Hacker News: fearnot

New comment by fearnot in "The AI Productivity Gap"

fearnot — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:41:06 +0000

If a senior developper spends the same amount of time debugging, code reviewing, setting up CI/CD, documenting and doing admin work, he has not been using AI right.

New comment by fearnot in "Our position on open-weights models"

fearnot — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:04:29 +0000

Finally, some sense. This is the only argument I have seen that genuinely engages with the problem and approaches it with humility, rather than charging ahead on the basis of assumptions and without a shred of evidence. OpenAI should have been the one making it.

“Questions like this should be answered empirically through rigorous pre-release testing, not assumed in advance.”

Exactly.

New comment by fearnot in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

fearnot — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:31:09 +0000

Again, dynomight proves he's better than us.

New comment by fearnot in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

fearnot — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:54:44 +0000

New comment by fearnot in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

fearnot — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:54:02 +0000

I fully disagree with 1) the stance, 2) the conclusions.