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New comment by charintstr in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

charintstr — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:50:28 +0000

I am at a major company that is essentially vibe coding. I’ve shipped about 100k LoC this entire half and am toward top 10% of my team. I find it likely that either

A. The code is absolute garbage and is speed for speed sake B. They’re using an internal model that is a generation beyond GPT 5.5

I say this because we’ve attempted to do something similar using the latest gen Claude models and a significantly larger team. The code is probably along the lines of millions LoC but is an absolute mess because of vibing. There’s a price you pay for speed

New comment by charintstr in "UBI Is the Wrong Answer to the Right Problem"

charintstr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:43:37 +0000

This is a knocking down a strawman, it’s not supposed to provide a good understanding of UBI but rather scare you that you’re going to be lonely, lazy, and helpless on it. A more nuanced article would provide counterpoints, however this is just promoting the authors opinion

New comment by charintstr in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

charintstr — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:36:05 +0000

Absolutely. 3:1 is only common ant absolute top tier daycares. More likely you’ll have 6:1 or 8:1. And even high quality daycares might not help children potty train which is absolutely essential if both parents are working but people want to potty train early. By age 3 kids are moving towards preschool and are more intelligent and have better self awareness and are more reward motivated. I think diaper conspiracy is honestly less likely here than structural advantages and modern life leading to later potty training

New comment by charintstr in "Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones"

charintstr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:02:19 +0000

Having experience inside Metas culture, it is extremely metrics driven, sometimes without regard to side effects of optimizing a primary goal. So if someone was measuring their job performance on optimizing site-links then it’s very likely this could be happening.

New comment by charintstr in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

charintstr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:06:29 +0000

China has interests at direct odds to Europe like assisting the Russians to victory in Ukraine. It also has interest to dump exports onto European markets. Regardless of whether you agree with the US, China is going to be looking out only for itself from now on.

New comment by charintstr in "Jensen Huang's Stark Warning: China's 1M AI Workers vs. America's 20k"

charintstr — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:50:17 +0000

China has already recognized that computer manufacturing is a national security concern for them. So they will continue investing in Huawei regardless of whether Nvidia sells to them or not. Huang knows this pretty well and just wants to sell to China while Nvidia is still in a prime market leader position. It makes sense from his angle to say “sanctions are useless” and “were going to be caught by China anyways, so might as well make a buck while we can.”

New comment by charintstr in "Jensen Huang's Stark Warning: China's 1M AI Workers vs. America's 20k"

charintstr — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:13:19 +0000

Huang has a strong vested financial interest in working to remove chip sanctions on China. So it’s hard to take any of his warnings seriously.

New comment by charintstr in "Bill Gates Says Climate Change 'Will Not Lead to Humanity's Demise'"

charintstr — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:35:27 +0000

Demise is hard to justify but if climate change renders a relatively small percentage of global land unfit for dense human population and agriculture within a short period of time the results could be extraordinarily costly.

New comment by charintstr in "Accelerating authoritarian dynamics: Assessment of democratic decline"

charintstr — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:40:48 +0000

Unfortunately the levers of power are so captured that it’s likely the only way for things to change is for leadership to mess up so badly that people end up on the streets.

New comment by charintstr in "Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More"

charintstr — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:07:52 +0000

I'm not clear on what substance he has beyond his argument of "I'm really smart and really rich and I think I should run things" though.

New comment by charintstr in "Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More"

charintstr — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:59:53 +0000

Thiel pretty obviously wants to rule the world but he’s just so uncharismatic that he’ll never get anyone onboard whatever vision he has. Ultimately I think he’ll be used by whoever thinks he can advance their vision and then he’ll be discarded

New comment by charintstr in "Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report"

charintstr — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:07:46 +0000

If aliens have the tech to fly from solar systems away to come and conquer us we’re pretty screwed and anyone serious in government knows this

New comment by charintstr in "Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report"

charintstr — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:06:31 +0000

Yeah AARO has been known to be pro-Pentagon for awhile now with Kirkpatrick playing role of chief misinformer. It looks like this is his counter play to Grusch and the NJ UAP sightings

New comment by charintstr in "What you need to know about EMP weapons"

charintstr — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:49:19 +0000

We’re not. The author is just caught up in the threats/fear

New comment by charintstr in "What you need to know about EMP weapons"

charintstr — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 05:39:27 +0000

The Ukraine conflict has frequently raised nuclear fears mostly due to Russian nuclear sabre rattling. But this has been happening since 2022 and it’s hard to see anything going hot anytime soon

New comment by charintstr in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

charintstr — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:45:33 +0000

It doesn’t always have to monetarily benefit anyone. It’s just fringe leaders playing to fringe ideas in this case

New comment by charintstr in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

charintstr — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 07:47:25 +0000

This is an absolute trash take. I've been through the NIH grant process as a white male and there was absolutely 0 mention of diversity, DEI, or whatever other qualifying characteristic of my grant. It came totally down to the content of my proposal. You don't know what you're talking about

New comment by charintstr in "Blowing holes in Seymour Hersh’s pipe dream"

charintstr — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:05:23 +0000

You would think that for releasing a major story like this that Hersh would be trying to get his details correct. Confusing father and son is not a negligible error.

New comment by charintstr in "Blowing holes in Seymour Hersh’s pipe dream"

charintstr — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:03:35 +0000

The amount of pro-Russia apologia on this thread is pretty incredible. There are a number of salient points raised in this article discussing how details of the original article are implausible. However instead of addressing any of these points or inconsistencies directly, people simply say this rebuttal is "non-credible." I had expected more from this readership.

New comment by charintstr in "Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal"

charintstr — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:57:28 +0000

Likely a defensive acquisition for Microsoft. Facebook would probably be rejected from the deal for anti-trust reasons so it basically comes down to Google and Amazon that could acquire. So its probably Microsoft denying either of these companies the opportunity to improve their own social network brand while finding a way to pose future competition to Facebook.