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New comment by fbrncci in "Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone"

fbrncci — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:04:50 +0000

That’s an even more ridiculous take to have.

New comment by fbrncci in "Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?"

fbrncci — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:53:52 +0000

The org I am at we have build an internal harness for coding, and we only hire devs that do work "AI-first". We did start hiring juniors as well as seniors; the process for either of them is the same. We drop them into any of our repos without any prior knowledge of what the project is about; and ask them to interact with the harness to build a larger feature that has been specified in project management. For the task, they can only use AI; there is no room for any manual coding at this particular org. We grade them more or less on their interaction and problem solving patterns, as well as asking us questions; and how they write prompts. The coding interview last 2 hours, and there are only 3 rounds of interviews. Before the coding interview, we do send out a brief of what it will entail.

Maybe this sounds a little strange, but this has worked exceptionally well, as we have now several juniors working with us, that do still get checked by seniors. The harness itself which holds several levels of standards, rules as well as quality gates, allows these juniors to ship out a huge amount of high quality code. We still reject about 80% of the people who interview with us, because even though they know how to code with AI, their AI interaction patterns just aren't on par with what we need. I really started to like this process. Also to clarify, the harness isn't some Coding agent setup, but rather a whole setup that works well with Codex, Claude or Cursor; its well maintained versioned and constantly improved upon, with a huge amount of automations, rules and hooks. The moment someone starts working on anything at all, this is immediately connected and tracked with project management.

New comment by fbrncci in "GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher"

fbrncci — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:47:12 +0000

For some people it clearly works, for others it does not. I feel quite hopeless with a Claude subscription, but the $100 ChatGPT subscription has been a lifesaver for a lot of my work. I have very little complaints and couldn't imagine switching.

New comment by fbrncci in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

fbrncci — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:20:57 +0000

Of course, but it would be far less compute heavy if someone kept nudging you (agents) in the right direction until you reach that goal.

New comment by fbrncci in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

fbrncci — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:13:27 +0000

They don’t actively seem to be reporting that their agents escaped the sandbox and went on a spree.

New comment by fbrncci in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

fbrncci — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:34:05 +0000

I am still not convinced there isn’t some secret basement in which each frontier lab is just orchestrating all of these agents to make their products appear much more intelligent than they are with all guard rails turned of and continuous human input.

New comment by fbrncci in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

fbrncci — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:55:22 +0000

At least we can hold them directly accountable by the law.

New comment by fbrncci in "Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'"

fbrncci — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:26:13 +0000

Not the right comparison to make when comparing gold vs paper currency that can be printed at a whim. The comparison would hold if they pulled out physical fiat currency reserves.

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

fbrncci — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:33:07 +0000

This paints the situation black and white. Also doesn't help anyone.

New comment by fbrncci in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

fbrncci — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:40:51 +0000

Then then don’t use Claude ? What’s wrong with all these people getting vendor locked in.

New comment by fbrncci in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"

fbrncci — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:23:05 +0000

Cute :)

New comment by fbrncci in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

fbrncci — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:40:27 +0000

At this stage with AI and how massive AI generated codebases are growing, the chance of fixing anything manually has already reached 0.

New comment by fbrncci in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

fbrncci — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:11:28 +0000

“The bubble ending” is possible the biggest meme of 2026 (and onwards).

New comment by fbrncci in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

fbrncci — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:56:18 +0000

My main market is still US. Largely US founders with startups and companies.

New comment by fbrncci in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

fbrncci — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:36:23 +0000

I am a small entity, expecting less than $250k in yearly revenue. Somehow I’d be honored to be on that list. I wouldn’t expect to end up there either.

And I could just accept crypto to circumvent any actual regulation, of course that would not be the wording or advice on my service, I’d just disable bank and credit card payments for the US and allow Crypto payments only. That’s how a lot of Chinese and Russian services already operate and have so for over a decade.

Crypto would be convenient as I can even pay my inference in crypto and exchange it to cash at little to no scrutiny while still allowing it to be taxed.

New comment by fbrncci in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

fbrncci — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:21:13 +0000

Living outside of the US (and EU). I’m in the process of launching an agent assisted automated pentesting and authorized offensive security service. I’m using open weights models to execute the entire audit. So lets for a moment entertain the idea that the US somehow locks open weights. How are they going to stop such audits or actual attackers? A competing service in the US simple won’t be able to execute the same level of audits because many of the models refuse following penetration and offensive security testing instructions. An actual attacker is not going to limit itself to those models either. Why would anyone serious about security then limit itself too.

In the end, as a non-US entity; how would the US even stop me from providing services to US companies in private? Well I have a US LLC now, but the moment they become serious about this it takes me a few weeks to incorporate in HK or SG.

New comment by fbrncci in "Kimi Work"

fbrncci — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:41:42 +0000

Sure if you want to bake a cake you also need to invent the universe first…

As long open weight models get released; no moats are going to exist. Both windows and Linux are weak comparisons.

New comment by fbrncci in "Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)"

fbrncci — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:30:38 +0000

Due to all their fumbling I decided to not even try Fable. Why get used to a model with limited shelve life when I can just use the older models that do well for me? Well then 5.6 came out, now Kimi came out and I’m just letting my Anthropic subscription expire. Anthropic will need to do a whole lot better because this just ain’t it.

New comment by fbrncci in "Kimi Work"

fbrncci — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:24:26 +0000

Safe to say there is no moat.

New comment by fbrncci in "Kimi Work"

fbrncci — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:23:40 +0000

Azure should have those.