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New comment by laszlojamf in "Claude Opus 4.8"

laszlojamf — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:33:13 +0000

I find it freaky how you notice the language change between models. Some words which pop up now all the time, that I don't remember reacting to with previous models, such as "honest(ly)" and "load-bearing". Feels like a new AI smell, like em-dashes or "it's not just x, it's y".

New comment by laszlojamf in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

laszlojamf — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:17:05 +0000

the difference IMO is that now businesses have to find a product-market-fit faster. you can't spend 5 years building the perfect system. you get to spend 1 year building a system somebody will pay to use.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

laszlojamf — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:06:33 +0000

I keep hearing that claude is supposedly so agreeable. This doesn't agree with my experience. Claude will often tell me that I'm wrong, and insist on its own solution being right even when I tell it it's wrong.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Learning Software Architecture"

laszlojamf — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:09:20 +0000

I'd add

- data migrations are inevitable and should be planned for (corollary of versioning)

- planning is good, sometimes you just have to try things out

- everything costs money. Designing without costs in mind will force hard choices down the line

New comment by laszlojamf in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

laszlojamf — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:47:19 +0000

I mean... so did a lot of other rulers. As far as emperors go, Aurelius wasn't that bad. You have to judge historical people by their peers, not by your own modern standards.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet"

laszlojamf — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:31:10 +0000

this reminds a lot about the Three-Body Problem series. There it's aliens sabotaging science. In reality it was always the NSA.

New comment by laszlojamf in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

laszlojamf — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:00 +0000

right. But cursor _said_ they had some magic. At some point you have to trust vendors. I don't know exactly how AWS guarantees eleven nines of durability on S3. But I sure hope that they do.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Codex for almost everything"

laszlojamf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:58:51 +0000

The same way most people hear "legacy" and think it's something good

New comment by laszlojamf in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

laszlojamf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:13:13 +0000

My grandparents would have loved this. They spent most of the mornings scanning through obituaries for old friends who had died. Might be one of those bittersweet hobbies you get into when you reach your 80s.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

laszlojamf — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:51:54 +0000

Slightly off topic, but I find it to be a testament of how software has already eaten the world when friggin Michelin has a tech blog. What's next? General Electric releasing a frontend framework?

New comment by laszlojamf in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

laszlojamf — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:24:46 +0000

to be fair, if the author is truthful in his description of this Karen it sounds more like somebody who uses whatever leverage they have to make other people miserable. Did you see Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? Those people exist in real life too.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours"

laszlojamf — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:23:58 +0000

Slightly unrelated question: how would you spend $82k on prompts in 48 hours? Just phishing?

New comment by laszlojamf in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

laszlojamf — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:07:54 +0000

yes, that's why people _can_ identify you by it. Identification was the _purpose_ here.

New comment by laszlojamf in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

laszlojamf — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:07:09 +0000

Unless you have friends without phones and live in a city without cameras, I think that's a pretty fair assumption

New comment by laszlojamf in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

laszlojamf — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:06:12 +0000

I agree that DPA:s, as they are written today, aren't good. I was just pointing out that the reality probably isn't as bad as the article made it sound.

> If you don't see this as a problem, you are a part of the problem

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm just saying that there are way bigger fish to fry in terms of privacy on the internet than passport data. In the end, your face is on every store's CCTV camera, your every friends phone, and every school yearbook since you were a kid. Unless you ask all of them to also delete it once they are done with it.

New comment by laszlojamf in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

laszlojamf — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:51:30 +0000

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two or three at most. Of course, Persona _could_ be sending your data to all 17 of them, legally, but I'd be surprised if they actually do. 2. the article makes it sound like biometric data is some kind of secret, but especially your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet. Who are we kidding here? Why would _that_ be the problem? Your search/click behavior or connection metadata would seem a lot more private to me.

New comment by laszlojamf in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

laszlojamf — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:43:00 +0000

you'd also have to check if it's a human using an AI to impersonate another AI

New comment by laszlojamf in "Hypnosis with Aphantasia"

laszlojamf — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:05:52 +0000

yeah, I had a similar realization as an adult that not everybody else talks to themselves inside their head

New comment by laszlojamf in "Hypnosis with Aphantasia"

laszlojamf — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:55:21 +0000

I'd be curious to know how people with aphantasia come up with ideas, or what they call that process if not imagination. The author has written books. Books have stories. Somehow she comes up with them. If that's not imagination, then what is it. I have a hard time visualizing things myself, and I'm a lousy painter, but is _that_ what aphantasia is?

New comment by laszlojamf in "A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)"

laszlojamf — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:38:43 +0000

Slightly off topic, but it's interesting to see the same phrase "the long now" pop up in different contexts independently and mean very different things:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now/

Both are pretty obscure references for now, but I can easily imagine a world where they both become widely known in separate groups. Like the word "legacy" has hilariously different connotations for software engineers as compared to _everyone else_