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New comment by drltaidev in "Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans?"

drltaidev — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:23:28 +0000

Indeed. If current frontier models are already so disruptive now, we may have vastly better models in a few years but also the current models will have become significantly cheaper. Exponential growth (or shrinkage) is definitely at play here, and should not be underestimated.

New comment by drltaidev in "Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?"

drltaidev — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:21:38 +0000

In a way I wish this would become true, and to some extent I believe it will (excitement will go down, and some part of the bubble will burst). But I can't fully see it happening this way, these tools are just so disruptive in so many different areas... perhaps not all, but it can speed up the development of almost anything so I don't see it disappearing. I hope it'll help improving its own efficiency as well so we can still get rid of some of the datacenters (or at least stop building more of them), but I don't see it going away as "just another tool", it really sits on top of other tools I think.

New comment by drltaidev in "Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?"

drltaidev — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:18:43 +0000

What makes this hard to predict is that it's a question about human behaviour as much as about technology... if we do it well, I don't think AI should take everyone's job but it should certainly make our jobs more fun and give us more free time. But when did humanity really do things well...

On the other hand, jobs are about money in the end, who spends money? Humans, not AI (I mean, AI does but still ultimately because humans wanted it to). Products & services sell because humans want or value them. Since the technology/building side becomes so cheap (especially in software), who will actually earn money is determined by who can produce stuff/services that humans actually want to pay for (not what they actually need, but what they think they need/want). I'd say that should keep a large human component in decision making, at least on a strategic level. On a tactical and detailed implementation level, yeah AI is gonna be doing most of the work.

New comment by drltaidev in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

drltaidev — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:49:32 +0000

"polarization, explained"

New comment by drltaidev in "Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key"

drltaidev — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:43:15 +0000

I like the idea, I definitely think there is potential in apps helping with teaching music, of course this isn't anything new, but the direct feedback possibilities have improved a lot with recent ML / AI advancements. As others said, singing is so much more than just hitting the right notes of course, so understanding the scope of the tool is important. But still, it's a neat idea. It's awesome that AI coding tools have made it so much easier to work out these ideas... but also tricky because everyone seems to make their own now, and it's not even per se the best ones that survive.

I've thought about these kinds of apps a lot recently, and am also working on some (not for singing though), I have a programming background (and a PhD in Machine Learning) but still I am impressed by what Claude Code can do so I'm hardly writing a single line of code myself any more. Asking for the right things is still important of course.