Hacker News: galoisscobi

New comment by galoisscobi in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

galoisscobi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:58:48 +0000

You can test rigorously without token incinerators.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

galoisscobi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:27:55 +0000

Let's boil the ocean for a 2 line fix and call it frontier intelligence.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Welcome to Gas City"

galoisscobi — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:51:31 +0000

This is so misguided, I don't even know where to begin. If you think that throwing more tokens at a problem with your agents cos-playing whatever fiction you cook up is the road to reliability, robustness and good design, you deserve all the misery that comes your way. If you want people to take this seriously, ground your ideas with rigorous data to prove that this works better than the state of the art. Until then, this is just irresponsible planet burning, token burning propaganda.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

galoisscobi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:26:57 +0000

But Boris declared coding is solved. How is this possible? Can’t they prompt Mythos to give them better uptime?

New comment by galoisscobi in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

galoisscobi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:12:36 +0000

> Most people either write too much or too little. Here’s what works.

> Two folders, not one

Why post AI slop here?

New comment by galoisscobi in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

galoisscobi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:08:27 +0000

I think this word salad doesn’t have enough buzzwords. Throw in a few more acronyms too.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

galoisscobi — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:38:07 +0000

Stop giving your money at Meta, it’s a simple solution and an ethical one.

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

galoisscobi — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:54:17 +0000

What has strongdm actually built? Are their users finding value from their supposed productivity gains?

If their focus is to only show their productivity/ai system but not having built anything meaningful with it, it feels like one of those scammy life coaches/productivity gurus that talk about how they got rich by selling their courses.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Eat Real Food"

galoisscobi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:31:26 +0000

Ironic that a steak is one of the three things showing up on the landing page. Is that the beef lobby money coming in?

I enjoy an occasional steak but if the goal is to improve diet of masses, it’s not the food I’d put at the center.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Leaving Meta and PyTorch"

galoisscobi — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:57:30 +0000

Ah yes, shades of Siddhartha. I almost forgot about the part where he worked for a megacorp that was ripping society’s social fabric apart and wanted to do something else for a while.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

galoisscobi — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:41:17 +0000

> we’re waiting on people

Right on. I have a heat pump water heater and a heat pump heating system in my HVAC. Getting those installed felt like swimming upstream. Most contractors would try to dissuade me from them.

Luckily, I found a contractor who was skilled and knowledgeable about heat pumps and rebates (back when govt thought climate change was real). Very happy with my heat pump tech.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction"

galoisscobi — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:02:27 +0000

This feels like it was written by an LLM.

New comment by galoisscobi in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

galoisscobi — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:34:25 +0000

Makes sense. I think they're lucky to be around you. Since you're hanging out on HN, I'd imagine you care about tech, doing things well and have a natural curiosity.

Back when I started out, I was deep in debt, insecure about my skills and being around highly skilled people who had many more years of experience only deepened those insecurities. Luckily, people were kind and patient with me and gave me the apprenticeship I needed. They deeply cared about technical expertise and doing things well, probably like you if I am guessing right. I have my dream job today, and I am in a position to mentor new grads. I continue to pay it forward as the senior engineers did when I started out. Not all my colleagues do this, but I see so much potential around me and I try to grow it. It's one of the most satisfying when I get a note from a new grad/junior engineer on how they've grown after our work together.

Thank you for caring!

On a side note, I can't imagine the anxiety they must go through now between the economy being what it is and AI exacerbating the gaps in technical skills. Seems like a scarier time than when I graduated. It's harder to mentor in this environment, but it's a fun challenge to learn how to mentor in this environment.

New comment by galoisscobi in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

galoisscobi — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:02:17 +0000

That's an interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. If you had free rein of an engineering school in a university system, how would you re-design curriculum to address your concerns and establish proof of teaching critical thinking?

New comment by galoisscobi in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

galoisscobi — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:35:42 +0000

I don’t understand, can you elaborate? I’m trying to understand your perspective. New college grads I generally meet and work with are bright, hard working, curious and have a deep desire to learn.

I don’t think we’re having the same experiences so I want to know more about yours.

New comment by galoisscobi in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

galoisscobi — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:30:59 +0000

Why do you think they don’t teach critical thinking?

New comment by galoisscobi in "I want to be left alone (2024)"

galoisscobi — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:26:08 +0000

Not an option with modern UX. It's yes or maybe later.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again"

galoisscobi — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:45:36 +0000

> I don't think there is a single founder/CEO in the 21st century that is performing better than Zuckerberg.

Depends on your definition of 'performance'. Does it include ethics?

New comment by galoisscobi in "Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again"

galoisscobi — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:46:58 +0000

I think he’ll be looked back as one hit wonder, lacking any ethics to grow his company. He pumped a whole bunch of money in VR that didn’t seem to go anywhere and now AI seems like a fine direction to go in, copying the herd, with dangerous disregard to ethics.

New comment by galoisscobi in "Obsidian Bases"

galoisscobi — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:13:21 +0000

Great idea, but the feature is poorly implemented. Cannot select multiple cells/rows. I have no idea how to extend past 20 or so rows. I regret having started transferring one of my documents to Obsidian Bases.