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New comment by civvv in "Curtis Yarvin and the Political Evolution of Silicon Valley Reactionaries"

civvv — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:03:47 +0000

Yarvin is a basement dweller and 4chan intellectual, high on his own supply of pseudo-intellectual takes. What is sad and worrying is that these kinds of politics are increasingly moving out of the fringe internet and into pockets of power (eg. Thiel and Vance). It is problematic that these ideas now linger only one or two steps away from the most powerful and influential person in the world.

New comment by civvv in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

civvv — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:54:39 +0000

There are many indications that model progress is slowing down, so that is not entirely accurate.

New comment by civvv in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

civvv — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:09:06 +0000

Three of my favourite game series as a kid, what a legend.

New comment by civvv in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

civvv — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:42:49 +0000

Not sure about their other departments, but at least in March there was no LLM coding in their Source2 & game teams.

https://x.com/ZPostFacto/status/2035784300575305895

New comment by civvv in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

civvv — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:50:58 +0000

I am no insider and have never even tried to build an LLM, so I can only guess. But the general sentiment seems to be that this is the case. If you are interested, I would recommend you read the MIT paper "Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling" [0]. It confirms an interesting trend: models represent more features/concepts than they have clean independent dimensions, so features overlap. Increasing model dimension reduces this geometric interference, which lowers loss in a predictable way, but with diminishing returns.

This has, in my opinion, likely been the primary vector in getting better models thus far, but MIT mathematically proves that it yields diminishing returns for each new dimension added. It will get more and more expensive and the cost-return will or probably already has made it infeasible.

Ilya appear to support sentiment this as well. [1]

[0] - https://openreview.net/forum?id=knPz7gtjPW [1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofounder-ilya-sutske...

New comment by civvv in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

civvv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:19:56 +0000

This is likely true. I think model quality has stagnated and that its likely a non-trivial task to find a new improvement vector. Scaling the width of the model (which has been the driving force behind the speed of improvement thus far) seems to have reached its limit.

It will be interesting to see the implications of this. Tooling can only do so much in the long term.

New comment by civvv in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

civvv — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:03:56 +0000

Do you understand how LLM's work and that they are always behind in their knowledge? Unless Claude does a network call to check its own website, it will give you outdated information. Its a prediction model, its not magic.

New comment by civvv in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

civvv — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:53:13 +0000

If you scroll down, you can clearly see that the Pro plan has an "x" on Claude Code now.

New comment by civvv in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

civvv — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:50:07 +0000

Does this mean that for enterprises using per-seat pricing, only the $100 premium seat gets access to claude code?

New comment by civvv in "CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity"

civvv — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:58:46 +0000

You’re generalizing too much here. One of the biggest problems with LLM’s today is in-fact that they are not at the level being advertised. This is not solely a case of regulation standing in the way of a «revolution».

New comment by civvv in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

civvv — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:24:37 +0000

Literally a skill issue?

New comment by civvv in "Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question"

civvv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:24:38 +0000

This one was pretty fun. Had zero expectations, but left pleasantly surprised.

https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/94e19d86-cc0

New comment by civvv in "Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question"

civvv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:01:29 +0000

Fun little toy, tried to ask it some post-modern philosophy questions and they all mostly agreed with the statements of the philosopher, until the debate where Opus 4.6 managed to change their opinion to a resounding "maybe", pretty much every single time. It seems like the "better" frontier models often take a more grounded stance from the beginning, and even manage to influence the other models.

Here is an example: https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/79e6cdd4-515

Another fun debate: https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/81ee56e9-60f

New comment by civvv in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

civvv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:14:16 +0000

That entirely depends on what you are buying. If you’re in need of a lawyer to keep you out of the bottom bunk, I’d happily spend a lot more for a little better.

New comment by civvv in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

civvv — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:36:22 +0000

Go touch some grass, please

New comment by civvv in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

civvv — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:48:13 +0000

You do a year worth of work in 3.65 days? These multipliers are getting pretty laughable

New comment by civvv in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

civvv — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:36:10 +0000

I think you are right in that the primary mechanisms remain the same, or at least similar, but that was not my point anyways. The surrounding adjectives describe more the context of which capitalism exists within.

The effects and consequences of capitalism under feudalism or the age of slavery is, for example, fundamentally different from capitalism under a freer modern democracy. A slave or serf did not have the opportunities of capitalism, which changes how the system behaves and its effects.

The term "capitalism" becomes kind of meaningless, because it just describes a broad set of mechanisms. In the case of the question in this thread it is much more descriptive to include the context of which it exists within.

New comment by civvv in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

civvv — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:23:19 +0000

The RAG models are very competent at programming. I am worried about my job as a SWE in the near future, but didn't the MIT paper about a week ago pretty much confirm that width-scaling the model is about to (or has already) stopped giving any measurable increase in quality because the training data no longer overfills the model?

Any authentic training data from pre-LLM's is assumed to have been used in training already and synthetic or generated data gives worse performing models, so the path of increasing its training data seems to be a dead end as well?

What is the next vector of training? Maybe data curation? Remove the low quality entries and accept a smaller, but more accurate data set?

I think the AI companies are starting to sweat a little, considering the promises they have made, their inability to deliver and turn a profit at its current state and the slowing improvements.

Interesting times! We are either all out of jobs or a massive market crash is imminent, awesome...

New comment by civvv in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

civvv — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:53:38 +0000

I would be reluctant to say that capitalism, as we have had after the industrial revolution, has existed in the same form for thousands of years. That just seems silly.

New comment by civvv in "LLMs can be exhausting"

civvv — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:50:32 +0000

10k LoC per day? Wow, my condolences to you.

On a different note: something I just discovered is that if you google "my condolences", the AI summary will thank you for the kindness before defining its meaning, fun.