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New comment by lnfromx in "Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI"

lnfromx — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:56:11 +0000

What are you doing if you might share ? Edit: 10x sounds like a lot so I wonder which work you do to achieve such a multiple with a simple 40€ subscription.

New comment by lnfromx in "The AI hype is a mass psychosis echo chamber of incompetent individuals"

lnfromx — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:18:33 +0000

Don't want to be rude but thats the last-resort-argument people make when defending LLMs. Its always about wrong utilization or the wrong test. If LLMs are so capable and so useful where is the "AI" fueled, real economic growth ? Why is Software still not dead cheap ? I really see how useful LLMs are especially for search. Its amazing and I use it every day. Also sometimes it can generate decent code. But this is still only a marginal improvement of productivity which leads to the big question I have: Why is it so hard to see the value created by LLMs if they are really the innovation they are promised to be ? Imo it should be trivial to see the benefit of such an innovation, kind of like it was with the wheel or the computer. For AI this is still a big ongoing discussion with not much to show. What am I missing ?

New comment by lnfromx in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

lnfromx — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:20:05 +0000

You just have to reinstall you apps using Google Play Store and install Google Play Services

New comment by lnfromx in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

lnfromx — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:17:25 +0000

I doubt that however an app solves this problem without FCM or Unified Push can be called power efficient.

New comment by lnfromx in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

lnfromx — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:16:50 +0000

If the critique itself turns out to be wrong. Using LLMs does not equal endorsement nor does it make valid points to critizise disappear. "using LLMs" has no clear definition and can still be in line with the critique.

New comment by lnfromx in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

lnfromx — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:02:06 +0000

> There is barely anything more rewarding than teaching someone something, to watch the other person grow

I think many junior devs (or aspiring junior devs) look for exactly this experience. This is a matching problem we haven't solved yet. Is Open Source the solution ? I really think it has to be solved if we want truely reliable software in the future.

New comment by lnfromx in "GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files"

lnfromx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:03:30 +0000

Yeah it should be common sense at this point that this is a stupid idea.

New comment by lnfromx in "Rare things become common at scale (2014)"

lnfromx — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:39:41 +0000

This is true in Software Development too and why I believe SDD is not going to survive.

New comment by lnfromx in "The AI Industry Is Losing"

lnfromx — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:20:03 +0000

But Anthropic would be profitable if they stop training cries

No seriously, I recently heart someone say that and it may even be correct. However I assume this only to be correct if a stop in training doesn't change the current revenue environment - which it absolutely would. I am still convinced a lot of demand for tokens is artificial in the sense that people buy tokens because thats what you do right now (and its convenient) not because the roi is so great.

New comment by lnfromx in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

lnfromx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:21:46 +0000

I love the idea! It's so good to see people advancing the european tech landscape. Just out of curiosity: Are there more reasons for building Uruky than Kagi being located in the US and closed source ?

New comment by lnfromx in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

lnfromx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:05:51 +0000

But are we really still learning ? I feel like we already converge to a set of use cases. Also I am always wondering if LLMs are what they promise to be, why is it so difficult to find sources of real (measurable) value ? Wouldn't a disillusion of those overpromises trigger a reduction in demand ?

New comment by lnfromx in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

lnfromx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:03:34 +0000

Okay lets suppose all those companies are profitable if training would stop today. What if token demand is shrinking ? I think big parts of the current demand is artificially build by e.g. FOMO and marketing without real value generated by them. There is no indication in economic data about some productivity boom resulting from AI usage. Next thing is Energy costs - that will soon eat into profitability too. I don't see how this bubble can't burst.

New comment by lnfromx in "Tired of AI When will this era end?"

lnfromx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:26:36 +0000

Problem is LLMs still produce very often code that disappoints. This ereases trust in it for me and makes me always regret the decision to try it yet again. In order to cope with that I try to read and understand the code to verify. But then there is no "scaling of value produced" because its not really faster than doing it all by myself - is this a me problem ? LLMs are no doubt great for searching, generating ideas etc. but programming...?

New comment by lnfromx in "ThinkNext Design"

lnfromx — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:17:50 +0000

Oh yes I see that. I got my first ThinkPad last year and the only one that wasn't loaded with "AI" nonsense was a P1. Despite the enormous size and weight it's a similar experience than old ones gave me when I tried them. I guess thats the option for me as long as possible. At some point we have to switch to something newer anyway...

New comment by lnfromx in "IT specialist shortage [in Germany] almost gone"

lnfromx — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:00:32 +0000

So you mean it could get worse just due to indecision or lack of knowledge. Interesting thought, I can see that.

New comment by lnfromx in "IT specialist shortage [in Germany] almost gone"

lnfromx — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:49:18 +0000

The title is a bit misleading because the article says the shortage is about to increase dramatically again in the future, due to a lack of MINT skills in younger generations and an aging population. Also imo there is more than enough to do in this sector in Germany. Might therefore be rather the economic environment than some fundamental reversal.

New comment by lnfromx in "Math Is Erotic"

lnfromx — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:52:40 +0000

This reminds me of countless conversations with peers, where we were exploring our experiences. Does anyone know an equivalent or even better essay ?

New comment by lnfromx in "What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?"

lnfromx — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:00:43 +0000

Looking at e.g. the Solow Model better technology will indeed increase efficiency as the output per worker increases which will lead to economic growth. However I think you are right. This is an oversimplification with regards to AI because in the end its also about which products are being impacted. Also the product quality is left out in that scenario so it gets tricky. E.g. I would personally not like to read even one AI generated book as of today.

New comment by lnfromx in "Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal"

lnfromx — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:18:46 +0000

„It‘s entirely possible to sway your group of friends from WhatsApp to Signal“ is an assumption, I don‘t think is universally true. Especially since you base it on your own experience. I just recently made the switch but for me it meant cutting some contacts for now. Especially non-tech people put you in a tinfoil-hat category pretty fast so its not an easy problem if you can‘t communicate well enough.

New comment by lnfromx in "What makes Europe better than America?"

lnfromx — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:43:03 +0000

I think the idea was that the US being the richest country in the world (at least by GDP) still can’t buy or recreate the kind of charm that Europe has