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New comment by hellohello2 in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

hellohello2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:40:28 +0000

You had sudo on your PC. You just didn't know ;)

New comment by hellohello2 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

hellohello2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:24:11 +0000

Just to share my perspective, I have not had this much fun programming as when I first learned to code. It's really something you have to try for yourself to actually understand. Its like a new form of programming, where code is "soft" instead of "hard"; on the whole feels similar, but also completely new.

The opinons on this site make me realize most people here are into programming for the money, rather than for the fun of building things. Which is completely fine, but it leads to most commenters being depressed rather than enthralled, which feels honestly confusing at times. Obviously socially things are looking pretty bleak but if you find coding fulfilling on its own, lets just say you can look forward to fulfillment lol

New comment by hellohello2 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

hellohello2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:16:38 +0000

I wasn't clear enough, I was replying to "you'll be the one selected, out of millions laid off," in context I meant "mass layoff" as in "95% of everyone is out of a job permanently".

New comment by hellohello2 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

hellohello2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:19:51 +0000

Current SOTA is far past "agressive autocomplete" at this point, more like ask for a PR for a small feature and its done... I guess for me the fun is you can build a lot yourself, without relying on others. I hear you for the social aspect though & thanks for sharing your pov.

New comment by hellohello2 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

hellohello2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:16:20 +0000

Perhaps its the apprehension/anxiety that makes it feel bad then? I like coding (building things) and couldn't care less about businesses, and am having a great time. In the current state of AI, mass layoffs probably won't happen. But I guess its a bit scary that we don't know how much more it will improve...

New comment by hellohello2 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

hellohello2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:59:41 +0000

I'm curious, have you tried working seriously with claude code or gpt codex and which part of it did you not enjoy? What makes you wish to write code like 2022?

New comment by hellohello2 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

hellohello2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:59:22 +0000

"Have you personally used any of the latest batch of even smaller local models?"

No I have not, which is why I asked (it wasn't a rhetorical question). Do you have pointers on what the recent improvements are?

New comment by hellohello2 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

hellohello2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:02:24 +0000

"It is almost guaranteed that a 60-90B model can outperform current SOTA in coding tasks within 2-3 years"

What insight do you have to make this claim?

New comment by hellohello2 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

hellohello2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:48:04 +0000

No, chatbots are LLMs trained for question-answering through RLHF (its not just a prompt). But yes, if you just zero-shot prompt a bare LLM you can still "talk to it" & you are correct on everything else as far as I know.

New comment by hellohello2 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

hellohello2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:45:57 +0000

They are chatbots trained for tool use, its not just a prompt.

New comment by hellohello2 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

hellohello2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:48:21 +0000

Sorry but I don't really see how this contradicts what I said in context i.e. both our statements are compatible in the context of what I was replying to

New comment by hellohello2 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

hellohello2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:47:04 +0000

I agree that the amount people pay for these services is very unlikely to decrease (i.e. Blinn's Law but for tokens). Still, the current level of "intelligence" will eventually become available for a very low price almost surely. Really I simply don't see how you can disagree with the parent's comment "There is no world in which AI is not used extensively in all employment going forward." Honestly I'd like to understand the mindset, is it mainly that you dislike working with these tools/hope they don't get imposed on you or did you actually find them harmful in your work in some way and think they are overvalued?

New comment by hellohello2 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

hellohello2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:48:37 +0000

Computation halves in price every ~2 years so maybe in the short term but not in the long term

New comment by hellohello2 in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

hellohello2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:49:59 +0000

There can be some issues with shadowing yeah, especially if you render with splatting/rasterization, but its fine if you raytrace I think.

New comment by hellohello2 in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

hellohello2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:45:27 +0000

There are some works on doing this directly e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23065 but getting accurate materials is a challenge for anything more than diffuse.

AI-based relighting will no doubt start working soon.

New comment by hellohello2 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

hellohello2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:40:35 +0000

Thanks for your explanation, I find it much more intuitive than the paper's.

In your opinion, does a Calculus solver model certain aspects of the world?

New comment by hellohello2 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

hellohello2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:03:23 +0000

The literal definition of a model is "an informative representation of an object, person, or system". I think you mean something else though, what are you trying to express exactly?

New comment by hellohello2 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

hellohello2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:28:09 +0000

"Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind."

Modelling text describing the world is not modelling (some aspect) of the world?

Modelling the probability that a reader likes or dislike a piece of text is not modelling (some aspect) of a reader's state of mind?

New comment by hellohello2 in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

hellohello2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:53:49 +0000

(I meant statically typed / high level of type safety here not strongly typed)

New comment by hellohello2 in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

hellohello2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:42:27 +0000

I think the parent is mostly referring to solutions like Slang.D