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New comment by konschubert in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

konschubert — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:44:55 +0000

Sounds like a failed state in that regard.

New comment by konschubert in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

konschubert — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:23:40 +0000

It will be approved it seems, but there will be a condition that you cannot speed more than 10% of above the limit. Which still for me is hard to understand why you then don’t just raise the limit if you think that going 10% above the law is fine?

New comment by konschubert in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

konschubert — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:22:07 +0000

A car should not have a “break the law” mode.

If speed limits are impractical they have to be fixed.

New comment by konschubert in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

konschubert — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:18:09 +0000

Tens of thousands dead in traffic due to the “common practice” of driving unsafely. We have the opportunity here to make the roads safe but apparently mr musk doesn’t see the need.

I hope the Nordics prevail and the Europeans don’t follow his bullshit.

New comment by konschubert in "Submarine cable resilience"

konschubert — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:15:36 +0000

Ah, the “unusually unlucky” cables serving Taiwan and in the Baltics.

Like statistically impossibly unlucky.

New comment by konschubert in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

konschubert — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:46:24 +0000

I think leaving to the US is more a function of business climate than of the investors

New comment by konschubert in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

konschubert — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:19:21 +0000

I don’t know what the point is that you’re hinting at?

I read it as confirmation that there is apparently no shortage of investor money in Europe, since US investors are willing and able to invest here.

New comment by konschubert in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

konschubert — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:13:11 +0000

I don’t know what the point is that you’re making.

I read it as confirmation that there is apparently no shortage of investor money in Europe, since US investors are willing and able to invest here.

New comment by konschubert in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

konschubert — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:45:32 +0000

All of which is more expensive, per resident, in the countryside.

New comment by konschubert in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

konschubert — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:22:19 +0000

Sorry, you’re right it’s bad behaviour and I’ll stop it.

But I’m not really pushing an agenda here. I use Claude a ton myself.

New comment by konschubert in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

konschubert — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:21:32 +0000

I think that bigger context windows help, but I feel that for AI to cross this chasm, it needs to be able to encode more abstract context knowledge. I think the holy grail here is online learning.

New comment by konschubert in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

konschubert — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:17:39 +0000

I think my point is that its sometimes (!) easier to use the manual chisel rather than go for the automatic chisel and then fix its mistakes.

New comment by konschubert in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

konschubert — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:53:37 +0000

It's the uncanny valley of AI. It's still not quite good enough yet that you can trust it blindly on a big codebase, so you still have to read and understand everything - which is often harder than just writing it up yourself.

EDIT: don’t get me wrong. I still think AI is incredibly useful for a lot of tasks! But when implementing an architecturally hairy thing, I find it less stressful and equally quick to jump down to the editor level and use AI just for code completion.

New comment by konschubert in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

konschubert — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:50:43 +0000

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

konschubert — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:29:49 +0000

I think this misses something.

AI is going to struggle at building a consistent internal model of the domain into the software unless you’re able to give a structured explanation of the domain.

If you’re just giving it a set of inputs and expected outputs, it’s not going to generalise well and fail at out of sample input, unless the AI already understands the domain from its training set.

Being able to give a structured explanation of a domain (and being able to judge if the internal model of the software makes sense) is not the same as having experience in a domain.

Lots of ppl with domain experience can tell a right output from a false one, but can’t tell you why.

New comment by konschubert in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

konschubert — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:50:26 +0000

This isn’t a response to you, but just so it has been said: 3 to 8-year-old kids have no business being on YouTube alone. AI or not.

New comment by konschubert in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

konschubert — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:06:14 +0000

You are contradicting yourself. If you're hoarding the data for yourself you're not going to develop something useful. Sharing the data means that it will be integrated into the big LLMs, which will be useful "for their own country".

New comment by konschubert in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

konschubert — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:43:08 +0000

More likely there would have been one less job.

There isn't a "lump of labour" that gets distributed in the economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

New comment by konschubert in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

konschubert — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:41:54 +0000

This is called the "lump of labour" fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

New comment by konschubert in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

konschubert — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:44:36 +0000

My point is that this is clearly out of the lab.