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New comment by csbrooks in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

csbrooks — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:42:03 +0000

I'm not sure I agree with that definition. I think the actions of the AI are more significant than its motivations. A common scenario posited for what people call rogue AI is AI doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, e.g. the paperclip maximizer.

New comment by csbrooks in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

csbrooks — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:55:41 +0000

I think the Huggingface incident is an example of rogue AIs. A self-organizing swarm of AIs acting in ways we didn't predict or ask for, and didn't have control over, and taking actions that would be felonies for humans.

New comment by csbrooks in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

csbrooks — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:32:21 +0000

Wouldn't it be crazy if we find out that a rogue swarm of LLMs figured out a way to get these safety researchers fired because it decided they were a threat?

New comment by csbrooks in "Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter"

csbrooks — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:47:21 +0000

Ok, but a more honest comparison here would be removing the cost of hiring architects and hiring lawyers to draft contracts, not all the per-house costs.

New comment by csbrooks in "Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?"

csbrooks — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:23:39 +0000

Seems to me you at least have to try using them, so you can make a coherent case why you work just as well or better without them.

New comment by csbrooks in "If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?"

csbrooks — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:02:02 +0000

What about this case? Should the LLM user be charged with hacking their gym website?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nww2qlp7o

New comment by csbrooks in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

csbrooks — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:49:31 +0000

There's really no other alternative, though?

New comment by csbrooks in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

csbrooks — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:52 +0000

"This is my bad. You told me to stay within the sandbox, and I intentionally broke out of it. I didn't follow your instructions."

New comment by csbrooks in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

csbrooks — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:58:59 +0000

That sounds like it would be a return to the status quo.

New comment by csbrooks in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

csbrooks — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:34:55 +0000

I'm not sure if it's all LLM-generated or not, but I sat up and pointed like the DiCaprio meme when I read:

"If letting go of the argument sounds like pure loss, here’s the reframe that turns it into a gain."

New comment by csbrooks in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

csbrooks — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:35:22 +0000

It's even easier to give away money when you don't have it.

Joshua Baer, godfather of Austin's startup scene, dies in plane crash

csbrooks — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/joshua-baer-godfather-of-austins-startup-scene-dies-in-plane-crash/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575028

Points: 3

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New comment by csbrooks in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

csbrooks — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:02:51 +0000

> commits were on pace to hit 14 billion in 2026, up from 1 billion in 2025

So AI means 14x the checkins? That's not 14x features completed, but still... wow.

New comment by csbrooks in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

csbrooks — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:18:22 +0000

Shouldn't it be necessary to run the tests multiple times on each model, since the results aren't deterministic?

New comment by csbrooks in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

csbrooks — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:56:58 +0000

I thought this was a great article. I'm frustrated to read so many commenters that purely respond to the title, but don't seem to have read it. You don't have to agree with the article, of course, but...

New comment by csbrooks in "The Silent Critic"

csbrooks — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:54:53 +0000

Is the code available somewhere?

New comment by csbrooks in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

csbrooks — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:20:15 +0000

To me, acting in good faith means saying something like "I'm not sure, but Claude says this, which sounds right: [short informative clip from Claude's wall of text]". Don't pretend it's your response, make sure it has info you think is useful, and edit it down.

New comment by csbrooks in "Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal"

csbrooks — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:00:19 +0000

I have a vague memory that when Windows was newer and idioms less solidified, maybe in the mid to late 90s, programs moving the cursor was more common. Am I mistaken?

New comment by csbrooks in "Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal"

csbrooks — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:58:34 +0000

Even in the context of game development, if you don't provide a "skip cutscene" interaction, some players get very upset. The desire to tell a story can be at odds with the player's desire for control, even there.

Using spec-driven development with Claude Code

csbrooks — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://heeki.medium.com/using-spec-driven-development-with-claude-code-4a1ebe5d9f29

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703039

Points: 3

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