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New comment by dragandj in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

dragandj — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:43:27 +0000

I know, but really, in the 21st century, aren't there many substitutes for whatever pop-hype we're talking about? Not enough worlds with wizards, or swords, or dragons, or whatever you like?

New comment by dragandj in "Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"

dragandj — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:17:33 +0000

I don't think local models would require hardware at nearly the scale that the datacenter buildout for OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. required. Nvidia got as high as the Icarus, it will be hard not to melt, despite they being a real company with real product that is so in demand that you can't buy their hardware even when you're willing to pay above the recommended price. They are addicted to billions, and the cold turkey clean-up will be painful as hell.

New comment by dragandj in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

dragandj — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:41:00 +0000

They DO vote with their wallets, though. They're still buying that crap, don't they?

New comment by dragandj in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

dragandj — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:15:50 +0000

Who (what) would all these middle managers manage? Agents? Why? If agents were so capable, they'd sure be capable of managing themselves or each other...

New comment by dragandj in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

dragandj — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:04 +0000

/s I thought AI can now give us the source of any binary? What happened to all the vibe coded Nvidia/CUDA drivers?

New comment by dragandj in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

dragandj — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:30:51 +0000

That's because it's AI-slopped.

Clojurists Together Short Term Project Updates

dragandj — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:21:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/august-2026-short-term-project-updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433575

Points: 1

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New comment by dragandj in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

dragandj — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:20:59 +0000

Luckily, the jargon in the vibe coding space go away even sooner than it comes :)

New comment by dragandj in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

dragandj — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:59:08 +0000

At this point I would hold that silly sounding message in a much higher regard than I would hold AI slop.

New comment by dragandj in "Extensible Software in the age of LLMs"

dragandj — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:21:26 +0000

> It's not 1990 anymore and my computer has gigabytes, not megabytes of ram.

And these gigabytes get used up really quickly when the LLM goes brrrr. And with this 500% surge in RAM prices, I don't think it's still enough to just buy more.

New comment by dragandj in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

dragandj — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:17:01 +0000

... and I suppose the solution for these particular conditions is.... drumrolls... stablecoins? They are allowed? Available everywhere? Accepted everywhere? Totaly safe from disappearing overnight?

New comment by dragandj in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

dragandj — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:58:22 +0000

The global poor already had ways to store value in dollars. They could simply exchange whatever meager savings they had into... real dollars! And they have been doing that for decades. I don't know whether anyone in the west really believes in this bullshit of cryptocurrencies that give the global poor options.

New comment by dragandj in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

dragandj — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:38:18 +0000

... and by the year 50, they will be a trillion times more productive?

New comment by dragandj in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

dragandj — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:04:16 +0000

It depends. What if Aldi bled a trillion dollars for this revenue of $120B? Would it be a desirable purchase?

New comment by dragandj in "Why Janet? (2023)"

dragandj — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:30:27 +0000

Yes it is, because as soon as programmers step out of the most basic language level (which is kinda similar in most mainstream languages) there's a bunch of wildly different concepts, with wildly different ways of writing them. Writing them in isolation might be manageable, but it's combining them effectively that gets hairy very quickly, unless one is very experienced in said language. But then, translating that to OTHER languages becomes a bar that is too high!

New comment by dragandj in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

dragandj — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:49:27 +0000

What happens when Anthropic decides that the free hay time is over, and it's milking time?

New comment by dragandj in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

dragandj — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:35:09 +0000

LLMs can and will provide inaccurate answers to questions where data is included in their training sets too, that's in the nature of neural networks. It's just less likely that when the data is not in the training set...

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

dragandj — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990789

Points: 145

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New comment by dragandj in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

dragandj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:54:11 +0000

I forgot to put /s in my comment :)

New comment by dragandj in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

dragandj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:51:32 +0000

None of the numerous existing human-coded X11 tray icons showing battery charge level is good for you? Why? What are they missing?