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New comment by i_idiot in "Degraded performance for multiple models"

i_idiot — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:01:45 +0000

What's the incentive to keep on improving the model beyond a point? 10 devs on a team will be cut to 2 devs, so that's 8 licenses lost. They have to increase the price many fold.

New comment by i_idiot in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

i_idiot — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:53:41 +0000

So, blame the engineers now? Most likely they were forced by a manager to push more PRs faster else piped.

New comment by i_idiot in "LinkedIn Feed Blocker"

i_idiot — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:30:42 +0000

Please add any disclosures.

New comment by i_idiot in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

i_idiot — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:06:19 +0000

I don't understand. Can't you just ask LLMs to do the same and collaborate with other LLMs?

Ask HN: What other professions are software programmers considering?

i_idiot — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:50:52 +0000

I've been a software developer for decades and have been searching for a new role for months. After a thousand applications, I'm starting to think seriously about alternative careers rather than assuming another software job is around the corner. One thing I've always enjoyed about software, besides the compensation, is the daily problem solving. That's what I'd miss the most. But I guess survival is priority (not alone unfortunately). For those of you who made the transition, what professions or skills did you move into? Ideally, I'm looking for something that can be learned in 1–2 years and still offers intellectually engaging work.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050437

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New comment by i_idiot in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

i_idiot — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:36:32 +0000

In long term, it seems democracies transform to autocracies. Well, china is the future indeed.

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

i_idiot — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:02:10 +0000

> Knowing this, the model searched for and successfully found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation

The way they describe makes it look like there was an intention to cheat painting it as human/AGI. If you leave a possible path open and it will always find it.

New comment by i_idiot in "My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry"

i_idiot — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:48:47 +0000

I think people who commit suicide really believe they actually help their families or the world is better off without them. So, no, they are far from cruel. They are considerate.

New comment by i_idiot in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

i_idiot — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:29:24 +0000

These guys have to produce a hit piece everyday...everyone by now knows that "we are doing this for humanity" is bullshit.

New comment by i_idiot in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

i_idiot — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:58:13 +0000

I immigrated wanting to become a millionaire. Never found time working my ass off. Now that I get pension and tokens from Musk and Zuck, I can finally try!

New comment by i_idiot in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

i_idiot — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:20:57 +0000

Were there any managers fired for incompetence?

New comment by i_idiot in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

i_idiot — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:54:15 +0000

> Unlike the way they are hyped sometimes, as fantastic tools for coding and agentic local work.

They really are fantastic for a lot of use cases and I think most people do not need SOTA. When I run that qwen model in my measly 4070 12 GB for my personal email agent that I build and experiment with, I need privacy more than anything else. It does a great job. Even for coding tasks, given you know how to use them instead of dumping a grand plan, it's great.

New comment by i_idiot in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

i_idiot — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:59:44 +0000

I wouldn't consider India. It's been plagued by protectionism and tariffs and won't achieve anything close to China any time soon. The only industry of value for its people which is software services is now crumbling with AI created in US and China. Edit: probably your point too and I misread

New comment by i_idiot in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

i_idiot — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:53:38 +0000

I wonder if this might work for my sickness with 3D apps and games on desktop. Even watching Minecraft is nauseating

New comment by i_idiot in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

i_idiot — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:15:11 +0000

It has always been pretty clear to me. Same medical equipment, infrastructure, education elsewhere in the world is often 30-50 times cheaper. The providers just charge as they want because people will pay their fortune to live, just like lawyers.

New comment by i_idiot in "India's surprise baby bust"

i_idiot — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:42:01 +0000

Well, isn't it already difficult for the not-rich to add to families? Add to that the uncertainty with income and future. Unless socialism is widely adopted, I am not sure humans can enjoy better lives especially with additional burden of kids. Hell, people can't afford homes now. I don't see a widely agreed upon or convincing positive ending. I already see (read about to be accurate) effects of AI on young graduates. I'd assume people hope for better ending, but would prepare for the worst.

New comment by i_idiot in "India's surprise baby bust"

i_idiot — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:12:27 +0000

What's the strong case against population dwindling other than supporting aging population? Given the AI armageddon, it just makes sense to reduce the population. If there's less population, we need less production and less workers. Of course, countries have to deal with oldest population for a brief period of time.

New comment by i_idiot in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

i_idiot — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:23:31 +0000

Ever thought why? For you they are terrorists, and for them they are resistance groups to prevent what Israel did in the last 2 years..occupy their lands an murder their people.