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I Sent an AI to My Job Interview. So Did the Company. [video]

doctoboggan — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fECnj5sas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075942

Points: 1

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New comment by doctoboggan in "Apple HomeView"

doctoboggan — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:46:15 +0000

I was also really hoping they’d release a completely redesigned Apple home app. The current one is simply not that good.

New comment by doctoboggan in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

doctoboggan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:02:55 +0000

Yes, I am projecting out into the future, not talking about the current state. I said "might be the first".

New comment by doctoboggan in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

doctoboggan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:00:34 +0000

> A band can be entirely findable in 2006 and entirely gone by 2026 depending on which technologies they happened to pick.

This is interesting, and in some cases desirable. I wonder what technology choices one could make today if they wanted to have an internet presence now but not have it stored forever. Would that even be possible today?

New comment by doctoboggan in "Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop"

doctoboggan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:57:15 +0000

I am not so sure that's true. Even if AI intelligence were to plateau at today's levels, there are still many gains to be had in speeding up today's intelligences. ASICs with burned in weights could become economical to invest in as they would retain usefulness longer than 18 months, and I feel we have only scratched the surface on possible usecases of local AI and what it means for almost any technology product or interface.

New comment by doctoboggan in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

doctoboggan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:52:44 +0000

It's been very interesting watching Tao's evolution on his thinking on LLMs. Of course the LLMs have themselves evolved so that shouldn't come as a surprise.

The job of professional mathematician might be the first to be completely eliminated by LLMs, save for those who can make money from a patron. I am hoping they are able to figure something out to save their profession, as other professions could use it as a blueprint as AI comes for them next.

New comment by doctoboggan in "The evolution of effective altruism"

doctoboggan — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:20:00 +0000

You are conflating "important" with "good", which I don't think the author was intending.

New comment by doctoboggan in "Sonnet 5.5"

doctoboggan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:23:51 +0000

I am mostly at the same point right now you are, but I think in the future with those "gas town" ideas we might be managing even more agents each.

Also, I've recently begun experimenting with specific tasked agents running on a cron like timer for non-dev work. (checking emails, managing small business tasks, etc). Once I started using Claude code in this way, the number of agents I can imagine running has skyrocketed. So I guess what I am saying is that I look forward even cheaper tokens going forward.

New comment by doctoboggan in "Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)"

doctoboggan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:23:06 +0000

Other than what the others mentioned about finding more efficient representations, you can also compress by pre-agreeing on some common terminology.

In many ways, we are communicating using a compressed channel (words) since we both have pre-agreed on the meaning of these words.

New comment by doctoboggan in "The Test"

doctoboggan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:15:20 +0000

I honestly haven't done enough thinking on it, but it doesn't strike me a priori as ridiculous to limit people's ownership of these nation-sized companies, and to possibly limit the size of the company as well

New comment by doctoboggan in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

doctoboggan — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:11:56 +0000

If an amazing drug or other therapeutic falls out of this I bet they would be happy to own it outright.

New comment by doctoboggan in "Strands Harness"

doctoboggan — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:43:53 +0000

I believe that you just want to make a really good harness, but is that all amazon wants it to be or do they want more?

New comment by doctoboggan in "Claude Opus 5.5"

doctoboggan — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:37:03 +0000

Have you ever heard someone say “pace yourself” when you are eating too fast or otherwise rushing too much?

New comment by doctoboggan in "Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"

doctoboggan — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:10:49 +0000

This is why the chrome driver plugin and similar tools are so important. The site shouldn't know or care if its me or my agent working on my behalf.

New comment by doctoboggan in "The Millennium Problems for Biology"

doctoboggan — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:24:01 +0000

Someone should make the millennium problems for AI alignment so the frontier labs will actually try to solve that problem.

New comment by doctoboggan in "Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds"

doctoboggan — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:41:16 +0000

Does each separate “organ” here have any relationship to the two separate functions identified in “Thinking, Fast and Slow”?

New comment by doctoboggan in "How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine"

doctoboggan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:02:05 +0000

> I thought that the standard line is that 3d printing metal wasn't developed enough for anything serious.

This hasn't been true for over a decade. High value relative to weight, highly complicated internal geometry, or repeated need for one off parts are all reasons to choose 3d printing today for production parts.

New comment by doctoboggan in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

doctoboggan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:48:02 +0000

Nit, I know, but I don't think they are trained on too much pretentious writing so much as they are RLHF'd into it because that writing impresses people.

New comment by doctoboggan in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

doctoboggan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:44:25 +0000

> a sort of epistemic performance art project.

Agreed, and it's a wonderful piece of art. I look forward to seeing the actual publication and reaction from the math community.

Why the Navier-Stokes Equations Are So Hard [video]

doctoboggan — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:54:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWR1rQEWYo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746436

Points: 3

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