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New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:02:15 +0000

Decades of utter incompetence somehow ended yesterday?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:37:38 +0000

Hold on isn't this how math professors used grad students for hundreds of years?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:15:16 +0000

Totally not a bubble right.

Right?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "My two year old taught me constraint solving"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:36:04 +0000

I vaguely recall a windows screensaver that did this

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?"

mohamedkoubaa — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:10:07 +0000

"You lose 100% of wars you don't wage", Don Gretzky

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

mohamedkoubaa — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:11:30 +0000

A future where everything is very easy to learn is kind of dystopian

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

mohamedkoubaa — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:54:45 +0000

People who should know better do it too

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

mohamedkoubaa — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:37:59 +0000

Maybe his taste in partners is just that bad

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

mohamedkoubaa — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:09:11 +0000

If it wasn't this it'd be for mining shitcoins.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:03:56 +0000

"not great" is a huge understatement

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

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:07:00 +0000

So the purpose of a graduate degree is TAing a few classes?

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

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:32:13 +0000

>as a senior, you don’t need juniors anymore. The mundane tasks, at least I find that a lot of people agree with that one, can be fully outsourced to an LLM

Master craftsmen didn't take on apprentices to give them chores.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Designing APIs for Agents"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:43:15 +0000

Boiling frog problem

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Designing APIs for Agents"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:01:23 +0000

>Defaults are bad. Agents can be expected to read the documentation, register what good starting values are, and fill them all in, in place.

This is not what defaults are for.

If, for example, you are writing a replacement CLI for git, *for the love of God and all that is holy* do not force agents to read the entire documentation and pass a value for every possible parameter

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:01:54 +0000

This is exactly why humans invented the idea of things going in and out of style.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

mohamedkoubaa — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:45:43 +0000

Almost sounds like they pointed a prompt at every boondocks conjecture and wrote a press release for the one it plausibly solved.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Late Bronze Age Collapse"

mohamedkoubaa — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:57:16 +0000

The Ottoman embargo of Western Europe leading to the collapse of the Aztecs supports your hypothesis. The other sea people.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:06:43 +0000

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New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Grok 4.5"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:39:13 +0000

People are saying, "There are only a couple of frontier labs. This is a really hard problem and not many people can do it."

Elon's reaction to these kinds of statements is oddly predictable.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:33:15 +0000

I was asking because I didnt understand the claim made about game engines using the given verbal analogy but thanks for sharing this