Hacker News: i2km

New comment by i2km in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

i2km — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:17:20 +0000

Shocking. Been open a week and AFAICT just silence from OpenAI. I just find it baffling. You'd think that these vendors would be very sensitive to this sort of issue. I mean, surely they have multiple agents hooked up to github monitoring potential issues and proposing fixes, right? ...right?

Surely it should be trivial for them to have their own tools spinning away trying to fix all the github issues in real time...

New comment by i2km in "Identity verification on Claude"

i2km — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:09:55 +0000

Ridiculous. Haven't you heard? All critical thinking skills have long since been sacrificed on the altars of the AI gods and it's inconceivable that we write any code the old way. If you actually understand your code it means you're a luddite and are going to be left behind. /s

New comment by i2km in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

i2km — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:14:15 +0000

My theory is that anthropic have hit the beginnings of model collapse and the whole "fable may silently downgrade with deliberately incorrect results" is a diabolical attempt to gas light and get ahead of the curve.

So when it fails, people will chalk it up to "oh. Must have been silently downgraded because it thought I was doing something tricky enough to count as a distillation attack. My bad. Lemme try again..."

New comment by i2km in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

i2km — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:02:14 +0000

It's bizarre isn't it. It being treated as though actually knowing how to write quality code by hand is a skill that's somehow been lost to time...

I can only guess that a lot of the engineers who went into software purely for money were all too happy to distance themselves from writing code and really don't want to go back...

New comment by i2km in "Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests"

i2km — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:52:16 +0000

As a thought experiment, would their reaction have been any different if the hidden prompt had caused their agent to enter an expensive coding loop instead of just deleting the dependency + tests? If I were to use coding agents/LLMs (I don't), this is what I'd be more concerned about...

New comment by i2km in "The dead economy theory"

i2km — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:38:01 +0000

Much as I dislike some of Peter Thiel's ideas, I fully agree with him that Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire is at the heart of the explanation. We've always been imitators who need to copy behavior and sentiments, but social media has turbocharged this cycle, allowing mass delusions and panics to be cycled through every few years. The herd always works itself up into a frenzy before collapsing and, a couple of years later, moving on to the next delusion/panic.

And when people are gripped by these crowd-following delusions it definitely leads to the baffling blindness to reality...

New comment by i2km in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

i2km — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:55:38 +0000

If you're willing to go back to the 13th century, Aquinas and the blindness of the mind provide a timeless explanation. They literally cannot see the truth... it's baffling until you realise this and then pity them. They’re in a mini hell of their own making where the LLM is really alive and they’re both awed and terrified of it simultaneously.

New comment by i2km in "The dead economy theory"

i2km — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:47:00 +0000

Of the same mind. It's a mass panic with overtones of covid. The only explanation I can think of is that most of those who are convinced that AI is going to make engineering redundant are those who've never ventured into the deeper engineering water; never experienced large-scale product engineering and support etc (or have forgotten what it's like).

If there were real gains to be had, we'd see the biggest adopters pulling ahead of their competitors and gaining unassailable leads. It's not happening... Where are the companies which are breaking out and crushing their competitors? Why haven't there been breakouts? Why is software quality seeming (subjectively) to be going in reverse?

All we’ve got is a boatloads of slop, a tsunami of cloned products that their ‘creators’ don’t understand, everything being overrun by bots. It’s just a tidal wave of dross. Where’s the value?

New comment by i2km in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

i2km — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:51:05 +0000

This is one of the things people miss. If they double their customers, of course they double their expenses. Unlike SW, the marginal cost here is still high

New comment by i2km in "Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C"

i2km — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:57:01 +0000

The readme is an immediate giveaway of sloppiness

New comment by i2km in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

i2km — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:06:56 +0000

Really appreciate this discussion as I'll be shortly going through this with a 1-2 person company. Does anyone have any experience on how it compares to ISO27001 from the 1-2 person company feasibility standpoint?

New comment by i2km in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

i2km — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:30:47 +0000

Please keep this slop off HN

New comment by i2km in "Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools"

i2km — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:19:01 +0000

It’s turning into a bit of a grift now. So many crypto agility “consultants “ popping up with their slop graphics. Never mind the fact that even if a relevant quantum computer is built it will still cost the user millions of dollars to break each RSA key pair…

New comment by i2km in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

i2km — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:59:48 +0000

> but the Chinese play long games

And yet they got themselves into a demographic death spiral

New comment by i2km in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

i2km — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:36:56 +0000

Re displacing freelance translation, yes - it can displace the 95% of cases where 95% accuracy is enough. Like you mention though, for diplomatic translations, court proceedings, pacemaker manuals etc you're still going to need a human at least checking every line since the cost of any mistake is so high

New comment by i2km in "Prism"

i2km — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:32:43 +0000

This is going to be the concrete block which finally breaks the back of the academic peer review system, i.e. it's going to be a DDoS attack on a system which didn't even handle the load before LLMs.

Maybe we'll need to go back to some sort of proof-of-work system, i.e. only accepting physical mailed copies of manuscripts, possibly hand-written...

New comment by i2km in "Prism"

i2km — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:25:56 +0000

LaTeX was one of the last bastions against AI slop. Sadly it's now fallen too. Is there any standardised non-AI disclaimer format which is gaining use?

New comment by i2km in "The Great Code Decoupling – The Coming AI Bifurcation in Software Quality"

i2km — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:51:48 +0000

A blog post looking at developments in the translation market and projecting them onto the future of software engineering. TLDR: software is already bifurcating into low-grade consumer slop where AI lowers expectations, but serious B2B and enterprise software is diverging and (should be) getting better as a result of AI use

The Great Code Decoupling – The Coming AI Bifurcation in Software Quality

i2km — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:51:48 +0000

Article URL: https://i2km.com/bifurcation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780726

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by i2km in "Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf]"

i2km — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:55:21 +0000

One whole technique not mentioned in the paper or comments is bitslicing. For non-branching code (e.g. symmetric ciphers) it's guaranteed constant-time and it would be a remarkable compiler indeed which could introduce optimizations and timing variations to bit-sliced code...