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New comment by dgemm in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

dgemm — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:22:59 +0000

They won't necessarily map out all the circuits but they will generally test them all with a tester to find wiring problems.

New comment by dgemm in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

dgemm — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:17:28 +0000

Becoming increasingly convinced that the pattern that will stick is not AI "integrated" into everything but personal agents. As in I will have one personal assistant that helps me in all of my tasks instead of using the little ones bolted on to every product.

New comment by dgemm in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

dgemm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:16:05 +0000

Similar - had an HVAC tech out to diagnose mine (some intermittent electrical problem was killing thermostats randomly) and since it was intermittent they couldn't figure it out. I ended up using Gemini to narrow down a list of potential problem components and just replacing them all which fixed the issue.

Kind of a superpower to turn anyone with a bit of tech inclination and problem solving skills into an HVAC tech - not a very good one, but one with enough motivation to get the results you need

New comment by dgemm in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

dgemm — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:51:48 +0000

Kinda tired of being inundated with low quality AI slop absolutely everywhere.

New comment by dgemm in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

dgemm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:56:49 +0000

Same - 13" macbook screen becomes less functional when you fill it with padding.

New comment by dgemm in "Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023"

dgemm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:59:19 +0000

State of the art 7 months ago is good enough for a lot of use cases.

New comment by dgemm in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

dgemm — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:53:09 +0000

I think a lot of usage will move to the cheap open weight Chinese models once there is an incentive to do that. Everything below the highest end frontier models are becoming commoditized and I suspect the commodity segment will pass the "good enough" bar for most applications.

New comment by dgemm in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

dgemm — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:38:07 +0000

This seems true for our moment in time but looking forward I'm not sure how much it will stay that way. The LLMs will inevitably need to find a sustainable business model so I can very much see them becoming enshittified similar to google eventually making 2) and 3) more similar to each other.

New comment by dgemm in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

dgemm — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:50:46 +0000

It's a forcing function that ensures the middle layers of a vertically integrated stack remain market competitive and don't stagnate because they are the default/only option

New comment by dgemm in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

dgemm — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:14:07 +0000

This is the right take - there is a huge variation in "value per dollar" across AWS services. The base ones that solve hard problems like durable persistent state can be very much worth it. They tend to be the older ones.

New comment by dgemm in "The new calculus of AI-based coding"

dgemm — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:28:11 +0000

> AI coding will make us all

I'm willing to believe it will make high-judgement autonomous people more productive, I'm less sure it will scale to everyone. The author is one of the senior-most technical staff at AWS.

New comment by dgemm in "Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region"

dgemm — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:19:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

New comment by dgemm in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

dgemm — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:26:24 +0000

I just wish the Gemini app would stop inserting and auto playing a YouTube video into nearly every response when I'm on a mobile connection. There appears to be no way to stop it.

New comment by dgemm in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

dgemm — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:26:00 +0000

RouterOS 7 with the wifiwave2 package supposedly improves on this by (finally) supporting 802.11r/k/v for roaming between APs.

I don't have any mikrotik hardware new enough to support it so I haven't tried it myself yet and documentation is (as usual) pretty lacking, but like you I want to believe.

New comment by dgemm in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

dgemm — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:10:37 +0000

It's related to vehicle weight, electric cars can be significantly heavier.

New comment by dgemm in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024"

dgemm — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:47:44 +0000

It's super useful for maintenance, for example you can replace and upgrade the drives in place without reinstalling the system.

New comment by dgemm in "Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young"

dgemm — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:28:46 +0000

EPA and DHA actually originate in algae and seaweed which is where the fish get it from, so those are good sources too.

New comment by dgemm in "Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments"

dgemm — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:06:20 +0000

Most of these are what I'd call "cloud in name only" providers - everyone uses the term but you would have significant challenge moving a cloud workload that makes use of the higher layer abstractions to these.

New comment by dgemm in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

dgemm — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:50:42 +0000

I think the point was not that we won't still use a lot of hardware, it's that it won't necessarily always be Nvidia. Nvidia got lucky when both crypto and AI arrived because it had the best available ready-made thing to do the job, but it's not like it's the best possible thing. Crypto eventually got its ASICs that made GPUs uncompetitive after all.

New comment by dgemm in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

dgemm — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:09:19 +0000

I think less of that and more of real risks - Nvidia legitimately has the earnings right now. The question is how sustainable that is, when most of it is coming from 5 or so customers that are both motivated and capable of taking back those 90% margins for themselves