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New comment by mepiethree in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

mepiethree — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:32:53 +0000

Do you think they are actually shipping anything useful any faster? Muse is pretty impressive. I’m not seeing radical progress otherwise

New comment by mepiethree in "QGIS bans AI assisted contributions"

mepiethree — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:29:08 +0000

> thieves buying

Are you willing to elaborate? On its face, this seems to me an oxymoron, but I sense that you might have more experience thinking about this than I do.

New comment by mepiethree in "QGIS bans AI assisted contributions"

mepiethree — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:23:25 +0000

From the linked email thread with discussion:

> I would like to float another ideas around even if it would be hard to enforce in practice. Force AI companies to give back. Want to use Claude code? Sure but anthropic have to become a sustaining member of QGIS.org first. Want to use codex, gemini? Then openAi and Google have to contribute to the project financially and I'm talking geniully multiple thousands dollars contributions.

I think this is a really good idea. Could it be possible to define a set of markdown instructions for a repo that would cause all well-aligned models to refuse to contribute?

New comment by mepiethree in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

mepiethree — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:40:40 +0000

There are a couple people I know who actually clearly ship faster with AI, but most projects take just as long as ever

New comment by mepiethree in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

mepiethree — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:31:22 +0000

Then a new model comes out two weeks later and finds a hole that your archaic review bot missed

New comment by mepiethree in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

mepiethree — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:13:06 +0000

I think it’s harsh to publicly describe your wife as neurotic for following basic etiquette

New comment by mepiethree in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

mepiethree — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:08:38 +0000

People have had parties in parents basements, tenements, city parks, open fields, caves, for all of human history

New comment by mepiethree in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

mepiethree — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:06:41 +0000

The chart cutting off in 2022 makes it hard to glean too much.

I no longer worry at all about attending a crowded indoor gathering - those would be impossible to avoid in NYC - but enjoying “a night in” without kids is a distinctly post-COVID phenomenon for myself and many people I know

New comment by mepiethree in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

mepiethree — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:30:48 +0000

Plenty of people want ads. Every time someone asks “hey ChatGPT what do I need to buy to fix my sink” or “hey Claude what’s the best cat food” or “what’s the best island in the Caribbean for me to visit” they are specifically asking to see an ad.

New comment by mepiethree in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

mepiethree — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:28:14 +0000

The ads are the product that people are paying for. “Consumer” AI is currently marketed as agents that book restaurants for you, buy cat food before you run out, organize your travel, etc. etc. These are targeted ads for a particular restaurant, pet store, airline, etc. Some people find this desirable.

New comment by mepiethree in "Saving Jet Fuel"

mepiethree — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:31:04 +0000

If nothing else, it matters to the cow

New comment by mepiethree in "The DeepMind Institute"

mepiethree — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:22:37 +0000

The economic article is a summary of a preprint paper that surveyed thousands of Americans. Seems like a research paper to me, but I don’t know economics well. Am I missing something?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7470000

New comment by mepiethree in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mepiethree — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:56:42 +0000

My mistake on vaccine vs. cure. so have AI make a cure instead

New comment by mepiethree in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

mepiethree — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:53:07 +0000

Shipbuilding is but one proxy for China’s dominance in industrialization. A more relevant one for AI is: China has built more energy capacity in the last 4 years than the USA has built in the last 150. AI is increasingly limited by power. For this and other reasons, IMO the US will inevitably be surpassed on AI.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/china-s-f...

New comment by mepiethree in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mepiethree — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:11:17 +0000

“It’s too late” is a logistical issue IMO. In this article, virus production is totally decentralized and fast, but vaccine production is centralized and slow. Why?

New comment by mepiethree in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mepiethree — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:34:12 +0000

The author scoffing at the climate scientist is so cringe

New comment by mepiethree in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mepiethree — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:31:55 +0000

So somehow AI is able to magically create 100 lethal viruses with no logistical issues but is not able to make a cure due to logistical issues?

New comment by mepiethree in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

mepiethree — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:19:34 +0000

what would such proof look like? It's not like allegations are written in Lean

New comment by mepiethree in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

mepiethree — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:17:48 +0000

well they didn't really die on the hill. the NYT headline is still "OpenAI says it has cracked one of math's millennium problems" and the whole article doesn't mention this controversy. Normies don't know what NS is and don't care, they'll just see "wow OpenAI is the best I guess"

New comment by mepiethree in "9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight"

mepiethree — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:00:10 +0000

IMO this link proves the poster’s point. We are passing 1-2 laws a week. So far the 119th congress has passed 104 laws

100 years ago, the 69th congress passed over 1500 laws, plus hundreds of continuing resolutions, treaties, etc https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-statutes-at-la...