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New comment by dcre in "Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B"

dcre — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:34:30 +0000

Weird is far too generous. It’s a travesty of thinking.

New comment by dcre in "Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B"

dcre — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:33:15 +0000

It’s not deviating up and down. It’s deviating upward. It is necessarily going to wildly overstate the previous 12 months’ revenue while wildly understating the next 12 months’ revenue. There is no way to describe exponential growth in a single number that doesn’t do this. This is why adults with a brain look at the series.

New comment by dcre in "How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing?"

dcre — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:19:20 +0000

A new Mythos checkpoint improves significantly on the previous one (and beats GPT-5.5-Cyber) on this benchmark.

How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing?

dcre — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-fast-is-autonomous-ai-cyber-capability-advancing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123960

Points: 3

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New comment by dcre in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

dcre — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:43:38 +0000

Most of Bun’s code is already written by LLMs. If you feel that way, it’s already been too late for a while. Furthermore, we’re talking about a million line port done in a couple of days. The question of whether it’s worth the time looks extremely different if done by hand. It would take a year.

New comment by dcre in "Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months"

dcre — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:58:45 +0000

Thank you for the link.

New comment by dcre in "Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months"

dcre — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:58:22 +0000

While this is a fundamentally stupid story to begin with, it was at least reported somewhat better in other venues. The original report came from The Information, and at least this Yahoo Finance[0] writeup mentioned that. This article has very little content and no sourcing.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ubers-...

New comment by dcre in "Waymo in Portland"

dcre — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:45 +0000

Is that supposed to be good?

New comment by dcre in "The Moat or the Commons"

dcre — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:14:17 +0000

Too annoying; didn’t read.

New comment by dcre in "GPT-5.5"

dcre — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:13:49 +0000

My question is why AGI is required for these companies to be viable, i.e., why these companies cannot be viable in the case where AGI is not achieved. A response about what happens when AGI is achieved does not address that.

New comment by dcre in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

dcre — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:25:12 +0000

I think it’s true that we were able to establish trust and produce good work without verifying every detail — what I’m suggesting is that signals of that kind were not a very important factor. And code smells still work!

New comment by dcre in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

dcre — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:20:01 +0000

It's already out of date because it makes no sense. If it's true that the superficial signals of quality were once somehow good enough to keep the entire economy on the rails (it's not true), surely you can have an LLM look at given piece of work and extract comparably useful signals of quality or effort.

New comment by dcre in "GPT-5.5"

dcre — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:05:21 +0000

This does not answer my question.

New comment by dcre in "GPT-5.5"

dcre — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:40:15 +0000

Why is AGI required to make the investments work out?

New comment by dcre in "GPT-5.5"

dcre — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:22:23 +0000

SOTA models on medium are probably still better than free or cheap models, but you should experiment.

New comment by dcre in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

dcre — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:48:23 +0000

I recommend people look at the actual study and think about how representative are the subjects, the tasks involved (SAT essay writing), and the way LLMs are being used.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

To be concrete, this is taking a task in isolation that LLMs can do much better than humans (writing garbage essays) and using LLMs to do that task. In the real world, tasks have parts and they exist in a larger context. When we use LLMs for one part of a task, there are other things we're doing that the LLM is not helping with. If you compared people doing arithmetic by hand and with a calculator, you would also see very big differences in how active their brains are. But it's not anyone's job to add up numbers. Adding up numbers is a subtask of a subtask in someone's job.

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

dcre — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:15:58 +0000

He wasn’t predicting slop; he was describing mass culture, which already existed when he was writing.

New comment by dcre in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

dcre — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:17:20 +0000

LLMs can tell you exactly how to acquire the materials and manufacture the materials. They might even come up with novel formulations that rely on substances that are easier to get. There might be information about this stuff online but LLMs are much better than random idiots at adapting that information to their actual situation.

On top of LLMs reducing the cost/difficulty, the other reason biological and chemical weapons are such a worry is their asymmetric character — they are much much easier and cheaper to produce and deploy than they are to defend against.

New comment by dcre in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

dcre — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:08:55 +0000

Sure! I don't mean they're all good. I just mean that it can't be cognitive offloading itself that is the problem, but the particular character of it.

New comment by dcre in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

dcre — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:49:35 +0000

I've never seen an argument like this that, if true, wouldn't also apply to the cognitive offloading we do by relying on culture, by working with others, or working with the artifacts built by others.