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New comment by casey2 in "Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes"

casey2 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:19:07 +0000

Care to calculate the marginal utility of torching your credibility?

New comment by casey2 in "Flux 3"

casey2 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:35:54 +0000

It's wild that something like this isn't top of all major news sites. I think people are in shock with how fast world models are progressing.

New comment by casey2 in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

casey2 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:34:18 +0000

"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations... has no occasion to exert his understanding... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." - Adam Smith on overspecialization.

These products are bad because noone who works on them understands the whole system infact

"The only trades which it seems possible for a joint-stock company to carry on successfully... are those of which all the operations are capable of being reduced to what is called a Routine, or to such a Uniformity of method as admits but little or no variation." - Adam Smith

CPUs, dams, can be designed with software. Plenty of programs can be designed with software but most useful, interesting, valuable ones cannot. Plenty of programs are designed with software, or more generally a routine, and they are incomprehensible as a result, and clearly their programmers are the most stupid and ignorant people around.

New comment by casey2 in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

casey2 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:01:45 +0000

Experts say that they aren't.

New comment by casey2 in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

casey2 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:59:26 +0000

There are more usecases, for this class of tokenizer, now that it's 1000x faster as well. RAG being one example.

New comment by casey2 in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

casey2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:22:52 +0000

Concerned Citizen: Someone keeps lighting the town hall on fire, can someone arrest them!

Police Officer: #WONTFIX Town hall will be fireproof in the next version

Concerned Citizen: But it's still a crime. And what of the paper and desks inside the building how can that possibly be fireproofed!?

Mayor: Now now Citizen, fireproofing technology has come along way, besides, we've repurposed the Jail House into a Molotov cocktail factory; we couldn't arrest them even if we wanted to.

Concerned Citizen: You did WHAT!? Why would you do that when the Town Hall is burning down every other week!?

Molotov Salesman: Why because this town needs Molotovs to test their fireproofing tech of course. We've set up the arson test pipeline for the good of all in town!

New comment by casey2 in "Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C"

casey2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:27:37 +0000

Funny I was just having a conversation about this last week... with gemini. The obvious idea being that this places zig as the main build toolchain for most software on the planet.

New comment by casey2 in "There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text"

casey2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:39:20 +0000

Ok but the idea is that you can throw in all your files a stream of consciousness barf and then get something readable that conveys the point better than you could have done with decades of practice. And the best systems would probe you at whatever meta level you stop caring about.

Another way this could go is that you simply don't need to communicate your ideas to another person anymore, that everyone hyper-specializes into their own language, if not just straight up the AI scanning your brain.

New comment by casey2 in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

casey2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:46:57 +0000

Bun was the flagship product of zig? In reality or in YC land

New comment by casey2 in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

casey2 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:14:32 +0000

The problem is that US AI labs have done everything in their power to alienate real programmers whereas the chinese labs aren't gate-kept by people who feel inferior to pros. If you say you want to optimize this GPU kernel you are fired for "wasting dev time". If you say I spun up an agents in a "loop" and went home you are rewarded.

Even if management was right about "premature" optimization, though they are assuredly wrong, setting up that kind of incentive structure will make top talent leave. Some, I assume, are good people, but they aren't bringing their best.

New comment by casey2 in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

casey2 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:50:14 +0000

People are also calling on parents, governments and tech companies to respect children's privacy. [1]

None of these groups will because they profit too much from disrespecting their privacy. The average child would be far safer if they used the Dark Web. I'm not sure why the "richest country on earth" is engaging in zero-sum behavior, but those are the kinds of contradictions such behavior creates.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/18/key-findi...

New comment by casey2 in "British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years"

casey2 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:31:11 +0000

Obviously. These are 2 different sports. There's a reason the front of a plane or boat looks different to the sides. They carefully paint these lines on the ground then ignore them.

It's annoying watching the guy in first just stop running after 2 minutes.

New comment by casey2 in "British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years"

casey2 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:27:01 +0000

Are the guys in first and second just windbreaking for him or what's going on?

Very odd.

New comment by casey2 in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

casey2 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:04:05 +0000

It's the same thing. Why did AI compete so aggressively with them? It's because their system was one that produced confident misinformation from hobbyists while gatekeeping actual experts.

The same thing is not yet happening to wikipedia as you can see with the pageview tool. You may be confusing a covid bump. At most any drop is within an order of magnitude.

New comment by casey2 in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

casey2 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:53:58 +0000

There's always going to be lots of latent insecurity among amateurs when a pro shows up.

Honestly because of this and the relative lack of actual pros on the site, real pros will get pushed out and the site will actually build a collection of misinformation. That's probably why pros feel that software quality has dropped so much in since stackoverflow.

New comment by casey2 in "SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month"

casey2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:12:31 +0000

They pull them out of their (*((

New comment by casey2 in "Frame – Linux X server in Assembly"

casey2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:02:02 +0000

Once you create an abstraction (like a macro, routine, language) you forfeit the benefits using machine code gives you wherever you use that abstraction, since there could be some bespoke implementation that solves the problem.

That entire point is moot here because the abstraction in this case is a massive ball of crap and it's used everywhere. So you never get the benefit you think you would for using a lower level language. That's why generally LLMs are best with python and even better with a "harness" (domain specific framework and language)

New comment by casey2 in "Frame – Linux X server in Assembly"

casey2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:37:32 +0000

>I wrote

AI wrote*

New comment by casey2 in "SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month"

casey2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:27:26 +0000

SpaceX insiders have so many shares, once they can they are going to dump hard, get ready for another -$1T. Morningstar says $780 billion.

Clown show:

Raymond James - $800

Morgan Stanley - $300

Deutsche Bank - $255

JPMorgan - $225

Goldman Sachs - $205

Citi - $200

New comment by casey2 in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

casey2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:46 +0000

Computers and software on the whole has been net negative allocation of resources. We are a major industry that burns time and money while spinning our wheels in the mud. AI is just the biggest example of this in history. It simply doesn't matter if the solution is correct because we aren't solving problems either way.