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New comment by farseer in "What would you do if you have AI software that may be transformers alternative?"

farseer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:22:25 +0000

Without a usable model trained on lots of data, it would be hard to give a demo.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?"

farseer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:43:21 +0000

To add to that, you can always make your drone/bot loiter for a while before getting a fix.

New comment by farseer in "Altman takes jab at Anthropic, says gov't should be more powerful than companies"

farseer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:47:16 +0000

Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), or Dutch East India Company

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?"

farseer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:42:58 +0000

The frontier of how good models are also shifts and will remain ahead of local models unless we hit some dead end limitation in the algorithms themselves. A ceiling so to speak on how good LLM can get before the law of diminishing returns starts to apply.

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

farseer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:21:49 +0000

Is the discussion supposed to go back into some training set? Or this is only for humor?

New comment by farseer in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

farseer — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:19:38 +0000

I think it would be the opposite and we are all in for a rude awakening. If you have tried playing with Opus 4.6 you would know what I am talking about.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services?"

farseer — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:48:28 +0000

Yup, because LLM inference can be scaled by adding racks of hardware. Consulting can't be.

New comment by farseer in "[dead]"

farseer — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:51:07 +0000

Generative AI has failed to replace SaaS so far...It has disrupted plenty of other lower verticals in writing, proof reading, translation, graphics design, tutorials, searching case law etc. Unless the progress stops, you can't assume LLM efficacy has hit a ceiling.

Agents, properly setup can partially accomplish what you described already.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: If OpenAI stops its free Web service (ChatGPT)"

farseer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:02:38 +0000

Their competitor is Google, which has already baked AI into search and allows you to talk to Gemini separately as well. Google already makes a hundred billion a year from text search and won't stop a free Gemini which adds value to their search. What makes you say that?

Also Deepseek and Alibaba would love to capture OpenAI users.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: If Everyone Can "Build" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?"

farseer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:47:57 +0000

Large software platforms with their own ecosystems will be spared this fate. Mostly because AI can only create small and trivial apps and further model improvement in context size or otherwise may not be forthcoming so easily.

So large software platforms, think Jira/Confluence, MS Teams, SAP etc are not affected. But AI will definitely eat the solo dev SaaS, especially those handling trivial use cases.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: What are the most significant man-made creations to date?"

farseer — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:00:09 +0000

Mine are energy related:

1. The Steam engine and later ICE engines that started and sustained the industrial revolution and the modern world.

2. Electricity (generation, control), this led to the telegraph (our first internet), radio, and of-course electrical switching components that form basis of modern semiconductors.

New comment by farseer in "Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode"

farseer — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:23:49 +0000

Is there 8087 IP available in verilog etc?

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?"

farseer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:31:08 +0000

SAP has some competitors for its smaller offerings. Odoo, OpenProject etc. But to replace a full scale SAP for an MNC with worldwide logistics and billions in sales, you will need well another SAP.

New comment by farseer in "Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts"

farseer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:23:00 +0000

You are asking Intel to become Apple, sort of. Without control over any of the software that runs on their processors.

New comment by farseer in "Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts"

farseer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:19:52 +0000

Yes this would drive away their customers to AMD. I am thinking Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer would not take it very well.

New comment by farseer in "Iran has now been offline for 96 hours"

farseer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:58:19 +0000

You are partially right, Israel does want to subdue the middle east and Iran stands in the way. However that does not absolve the current Iranian government of being a despicable entity, mostly hated by its own people. I hope the Iranian people choose democracy, limit the Ayatollahs to their holy city in Qom like the Vatican, tell that rascal Shah's son to go fornicate himself and of-course continue putting a necessary check on Israeli expansionism.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?"

farseer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:28:56 +0000

>>since salary is barely competitive even if you are a top performer getting special stock awards

People sitting outside FANG/NAMAMA still drool over those barely competitive salaries you speak of.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

farseer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:56:31 +0000

I have seen my uncle do it. He is a corporate finance consultant. He simply opens his laptop or phone and starts working on random things, replying to e-mails, making presentations, scheduling appointments, creating/closing tasks on client PM/ERP software. Sometimes for as little as 3 minutes.

As a developer, for the longest time I thought why tf can't I be as productive! Then I realized the rev up time for my line of work is not like his. By the time my brain switches context to work on code, those 5 minutes are up.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?"

farseer — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:38:26 +0000

Overall IQ of the crowd also helps.

New comment by farseer in "Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?"

farseer — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:25:18 +0000

This! I still come back to SO, but only after exhausting all AI proposed solutions across multiple models.