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New comment by daveguy in "The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea"

daveguy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:58:23 +0000

Doesn't matter if it was a partial stolen solution instead of a complete stolen solution. It's the stealing part that matters.

New comment by daveguy in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

daveguy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:23:43 +0000

I'm going to guess part of the influence campaign is getting stories like this removed from the front page of HN as quickly as possible:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-...

eg:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814211

Not even flagged, just disappeared.

New comment by daveguy in "The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea"

daveguy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:30:49 +0000

Well, this one got disappeared from the front page fast.

New comment by daveguy in "The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea"

daveguy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:08:34 +0000

Spoiler: openai could neither confirm nor deny that the model that "solved" navier stokes was trained on the chat logs of the mathematicians who did solve it using a similar technique.

New comment by daveguy in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

daveguy — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:10:46 +0000

1) Those problems did not go away. They only "went away" if you assume no one will ever need to read code again. And if you believe that, you clearly aren't reading the code already. Which I guess is why you think naming and architecture problems went away. AI is the absolute worst at architecture decisions.

2) not even sure what you mean by this

3) probably shouldn't admit that. It implies the reviewer has a less than average understanding of the code they're reviewing.

4) preventing and managing vibe code devolving into a pile of slop requires programmers not use AI. 80% accuracy repeated in more and more layers === more and more failures. In other words, the skill required is exactly the skill of being a good programmer without AI.

5) e) no AI all the time or only use AI as search. You're almost there with a and b. With c, it just doesn't understand well enough to "quiz you". With d, how are you going to know if the docs are correct if you aren't reading the slop?

New comment by daveguy in "Grok 4.7"

daveguy — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:33:36 +0000

Hahaha. I remember when musk and his merry band of sycophants were bragging about grok producing the only physically accurate bicycle. What happened?

New comment by daveguy in "Prompts aren’t Real"

daveguy — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:51:27 +0000

Maybe a better approach would be to stop trying to get a product out of a slot machine?

New comment by daveguy in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

daveguy — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:25:47 +0000

LLM chatbots are software designed to manipulate, addict, and mine data. Just like social media before it. But anyone who bothers to read the output in a domain they understand will discover they aren't all that no matter who OpenAI steals research from.

New comment by daveguy in "OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week"

daveguy — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:16:20 +0000

Please tell me they are going to have independent computer scientists and security experts to ask questions that expose the doomerism/"rationalist" LessWrong bullshit. Please don't just let him spew talking points designed to make a deflating bubble look like a good thing.

New comment by daveguy in "The Millennium Problems for Biology"

daveguy — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:37:03 +0000

You'd think that believing they are going to destroy humanity would motivate them.

New comment by daveguy in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

daveguy — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:11:42 +0000

Seems these things about genAI are fairly well established at this point. Hence the vast majority disapproval of genAI being forced on users and broad rejection of AI data centers. Did you have a substantive response for any of the three major negatives, or just your own low-effort, low-care dismissal?

New comment by daveguy in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

daveguy — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:59:25 +0000

It's all of the above. The unreliable empty garbage they barf out, threats to destroy jobs for oligarch asshat profit, and the resource hungry pillaging of neighborhoods. Oh, yeah, and also the crappy mush up of stolen art.

New comment by daveguy in "The DeepMind Institute"

daveguy — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:54:58 +0000

We have been able to stage reckless experiments with janky tools the entire time. Used to be it got you thrown in jail or at least a visit by the FBI. Says more about the tech bro dipshits than the tech, if you ask me.

New comment by daveguy in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

daveguy — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:07:21 +0000

Thank you to the author for disclosing slop writing up front. I appreciate you respecting your readers time.

New comment by daveguy in "The DeepMind Institute"

daveguy — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:54:15 +0000

And yet, curiously, they fall flat on their silicone asses until they have a copy of the test to "train on".

New comment by daveguy in "The DeepMind Institute"

daveguy — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:49:15 +0000

75 years and counting and considering we don't have any plan to get to a single one of those things, I'm going to say 75 years. Computation alone is at least 30 years. You may not appreciate the complexity of biological systems, but single cell organisms have more capability to adapt than LLMs.

New comment by daveguy in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

daveguy — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:38:24 +0000

Isn't that primarily what they offer anyway? So "subscription required" would check that box.

New comment by daveguy in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

daveguy — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:00:49 +0000

Maybe they'll ask for a "slower pace of development" so it doesn't look as much like they're just asking for new regulatory barriers on their competition.

New comment by daveguy in "AI is breaking our proxies for expertise"

daveguy — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:34:14 +0000

I am 100% certain the code you write by hand will be better quality, even with AI pointing out options, than letting the AI string together completely obtuse abstractions.

New comment by daveguy in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

daveguy — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:11:18 +0000

Yup. More hype mania from someone with a financial interest in people abdicating their thought to AI.