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New comment by laurentiurad in "The Closing of the Frontier"

laurentiurad — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:57:27 +0000

My bet that this is just a model with a slimmer safety alignment which yields results in 100 agent running in parallel configuration.

New comment by laurentiurad in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

laurentiurad — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:47:24 +0000

clanker != luxury, quite the opposite

New comment by laurentiurad in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

laurentiurad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:12:33 +0000

If he's breaking the law and there is proof to that, then he will and should be arrested.

New comment by laurentiurad in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

laurentiurad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:52:46 +0000

I hate them too, but arresting them for something that they simply cannot prevent due to technical limitations, since they cannot scan in realtime all the conversations happening on their platform, is Russian-style government action, not rule of law.

New comment by laurentiurad in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

laurentiurad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:45:14 +0000

How is the ceo responsible for operating under the current legal framework which allows his platform not to require KYC? Unless they are breaking the law, why should anyone arrest him?

It's the responsibility of the lawmakers to make them illegal or force them to do kyc.

If you fantasize about China or Russia way of doing things you should move there.

New comment by laurentiurad in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

laurentiurad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:46:02 +0000

it's a hyperbole dude. It accelerates the moral decay of a society, and the barriers for entry are very low. The one you mentioned is straight illegal and punishable in any jurisdiction across the globe.

New comment by laurentiurad in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

laurentiurad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:44:07 +0000

yea just throw the CEO of microsoft in jail too because illegal transactions are set via Xbox live.

New comment by laurentiurad in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

laurentiurad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:24:25 +0000

I talk about this at length in one of my previous posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39963058. I definitely share your opinion and I think this will be exacerbated by vibe coding and having LoC as the main KPI for engineering teams.

New comment by laurentiurad in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

laurentiurad — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:01:37 +0000

Honestly this story got too much attention IMHO. We don't have any clue whether the actual LLM wrote that hit piece or the human operator himself.

New comment by laurentiurad in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

laurentiurad — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:55:36 +0000

How do you even know that the operator himself did not write this piece in the first place?

New comment by laurentiurad in "I’m joining OpenAI"

laurentiurad — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:26:09 +0000

Got super inspired by this story and (sorry for the plug) decided to build comrade, a security-focused AI agent: https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel/comrade. I might be biased, but in my tests it managed to complete coding tasks (creating web apps from scratch) with less tools, which means less tokens, lower costs than openclaw.

What I am missing is distribution. It seems impossible to get traction nowadays on social media, regardless how good your product is.

Any feedback is much appreciated.

New comment by laurentiurad in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

laurentiurad — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:17:06 +0000

An AI agent was prompted to write a hit piece on an OSS maintainer, or worse, a human did that. That's the story.

New comment by laurentiurad in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

laurentiurad — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:15:22 +0000

When companies claim that AI writes 90% of their code you can expect that such a system can find obvious issues. Expectations are really high when you see statements such as the ones coming from the CEOs of the AI labs. When those expectations fall short, it's expected to see such reactions. It's the same proportionality on both sides.

New comment by laurentiurad in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

laurentiurad — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:27:04 +0000

By people in tech you mean the tech bros that do not actually code, just emit opinions on the Internet, right?

New comment by laurentiurad in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

laurentiurad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:39:59 +0000

“Overkill for 85% of people” is a vibes statistic, not an argument.

Also you're generalizing some things to the whole sector like every software provider now is useless and the new features they add are not bringing any values. How can you make such generic statements about a sector that is so diverse?

I start to suspect some of you are just private-equity-sponsored accounts trying to push Anthropic propaganda over the Internet.

New comment by laurentiurad in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

laurentiurad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:18:30 +0000

so many conditions need to be met to have Figma "cooked". Plus you forgot that the underlying LLMs need to get exponentially better, hard to do that without infinite VC money.

New comment by laurentiurad in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

laurentiurad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:57:51 +0000

Where are all these 1000 competitors coming from?

You need to have tremendous agency/will to start competing with a public company. Plus, you need to have a lot of distribution channels, competing with sales people that do this for a living since ages, and marketing budgets that are higher than your annual Claude spending.

Regular people do not press 10 clicks daily to track their calories, and you're saying that they will start competing with Salesforce and the like?

New comment by laurentiurad in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

laurentiurad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:27:36 +0000

What the authors of this kind of doomer-type articles do not realize is that B2B software companies have the data that their customers pay for, and they also have access to the AI tools themselves, meaning they can accelerate in adding new features to their products, making them more competitive.

It's a fallacy to consider the bad performance of software stocks as a definite sign that AI is going to replace them. One needs to factor financials into the equation to explain a downtrend. Take Figma for example, spending 109 mil on AWS bills, cutting through their margins. Investors know that such costs do not simply go down due to the vendor lock-in companies experience when using cloud services.

Claude Code is good, but definitely far away from being able to vibe code Figma.

New comment by laurentiurad in "The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom"

laurentiurad — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:11:12 +0000

And the Final Thoughts heading. LLMs love that as well.

New comment by laurentiurad in "The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom"

laurentiurad — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:28:36 +0000

Sorry but this is clearly written by an LLM.