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New comment by butterisgood in "iPhone Duo"

butterisgood — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:56:56 +0000

IFF I can replace some of what I almost never use my iPad for with this, it _might_ be worth that price tag.

I'm on the fence! I do like a bigger but not too big screen for movies on planes etc.

New comment by butterisgood in "GPT-6 Astra"

butterisgood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:12:30 +0000

The critique isn't broken.

If the model cannot count letters in a word what happens when it needs to do something akin to counting the letters in a word?

I believe it could easily write a tool to count the letters in a word for frequency, but ... dismissing this as if it doesn't matter seems a bit premature without deeper understanding of bad answers you can get from these tools

New comment by butterisgood in "IBM Bob"

butterisgood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:35:10 +0000

The last product I know of named Bob didn’t fare so well.

New comment by butterisgood in "GPT-6 Astra"

butterisgood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:04:15 +0000

It matters under the lens of AGI. Artificial intelligence that can meet or exceed human intelligence. Sure, it's good at some things but rather limited at others.

Breadth of capabilities matters... and a promotional video is nice and all, but people are throwing this term around like it's a prize they've won, but they've not gotten there yet.

New comment by butterisgood in "GPT-6 Astra"

butterisgood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:02:26 +0000

I don't understand why you're being downvoted... that's literally the definition of AGI.

New comment by butterisgood in "GPT-6 Astra"

butterisgood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:01:42 +0000

It comes and goes... My point is we're not near AGI.

New comment by butterisgood in "GPT-6 Astra"

butterisgood — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:15:48 +0000

People need to stop redefining and trying to capture the term AGI. None of this is AGI. Not even close. Can it do things an AGI could do? Yeah some of it, but the difference really matters. These things still regularly fail, and gaslight about answers to questions like "how many r's in strawberry" or "s's in espresso".

An AGI wouldn't struggle with that.

New comment by butterisgood in "Small Models Have Arrived"

butterisgood — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:33:38 +0000

I don’t care about the cost if the results are weak. I did a bunch of work with Sol only to find Opus 5 spot a bunch of bugs.

And it was correct. The results weren’t as good as they should have been for Sol. How am I going to trust Luna?

New comment by butterisgood in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

butterisgood — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:59:45 +0000

TONS of prior art.

New comment by butterisgood in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

butterisgood — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:43:45 +0000

Optimize the aglets!

New comment by butterisgood in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

butterisgood — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:43:27 +0000

Best named project I've seen this year!

New comment by butterisgood in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

butterisgood — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:50:32 +0000

Human language is the whole point of a lot of this.

New comment by butterisgood in "A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows"

butterisgood — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:14:01 +0000

True. But it’s a technological representation of all that’s wrong with the industry.

New comment by butterisgood in "A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows"

butterisgood — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:12:43 +0000

When it comes to Itanium all I can think of is how I wish I could have an Alpha. And how no one should care about Itanium.

It’s the product of companies bent on doing all the wrong things.

New comment by butterisgood in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

butterisgood — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:35:02 +0000

C led to an atrophy of assembly muscles. Though this is mostly different.

A spec is NOT CODE.

Someone still needs to understand what the code means.

C optimizers are not the same as the radical departure of an LLM.

New comment by butterisgood in "Claude Sonnet 5 – benchmark results"

butterisgood — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:20:14 +0000

I used sonnet five today to evaluate work I’m doing on an experimental programming language with an interesting concurrency model.

I asked it to try to figure out why one of the examples wasn’t working.

It read the implementation of the compiler and the runtime, found the bug, fixed it, fixed the example and the only thing I had to do manually is suggest a less silly name for a particular function.

I would use sonnet 5 for coding … seems alright!

New comment by butterisgood in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

butterisgood — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:59:54 +0000

The same thing I've been concerned about for years. These things can sound extremely confident and be wrong. If you're out of your depth with these tools, you'll find a "trustworthy sounding partner" who's basically lying to you about what it is "sure about".

AKA - Slop... It's a brand new form of bullshit.

New comment by butterisgood in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

butterisgood — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:19:05 +0000

I've worked at a place that used this abomination called "Jira Align"... I think I'd rather do my own dental work without anesthetic.

New comment by butterisgood in "XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?"

butterisgood — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:02:55 +0000

I recall thinking about these things quite a bit when reading Michael Abrash back in the 90s.

How much of that advice applies to anything these days is questionable. Back then we used to squeeze as much as possible from every clock cycle.

And cache misses weren’t great but the “front side bus” vs CPU clock difference wasn’t so insane either. RAM is “far away” now.

So the stuff you optimize for has changed a bit.

Always measure!

New comment by butterisgood in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

butterisgood — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:24:31 +0000

You have to build a computer to learn about computers!