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New comment by bicx in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)"

bicx — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:32:10 +0000

You don’t have to exercise at all though. The far greater majority are people who don’t like exercise at all, and won’t do anything. To have a person do at least some exercise of any form is a big win for their health anytime it happens. That’s what we don’t want to discourage.

New comment by bicx in "Who manages the agents?"

bicx — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:22:31 +0000

You definitely seem to have a much lower exposure level to flagship AI models. I manage fleets of AI agents (and manage engineers who manage fleets of AI agents) all day for my job, and I’m rarely touching code anymore. It’s not perfect, but it is insanely powerful.

I’m having to actively plan for changes to our EPD org because what we need engineers to do today is a lot different than a year ago.

New comment by bicx in "Why the Slate Truck Only Costs $25K"

bicx — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:32:45 +0000

I also wonder if it will develop a negative stigma as a cheap beater truck used in company fleets and such.

New comment by bicx in "Sakana Fugu"

bicx — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:28:31 +0000

Redesigned and rearchitected our company's backend and mobile apps in about 2 months with 1 engineer and 1 PM trained to work with Claude. We used a custom-built multi-agent harness to crank through lots of parallel tasks, which necessitated the API usage.

New comment by bicx in "Sakana Fugu"

bicx — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:06:03 +0000

I wish I only paid $200/mo for Anthropic! Multiply that by 20x.

New comment by bicx in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

bicx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:27:34 +0000

As a Claude Code user, you almost certainly will. Even using the same OpenAI model with an agent like Codex will likely perform better. An agent can test and iterate on its own solution until it meets the defined success metrics. If you’re working within an existing code base, having preexisting code to demonstrate similar implementations also significantly improves the quality of results, and that’s something an agent can dig into as part of its solution process. I haven’t used ChatGPT in a while, so maybe it’s more sophisticated than it used to be, but I think you’ll see much better results with the latest agent tools.

New comment by bicx in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

bicx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:02:42 +0000

Which LLM though? Models can still be significantly different in their capabilities.

New comment by bicx in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

bicx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:37:31 +0000

People here seem a little confused. This is a simulator in the same way Goat Simulator is a simulator. It’s from a collection called “screen toys” and it’s meant to be mindless fun.

New comment by bicx in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

bicx — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:14:15 +0000

The story of literally 95% of tech startups

New comment by bicx in "Loss of Prefrontal Cortical Higher Cognition with Uncontrollable Stress (2019)"

bicx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:26:19 +0000

The captchas are causing me uncontrollable stress

New comment by bicx in "MAI-Thinking-1"

bicx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:53:58 +0000

So, laundered data?

New comment by bicx in "Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine"

bicx — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:04:01 +0000

Well, the author specifically mentions the puzzle of how it produces nicotine. Nicotine was first identified and isolated as a chemical in 1828, based on a quick google. So, no one was wondering about nicotine production before then because they didn’t know what it was.

New comment by bicx in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

bicx — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:37:08 +0000

I had been considering getting a Bambu printer precisely for this reason. I had gotten into 3d printing in the reprap era, before selling it off due to lack of space. I don’t really want to get back into that constant calibration and test prints every time the ambient temp or humidity changes a few percentage points. Not to mention the painstaking initial setup. I just want to design and print, not become a 3d printer technician again.

New comment by bicx in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

bicx — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:19:50 +0000

Greg Egan is a legend

New comment by bicx in "Can we code our way out of gentrification?"

bicx — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:51:44 +0000

Plans like this would be interesting to me if I believed it were possible to get all the necessary parties to agree.

New comment by bicx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

bicx — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:23:28 +0000

This is really cool and addictive!

New comment by bicx in "Teaching Claude Why"

bicx — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:42:30 +0000

Side note: Anthropic has done well at achieving an immediately-recognizable art style.

New comment by bicx in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

bicx — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:49:29 +0000

I think if Walter White were the type to need ChatGPT to figure out meth production, he would have just spent the whole series in that RV, getting nowhere, and accidentally blowing himself up.

New comment by bicx in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

bicx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:04:15 +0000

Sorry, this is not a good argument. It's sad that some skills are devalued when so many have invested years into them, but it is a net win when more people can create something without having to become an expert. Experts don't deserve to have a moat built around them. I say this as a software engineer with 16yoe who is dealing with the same challenges.

New comment by bicx in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

bicx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:35:35 +0000

They already have corporate sponsorships from Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other big companies. Anthropic is just joining the list. This is actually good for Blender.