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New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

jbjbjbjb — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:46:08 +0000

When it does that I feel like it is the clearest example of how dumb these things actually are. Often it takes what you prompted, identifies something as unclear, writes a bunch of chain of thought reasoning around it and just goes off hammering your tokens and just executing commands and repeats this. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert in these things but that process seems deeply flawed - and why can’t something just stop the loop? If that was a real employee it would be reasonable to expect the employee to ask for clarification, not go down expensive rabbit holes and, of course, not break any laws.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Small Models Have Arrived"

jbjbjbjb — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:54:09 +0000

I’ve been playing around with Luna, Terra and Sol and for the type of work I’ve been doing lately I actually think Sol is just a likely to trip up as Luna. Examples were Sol over assuming, persisting in the wrong direction, over engineering a little script to do some exploration of api. They can all be fixed but it’s a waste of tokens, I rather have Luna do it because course correction on small pieces of work is cheaper.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:34:32 +0000

Grandpa kept a pedometer in a little pouch for decades. I got him a Fitbit but he didn’t like that, and more recently another cheap pedometer off of Amazon.

Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

jbjbjbjb — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:47:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200689

Points: 6

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New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Don't be a meat proxy"

jbjbjbjb — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:23:14 +0000

I agree. How can I see the rest of your blog?

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Software for One"

jbjbjbjb — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:44:25 +0000

It still sounds quite complicated because you’re creating all this stuff but there has to be some overhead of keeping it all running, repos, hosting, builds etc. I feel like there needs to be a mash up of agents-cloud-MSAccess to actually make this into an accessible way of building for the average person. People build spreadsheets to provide them themselves with “apps” all the time, so it needs to be at that level of ease.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

jbjbjbjb — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:02:54 +0000

In my experience “we need so create something for this regulatory change / new industry trend” is more common than we need to redo a working piece of software that’s been done before.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "The sigmoids won't save you"

jbjbjbjb — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:19:39 +0000

Is it not the case that a lot of the recent gains are just the coding harness that directs the LLM? That coding harness isn’t all that intelligent, simple pattern matching that maps to well defined tasks a programmer might do.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Googlebook"

jbjbjbjb — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:13:12 +0000

I don’t think there is. People who care will go out and try the clothes on in the fitting room or just order online and return. That’s a much nicer experience and more foolproof.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

jbjbjbjb — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:29:37 +0000

Which takes us back to this:

https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-sp...

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:41:42 +0000

sitting in a stroller doesn’t mean the kid can’t walk

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:42:04 +0000

My parents got me one in 1999 after years of me asking. It was such a disappointment when mp3 players like iRiver came out soon after (that should have a page on the graveyard) and then iPod came out. The iRiver and similar product used flash memory too.

Also I disagree with the minidisc distribution being an issue. They were less popular but, in the U.K. at least, album releases in minidisc format were available in supermarkets as well as music and electronic retailers.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

jbjbjbjb — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:34:47 +0000

I remember the personal wiki was a bit of trend 5 years ago but it kind of died because it had an unclear purpose for the most part. I kept one but never really referred to any of the notes and then just went back to a paper and to do list. I’m sure this is useful for those who kept up the habit.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

jbjbjbjb — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:08:05 +0000

There’s something about the Amiga era font and graphic style that I love and I always feel is unique to the Amiga but had trouble pinning it down to a particular developer or graphics artist. Ruff n Tumble is a good example, with like chunky futuristic font, the strong gradients all over everything and even the colours. It’s not common to all games though.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:45 +0000

It’s a bit reductive to call it poking holes. The author shared his valuable knowledge and I shared mine.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:08:18 +0000

Not really strong enough in a post about what to do in a codebase you’re not familiar with. In that situation you’re probably new to the team and organisation and likely to get off on the wrong foot with people if you assume their code “hurts”.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:44:09 +0000

It’s easy enough to filter those out with grep. It still is relatively meaningless. If the team incrementally adds things then it’s just going to show what additions were made. It isn’t churn at all.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:36:47 +0000

This command needs a warning. Using this command and drawing too many conclusions from it, especially if you’re new, will make you look stupid in front of your team mates.

I ran this on the repo I have open and after I filtered out the non code files it really can only tell me which features we worked on in the last year. It says more about how we decided to split up the features into increments than anything to do with bugs and “churn”.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:04:49 +0000

Can you talk us through that a bit more? I suspect it would need more access than the permissions you mentioned to be more useful than a simple rules based automation.

New comment by jbjbjbjb in "Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app"

jbjbjbjb — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:22:53 +0000

It is sort of brilliant (thanks btw) but also stupid to think about. It is easy for people to simply put a sensible monthly amount in a low cost fund and given enough time and steady contributions make life changing amounts of money (early retirement, house upgrade, child’s school or college paid for etc). And all without needing to take a big bet at any point.