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New comment by geraneum in "Pre-2022 Books"

geraneum — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:43:27 +0000

> no one is going to want to stick to 30+ year old books

This is... satire, right? right?

New comment by geraneum in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

geraneum — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:27:12 +0000

That’s rather disingenuous. But it seems nowadays that words have lost meaning… so, I don’t blame you. I blame the LLMs for this deterioration.

New comment by geraneum in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

geraneum — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:47:58 +0000

Information is there to help steer people away from crazy conspiracy theories. The kind of information that help people even arrive at the questions you mentioned. That’s the whole point of my argument.

New comment by geraneum in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

geraneum — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:35:21 +0000

I think a lack of curiosity and capacity also play a role in some believing the conspiracies. The information is there. More accessible than ever, yet most out of reach for our brains addicted to instant gratification of doom scrolls and outrageous headlines that we’re blasted with by multibillion dollar attention optimization machines.

New comment by geraneum in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

geraneum — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:22:21 +0000

Yeah this is a Mythos pitch.

New comment by geraneum in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

geraneum — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:20:44 +0000

> Founders who've never written a line of code before are shipping production applications, reaching revenue before scaling headcount

Stats please

New comment by geraneum in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

geraneum — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:18:42 +0000

I doubt people who need desperate help buy these books. Desperate help meaning if you can’t pay rent, medical bills, maintain a family, etc.

New comment by geraneum in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

geraneum — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:57:45 +0000

> 2025 was the first big drop, 2026 looks more severe, and the only thing that’s really changed in that timeframe is the acceleration of AI.

It all hinges on this statement. But I’m not sure it’s really AI that’s doing it, and not just a contributing factor. There’s higher cost of living, inflation, economic uncertainty, seemingly looming financial crisis, etc. A lot of impactful things happened!

New comment by geraneum in "Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap"

geraneum — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:12:38 +0000

> An LLM defaults to building when it should be buying. Not because it doesn’t know about existing libraries, it often mentions them, but because for an LLM, writing two hundred lines of implementation is the same cognitive effort as writing two lines of import.

Or maybe they are trained that way. It’s more tokens used and more money you need to pay.

New comment by geraneum in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

geraneum — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:55:31 +0000

Ah yes we are being told to believe in sincerity of people running trillion dollar corporations.

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

geraneum — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:20:58 +0000

I hire an expensive office manager. Recently, the water dispenser tank ran dry. The employee immediately called a plumber. After laying entirely new pipes all the way to the dispenser, the plumber realized he couldn't actually hook them up because the tank lacks a direct inlet. Undeterred, he spent the next few hours scouring every floor of the building, calling the local water treatment facility, and ringing up the water tank manufacturer. Ultimately, he discovered a fresh tank sitting in the supply room on his own floor and swapped it out. All on company’s dime. I write an article and call this employee relentlessly proactive. Praise them a bunch and in the fine print, mention that I’m “a little horrified”.

Next up, we call an unprotected route to all users’ order list in the backend “relentlessly transparent”. A race condition? “Relentless perseverance”.

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

geraneum — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:28:52 +0000

> watching Fable go to extreme lengths to get the information that it needed to debug what was, in the end, a two-line CSS fix, was fascinating.

This is… ironic?!

New comment by geraneum in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

geraneum — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:20:13 +0000

> spends 8 months working on a feature

Are you sure those 8 months is not being spent on just “coding”? There’s design, product team input and iteration, etc. Where did you see that an A+ engineer goes into a cubicle and come X months after with an MVP in isolation?

New comment by geraneum in "Claude Fable 5"

geraneum — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:03:35 +0000

People underestimate the vastness of training data (internet) and overestimate their ability to recognize if something is really bespoke. Not to say the no problem solving is happening, because there are many problems that we inefficiently solve again and again and the LLMs are making the solutions more accessible to everyone with a subscription.

New comment by geraneum in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

geraneum — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:10:05 +0000

The point doesn’t seem to have been thought through.

New comment by geraneum in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

geraneum — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:29:09 +0000

You can see this all over the place. Under the Fable post in HN, you have simonw talking about the “feel” of working with Fable and how much better it is. If I believed in conspiracies, I’d have said it’s all orchestrated marketing…

New comment by geraneum in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

geraneum — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:16:39 +0000

> You probably don't care about the ingredients or engineering of asphalt

Everyone does. You don’t think about it everyday because we’ve delegated it to experts which don’t come up with a new composition of Asphalt every time you press “generate”. It’s rigorously battle tested and short of intentional negligence, it’s consistent. I’m amazed how people are forgetting how the world actually works.

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

geraneum — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:05:23 +0000

> but it does demonstrate that a largely bifurcated consumption based economy can exist and can be mildly stable

This is not the case. These countries don’t operate/exist in isolation. They are part of global economy. But if this tech has a global scale effect, then the dots are not really connecting. You’re also forgetting the “revolt” factor.

New comment by geraneum in "Claude Fable 5"

geraneum — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:58:28 +0000

Corporations have done worse for much less money involved. Now we have trillion dollar companies going IPO. With so much at stake, it’s not unthinkable that there’s astroturfing happening.

New comment by geraneum in "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs"

geraneum — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:22:31 +0000

Care to share some sources that corroborate any of these claims and explains how the dots connect?