Yeah we’ve got a legal system for it, but it always has been and always will be silly.

I had a bit of an identity crisis with AI first landed and started producing good code. “If I’m not the man who can type quickly, accurately, and build working programs… WHO AM I?”

But as you pointed out, I quickly realized I was never that guy. I was the guy who made problems go away, usually with code.

Now I can make so many problems go away, it feels like cheating. As it turns out, writing code isn’t super useful. It’s the application of the code, the judgement of which problems to solve and how to solve them, that truly mattered.

And that sparks a LOT of joy.

But small doesn’t mean “no thought required”. It requires mental power to distill larger projects (or goals) into small steps.

My mistake, for a long time, was thinking that breaking it down into smaller steps was less brainpower.

Better clarity, but also more upfront mental energy to distill what the next physical action to be done was.

The Bible clearly articulates some form of generational “pass-through” for the sins of the father passing to the children.

While I do think it largely refers to a spiritual judgement, it’s hard to ignore the real-world examples of abuse that always seem to repeat themselves without a huge effort on the part of, someone, usually the child after they’ve grown up, to break the cycle.

Source: I’ve seen a lot of brokenness in our country’s foster system.

But I agree. I (foolishly) spent money on an Xbox last year only to find bugs that would make the Windows operating system weep. My kids have to ask me CONSTANTLY to update things, re-install game, or even just troubleshoot a damn controller not working.

Compare that to Steam, where I can just add them to my family and give them access to a huge number of split-screen compatible games across my entire catalog. It just doesn’t make financial sense to keep supporting Microsoft’s enshittification of everything.

The purpose and utility of this seem obvious to me, but I can already see the stream of typical HN responses coming in.

Godspeed.

Why should anyone involved retain any anonymity?

I’m asking in good faith because naively it seems like this should not even exist. All of it should be exposed.

EDIT: I did not think about the innocent folks that might be caught in the crossfire. That checks out. Thanks everyone!

I’m having a hard time seeing the crime against humanity here.

So until it manages to do that, I’ll keep being bullish on what works.

For some reason there’s a large swath of people who really don’t like people saying that.

That’s not really a thing anymore.

Just because you don’t agree with his views doesn’t make it “not a good look”.

In fact, the ability to think outside of his cultural bubble and go against the grain is something that makes him great.

I’ll get downvoted into oblivion for stating the obvious, but if you’re tired of running yourself ragged you should turn to Jesus.

His burden is easy and his yoke is light.

My rule of thumb with OpenAI is, if they don’t publish their benchmarks beside Anthropic’s numbers it’s because they’re still not caught up.

So far my rule of thumb has held true.