said

This is the most disgusting thing I've read all week.