Hacker News: mangamadaiyan

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs"

mangamadaiyan — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:02:07 +0000

Hm. I thought LLMs weren't free. Am I missing something?

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "ChatGPT Health"

mangamadaiyan — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:37:47 +0000

I was referring to a couple of countries in Asia.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "ChatGPT Health"

mangamadaiyan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:34:14 +0000

Something to think about: perhaps the problem is with the duration of the appointment, and the difficulty of getting one in the first place? Elsewhere in the world, doctors can and do spend more than 12 minutes figuring out what's wrong with their patients. It's the healthcare system that's broken, and it _can_ be fixed without resorting to chatgpt. That it won't is the reality, though

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:58:35 +0000

Tell us you've never worked in a faang without telling us.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:46:34 +0000

Your claim is that LLMs are better at "x" than the alternatives, for some value of x.

My point is that your claim is unsubstantiated.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

mangamadaiyan — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:00:06 +0000

... and bear more load as well.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?"

mangamadaiyan — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:54:58 +0000

Wow, the Mandelbrot set example really put things into perspective.

Unoptimized code would easily take tens of minutes to render the Mandelbrot in 640x480x256 on a 486. FractInt (written by Ken Shirriff) was fast, but would still take tens of seconds, if not longer -- my memory is a little hazy on this count.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?"

mangamadaiyan — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:34:29 +0000

Transputers were a 1980s CPU innovation that didn't live up to their original hype, and have little to no connection with TransMeta.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

mangamadaiyan — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:06:04 +0000

Indeed. It is the enigma of success in an industry with no franchise value.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:37:35 +0000

I think you just proved my point - but hey, to each their own.

Good luck, again!

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:38:23 +0000

You're concerned about the author's bias contaminating your thinking, so the solution is to outsource your thinking to the LLM, because it's impossible for one of them to have any sort of bias at all.

This, instead of actually thinking yourself, and examining your own biases - or those of the people who wrote what you read

Right. Good luck!

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:27:22 +0000

Maybe actually making the interviews less of a hazing ritual would help.

Hell, maybe making today's tech workplace more about getting work done instead of the series of ritualistic performances that the average tech workday has degenerated to might help too.

Ergo, your conclusion doesn't follow from your initial statements, because interviews and workplaces are both far more broken than most people, even people in the tech industry, would think.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:09:59 +0000

After reading this post, I fear that LLMs and their ilk will make humans terrible at reading and comprehension, and impair their ability to think, much as how the advent of a car-first society resulted in many humans following a sedentary lifestyle to the detriment of their health.

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "How Senior Engineers Lose Trust"

mangamadaiyan — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:22:24 +0000

The article, you mean?

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "AI is an attack from above on wages": cognitive scientist Hagen Blix"

mangamadaiyan — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:50:37 +0000

Also, where's it going to _go_ to?

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]"

mangamadaiyan — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:50:21 +0000

They've explained why. Now why do you think the economics are not horrible?

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "Programming Deflation"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:21:48 +0000

Question 1: is this indeed what is most valued at the moment?

Question 2: Do you think this will ever become valuable?

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers"

mangamadaiyan — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:35:37 +0000

> Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same?

Perhaps not when the code is getting written (by yourself or by an AI).

When you're dealing with a memory leak in production (yes, they can and do happen), or worse -- if you're dealing with a drop in performance -- good luck with the vibe debugging.

Maybe there will be a time not too far off in the future when the stochastic cockatoos become sentient enough to do all of this by themselves, it's sure as hell not happening tomorrow.

Oh, and logarithmic tables were still a useful thing as late as forty odd years ago :)

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "The forgotten meaning of "jerk""

mangamadaiyan — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:25:55 +0000

I thought the Poles needed to be either all on the left-hand plane, or within the unit disk, for stability? (I haven't had my coffee yet, so maybe I'm remembering wrong).

Either way, I loved the joke. Thank you!

New comment by mangamadaiyan in "GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire"

mangamadaiyan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:42:38 +0000

The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.