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New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:31:25 +0000

> AI that can build itself would be a major development in the history of technology—one that could bring enormous good for the world

I really can't stand these guys anymore...

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:32:13 +0000

> Easy, you don't have subjective experiences because you have body in the first place. You have them because some signals come in from your nerves, which your brain turns into a world model.

Bro, I think we discarded this idea from Platone and Cartesio a while ago...

Your brain is your body.

Your mind is not detached from it, and you can't feel anything, and so have a subjective experience, without it. Neither, your mind, or "soul" could survive to the physical death of your body.

So...I mean...

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

gabrieledarrigo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:49:32 +0000

> Yeah, it's kind of mind boggling that Ted Chiang (of all people!) can't imagine intelligence without a body. and the whole thing just begs a lot of questions.

How can you have a subjective experience without a body?

That's the point, in my opinion: your physical/chemical state (body) in a given moment is then translated into the higher abstraction of the emotion. An emotion that *you* feel, because you are self aware of what's happening.

How can you be self aware without feeling? And how do you feel, without a body?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

gabrieledarrigo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:36:16 +0000

> The body itself has little effect on the mind other than the inputs from nerves and chemical and hormonal changes.

"Little"...

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:11:17 +0000

> I actually enjoy the collaborative programming process, and was pair programming with folks before the term was coined

Yep, the same here, I'm a long pair programming enjoyer, but I'd like to raise that collaboration is usually meant with a human being in the context of pp, and prompting and agent to execute a task is nothing like that.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Can we have the day off?"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:28:34 +0000

> but if someone defects to a longer work week they tend to get ahead at work. Thus we all do it and thus we all lose.

A four-day-a-week worker here.

I don't know what you exactly mean, but my personal experience is exactly the opposite. I worked for a startup as a founding engineer, just 4d/w (the CTO was crazily open-minded), and I was never so productive. Doesn't matter that the others were working 5 days, pushing more; it was my responsibility to keep up, and it worked pretty well.

Same now, working for a company with the same arrangement.

And no one is or was "losing."

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:17:31 +0000

I'll admit that I found the entire story quite hilarious...maybe a plot for next Guy Ritchie movie?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

gabrieledarrigo — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:11:51 +0000

> the engineers who can solve them will be among the scarcest and most valuable talent in the market.

Reduce the work force of 30%. I don't know, dude, you didn't convince me.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

gabrieledarrigo — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:43:34 +0000

Location: Milan, Italy Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/

Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com

I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I worked with small teams and enterprises, and I successfully contributed to the success of many products, Hire me if you want to onboard a passionate, team player, used to wear many hats, colleague.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Where the goblins came from"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:28:21 +0000

> Does nobody else laugh that a company supposedly worth more than almost anything else at the moment, is basically hacking around a load of text files telling their trillion dollar wonder machine it absolutely must stop talking to customers about goblins, gremlins and ogres?

Honestly, when I was reading the article, I couldn't stop laughing. This is quite hilarious!

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:32:57 +0000

> You can hire many minimum wage workers who are generally intelligent who dont even go to that level.

That's pretty rude to say, at minimum.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

gabrieledarrigo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:58:27 +0000

Location: Milan, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform,

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/

Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:20:16 +0000

Do you think this is a good course? Or, what do you suggest as a structured course to learn how LLMs work?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:39:38 +0000

Does anyone still write code? I use agents to iterate on one task in parallel, with an approach similar to this one: https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey#today

But I'm starting to have an identity crisis: am I doing it wrong, and should I use an agent to write any line of code of the product I'm working on?

Have I become a dinosaur in the blink of an eye?

Should I just let it go and accept that the job I was used to not only changed (which is fine), but now requires just driving the output of a machine, with no creative process at all?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

gabrieledarrigo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:45:34 +0000

So you are telling me that quoting the time spent to build a single square yard of fabric in the pre-industrial society is a contextualized comment to the % of co2 emission for the fashion industry?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:11:00 +0000

Man, I really can't see your point. And so...?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:04:30 +0000

What exactly do you do, and what's your role in an agentic software factory?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

gabrieledarrigo — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:41:45 +0000

What have they actually built?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

gabrieledarrigo — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:53:49 +0000

> i haven't automated anything here, but booking a table by talking to clawdbot is delightful.

Omg. Just get the phone and call the restaurant, man.

I really don't want to live in this timeline where I can't even search for b&b with my gf without burning tokens through an LLM. That's crazy.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "San Francisco Graffiti"

gabrieledarrigo — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:15:01 +0000

Old time graffiti writer here.

There's nothing so wild, anarchic and energetic than painting illegally on some surface without any permission.