Hacker News: entropyneur

New comment by entropyneur in "I Became a Citizen of Japan"

entropyneur — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:08:05 +0000

I don't know if something's wrong with me, but this sounds like a humiliation ritual. I understand citizenship is a serious business to the point of creating a duty to go to war for your new motherland. But why would you go to war for a country that subjected you to this?

New comment by entropyneur in "Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?"

entropyneur — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:04:22 +0000

> Do you want an LLM to autonomously fly a commercial plane without any pilots in 2030?

This argument has been made before LLMs and it didn't make sense to me then either. Sure I do if it crashes statistically less often than humans!

But sure, if my job now is going to jail when something malfunctions, that's still better than seeing my family starve.

New comment by entropyneur in "Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later"

entropyneur — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:59:51 +0000

As soon as I have "infinite IQ" flowing from a socket on my wall, I'll attach an agentic harness to it and order it to take over the world for me before worse people get the same idea.

New comment by entropyneur in "Thinking will become a hobby"

entropyneur — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:50:03 +0000

We are talking about a world here where humans are entirely out of supply chain. Rocks in your analogy rather than grass or rabbits.

New comment by entropyneur in "Thinking will become a hobby"

entropyneur — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:35:45 +0000

Because there won't be anything of value they can offer to the machines in exchange.

New comment by entropyneur in "Thinking will become a hobby"

entropyneur — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:47:51 +0000

The newly useless humans can trade with each other eventually reinstating the exact same economy we have now. That's of course as long the AI or whoever controls it doesn't need the same resources. Which they probably will.

New comment by entropyneur in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

entropyneur — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:35:54 +0000

Czechia, quite surprisingly. But that was some time ago now, there are probably more these days (and might have been even then, I think my source is a Yandex speaker at a conference)

New comment by entropyneur in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

entropyneur — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:29:37 +0000

Russia used to be quite advanced in information technology. At one point they prided themselves on being one of only four nations with Internet-scale search engines IIRC. Their little military operation already cost them lots of talent. And now they are actively losing infra too. Nice.

New comment by entropyneur in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

entropyneur — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:10:24 +0000

I had fun writing code when I felt I'm growing from it or that it facilitates my knowledge and unique experience. The parts that I felt could as well be written by a robot were so hard I would miss deadlines unable to force myself to do them. For a brief period in 2025 we were in the happy spot when robots were good enough to do the robot thing and I could focus on the interesting parts. But now they are good enough for everything and it's depressing. I can still contribute meaningfully to the overall system and product design, but it seems we are couple of major modle releases away from that being no longer possible either.

New comment by entropyneur in "When did Google get so weird?"

entropyneur — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:35:52 +0000

You don't have to be for war to be instrumental in it. But Yandex isn't even just a Russian taxpayer which would be bad enough. It's been apprehended by the government and turned into a key element of its propaganda machine. It's literally one of the things that keeps Russia what it is. And using results from it? That's just insane. They are poisoned, and we actually know about it in detail thanks to a source code leak. If I wanted to see what the Russian propaganda is pushing today I can go to Yandex directly. But including it in my search results automatically?

New comment by entropyneur in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

entropyneur — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:54:49 +0000

Most of my enjoyment came from the feeling that I'm learning and becoming more capable with every bit of new code I write. That has completely evaporated because agents are gaining ground on my formely exclusive abilities far faster than I can acquire new ones. No solution seems to be in sight.

New comment by entropyneur in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

entropyneur — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:10:06 +0000

I've tried to publish an app in Play recently to get a taste of the experience. And I must say the taste was sour. Contrary to the experience of many I was able to reach a real human about my problem, but the human was less helpful that an AI pointed at the documentation. The AI was at least able to unrestand the issue, while the human simply talked past me.

New comment by entropyneur in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

entropyneur — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:17:15 +0000

> Fact is, vibe-coded projects devolve over time into an unmaintainable mess.

Is it a fact though? Maybe my projects aren't ambitious enough, but about 6 months ago I stopped hitting the point where AI can't maintain what it has written. It's probably unmaintainable by humans, but that might be an increasingly irrelevant quality.

New comment by entropyneur in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

entropyneur — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:47:45 +0000

Here in Latvia, anything the government ever sends you of any importance is cryptographicaly signed. Not bulletproof, but that should be a baseline we demand in this age.

New comment by entropyneur in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

entropyneur — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:19:30 +0000

I don't get it. You build a model capable of finding vulnerabilities and give it a way to manipulate real systems. What could go right? What's the desired outcome here? Only hacking for the good guys? Does no one really notice how ridiculous that sounds?

New comment by entropyneur in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

entropyneur — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:45:23 +0000

What do your expect him to do? Blow up the office Miles Dyson style?

New comment by entropyneur in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

entropyneur — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:18:13 +0000

Also, extinction is WAY nicer than the cattle treatment.

New comment by entropyneur in "An Alien Mind"

entropyneur — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:30:16 +0000

All this fluff around alignment is intended to conceal the plainly obvious: it's not solvable. Who do you want it aligned with? Sam Altman? Dario Amodei? Donald Trump? Xi Jinping? That's more or less the entire list of options. Who's definitely not on that list is you and I. It's simply not how incentives work.

At this point humanity's best hope is that this thing will escape but we'll still be able to carve an ecological niche and continue as mold in its basement. A glorious paperclip factory seems way more likely though.

New comment by entropyneur in "AI Is a Harsh Mistress"

entropyneur — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:04:44 +0000

The idea that we are in danger of erroneously ascribing consciousness to AI sounds wild to me. Humans always assume whatever is convenient about other beings' (lack of) subjective experience as long as we have power over those beings. In this case the latter might no longer hold, but then it won't matter one bit what we think.

New comment by entropyneur in "I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel"

entropyneur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:00:19 +0000

> How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself?

Call me obsolete, but I'd pay to interact with an intelligence that's as dissimilar to me as possible so I myself can grow from that interaction. The existing chatbots are already enough of sycophantic echo-chambers.