Hacker News: mgfist

New comment by mgfist in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

mgfist — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:26:24 +0000

I don't think coding is solved in the way they claim, but certainly solved in some way for many people. I don't write code by hand anymore, everything is through claude/codex/pi.

Still requires lots of work to shape the output correctly, but it's still crazy to me that I literally don't write code any more. And in that way, coding is solved for me.

New comment by mgfist in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

mgfist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:19:40 +0000

> there are plenty of places where machine learning algorithms make sense, but customer service is not one of them.

I don't care about human vs AI, I just want my issue resolved. Whatever does that the best and fastest. Or even better, for there to not be an issue in the first place.

New comment by mgfist in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

mgfist — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:07:16 +0000

I have my qualms with Anthropic/Claude but they've also had to scale unfathomably fast and that is just hard to do regardless.

New comment by mgfist in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

mgfist — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:08:02 +0000

> he is emphasizing that they used their own words against them. everyone knows the security threat is a pretext. the message is that he is smart and they are stupid and he won, which is what I call gloating.

In this case, the govt used Anthropic's word in the way Anthropic wanted them to.

Anthropic has publicly stated that AI is too powerful and needs to be regulated. They've done this repeatedly. More recently, they've withheld releasing Mythos claiming that it's not safe.

Sacks isn't using Anthropic's words against them. He's more or less doing what they asked!

New comment by mgfist in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

mgfist — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:07:03 +0000

One trick is to ask them that question first to gauge their perspective on it first

New comment by mgfist in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

mgfist — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:48:00 +0000

> This is obviously political and the entire narrative is fabrication.

I agree with this

> David Sacks is publicly gloating about it: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171

I do no like David Sacks but how do you say this is gloating about it?

Again, I do believe this is political, but Sacks is saying "you said this is dangerous and wanted regulation, and we believe you. Fix this because it's dangerous and we'll let it out again".

How is this gloating?

New comment by mgfist in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

mgfist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:42:58 +0000

That's where competition and creative destruction comes to play.

New comment by mgfist in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

mgfist — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:11:59 +0000

That's not the argument. No one is asking users to be grateful for OSS. They just want users to not be dicks to the maintainer.

Would you continue volunteering if the beneficiaries spat in your face and cursed you out for it?

New comment by mgfist in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

mgfist — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:08:40 +0000

You can criticize all you want, but he can also just stop maintaining it if he gets too annoyed by the criticism. Maybe that's a better outcome for you, idk.

New comment by mgfist in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

mgfist — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:01:45 +0000

Yes but you can't get away from a 5 year timeline, and then you have to project how many other fabs will be opening

New comment by mgfist in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

mgfist — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:24:44 +0000

A fab for high end memory costs $20B and 5 years to build.

It will happen, but yeah it takes time and money

New comment by mgfist in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

mgfist — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:16:09 +0000

> Coding is a pretty small slice of the markets in play.

I don't think that's true, mostly in that a lot of usecases are solved via coding models + a harness.

> Google's models are driving cars right now.

Yes + other models like alphafold. But those are (relatively) specialized models. Besides, the comment I was responding to was saying Google is sandbagging the market to keep it calm or something. I don't disagree that Google is doing well overall and has some clear advantages

New comment by mgfist in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

mgfist — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:20:19 +0000

> A human being who states X (implying they know it to be true) will behave in a way that is consistent with X being true.

That is literally not true and why we talk about "stated vs revealed preference" and such.

New comment by mgfist in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

mgfist — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:07:17 +0000

Those are 2 different things so yeah I naturally would have a different reaction.

New comment by mgfist in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

mgfist — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:47:32 +0000

This makes no sense. Google is beholden to its own shareholders, not the markets at large.

In any case, it's well known that devs in Google have liked anthropic/openai models for coding more than gemini, so unless they're hiding their best models from the people within, I think it's just the case that they're behind.

New comment by mgfist in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

mgfist — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:22:58 +0000

Whatever LLMs are or are not, they've completely changed what I do for work. 9 months ago I was coding, today I prompt. Every line of code I commit is generated by LLMs. If you want to call it text search, be my guest. Doesn't change what it's done for the industry.

New comment by mgfist in "The Last Technical Interview"

mgfist — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:10:01 +0000

In what way? I didn't attack his character like he did to the blog author.

New comment by mgfist in "The Last Technical Interview"

mgfist — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:17:50 +0000

As a recent interviewee, I much more prefer work samples. Less stressful, more in my control and less bound to whether I got lucky and clicked with the problem in a live interview. It's also just much more akin to what work is like, and therefore requires far less studying. The fact that live interviewing is a completely different skill to actual work is a really bad smell.

New comment by mgfist in "The Last Technical Interview"

mgfist — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:14:17 +0000

We must've read 2 different posts.

And even if you're interpretation is correct, you sound pretty rude. You're really gonna mock someone for not liking the interview process and trying to make it better?

New comment by mgfist in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

mgfist — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:20:05 +0000

I started a new job recently after 9 months off. Last Sept I was coding almost entirely by hand, using AI for q/a, debugging and such.

In my new job I haven't written a single line by hand. I now almost entirely work in claude code / codex and in github PRs. Occasionally I open vscode to read code, but very rarely. My company probably spends ~$100 a day for my token use. I'm not even going crazy with parallelization or subagents and such.

I 100% believe the demand growth based on my personal experience.