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New comment by jannyfer in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

jannyfer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:11:10 +0000

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=2&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991394

New comment by jannyfer in "Claude: System Prompts"

jannyfer — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:06:22 +0000

They have a {{currentDateTime}} in the prompt which is interesting for something that gets prefix cached. Hopefully they are handling that properly :)

New comment by jannyfer in "Claude: System Prompts"

jannyfer — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:04:40 +0000

Interesting, they say "focused, brief, and concise" but not "clear". I find the Claude responses these days are too dense, which contributes to being overwhelming. It's not the number of words used that overwhelm me. I've been asking it to use ASD-STE100 and that helps somewhat.

New comment by jannyfer in "Grok 4.6"

jannyfer — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:02:22 +0000

Hm? I'm saying that the AI firms used to have the philosophy of "ok this kitchen knife is dangerous but we'll catch the murderers" on older AI models. But now, the AI firms think that any average person could send a flying knife to attack a political figure they don't like, from the comfort of their home. Now give this to a billion people, and suddenly you have chaos. So to continue the analogy, now they're mandating drone registration, GPS tracking, etc.

And then a Chinese company sells a drone with no registration or tracking and suddenly people want to turn to legislation to ban Chinese drones.

Hey this analogy is working really well

New comment by jannyfer in "Grok 4.6"

jannyfer — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:40:10 +0000

For a kitchen knife this was okay, but the AI firms think that they’ve built a drone that’s the size of a phone but can fly 100km and can hold a kitchen knife. It might be used to assassinate someone before others can react or even catch them.

New comment by jannyfer in "Grok 4.6"

jannyfer — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:21:44 +0000

Timing doesn't seem odd to me. It just seems like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery which I've noticed happen in many areas.

New comment by jannyfer in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

jannyfer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:55:47 +0000

Fun article, but this didn't actually answer the "why" question for me...

New comment by jannyfer in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

jannyfer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:37:41 +0000

Or be like me and just mulch the clippings

(yes it looks uglier that way - and yes I think of mowing the lawn as a chore)

New comment by jannyfer in "Claude Opus 5"

jannyfer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:49:50 +0000

So wordy.

New comment by jannyfer in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

jannyfer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:18:25 +0000

The article's EEG images don't seem to suggest this is due to two brain hemispheres.

New comment by jannyfer in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

jannyfer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:08:40 +0000

Yup, and I had seen it in the Opus 4.5 soul document as well: https://gist.github.com/Richard-Weiss/efe157692991535403bd7e...

In the future, I expect different models from different firms behaving differently will become as obviously normal as different humans behaving differently. Those of us that have used agents a lot have already noticed this, but the general public still seems to consider AI to be plug-and-play.

The Opus 4.8 infatuation with being honest genuinely drove me nuts (honest take). The constant need for me to decipher and decide on something after its final message was tiring too.

GPT-5.6-Sol is refreshing that its replies start with "understood." instead of flattering me for my steering prompt. Now ... after a few weeks, will I get suck of "understood"? I dunno :)

New comment by jannyfer in "Superpowers 6"

jannyfer — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:45:24 +0000

And the fact that this article’s story is basically “I prompted Fable with a goal and went to sleep and the model got it done” is telling me that the latest models have gotten past the need for Superpowers… even the creators of superpowers is just using a simple /goal!

New comment by jannyfer in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

jannyfer — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:26:20 +0000

Yeah I enjoyed the first bit, then “the one exception” made me go “hey, Claude does this to me all the time” and then it ruined the article for me.

New comment by jannyfer in "Why Dark Sky Lighting?"

jannyfer — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:48:45 +0000

To be fair, I saw that, I saw the “skip” link, and thought “that’s ok, I’ll just scroll down” on my phone.

It took SO many scrolls to get to the point. So the frustration is justified.

New comment by jannyfer in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

jannyfer — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:23:39 +0000

That was fun, and the script on github looks hand-written which is refreshing after having been reading AI-written code for months.

I have 120k photos in iCloud that I'm sure have duplicates (I exported my library to Google Photos years ago and exported it back to iCloud). The iOS duplicate detection stopped flagging duplicates for me to merge a while back. I gotta do something like this script...

New comment by jannyfer in "The Harajuku Moment (2024)"

jannyfer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:24:23 +0000

I see this post is from 2024. Maybe I would have enjoyed the hook and enjoyed reading along to figure out what this "harajuku moment" was back in 2024. But since being exposed to AI slop daily, and having to scan through so much verbose AI outputs during day-to-day "coding", I've now started skimming so much that I got annoyed that it meandered, then just couldn't bother reading the rest of the post after I've figured out what the harajuku moment is.

It's like my brain is responding to blog posts now in the same way that people scroll past tiktok videos in the first few seconds if there isn't enough of a dopamine hit.

I used to enjoy longform content... alas.

New comment by jannyfer in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

jannyfer — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:44:22 +0000

Oh then that's like the battery swap idea but without the swapping!

New comment by jannyfer in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

jannyfer — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:52:56 +0000

This is how I used to solve the roomba-can’t-use-stairs problem.

I’ve now moved to a single floor. Problem solved!

New comment by jannyfer in "Dopamine Fracking"

jannyfer — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:31:09 +0000

Agreed, I used to think this but now enjoy taking quick selfies, and my phone will dig them up and remind me of fond memories later on.

GP conflates selfies with posed photos.

New comment by jannyfer in "We should be more tired than the model"

jannyfer — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:43:50 +0000

Sometimes when I'm in the CLI and don't have a code editor open, I do this. Yes, it's lazy. But I also trust the model to check and update related things (tests, etc., while applying some judgement).

It's not unlike some managers who tell their teams to do something trivially easy that they could have done themselves.

(I'm not saying this is ideal and I'm not defending my laziness. It's just the current state of things.)