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New comment by hyperadvanced in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

hyperadvanced — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:24:22 +0000

For real. It’s such a weak cop-out of an argument to lead with that I clicked out, never to read this blog again.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

hyperadvanced — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:00:36 +0000

We really don’t celebrate enough how much AI has saved us from terrible SO interactions. Not being entirely serious here, because the site had its good parts, but arguing in threads or having your questions randomly eviscerated or threads closed was a hard way to learn programming.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

hyperadvanced — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:05:19 +0000

I think the next frontier for (knowledge) Workists is to use the AI to make sci-fi shit. Someone go make me a schematic for a 3d-printed battery. Someone go make me a an electric (flying?) skateboard kit. Someone go make me an at-home clothes printer. Someone go make me a flying car. Someone go make me an RPG that feels like Morrowind, EverQuest, or WoW did when I was a teenager - let me play it on the couch with my friends and our kids. There are so many possibilities… I feel like the doomers here are (rightly) mad that these kinds of problems are hard and not the same as “write me a web GUI that lets me search a database for music” or even “spend 80 hours writing a custom k8s operator to manage autoscaling for semi-persistent queues” but compared to what tech was 10 years ago, the ability to create anything and everything right now is amazing.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

hyperadvanced — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:55:03 +0000

I have a friend who owns an organic farm (with a couple partners). They mostly scrape by and work long hours and there’s a lot of stress. People really really under-appreciate how nice the remote tech daily routine is: “I wake up, drink coffee, and solve a few abstract problems each day with an army of AGI bots at my fingertips, and for a high salary”. Compare to roasting in 95 degree heat and wildfire smoke to make sure your veggies don’t die, living in a trailer on the farm, and working retail in offseason/relying on GoFundMe to recover from the inevitable natural disasters.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

hyperadvanced — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:42:03 +0000

Salary jobs let you pick your price. How much more as a % of your yearly would it cost you to commute every day, amortized over your ~2000 hours of expected work at said office? 10%? 20%? For me, it’s probably 10% for the right gig.

Granted, the availability and pain in the ass of actually getting a new job today is suffocating, so it’s not like everyone gets to pick their dream setup anymore

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

hyperadvanced — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:20:21 +0000

Well it all depends on whether you’ve ever thought Apple was any good at search, Siri, etc.

My own personal opinion is that they’re great at design, UX, hardware, and even some power user desktop software (lifetime Logic Pro addict here). I would say it’s a stretch to call anything they have ever done with ML to be anything near cutting edge compared to Google, for whom all of the “hard” problems of recommendation, search, NLP, and other ML have been the absolute focus of their SaaS, white papers, and web offerings for close to 30 years

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

hyperadvanced — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:02:13 +0000

That honestly sounds a lot healthier than “just ship what the CTO/Product team wants” with as much hand waving as is necessary to very roughly estimate ROI and then pray it hits with the market. In anything that’s not a startup operating in a new industry, the “old way” is a hard way to run a business

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity"

hyperadvanced — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:47:51 +0000

DJing is an interesting art. It’s not creative per se, but can be done creatively. Modern DJ software+hardware in particular allows for a ton of on-the-fly remixing, clever use of fx and stems, and even some custom on-the-fly production setups. But the average DJ (and even electronic music producer) is much closer to Guitar Hero than they are to writing their own songs for guitar.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

hyperadvanced — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:44:54 +0000

In retrospect this is very similar to the Apple strategy: don’t invest heavily in doing something that isn’t already a core competency, position for novel uses of the tech but don’t build it per se. Apple probably would have benefitted in the last 4 quarters from hyping a custom model stack but it doesn’t seem that this strategy paid off to even close to 20% ROI while Apple got to hold their cash and organizational focus on their main thing

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Our position on open-weights models"

hyperadvanced — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:37:07 +0000

Love how these bros always cop to “China bad” when they run out of good arguments.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

hyperadvanced — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:40:53 +0000

Crossing out things you disagree with is the most insane part of this. You should highlight or comment those if you’re going to mark the book up at all.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

hyperadvanced — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:46:51 +0000

My phone must have autocorrected. Ty and good joke :)

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

hyperadvanced — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:22:34 +0000

Normative determinism is the term for that

New comment by hyperadvanced in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

hyperadvanced — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:15:26 +0000

Agreed, starlink is obviously advantageous from the global (and extra-global) perspective. Running cables is expensive. But so is launching satellites, and it’s hard to see how you reach a tipping point where satellites gets cheaper than the standard boring cable networking that supports the terrestrial internet

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

hyperadvanced — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:49:51 +0000

I agree that “inherently political” is usually a thought terminating cliche. What kinds of technologies are conditionally political?

The internet is a bad counterexample as it originated from a department of defense project and a number of other government programs that focused on communications and military applications.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

hyperadvanced — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:33:26 +0000

Autonomous vehicle, yes

New comment by hyperadvanced in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

hyperadvanced — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:04:45 +0000

Amazon’s AWS and core delivery business are fairly mature, and with consumer sentiment poor and non-AI tech contracting, having a growth vertical like Bedrock is good for shareholders. Without their own core tech, Amazon will be paying rent on AVs in a couple of years - or worse, they will lose all of the benefits or their logistics monopoly because an AV semi can afford to be inefficient

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

hyperadvanced — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:50:04 +0000

Expecting “transparency” out of a government trying to protect national interests seems like a tall order. They have to withhold or obfuscate things to do that job.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

hyperadvanced — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:59:25 +0000

I do this several times per week. You can ask Claude to hunt down duplication, brittle scripty code, overly defensive fallbacks, and footguns.

New comment by hyperadvanced in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

hyperadvanced — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:56:51 +0000

I don’t know about your co but at my job we very much have non SWE shipping their own (mostly garbage) apps