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New comment by ken47 in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

ken47 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:38:12 +0000

Because the majority of executives think AI is a magical black box, I’d reckon.

New comment by ken47 in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

ken47 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:20:54 +0000

I have to wonder if there is a relation to the rising prevalence of coding LLMs.

New comment by ken47 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

ken47 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:28:58 +0000

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

New comment by ken47 in "Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%"

ken47 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:17:42 +0000

And don't forget that physical loneliness, that is, actually being alone, eliminates one major feedback source that something could be wrong with your health, or a source of immediate aid if e.g. you go into cardiac arrest.

Maybe the researcher above touches on these things, but more generally, there should be a standardized probability and statistics exam for ALL aspiring scientific researchers, and a high score should be the minimum cutoff. The influence that a statistically flawed study can have over our collective futures is too dangerous.

New comment by ken47 in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

ken47 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:46:28 +0000

The main premise of this article is that SPA frameworks are primarily about transitions. This is yet another passionate argument built on a false foundation.

New comment by ken47 in "The great AI delusion is falling apart"

ken47 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:30:07 +0000

The overarching problem is that signal:noise ratio in contemporary discussions of AI is absurdly low. This is thanks in large part to a media complex whose primary goal seems to be the pumping of AI investments and stocks, and the associated cacophony of mendacious exaggerations. If only we could have a reasonable discussion without the "contributions" of the non-technical and/or salespeople...

New comment by ken47 in "China develops new method to mass-produce high-quality semiconductors"

ken47 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:34:59 +0000

Occam’s Razor applies.

New comment by ken47 in "What happens when housing prices go down?"

ken47 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:59:39 +0000

Those wealthy enough to invest or speculate in real estate incur a write-down they can likely afford - as Warren Buffett once said, don’t swim naked. The person of average or below-average means gets a chance at a standard life.

New comment by ken47 in "Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement"

ken47 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:10:23 +0000

We don't need AGI in order for AI to destroy humanity.

New comment by ken47 in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

ken47 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:47:52 +0000

> rise of IDEs, or Google search, or AWS.

None of these things introduced the risk of directly breaking your codebase without very close oversight. If LLMs can surpass that hurdle, then we’ll all be having a different conversation.

New comment by ken47 in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

ken47 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:45:29 +0000

Longer.

New comment by ken47 in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

ken47 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:44:12 +0000

You can pre-agree on a solution path with human engineers too, with a similar effect.

New comment by ken47 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

ken47 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 05:29:18 +0000

Search engineering forums online. If you haven’t found the walls, you haven’t been trying.

New comment by ken47 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

ken47 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:35:33 +0000

Let’s not conflate LLM’s with AI. LLM’s are a kind of AI that can be a software engineer’s assistant, at best. But the degree of hype is undermining belief in AI among many professionals who the hypesters claim are going to be replaced. No, this iteration is not going to replace doctors or engineers. But the degree to which the hype train wants to do so is alarming.

New comment by ken47 in "Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware"

ken47 — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:53:17 +0000

That’s weird. Why is the data from the unconnected databases of test companies in a single place?

New comment by ken47 in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

ken47 — Mon, 26 May 2025 09:39:39 +0000

As expected, shallow analysis from people who don’t understand our craft and/or are all too happy to feed a hype train.

New comment by ken47 in "Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments"

ken47 — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:29:11 +0000

Human experts set the benchmarks and LLM’s cannot match them in most (maybe any?) fields requiring sophisticated judgment.

They are very useful for some things, but sophisticated judgment is not one of them.

New comment by ken47 in "Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments"

ken47 — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:16:54 +0000

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New comment by ken47 in "June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)"

ken47 — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:28:35 +0000

Not really possible when success in South Korea is literally like the Squid Games and entrance exams are extremely difficult compared to what Westerners may be accustomed to. I agree the signal provided by this is low-dimensional, but it’s an objective way to measure applicants.

New comment by ken47 in "Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software"

ken47 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:05:29 +0000

Written by software != written by AI. But CNBC has to pump.