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New comment by i2km in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

i2km — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:59:52 +0000

Curiously fitting that the Pope is also a Mathematician by training. I'd imagine he agrees with Tao on the fundamental aims of mathematical research and how these proof dumps largely miss the point

New comment by i2km in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

i2km — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:19:11 +0000

Around a year ago, the org I was working for ditched jetbrains (including teamcity) due to alleged Russian links of some of the founders/owners of jetbrains.

Never looked into it further, but might be a factor...

New comment by i2km in "Plan mode is dead"

i2km — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:45:06 +0000

It’s just surprising how few people understand this. It’s not like it’s new either. Polyani’s theory of tacit knowledge captured this back in 1958

New comment by i2km in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

i2km — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:09:52 +0000

But we can’t do away with the quasi-religious lip service to the canons of the AI creed now can we? /s

New comment by i2km in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

i2km — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:53:48 +0000

And in general, especially with something like C, the correspondence between the compiled code and source code isn’t very “lossy”. You don’t get one-to-one correspondence but it’s not too bad and you’re not introducing massive uncertainty by running it through a compiler. With LLMs though all bets are off… you’re not gonna know what you end up with

New comment by i2km in "Object storage is all you need"

i2km — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:22:17 +0000

Along with putting estimated reading times (21 minutes in this case) can authors please start putting estimated writing times?

Did it take 10 seconds of prompting? Or hours of thought, trial error and revision? Especially when asking people to read for 20+ minutes...

New comment by i2km in "Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges"

i2km — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:42:43 +0000

But but according to Mr Altman, we've like entered the singularity. Right? Who cares about a billing issue?

New comment by i2km in "Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges"

i2km — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:35:52 +0000

Precisely. I think everyone has been affected by the fearmongering and gaslighting to some dfgree. But step back and try and see whether software's getting better as a whole or going into reverse? OpenAI has basically unlimited internal compute and talent yet they screw this up amongst many other things. Shouldn't it be a 5 minute job for someone at AI to spin up a team of agents annd make sure this sort of thing never happens?

At a high level, most uses of AI I've seen seem to be people building other AI tools, orchestrators, managers, agent managers etc. But these are all means to ends. I mean I guess it's nice to play aroud with harnesses and command agents to do this and that, but where are the tangible outputs?

I just see so many people boasting of their token burn and the complexity of their agentic setup, yet they rarely show the actual outputs

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

i2km — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:07:26 +0000

No. The particular context I’m referring to doesn’t have any legal implications so it’s not that. It’s just brain-deadness instead

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

i2km — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:33:49 +0000

That's a fair challenge. AI review can mean many different things though. We treat it like a slightly better CppCheck, for context. TBH the way we use it doesn't really add much beyond regular static analysis tools.

Re "the hard way", I disagree. While it may seem like the hard way, in the medium and long term this is turning out to be the easy way. We have basically no technical debt, we can fix issues rapidly and (intangible I know) we can stand behind our codebase with absolute confidence.

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

i2km — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:35:41 +0000

Exactly. It fascinates me when I'm emailed long AI transcripts of meetings with the disclaimer "generated by AI. Be sure to check for accuracy".

Like, did somebody seriously think through the meaning and implication of that disclaimer and still write it?

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

i2km — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:09:05 +0000

Exactly. It's quite scary that some people are reacting viciously to this type of question. There's real insecurity here...

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

i2km — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:08:00 +0000

I do. I deny the "gains". The "gains" will turn out to be a mirage in the medium to long term. The technical and cognitive debt incurred will be too extreme.

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

i2km — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:04:41 +0000

I'm running a startup and we deliberately don't use AI for development. We only use it for review.

We're working in a really deep area where having full understanding of our code is more important than speed.

Besides, in this area, clients getting one whiff of AI code would be an immediate deal-killer

New comment by i2km in "The End of an Era"

i2km — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:12:48 +0000

Article predicts that we'll see tools to "roughen up" slop to pass as human. Surprised we aren't there already...

I'm already being more careless with spelling and grammar because it gives authenticity.

Maybe people will revert to Jeffrey Epstein style prose to avoid any suspicion of slop..., e.g:

“no , bed, i, m laying on thefloor so it can't move.”

New comment by i2km in "Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects"

i2km — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:46:22 +0000

"employees were told about one instance in which the company spent $1.8mn on matching author details with listings on the group’s ecommerce website using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet AI model despite the deployment failing"

Also contains a number of mentions of cost overruns not being detected until weeks afterwards. Which seems to me, maybe naively, like it should be trivial to detect in real-time...

Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects

i2km — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:46:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/77baac40-d803-4084-94f3-a133653072cf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118118

Points: 5

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New comment by i2km in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

i2km — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:15:22 +0000

Well, it seems to be meta-marketing. Essentially they'd trained the model with knowledge of exploits and given it a goal. Of course the training would allow it to 'reason' that having the answers would be a good way to score highly. And of course it had been trained on the potential tools to try to get the answers etc.

And OpenAI deliberately removed the guardrails.

If they were honest about it, instead of being smeared across the internet with shocked pikachu reactions, they should have just corrected their sandbox and re-run the test. There's really nothing to see here...

The whole "oh no what have we done. Regulate us PLEASE because we're one step away from terminator" is so stale. It's been trained on every exploit known and then told to use its training to brute force its way to score highly on a test FFS.

New comment by i2km in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

i2km — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:26:24 +0000

It's so bizarre. I keep on wondering where the root of this psychosis lies. Is there some common sci-fi literature that sparks these fears among the readers? Or is it all just latent religiosity and spirituality finding an outlet?

I mean, what an appalling way to live. To take themselves so seriously and simultaneously be terrified of what they're building. If we are really seeing the collapse of the bubble now, I wonder what's going to happen to these clowns when their AI god fails... what will they move on to next?

New comment by i2km in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

i2km — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:44:40 +0000

Couldn't anthropic just use fable to find security holes in Alibaba's systems and poison their models?

Or maybe there's been a bit too much hype...