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New comment by jimbokun in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:17:28 +0000

Receipts!

New comment by jimbokun in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:09:38 +0000

Yes, compilers are a good candidate for verification through thorough testing. If a comprehensive test suite passes, reviewing every line of code isn’t so important.

New comment by jimbokun in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:01:36 +0000

Project managers just take the engineers word for it.

New comment by jimbokun in "Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:46:10 +0000

Of course.

Efficient markets are impossible without regulation.

New comment by jimbokun in "Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:42:58 +0000

God bless Costco.

New comment by jimbokun in "Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:37:41 +0000

Price collusion does not support efficient markets.

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:21:31 +0000

Without a distribution system to make this wealth available to all humanity.

With our current systems, the abundance will only go to the holders of capital.

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:19:48 +0000

Oh thanks I feel better now!

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:15:09 +0000

The history of AI research is people saying “yeah but computers can’t do X” followed by computers doing X in the near future.

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:30:44 +0000

Your naivety is charming.

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:28:52 +0000

Their training data contains nothing about human desires?

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:27:50 +0000

It’s “worse for humans” in exactly the same way the Industrial Revolution was bad for all the horses that weren’t needed anymore.

New comment by jimbokun in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:25:13 +0000

Show me the mathematicians ecstatic about OpenAIs recent results.

New comment by jimbokun in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:14:59 +0000

The Asshole’s Lament

New comment by jimbokun in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:10:59 +0000

Asshole and idiot are different categories.

New comment by jimbokun in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:10:22 +0000

lol

The only thing that will matter is capital, which will translate directly into all the talking and doing needed to make more money.

New comment by jimbokun in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:07:32 +0000

Um…us devs have been whinging with the best of them thank you very much.

New comment by jimbokun in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:06:09 +0000

Everyone who built an identity on earning a living doing useful work for other people is going to have to come to grips with that no longer being part of their identity.

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:53:51 +0000

Sure.

Those people will also be pissed that people get paid to make music or art or literature or poetry and all such frivolous things.

New comment by jimbokun in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jimbokun — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:51:18 +0000

You casually included “at work”.

But if the AIs replace all the jobs?