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New comment by lgrapenthin in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

lgrapenthin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:00:37 +0000

They are just trying to peddle their "It's alive" headlines.

Text generators mostly generate the text their are trained and asked to generate, and asking it to run a vending machine, having it write blog posts under fictional living computer identity, or now calling it "Mythos" - its all just marketing.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:25:56 +0000

Assuming that everybody disagreeing with such takes simply can't have tried the latest generator is quite telling. Consider, that maybe, I'm not as easily impressed?

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:43:43 +0000

My hammer is also solving problems. Still, hammering is not programming. LLMs are text generators.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:08:55 +0000

You are comparing a PL to a text generator. What are you on?

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

lgrapenthin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:07:37 +0000

The negativity is driven by outrageous claims how AIs will replace programmers, or how english is the PL of the future. T

New comment by lgrapenthin in "AI isn't "just predicting the next word" anymore"

lgrapenthin — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:22:07 +0000

Its generating an approximation of what it was trained on. Call it whatever you want, just not AGI or the road to AGI.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Scott Adams has died"

lgrapenthin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:26:06 +0000

How brave of you

New comment by lgrapenthin in "AI URI Scheme – Internet-Draft"

lgrapenthin — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:35:40 +0000

There is a newer version here https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sogomonian-aiip-archi...

I don't understand what problem this is trying to solve though.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

lgrapenthin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:01:04 +0000

I tried this on a small Clojure codebase and asked it to write some tests. It couldn't get its parentheses balanced. After 10 attempts or so it tried to write a smaller test file first, but again failed. Regardless of the parentheses, the test code it came up with was quite basic and arbitrary. It didn't try to come up with interesting edge cases or anything.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

lgrapenthin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:51:04 +0000

To me, it was never about the hardware. It was not even about LISP. It is about "clean design" and what a great computing environment was capable of, and still would be, had its potential not been shredded by the advent of cheap addicting hardware combined with an "operating system" so "simple and elegant" that even today, a program simply segfaults leaving you with nothing (instead of showing at least an inspectable stacktrace). So "simple and elegant" that the only two data formats end users are dealing with are "copy & paste text", "files", and "screenshots". An operating system so "pure" that every program lives in its own uninteroperable walled garden, that understands nothing about the environment and data loaded around it. We lost a whole computing world and it might still take ages getting that back.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Transducer: Composition, abstraction, performance (2018)"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:09:08 +0000

A transducer transforms a reducing function. Its signature is rfn->rfn. The resulting rfn can then be used to reduce/fold from any collection/stream type into any other collection/stream type.

I don't see what your functions have to do with that.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

lgrapenthin — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:06:05 +0000

Maybe not "elegant", but quite readable compiler impl. compared to what I have seen. And which (real world) compiler has an "elegant" implementation anyways.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

lgrapenthin — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:03:41 +0000

Those are not fully featured web frameworks, I guess they were just labeled by AI for this website. They are libraries specialized on one thing.

Most problems solved by frameworks don't exist in Clojure. Most problems introduced by frameworks, therefore, don't exist in Clojure as well.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Clojure Async Flow Guide"

lgrapenthin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:50:53 +0000

No. Those have unbounded message queues.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:18:59 +0000

If search was only about finding existing texts, LLMs would be qualitatively worse, as they frequently misquote or even invent non existing sources.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:31:11 +0000

Sorry, these claims are just not true. AI generations in these categories are impressive on release, but blatantly generic, recognizable, predictable and boring after I have seen about 100 or so. Also, if you want to put them to use to replace "real work" outside of the ordinary/pretrained, you hit limitations quickly.

The scaling laws of the Internet were clear from the start.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:17:35 +0000

Your example is a better search engine. The AI hype however is the promise that it will be smarter (not just more knowledgeable) than humans and replace all jobs.

And it isn't on the way there. Just today, a leading state of the art model, that supposedly passed all the most difficult math entry exams and whatever they "benchmark", reasoned with the assumption of "60 days in January". It would simply assume that and draw conclusions, as if that were normal. It also wasn't able to corrrectly fill out all possible scores in a two player game with four moves and three rules, that I made up. It would get them wrong over and over.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "The program is the database is the interface"

lgrapenthin — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:28:54 +0000

Was this written by a LLM?

New comment by lgrapenthin in "All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly"

lgrapenthin — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:48:32 +0000

> Once you get used to Lisp, you stop noticing the parentheses and rely on indentation instead.

Who does that? LISP has a datastructured syntax, textformat has no meaning in it.

New comment by lgrapenthin in "Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant"

lgrapenthin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:40:55 +0000

Such interview processes are big red flags. The company can't afford taking a risk with you and at the same time tests how desperate you are by making you work for free. They are likely short on cash and short on experience. Expect crunch and bad management. Run.