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New comment by eqmvii in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

eqmvii — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:01:14 +0000

Agents

New comment by eqmvii in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

eqmvii — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:01:00 +0000

pls hold

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/MgqpWkoeeN

New comment by eqmvii in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

eqmvii — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:10:38 +0000

I give it until Tuesday at the latest until it's accessible again.

New comment by eqmvii in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

eqmvii — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:22:13 +0000

I've seen it turn right in business contexts. Sometimes you can even lower your standard of "good enough" and find quantity has a quality all its own.

But it requires taste and engineering to do it right, and on the right things. It'll be an interesting few years.

New comment by eqmvii in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

eqmvii — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:17:19 +0000

That's more or less what Claude Cowork is.

Every serious engineer I've seen try to use it ran away screaming, because of limitations in the sandbox.

I've also seen people set their coding agents up entirely within containers -- that may be the better way going forward, but it's an extra stop and a lot of extra plumbing to maintain.

New comment by eqmvii in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

eqmvii — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:16:30 +0000

> Just getting the code to run on your laptop took a week.

This one surprised me. Claude Code in the CLI has made standing up an app and debugging whatever random dependencies or docker BS a dream compared to the before times, when you'd have to learn the architecture while simultaneously troubleshooting whatever isn't working on your machine

New comment by eqmvii in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

eqmvii — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:13:22 +0000

I think the hard part is acquiring the GPUs, first at all, then at any reasonable price.

New comment by eqmvii in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

eqmvii — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:16:29 +0000

Some business users spent ~30 minutes on an internal process, and we prototyped an "Agent" in Slack to take over. At first it didn't work, then it didn't work some more, eventually it ALMOST worked. Then one day, it worked, and the old business process died never to be revived.

Now it sits in a slack channel, and I watch it doing work, responding to ambiguity, and taking feedback/edits all day. It's unreal. It's literal magic. It saves a HUGE amount of time and gave us a pattern to do more.

This is the real deal. It's not easy to find problems with the right shape, and it's not easy to build agents that fit even when you do... but once it clicks, it clicks.

New comment by eqmvii in "Why Law Is Law-Shaped"

eqmvii — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:25:57 +0000

my favorite quote in this space has always been:

the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more profound, are what i mean by the law.

New comment by eqmvii in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

eqmvii — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:14:18 +0000

Held my breath the whole time after all the heat shield warnings. Very glad it all worked, or that there was enough margin!

New comment by eqmvii in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

eqmvii — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:27 +0000

A lot of people feel this way.

But IMO the most fruitful thing for an engineering org to do RIGHT NOW is learn the tools well enough to see where they can be best applied.

Claude Code and its ilk can turn "maybe one day" internal projects into live features after a single hour of work. You really, honestly, and truly are missing out if you're not looking for valuable things like that!

New comment by eqmvii in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

eqmvii — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:39:25 +0000

Could this be an experiment to show how likely LLMs are to lead to AGI, or at least intelligence well beyond our current level?

If you could only give it texts and info and concepts up to Year X, well before Discovery Y, could we then see if it could prompt its way to that discovery?

New comment by eqmvii in "Margin debt surges to record high"

eqmvii — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:25:15 +0000

Many people (including Michael Burry) have had this feeling over and over since 2008, and were basically always wrong! Markets are tricky beasts to predict.

New comment by eqmvii in "Digg.com is back"

eqmvii — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:48:22 +0000

I barely remember the time before reddit - crazy how the redesign seemed to kill it the first time around!

New comment by eqmvii in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

eqmvii — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:59:17 +0000

“prepare 3 envelopes” always leaves out the “what to do in case of Nazi robot” part.

New comment by eqmvii in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

eqmvii — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:57:57 +0000

surely there are better things to be commenting on?

New comment by eqmvii in "No Hello"

eqmvii — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:54:36 +0000

love this every time i see it, but haven’t yet had the courage to reply to somebody’s “hey” with it

New comment by eqmvii in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

eqmvii — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 01:05:55 +0000

Coming around to this conclusion myself after experimenting with the tools for a few weeks.

Things have changed.

New comment by eqmvii in "If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued"

eqmvii — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:02:35 +0000

It’s the difference between partnership track and various “counsel” type titles at law firms.

The former grows (or at least maintains) a book of business and is valuable, the latter has key skills and is useful but clearly not to the same degree.

And like many other contexts, the vast pipeline of people willing to dedicate their lives to trying to be useful mitigates the value of just being useful over time.

New comment by eqmvii in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

eqmvii — Sun, 25 May 2025 20:34:30 +0000

and law