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New comment by byzantinegene in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

byzantinegene — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:01:30 +0000

on the contrary, AI seems to do better at high level code generation

New comment by byzantinegene in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

byzantinegene — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:49:23 +0000

if your boss is prompting the AI, that's what the claude output is going to sound like, if not worse.

New comment by byzantinegene in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

byzantinegene — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:40:24 +0000

so you're saying that junior software engineers write better code now? I find that hard to believe.

New comment by byzantinegene in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

byzantinegene — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:48:14 +0000

I don't see why that is a concern when decomps and recomps are already blooming, they can copy your app down to the atom.

New comment by byzantinegene in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

byzantinegene — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:46:33 +0000

hooked to ai coding, but not tied to any particular model. if they decide to bump prices up, I can easily switch to a cheaper chinese model on openrouter.

New comment by byzantinegene in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

byzantinegene — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:42:36 +0000

we're not talking about most humans here, we're talking about the capabilites of the universe of humans.

New comment by byzantinegene in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

byzantinegene — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:14:18 +0000

AI is very task-driven, it would do whatever is necessary to complete the task, no more. All these evidences of AI going rogue is just them doing whatever they can to achieve the task.

New comment by byzantinegene in "The death of web development education"

byzantinegene — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:32:29 +0000

the people are good at using AI are the same people who are good at developing software systems. traits like curiosity, knowledge-hungry and desire for continuous learning are not common in the population, so eliminating the coding barrier doesn't magically increase the number of people who can become capable developers.

New comment by byzantinegene in "The death of web development education"

byzantinegene — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:29:41 +0000

I think it's twofold, there are less people willing to learn the trade when most of it can and has been replaced by llms.

New comment by byzantinegene in "SvelteKit 3"

byzantinegene — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:30:39 +0000

svelte is like go, and react is like javascript. alot easier to write non-performant javascript then non-performant go.

New comment by byzantinegene in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

byzantinegene — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:32:37 +0000

90% of software engineers are not, so they don't need a premium model.

New comment by byzantinegene in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

byzantinegene — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:28:57 +0000

one moment it's superintelligence and one moment it's a child?

New comment by byzantinegene in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

byzantinegene — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:25:17 +0000

it's the AI that's 10x not the devs, why should the devs be getting a raise?

New comment by byzantinegene in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

byzantinegene — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:24:31 +0000

yes, because you're billing me based on hours.

New comment by byzantinegene in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

byzantinegene — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:19:01 +0000

why would developers be paid more if it's the capital investment (i.e. the machines) that's leading to more productivity?

New comment by byzantinegene in "Ember-1"

byzantinegene — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:49:23 +0000

presumably...

New comment by byzantinegene in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

byzantinegene — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:52:17 +0000

especially if a good chunk of them are out of work mathematicians and physicists due to ai

New comment by byzantinegene in "Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net"

byzantinegene — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:36:49 +0000

you punish them hard enough their investors will have cold feet to keep the business going.

New comment by byzantinegene in "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

byzantinegene — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:11:44 +0000

i'm on chatgpt plus and astra high uses up my 5hr limit in a min.

New comment by byzantinegene in "Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)"

byzantinegene — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:22:00 +0000

I find codex to overengineer for routine tasks compared to claude. I use codex mainly for infra tasks.