Hacker News: figers

New comment by figers in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

figers — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:51:48 +0000

People are arguing it's human level intelligence...

New comment by figers in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

figers — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:46:16 +0000

No he says in the actual talk which model it occurred on and it was an older model he was using that caused that to occur with Marseille. They have since corrected it from doing that anymore. It was only used to illustrate the prediction machine that it is...

I don't see the many weighted words as a weakness, I see it opening up what's under the hood of the prediction machine that it is.

LLMs are very cool tech, definitely not a model hater, the use case on when to use it makes a difference, it's not AGI.

New comment by figers in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

figers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:55:22 +0000

LLMs are awesome awesome tech!

A lot of people seem to think it's human level intelligence.

New comment by figers in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

figers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:08:13 +0000

fair reply to an hour video, Scott is just so good to hear his talk is better than I can explain it...

go to 24 minutes and 07 seconds.

it's statistically determining what the next word should be based on all the text it's been trained on. It's not intelligence and he shows what probability it puts on each word that it chooses, but also shows a lot of the other words it was thinking of using. In a later part he shows how it uses words that are not the highest probability (and you question why did it go this route, it's not more correct), but the user never sees this, they see what they think is the correct answer always...

he also shows how context you feed it has a lot to do with what it returns... to the point he can get it to return the capital of France is Marseille, just by typing Marseille a bunch of times before the question. Human intelligence doesn't get confused like that.

And it's not a "hallucination", it's just probability of the next token prediction based on the information it's been trained on and fed, it's not intelligence.

New comment by figers in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

figers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:29:21 +0000

watch this and see if you think it has intelligence by the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUicaho5k8

New comment by figers in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

figers — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:27:54 +0000

"been about control and their profit margins."

they have no profit margins haha, it's huge piles of cash on fire...

New comment by figers in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

figers — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:34:31 +0000

Yes I was referring to the scale of replacement these CEOs are talking about because of AI.

What you describe makes sense and has always been the case with new technology overall

New comment by figers in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

figers — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:30:55 +0000

You'd think we would see a large spike in unemployment if AI was reducing the number of employees needed for jobs the way these CEO talk about AI replacing people...

New comment by figers in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

figers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:02:59 +0000

right click on the app and select the window you want...

New comment by figers in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

figers — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:29:39 +0000

If it's tied to web APIs, libraries, or OS version feature APIs that are deprecated it will suddenly stop working.

New comment by figers in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

figers — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:20:02 +0000

I did MP3s on my plex server for a while but with endless new music added to my playlists it became a hassle and Apple Music was just convenient and Shazam adding any song I hear and like is just too easy...it also plays perfectly on my Apple Watch over cellular when I go for a run, but everyone has their own use case and where they want to spend their time...

New comment by figers in "Lock-Picking Robot"

figers — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:25:28 +0000

If it lost it 10 years ago... where's website that still has the hacker ethos?

New comment by figers in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

figers — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:56:48 +0000

We already had Developers and the system in place this was a tiny feature in the scheme of things.

Internally it gives us a competitive advantage of the data being in our system from the beginning of the pipeline through the rest of the system where the data would be needed anyway.

New comment by figers in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

figers — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:37:27 +0000

What did the 3 apps do?

I did the same for one app to give me my speed in MPH as huge text as a HUD in a car

New comment by figers in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

figers — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:34:28 +0000

We were paying for Salesforce, then built the features we needed to do the same tracking into our interal tool and got rid of Salesforce to save money and simplify the data internally across departments

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:22:45 +0000

We are a C# .NET Core shop

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:22:04 +0000

Yup, better to die on that hill and have a code base that's manageable vs a mess that gets out of your control that you still die on!

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:44:13 +0000

I'm in a unique situation where I started the company so there's nobody above me.

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:47:57 +0000

I reject commits like this, make them re-write it and explain why such and such coding will never be allowed in our code base.

Forces the change in coding practice.

New comment by figers in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

figers — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:18:29 +0000

I love azure app service because I can focus on our code and code security and leave server management, OS security and physical security to Microsoft.

No servers, no VMs, no containers, just our code to focus on.