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New comment by doc_ick in "Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering"

doc_ick — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:31:35 +0000

You say that like it’s a problem? Sounds like the junkies have to be fed one way or another.

New comment by doc_ick in "Product Managers aren't safe either"

doc_ick — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:21:15 +0000

“It’s a job that requires lots of human interaction, and this part is notoriously complicated for engineers.”

Don’t worry, human interaction is very complicated. Thankfully there are no llm models/google/xai with technology to do exactly that. Your pearls are safe.

New comment by doc_ick in "Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days"

doc_ick — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:06:19 +0000

Unless you’re able to get a patent on day one, once an idea is public potentially within the hour someone can make more money off of it and it’s not just your idea. Seems like a valid case to lock it down.

New comment by doc_ick in "Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days"

doc_ick — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:59:37 +0000

“if you are researching anything that can be applied to the industry, you will instead have 1 year of market ownership and first-mover advantage.”

I would like to disagree with you on that point. Given the very popular rise of https://rea.tools/, it appears the time to reverse engineer anything software based (up to maybe 80% or more?) could be down to minutes. With a recent example, some indie video game developers are not going to show off their video game until release as a few have been flipped and made it to market before the original developers have. Point being, a few moths of market ownership could be possible if llms can’t reverse it in any way.

New comment by doc_ick in "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"

doc_ick — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:14:05 +0000

Do we want everyone who doesn’t know how to program a car to reprogram their car? I.e. I think there should be restrictions on frontier models to ensure safety of others.

New comment by doc_ick in "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"

doc_ick — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:06:43 +0000

In no time? What are you talking about? It’d take months even with llms for it to be fully polished and tested if they started now.

New comment by doc_ick in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

doc_ick — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:49:07 +0000

“ if you're mad about your problem being solved, maybe you weren't in it for the right reasons”, politicians/financial advisors/military members/etc… would like a word with you.

New comment by doc_ick in "Bevy 0.20"

doc_ick — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:35:37 +0000

The testing harness would have to be updated per game feature and to accommodate model tendencies or quirks. This sounds like regression tests with llms and some extra steps.

New comment by doc_ick in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

doc_ick — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:26:12 +0000

I think maybe 1 or 2 of those would take more than 1 year for an mvp. I will agree with you that with LLMs it’s infinitely easier and quicker to get a low quality mvp.

New comment by doc_ick in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:15:17 +0000

So in a sense, cobol is a higher level language then both due to PIC Clauses? I don’t follow this if higher level languages is solely based on syntactic sugar.

New comment by doc_ick in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:06:40 +0000

How would rust be generally higher level then go?

New comment by doc_ick in "Bevy 0.20"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:04:33 +0000

The difference would likely not be down to a pixel, either by dependence on how a model provider feels that day, the hallucinations of the day, or just some odd tangent that would get solved by ~100x tokens for verification. The hundreds of hours of testing could all effectively be 1===1, but it all looks green.

New comment by doc_ick in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:40:30 +0000

I.e. 8. A personal example: I'm remaking the engine of an old game commercial game in rust.

You don’t need an LLM for that, just some dedicated time for it. Also your phrasing needs a lot of work. I recommend the Dale Carnegie books on communicating with others.

New comment by doc_ick in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:38:31 +0000

I don’t quite follow. If you bring software worth into question, as you pointed out everyone’s vibe coding each of your examples so their individual worth has dropped significantly (with the unknown stability of support and long term plans).

My thought was LLMs accelerate the best and worst of development, but what couldn’t be done (outside of a large lab or company) by regular humans with an infinite time scale?

New comment by doc_ick in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:31:00 +0000

I guess that analogy works if the light at the end of the tunnel is like the sun.

New comment by doc_ick in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:29:10 +0000

That’s different from what OP said, and I doubt much if anything is automated with 100% accuracy 100% of the time.

New comment by doc_ick in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

doc_ick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:22:58 +0000

It’d be a shame for researchers and society to have to burn through millions of tokens finding new advancements since people “do it for the vine “.

New comment by doc_ick in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

doc_ick — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:52:17 +0000

“If they can be automated, they are not necessary.” That’s a pretty interesting take as eventually everything could be automated.

New comment by doc_ick in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

doc_ick — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:41:09 +0000

Give us some examples of things that were not practically possible. Things are practically possible if the time or money is wisely spent, even if it takes a human a bit longer.

New comment by doc_ick in "TasteVal: Does AI have research taste?"

doc_ick — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:31:51 +0000

“To keep TasteVal uncontaminated, we do not release the tasks.” Nice