Hacker News: dgfitz

New comment by dgfitz in "OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon"

dgfitz — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:18:52 +0000

> I’ll find you a buyer…I just—enough,’ Altman said on Gerstner’s podcast.”

Hopefully nobody reading this has experienced it: these are the words of a true sociopath/addict.

"I'm mad you questioned me" is fucking classic.

I told dang I was out and I am after this. Sorry dang.

New comment by dgfitz in "State of AI Report 2025"

dgfitz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:51:48 +0000

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New comment by dgfitz in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

dgfitz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:58:28 +0000

Isn’t that the current status quo?

New comment by dgfitz in "AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

dgfitz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:57:29 +0000

You understand that an LLM can only poorly regurgitate whatever it’s fed right? An LLM will _always_ be less useful than a primary/secondary source, because they can’t fucking think.

New comment by dgfitz in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

dgfitz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:25:59 +0000

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New comment by dgfitz in "State of AI Report 2025"

dgfitz — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:04:58 +0000

You’re right. Nothing resembling ”I” exists when shat out from an LLM.

New comment by dgfitz in "Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents"

dgfitz — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:54:30 +0000

I’ve never worked in such a space where the deployed environment had unfettered internet access, no access at all actually.

I’ve probably missed a huge wave of programming technology because of this, and I’ve figured out a way to make it work for a consistent paycheck over these past 20 years.

I’m also not a great example, I think I’ve watched 7 whole hours of YouTube videos ever, and those were all for car repair help.

I shy away from tech that needs to be online/connected/whatever.

New comment by dgfitz in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

dgfitz — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:38:39 +0000

I believe that the M in LLM stands for model. It is a statistical model, as it always has been.

New comment by dgfitz in "Elixir 1.19"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:18:25 +0000

C++11 fucking with strings also comes to mind.

New comment by dgfitz in "Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:07:22 +0000

I have small amounts of eczema on unfortunate spots. It comes and goes usually based on stress and inflammation. Been dealing with it for decades. It stinks.

I’m half tempted to buy myself a copper plate to stand on.

New comment by dgfitz in "A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:24:17 +0000

Going to college usually means you work the same job after college, just with a lot more debt.

New comment by dgfitz in "State of AI Report 2025"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:58:52 +0000

The headline is flawed, nothing that exists today is relatively close to “AI” unfortunately.

New comment by dgfitz in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:54:32 +0000

I thought that, an an American. Then I went to Paris in 2013, and realized it was a learned trait!

New comment by dgfitz in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:26:24 +0000

Remember: if you have a phone, you have a lawyer.

New comment by dgfitz in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:17:18 +0000

As long as you realize this is opinion, sure thing.

New comment by dgfitz in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:32:05 +0000

> America just sucks for foodies who don't have unlimited time to get through the slop.

I think by definition, being a “foodie” means you have, and enjoy finding, the time to sort the wheat from the chaff. Nobody has unlimited time for anything.

“I want to be be a ‘foodie’ but really I just want to be judgy” is a weak argument.

New comment by dgfitz in "A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:22:19 +0000

At the morning standup:”OK team I need all of you to post positive reviews and use your network to accomplish that as you see fit.”

New comment by dgfitz in "Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA"

dgfitz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:20:41 +0000

Yeah, it’s like saying Netflix doesn’t create value, or Universal Pictures doesn’t create value. I do not agree with the GP. As far as I can tell, openAI has created very, very negative value as of today, financially.

New comment by dgfitz in "C++26: range support for std:optional"

dgfitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:03:01 +0000

Correct, they have been around for a lot longer than rust.

New comment by dgfitz in "Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI"

dgfitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:45:47 +0000

Is this a “you’re holding it wrong, you idiot” post?