Hacker News: diego

New comment by diego in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

diego — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:27:20 +0000

Meta has extremely opaque account policies. For example, I bought the Meta Raybans a month ago. It kept telling me the AI features were not available in my region, even though I am in San Francisco. I joined Facebook in 2006, and I have used my account for the Oculus headset without a problem. But no matter what I did, the AI function of the Raybans wouldn't work.

I ended up creating a brand new account just for that, and it worked fine. No idea why it would work with a brand new account and not with my old account in good standing, never suspended or warned about anything.

Can you simply brainwash an LLM?

diego — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:28:35 +0000

Article URL: https://gradientdefense.com/blog/can-you-simply-brainwash-an-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950786

Points: 84

# Comments: 68

New comment by diego in "Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s"

diego — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:10:19 +0000

I think the title just resonates. Older folks like me must reflexively upvote this stuff. I admit I do sometimes.

Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s

diego — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/why-i-am-starting-a-hardcore-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881948

Points: 55

# Comments: 34

New comment by diego in "[dead]"

diego — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:49:30 +0000

correct link, @dang please fix https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/why-i-am-starting-a-hard...

Can you simply brainwash an LLM?

diego — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://gradientdefense.com/blog/can-you-simply-brainwash-an-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865290

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by diego in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

diego — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:49:31 +0000

https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/

Lately I've been writing about AI because it's impossible not to. But I generally write shower thoughts about tech and my experiences in the industry.

New comment by diego in "Generating SQL with LLMs for fun and profit"

diego — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:51:35 +0000

No complaint. It's more of a warning about how the main players (OpenAI, LangChain) share notebooks and cookbooks that illustrate how to make the LLMs "query" the databases. At the very least one would expect some language telling people to not do that in production. And it's not unique to SQL, this is just an extreme example.

Generating SQL with LLMs for fun and profit

diego — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:39:46 +0000

Article URL: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/generating-sql-with-llms-for-fun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36440760

Points: 69

# Comments: 27

Prompt injection along with SQL injection with OpenAI functions

diego — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dbasch/status/1669821831933751298

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366301

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

On the Gullibility of Language Models

diego — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dbasch/status/1667243894835408896

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262797

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by diego in "What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups"

diego — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:04:49 +0000

tl;dr: nothing we didn't know. Since the beginning of times, startups with lots of funding have failed for a number of reasons. AI is no different in that regard.

The path to autonomous intelligent agents: what needs to happen

diego — Tue, 23 May 2023 04:17:14 +0000

Article URL: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/the-path-to-autonomous-intelligent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36039764

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

ChatGPT plugins: OpenAI's attempt to kill Google

diego — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/chatgpt-plugins-openais-attempt-to

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559670

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by diego in "Ask HN: I am a full stack developer, where do I start learning for AI"

diego — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:54:17 +0000

Seconded. Start here, and pause whenever you realize there is something that you need to learn in order to follow. Learn that and keep going.

New comment by diego in "AGI Doom and the Drake Equation"

diego — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:52:34 +0000

I had not seen that article. I'm not surprised someone had a similar idea before.

AGI Doom and the Drake Equation

diego — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:07:29 +0000

Article URL: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/agi-doom-and-the-drake-equation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484811

Points: 31

# Comments: 112

New comment by diego in "What it feels like to work in AI right now"

diego — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:05:10 +0000

If you try Bard or Claude or character.ai they are not far behind GPT4. They might even be on par in terms of raw LLM capabilities. ChatGPT has better marketing and in some cases better UX. A lot of this is self-fulfilling. We think it's far ahead, so it appears to be far ahead.

New comment by diego in "You probably shouldn't use OpenAI's embeddings"

diego — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:07:03 +0000

That's exactly what I did here. https://github.com/dbasch/semantic-search-tweets

You probably shouldn't use OpenAI's embeddings

diego — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:49:28 +0000

Article URL: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/should-you-use-openais-embeddings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35377935

Points: 71

# Comments: 29