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New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:25:31 +0000

People aren't ready to discuss AI assisted imagery as art yet. Most discussions lack the nuance that Baudelaire lacks in that critique, which deals with the nature of art and the importance of human intention and input.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:21:16 +0000

If he didn't understand photography, he wouldn't understand the nuance there either.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:20:05 +0000

Analogy is a meaningful way to discuss. Drawing parallels can illustrate a point and bring up nuances by pointing out where it falls apart.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:18:11 +0000

Scale the problem down to an email. You're saying AI won't disrupt writing an email, when the text is vetted and authored by a person. True!

But now let chatGPT write lengthy emails unrestricted and now no one wants to read your slop anymore. That's what is being advocated against.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:53:05 +0000

Agreed! Although, if done by a mathematician, it's not a ~complete waste. I think the community learns something along the way.

Is there an established term for the idea of "DoS"? I've taken to calling it slop fatigue.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:50:20 +0000

Did he say so somewhere? I don't think these ideas are contradictory. It's just an pro AI tooling but anti-slop stance.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:48:24 +0000

It's not just the isolated dumping, it's the fast, isolated, possibly untraceable dumping, without long term support.

It'll basically become slop fatigue if OpenAI starts dumping out proofs faster than the community can keep up, and some turn out to be wrong, never formalize it, don't stay to support it, etc.

New comment by ksoped in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

ksoped — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Not "a" human's understanding; Humanity's understanding. Understanding the research problem, and the solution especially, is a lot more involved than simply "read their methods". That's the whole point being made.

It matters if a human came up with it because of everything mentioned in the article... A mathematician's solution is necessarily built on other's ideas that have been disseminated, internalized, pressure tested etc. Methodologies differ too. AI can abuse its compute resources and generate a true/false or counterexample statements, without laying the foundation that a decade of globalized research would have.

"Vibe Coding" is derogatory to the shift towards Natural Language Programming

ksoped — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:23:53 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@olafeezee/its-natural-language-programming-not-vibe-coding-4b33079df343

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723837

Points: 3

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New comment by ksoped in "Diabolus Ex Machina"

ksoped — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:24:47 +0000

My assumption is OP doesn't know much about LLMs. Clearly speaking to chatGPT as a person (which I'm guilty of as well at times), but the personification goes further, as you're assigning it attributes that it can't have. Even in the comments people are drawing comparisons to a psychopath... It's just a bot. Also, their chatGPT's response style seems to me like it's been personalized. I also hate when chatGPT hallucinates and starts giving nonsense response, but I acknowledge its just "hallucinating"; what we don't want to start doing is attributing human emotions to a machine.

New comment by ksoped in "Ask HN: Please recommend university open courses for software design?"

ksoped — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:48:29 +0000

This is terrible advice. Sounds like OP wants to learn industry standards/practices and tooling. How are they supposed to pick that up on their own? It's more likely they'll just develop bad habits, especially with ChatGPT.

New comment by ksoped in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ksoped — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:13:30 +0000

Hi Peter, what are my options as someone who qualifies for DACA (but doesn't have it) when it comes to working in tech or getting hired by a real company? Currently I do "false freelance" work for a small company that doesn't pay well.

New comment by ksoped in "A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs"

ksoped — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:08:12 +0000

There's a lot of videos about EV conversions on YT but they're mostly on the edutainment side not a full on course. Watching RichRebuilds, JerryRigEverything's jeep conversion gives you an overview of the process and they're entertaining if you're completely new to the idea.

New comment by ksoped in "Show HN: Rent Elderly People – Skip Lines and Get Senior Perks"

ksoped — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:00:15 +0000

The benefits for seniors made me sad. Poor old people, this might actually be a good idea if it weren't for everything that's obviously wrong with it.

New comment by ksoped in "Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]"

ksoped — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:28:58 +0000

This just makes me more sad, thinking about what could have been. I had a 1500 on SAT from a school where the average is probably at 1000.

New comment by ksoped in "Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval"

ksoped — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:34:24 +0000

Really wish this wasn't fox news ...

New comment by ksoped in "Proposed "au" unit for CSS provides for styling on an astronomical scale"

ksoped — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:03:50 +0000

I don't understand what for

New comment by ksoped in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ksoped — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:23:58 +0000

Hi Peter, what are my employment options as a programmer who (long story short qualifies for DACA) is completely undocumented. Not a citizen, not a resident but living in the US. I'm working with a local company and doing work as a 1099 Contractor, but this along with freelance can be limiting. I would much rather work with a big(ger) company, but unfortunately I don't have work authorization. Am I right in assuming there's no way for me to get hired at a real company? Or are there workarounds I'm not aware about?

New comment by ksoped in "Apple's Blue Ocean"

ksoped — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:36:32 +0000

>Second, people still crave the advantages of removable batteries that were left behind: increasing battery life by swapping batteries instead of using a cumbersome external battery pack, inexpensively and conveniently extending the life of a product by replacing a worn-out battery with a new one—without paying for someone else to perform delicate surgery on the device.

This whole paragraph is delusional. Apple users carrying and swapping out batteries? Apple supporting and allowing people to simply swap out a battery instead of going to the apple store for a certified repair? Apple??

New comment by ksoped in "Humming-Birds"

ksoped — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:16:24 +0000

I was looking through it thinking "Wow this is beautiful, reminds me of that Euclid one I saw a while back". Nicholas has done it again. Man doesn't miss