<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bsenftner</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bsenftner</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:27:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bsenftner" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsenftner in "Iroh 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is how I write. This is what happens when one gets 7 college degrees, people accuse you of writing with AI. I've even been accused of rehearsing AI for how I talk; no, that is how I talk.</p>
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<p>I will, thank you.</p>
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<p>A technical writing class is learning the alphabet, and does not really touch the nuance, the subtleties in certain topics that make them very difficult to communicate.<p>Any topic with unknown aspects (to the audience) or controversy require special handling because in that uncertainty people's personalities step in, and that is the seed of misunderstandings becoming institutionalized.<p>When an individual has gained group prestige from their "theory" being accepted, they then guard that prestige with omissions of information that counteract their position, and deferment of blame when proved incorrect. This is the ordinary human response, and will play out unless the participants have formal communications training that break this pedestrian cycle.<p>Communications is far more than just "communicating with another". Self communications is the gargantuan invisible elephant yet to be realized by larger society, and is the source of gullibility. Group communications has fractal complexities that play out depending on how many participants are trying to collaborate, and their relative hierarchical power verses one another. Entire careers are spent identifying the categories, and this area is largely unexplored, unexamined. It's too interpersonal and laced with extreme levels of power for honest analysis.<p>And then there is AI: a communications technology that people think is an automation technology, and our colossal communications tragedy is not going to correct this misunderstanding.</p>
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<p>Nah, that fantasy is over, with the new Era of Moron Power. The future of humanity of absolutely Asian. Western culture is Rome on Fire.</p>
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<p>It is far worse than "this administration", the population in general are vastly undereducated, to the degree they do not even realize how serious this is.<p>There has been a massive, decades long educational failure in the United States, and probably the entire western hemisphere of culture: no where are people taught how to manage disagreement. due to that, we have this moronic destruction taking place where "idiots of authority" see no reason not to dismantle anything that irritates them, and nobody has the langage to explain nor the peer power to stop the desolation of our entire supporting infrastructure. All because idiots of power do not like being told and proved they are wrong. So, power removed the education that taught people how to debate without emotions, and here we are.</p>
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<p>Money laundry</p>
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<p>That amazement is due to one of our largest and least realized critical mistakes as a civilization: no where are people taught how to effectively communicate. We have entire Colleges of Communications at every university, and what do they teach? How to execute mass manipulation, not how to convey understanding, not how to manage disagreements. These are not "mistakes" either, this distinct lack of teaching real communications is how society is maintained manipulative. And the worst part, many of you will read this and not understand, because you've not been taught the communications insights to grasp this message.</p>
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<p>I'm sure many have made something like this, I've done a few. I've found simply submitting one's prompt to multiple models to be kind of pointless. You're just going to get statistical noise from the variances in their training methods, as they are all training on pretty much the same data.<p>I get significantly better results by pre-prompting each LLM (they can be the same LLM too, just another instance), I pre-prompt them to approach from a different perspective. Basically, I create expert personas that each believe they are someone of a different career, different intellectual perspectives, and  then that generates a real debate between experts.</p>
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<p>Eric,<p>Serious question: I find that the core issue in corruption, and the corruptibility of an individual and then the groups they are a member relies on plain spoken communication skills, and the ability or inability of an individual to protect themselves from self deception.<p>A "uncorrupt person" does not choose to be corrupt, they lie to themselves with little corruptions until "it is too late" and then with no (self assessed) alternative they commit to their situation.<p>As well as a group of people knowingly engaged in less than ethically honest activities must impress their ethical failures on all their peers, to insure their safety if the corruption is exposed, and they then bully their uncomprehending peers into corruption.<p>All of this is caused to the educational hole that is effective communications: people are not taught how to identify honest and dishonest self conversation, people are not taught how to communicate without information mistakes they refuse are mistakes, omissions of critical information, and then deferment of blame when half considered strategies are met by complex reality.<p>I've been working in tech, at all levels, since the 70's. The #1 characteristic of every single organization I have been a member and interacted with is poor communications, weak documentation, and nobody able to discuss the topics at hand without technical pretension, omissions, misdirections, and misinformation.<p>This nonsense is all due to no real emphasis on communicating to mutual understanding anywhere in the verticals of technical and science educations. And that includes the communications in people's heads that drive them to comforting non-solutions they attempt and fail.</p>
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<p>The issue is anything that is of value requires some level of detail, of complexity, and that is only of interest to people that know that specific complexity, and it is a pain point for them. Now they'll care. Everyone else? Lost them. So, the marketing challenge is to find some aspirational complexity that people wish they knew, and how that can be solved with AI, and without turning that thing into a trivial nuisance, but a valued skill. That logical series right there is, well, too much for far too many.</p>
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<p>When LLMs and ChatGPT first came out, it struck me as obvious and dangerous to a deep thinker or a knowledge worker the answering capacity. So, from my initial use I did not ask them questions, I have always "done my own work" and then asked the LLMs to criticize that work. This has been an exponential ladder of learning, and my cognitive growth is personally noticeable. I'm not hesitating to scribble out calculus and work it out, as I need for my work, where in the past I'd have found some other way because I felt uncomfortable with my tip-of-my-tongue calc skills. Don't ask AI, do your own work and ask for criticism, and them improve your own work yourself. This creates a learning ladder that you will climb.</p>
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<p>It was never safe, he's exposed the system's design was never intended to be safe for anyone but those in charge.</p>
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<p>Na, all it will take is a shift in perspective. As humanity becomes more and more Asian, those names will trigger a "who?"</p>
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<p>The blog post this discussion is for is one of the first in depth discussions I've seen of how these coding agents work. Most posts cover how to use them, not their internals and how they operate.</p>
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<p>There needs to be a realization of how important communication skills are to develop and possess. The act of disagreement has skill levels that do not trigger emotional responses, and cause cross understanding to occur. Learning how to convey understanding and gain understanding from others becomes more and more important in a landscape of rapid change. Which we are collectively terrible at, with most companies being miscommunication circuses, with all the stress that generates, needlessly.</p>
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<p>Is there an AI Coding Agent application structure emerging that is more or less universal across llm models? Is anyone collecting and writing on how to understand this architectural style?</p>
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<p>Around the same time I first read On The Road, my wiser than should be possible mother said "Oh, you need to read this too" and it was "Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg", written by Carolyn Cassady. Rips the band aid right off of those sexist abuser of innocents, those utter assholes. They write great literature, and the fact that they expose their own terrible ethics bare, but surrounded by non-condemning language is the trick. They never hid their nature, but America never realized what they were praising, not really. Which is all so American!</p>
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<p>Tried both Firefox latest and google chrome's latest desktop browser and does not run in either.</p>
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<p>Never used this? <a href="https://vcpkg.io/en/" rel="nofollow">https://vcpkg.io/en/</a></p>
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<p>I worked at a shop where we used Boost in a C++ code base that the only use of C++ was the harness to use Boost. After that, it was all C, object-styled C, as that code base started before C++ compilers were not a template overlay on C.</p>
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