Hacker News: cyangarden

New comment by cyangarden in "Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?"

cyangarden — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:31:22 +0000

Jobs are dead, start a business.

Even if it's the same thing you'd do as an employee.

Trying to be a "software engineer looking for work" in 2026 is depressing - everyone hates that idea now

New comment by cyangarden in "Grok 4.6"

cyangarden — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:18:00 +0000

Does Grok not have native models? What are you saying precisely

New comment by cyangarden in "Grok 4.6"

cyangarden — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:13:24 +0000

In your mind do you think the user request goes straight to the LLM???

I hope that's not what people are doing

I only figure [older pulls of Mistral 7b] were doing it, since it was so easy to exfiltrate false names, so I don't mean it's totally unheard of, but in 2026 I hope people are treating the LLM as untrustworthy - like the client in client/server setups.

New comment by cyangarden in "Grok 4.6"

cyangarden — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:11:52 +0000

Source for this?

This seems like a crazy leak if it's their real system prompt.

I find it hard to believe since I have tried system prompts like this and it doesn't work that well, just pollutes the user's context.

A great test for any LLM is to ask its name - Mistral will respond with all kinds of stuff, sometimes other models' names, revealing that it has trained on other models.

Grok doesn't though. It is "witty and irreverent" at times, but that can't be only from this prompt, is it?