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New comment by keeganpoppen in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

keeganpoppen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:46:00 +0000

they are right. bad output is user error. there, am i suiting the role appropriately? i do like 65% believe that, fwiw.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

keeganpoppen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:50:54 +0000

the output is definitely better. and i find it crazy how every time a new model comes out people trip over themselves to say how much worse it is than previous models, when in fact that is basically an impossibility. like, they've got the numbers, man-- you only release a new model when the numbers get gooder. the burden of proof is on the "didn't get better" side, not the "prove that it's better" side, because the architecture itself (1) only works because of how giant the training data / eval / etc. sets are and (2) has a fractal property of becoming strictly deeper and more thoughtful when you just click and drag the edge up and to the right (obviously AI research is harder than this, but that doesn't make the general point untrue). i say this especially because the scuttlebut is that this model genuinely is a shift-click-expand moreso than any sort of architectural "new science" or anything.

this is exactly why hypotheses come before the experiment in the scientific method.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

keeganpoppen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:45:54 +0000

this reads like "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" reactionary-ism... i'm guessing that it's not particularly easy to use claude to help you make bioweapons, and we all know that they have neutered Fable vis à vis security research because people have already been complaining about it. and the funny thing about hate speech is that there is absolutely no need for ai-- it tends to come out the best when spoken directly "from the heart", as it were, anyway.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

keeganpoppen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:11:25 +0000

suuper high-value comment

New comment by keeganpoppen in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:19:38 +0000

whoa that game looks very cool— love it. also loved SC3k… the soundtrack was amazing. game was kinda lowkey hard, though. or maybe it was because i was just a kid haha.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Magnifica Humanitas"

keeganpoppen — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:59:34 +0000

so maybe we'll get to the right place by accident when all companies are effectively replaced by ai ha ha. (not putting a high %age likelihood on that one, obviously, just being cheeky)

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:19:25 +0000

well it’s especially not hard when you turn it into a completely different problem

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:17:29 +0000

i… lowkey agree with this, by the way. unpopular opinion though it may be/seem.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:15:34 +0000

there is absolutely no line of demarcation between human reasoning and what you described

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:13:54 +0000

no, brah, humans are TOTALLY different. just don’t think about it too hard. we are just special.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:12:32 +0000

why do people insist on claiming that they don’t reason, when they clearly, for all intents and purposes, do. you can be vague; you can express your idea a thousand different ways, and you will get a unique blend of x => semi-smoothed output. this is like some Searle Chinese Room bullshit that needs to just die. it is beyond clear that llms can interact with abstract concepts in an extremely meaningful way. this is like the “thought leader” version of the stupid-ass “it’s just smart autocomplete” argument. if you think that, it is user error— either a failure of creativity or a failure of perception or both. just because llms are not a panacea and are problematic for society and “overhyped” and whatever does not make it intellectually honest to claim that there is zero reasoning/creativity/cognition within the box.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:05:36 +0000

oh man my body is ready for any post-beads ideas… i will definitely check this out

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:04:27 +0000

i legitimately cannot divine what you are saying at all with this. there are so many dangling antecedents and modifiers that it is completely impossible. and i say this out of a genuine desire to understand what your argument is, knowing full well that i likely disagree with it.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:01:19 +0000

i mean, maybe the golden calf people were right the whole time lol

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

keeganpoppen — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

as someone who is about as llm-forward as anyone out there, this is a brilliant analogy. was equally true of all the “prompt engineer” hype as well from a couple years ago (which i admit i still think does matter)… it kinda makes me feel like an audiophile / hi-fi person talking about how 24bit/192kHz is the one true encoding format and anything less is a willfull (cynical, “Quality”-hating, satisficerist, etc.) compromise. which i freely admit to being one of those people as well.

and in both cases i both “know” that i can tell the difference and “know that i cannot tell the difference”. what anyone takes from that in terms of what it says about me, personally, is a bit of a Rorschack test, but Astrology is about as apt a description as there is… xD

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)"

keeganpoppen — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:43:37 +0000

i'm pretty sure all that stuff works w/ Temporal... Temporal is extremely well-designed, in my experience. the js date object, on the other hand, has insane pitfalls, and i say this as someone who thinks not understanding JS ASI is a "skill issue", among other happily-un-"ergonomic" worldviews...

New comment by keeganpoppen in "The Aperiodic Table"

keeganpoppen — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:47:51 +0000

> Does aperiodicity have any cool properties that help in specific domains?

well, it helps as the basis for all life on the planet as we know it (DNA, RNA, et al.). which is pithy, but i think actually has fairly deep implications (ie is not _just_ pithy).

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Show HN: Claude Code vs. Codex Global Usage Leaderboard"

keeganpoppen — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:04:38 +0000

the human touch from human curation of the ai output, which tends to be sorely lacking.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

keeganpoppen — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:03:24 +0000

this is what the salesforces of the world do to startups every day. it is so painful to watch. billions upon billions wasted for just the stupidest possible reasons.

New comment by keeganpoppen in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

keeganpoppen — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:30:23 +0000

cannot wait for this book. it is insane that steve jobs has somehow become underrated because the lesson has become “sometimes assholes are geniuses”… that is such a painfully reductive narrative it beggars belief. there is a reason he is in/on the pantheon, and to talk yourself out of it is to do yourself a disservice. it’s just that a lot of his skills are not transferable because you have to cultivate the kind of taste he spent his whole life acquiring. the only transferable skill is in finding the next one (me, obviously, xP), so that we can similarly talk ourselves into how it was obvious and evolutionary and etc.

i cannot summon any other product announcements that ANYONE cared about in the way that people in my (nerd) dorm did for steve. you don’t have to put his merits and demerits on a ledger to appreciate his greatness. just take “the good parts” and leave the bad. he is sui generis.