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New comment by cyral in "Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?"

cyral — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:36:46 +0000

I just downloaded and paid for Codex this week because I want to stay on top of the AI tools and understand their capabilities. I've had some good results using 5.6 Sol, although it tends to never want to write any comments (despite modifying the project rules to tell it it MUST), and also occasionally just does a bit of thinking and stops. It'll say "Working through the remaining work" and just ends the chat until I tell it "continue" or something.

This is very anecdotal evidence but I have to rant about it... I tried 5.6 Terra (high) earlier today to fix a bug with a slow page. It just... removed the part of the page that was slow, and made it a client side request (still slow, but not blocking SSR I guess). I tried with Sonnet 5 and it correctly found the issue where an unhandled case was continuing to retry and failing. I am always telling people how the frontier models are SO much more capable than what they may think but this one thing today had me scratching my head at why it would ever do that. It was the first time I experienced the "great, I removed the failing test case" kind of issue.

New comment by cyral in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

cyral — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:06:55 +0000

Immediately left before trying to figure out what is even going on here. Almost every single response is AI generated

New comment by cyral in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

cyral — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:01:18 +0000

I'm pretty sure the Google Play Store does require this. I remember a few years ago (no longer at the company) having to verify a phone number and maybe address that is posted publicly.

New comment by cyral in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

cyral — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:59:21 +0000

> a consumer should be able to contact a human and be made whole

Apple does not provide any mechanism for developers to issue a refund, or even look up or view your purchase or subscription - so there is nothing a developer can do here besides refer you to apple support.

(Although as a developer I would like to be able to do this, because customers are very confused by it)

New comment by cyral in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

cyral — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:29:49 +0000

I'm not sure why you are being ripped apart in the comments, especially for a lot of nitpicky things. It was an interesting article, I can resonate with it from years of doing customer support. Comment sections like this make you realize you should not be taking business advice from HN.

New comment by cyral in "Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts"

cyral — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:52:20 +0000

To add to this, they should look at the Fable system card. It's 317 pages and it's clear how serious they are taking AI safety.

New comment by cyral in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

cyral — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:10:27 +0000

If they called it 6.0 and it wasn't AGI, you'd see a lot of complaining here too

New comment by cyral in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

cyral — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:08:49 +0000

Another massive reason is that ChatGPT and similar apps are eating their lunch. Asking a question to ChatGPT actually tends to be pretty convenient compared to the top X results that are just SEO optimized slop.

New comment by cyral in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

cyral — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:00:36 +0000

This may have been a problem a year or two ago but any premium model will be exploring the codebase to check similar routes to answer all these questions, if you don't specify them.

New comment by cyral in "How the Heck does Shazam work?"

cyral — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:01:22 +0000

The interactive parts of this post are very cool though

New comment by cyral in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

cyral — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:50:08 +0000

It's insane how most of the dev subreddits are filled with slop like this. I've thought the same thing - why can't they even spend 5 minutes to write their own post about their project?

New comment by cyral in "Cursor 3"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

All the VS code stuff is literally still there

New comment by cyral in "Cursor 3"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:38:05 +0000

I just upgraded and you can still show/hide the entire editor like before

New comment by cyral in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:34:46 +0000

> If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested.

It's actually insane opening up /r/webdev and similar subreddits and seeing dozens of AI authored posts with 50+ comments and maybe a single person calling it out. Makes me feel crazy. It's not as much of a problem here, but there is absolutely a writing style that suddenly 50% of submissions are using. It's always to promote something and watching people fall for it over and over again is upsetting.

New comment by cyral in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:31:13 +0000

It might be normal language but lets say maybe 5% of real human blog writers use short punchy phrases like that. The noticeable problem is now its 50% of blog posts because almost every single AI authored post uses the same phrasing, it's tiring knowing you are just reading ChatGPT output. Its usually part of a low-effort funnel to guide you to some product/service.

New comment by cyral in "Algorithm Visualizer"

cyral — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:32:04 +0000

Very cool. One of my favorite professors in college would make 100+ slide powerpoints of algorithms and flip through them really fast in order to visualize what they were doing, it was really helpful.

New comment by cyral in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

cyral — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:35:17 +0000

I've been doing this for so long and never knew there was a reviver param, thanks - that is super useful.

New comment by cyral in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

cyral — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:46:13 +0000

Yup, it was actually an interesting article but there are a few telltale parts that sound like every AI spam post on /r/webdev and similar. "No warning. No confirmation dialog. No email notification." is another. The three negatives repeated is present in so many AI generated promotional posts.

New comment by cyral in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

cyral — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:56:23 +0000

I've seen this too in the US, the newer machines let them spin the scan around in 3D space and must make it much easier to tell if something needs inspection or not

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT Health"

cyral — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:25:53 +0000

Yes, in my area if you need to find a new doctor you literally can't. This is a major city. The online booking for any major hospital network literally shows no results because the next appointment would be 90+ days out. If you have an existing relationship maybe you can get in in two weeks.