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New comment by darkerside in "SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B"

darkerside — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:15:46 +0000

I'm sure the finance market is much larger as well

New comment by darkerside in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

darkerside — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:13:39 +0000

The problem then is that if you're not using Fable/Mythos, you are under threat. It's like having a single gun manufacturer.

On this track, we're probably destined for a monopoly breakup before too long.

New comment by darkerside in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

darkerside — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:11:48 +0000

Not even. Tell the model to write a test of your code. There's your vulnerability.

It's explained better in the original source. I don't agree with it, but I understand it now, but I also think we need to move past it.

New comment by darkerside in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

darkerside — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:39:05 +0000

And it was the dumbest and least valuable stock traders that exited the industry. The industry is alive and well today.

New comment by darkerside in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

darkerside — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:04:58 +0000

Teaching is a lot like (a certain style of) management. You learn what motivates someone, make the connection between that and the subject matter at hand, and make it accessible for them to get to the next level. The rest takes care of itself.

New comment by darkerside in "A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law"

darkerside — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:38:51 +0000

> active silicon

This is not necessarily a functioning chip.

New comment by darkerside in "The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History"

darkerside — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:42:09 +0000

The whole thing runs on survivorship bias. And if you don't agree, just wait and see.

New comment by darkerside in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

darkerside — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:05:46 +0000

History bears out that cheap and satisficing soundly beats expensive and optimal every time. Until we have smarter and more prescient decision makers in leadership, the bottleneck on output will be the quality of decision making not the quality of code. Trying more things faster and cheaper will win.

New comment by darkerside in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

darkerside — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:04:49 +0000

If it were really groundbreaking, I imagine it wouldn't have burned out after a little missed hype. See No Man's Sky.

The other way to look at this is, thank goodness we didn't waste months or years on a failed game concept. Instead we got to market and validated (or invalidated) the concept fast.

New comment by darkerside in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

darkerside — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:02:39 +0000

Marketing, networking, and sales are the job. Or a large part of it. If you don't have connections, knowing how to make connections is part of it.

Accept that there are other skills besides engineering, and they can be just as challenging to learn, and just as opaque from the outside of you don't understand it.

New comment by darkerside in "Grok 4.3"

darkerside — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:07:49 +0000

Sadly, it's more likely that people will just start talking like bots

New comment by darkerside in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four"

darkerside — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:06:21 +0000

Roald

New comment by darkerside in "A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator"

darkerside — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:59:36 +0000

How many dumb ideas that we had as kids turn out to be good

New comment by darkerside in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

darkerside — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:19:50 +0000

I'd be wary of testing this as binary. It's not self centered versus not. It's a continuum, which I think you understand because you discuss making progress.

But, what you don't seem to acknowledge is that you don't hear what you don't hear. Some groups may be quietly judging you in a way that is VERY difficult to perceive because you don't understand their subtle social cues. Or, maybe you have perfect social awareness in all situations. I truly don't know.

New comment by darkerside in "Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?"

darkerside — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:28:17 +0000

The problem with the latter has always been the same. It requires careful review to ensure that system boundaries aren't being crossed. It's very obvious if your repo sounds to access to a new database. Less so if it imports a function directly from an inappropriate package.

New comment by darkerside in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

darkerside — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:25:18 +0000

It's always been like this, just on a smaller scale. Every time you join a group, some people can read the room, learning and sensing the cultural implications, while others step in all the landmines and don't even hear the explosions. How do you do this? Not sure how to explain it, mostly calibration through experience!

New comment by darkerside in "Simple self-distillation improves code generation"

darkerside — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:32:11 +0000

Those will be great for projects that look just like everybody else's. That's not a knock. We'll see plenty of new systems built by anyone who needs one.

If you're building something groundbreaking and new, the advantage will be slim to none.

New comment by darkerside in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

darkerside — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:55:30 +0000

So the problem is these particles are literally flying off the gloves of the scientists wearing them to the point it's interfering with the experiment and so... it's less of a problem?

New comment by darkerside in "Should QA exist?"

darkerside — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:53:31 +0000

So why would you outsource it to another team that isn't doing the actual work?

New comment by darkerside in "How I write software with LLMs"

darkerside — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:50:20 +0000

I'd say it's more related to getting dressed for work even if you're remote and have no video calls