Hacker News: codemog

New comment by codemog in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

codemog — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:09:57 +0000

We’ve detected zero cases of any Chinese models doing this. I’m quite tired of the American propaganda. If only Americans understood China really does not care about them outside of wanting to sell them things. They’re too busy building high speed rails, modern cities, and providing healthcare to their citizens. I am ashamed to be an American these days.

New comment by codemog in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

codemog — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:29:20 +0000

Someone give this man one hundred million dollars asap

New comment by codemog in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

codemog — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:32:57 +0000

That's why I gave it a month and not an afternoon.

New comment by codemog in "Can we have the day off?"

codemog — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:59:47 +0000

How about you meet me half way and work 996 instead?

New comment by codemog in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

codemog — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:16:55 +0000

Don’t be an engineer who says “no” with zero alternative solutions. That’s not being a good engineer, it’s being lazy and trying to look good. Often times an engineer will put forth a solution that’s non-ideal due to legacy reasons, but required nonetheless. And no they can’t rewrite the entire system to “do it the right way”. You're not being some super high IQ genius by saying “no” or pointing out the solution is non-ideal.

New comment by codemog in "The worst job interview I ever had"

codemog — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:08:00 +0000

Seems like you dodged a bullet. Hard to hear when you’re looking for a job, but not every job is a good opportunity.

New comment by codemog in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

codemog — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:27:00 +0000

GLM 5.1 is almost there. These guys should be scared. The valuations these companies have is insanity.

New comment by codemog in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

codemog — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:55:24 +0000

The amount of cope people have around Elon’s irrational drug addict behavior is insane. Was lying about being good at video games and getting caught also 8D chess too?

New comment by codemog in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

codemog — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:00:43 +0000

We’re in an age where, to be possibly a bit rude but blunt, pseudo-intellectuals are obsolete. A pseudo-intellectual prided themselves on being able to efficiently solve closed, man made problems such as leetcode, CTF problems, or even math Olympiad problems. They could do good in school by memorizing a rote technique and applying it to some test. They typically don’t have any real creativity and if you put them to work on a problem you can’t Google or isn’t a fake man made one, they fall apart incredibly fast.

They may as well be the human equivalent to what LLMs currently are.

I do not mourn these people, as they’re usually the most arrogant types. I hope for their sake they adapt.

New comment by codemog in "Show HN: Race to the Bottom"

codemog — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:55:07 +0000

The absolutely terrible rankings made me lose a bit of faith in humanity.

New comment by codemog in "Claude for Small Business"

codemog — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:06:40 +0000

So is Anthropic and co finally admitting they need to make products (and money) and done with the “AGI is tomorrow bro just give us a few more trillion bro”?

New comment by codemog in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

codemog — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:49:38 +0000

Anyone read posts like this and picture someone who doesn’t actually do anything all day besides posture in meetings? Probably with a super inflated title and salary.

I doubt this is what the OP does, but there’s tons of developers like what I described and they seem actively proud at not actually building anything and playing politics all day.

New comment by codemog in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

codemog — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:09:22 +0000

A lot of people had this idea. You’re going to have to take a vague idea to fruition if you want the props you’re looking for.

New comment by codemog in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

codemog — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:05:27 +0000

What magical AI are you using? That’s not my experience at all.

New comment by codemog in "The Self-Cancelling Subscription"

codemog — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:11:42 +0000

There’s a lot of bleeding heart people like this. They add variety to the world. The downsides being things you mention, but it’s usually more palatable than someone on the other end of the spectrum.

New comment by codemog in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

codemog — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:13:38 +0000

Where’s the theory of how the human brain does what it does? Maybe these high dimensional structures don’t have a nice compact “theory”. Trying to fit these systems into a nice compact theory is a very human thing, but not everything works like that.

New comment by codemog in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

codemog — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:34:43 +0000

1. A better insurance process is clearly out of the scope of a hn comment, and I have trouble believing you don’t know that too.

2. I’m almost certainly talking about health insurance, made obvious by you even mentioning that. There’s a HN guideline about discussing in good faith.

3. I find it humorous you hand-wave away our inhuman healthcare system as “for a variety of reasons”.

4. I see your career is in hedge funds, defense, and big tech. Best of luck ;)

New comment by codemog in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

codemog — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:25:42 +0000

Making the most convoluted and idiotic insurance process on earth and then delegating that process onto an AI that requires huge buzzing data centers.. Is there an option to respawn in the non-clown world universe? It was funny at first but it gets tiring eventually.

New comment by codemog in "When networking doesn't work"

codemog — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:23:43 +0000

Exactly. Why would people willingly do this kind of tedious grunt work by hand instead of having a machine do it? I guess some people enjoy it, but it was always one of my least favorite parts.

New comment by codemog in "Agent Skills"

codemog — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:47:20 +0000

Everyone who writes this kind of stuff skips the boring parts: science and engineering.

Yep, benchmarks, comparisons of with/without, samples of generated code with/without. This kind of stuff matters, and you may be making your agent stupider or getting worse results without real analysis.

Also this prose reads like the author has drunk the Google kool-aid and not much else.