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New comment by mwigdahl in "The AI Ceiling Is Lower Than Anyone Is Saying"

mwigdahl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:44:43 +0000

Article is clearly slop.

New comment by mwigdahl in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

mwigdahl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:28:21 +0000

"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

Agent Smith, _The Matrix_

New comment by mwigdahl in "Bitcoin and energy: the no-bullshit version, with sourced numbers"

mwigdahl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:30 +0000

Nine rhetorical uses of the word "honest" (and one used as descriptor for the network).

Sloppy writing.

New comment by mwigdahl in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

mwigdahl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:47:11 +0000

You wouldn't need AI for this; deterministic programming would be enough (and scads cheaper).

New comment by mwigdahl in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

mwigdahl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:57:02 +0000

Same here. The power upgrade going to Fable in particular is quite impressive.

New comment by mwigdahl in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

mwigdahl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:23:18 +0000

Using the built-in Screen Time tools, yes. Qustodio works pretty well though as an add-on product. Not perfect UX, not perfect functionality, but it's the best I've found.

New comment by mwigdahl in "C++: The Documentary"

mwigdahl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:24:03 +0000

Agreed, _Modern C++ Design_ is probably the programming book I've gotten the most out of in my career.

New comment by mwigdahl in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

mwigdahl — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:46:39 +0000

An easy way around the API token thing is to put it in a file and point the model at the file. I saw what you were seeing when I provided credentials directly, but haven't had any problems with it since using the indirect method.

New comment by mwigdahl in "Expertise in the age of AI"

mwigdahl — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:44:22 +0000

This effect is certainly real, likely even the default, but it's not inevitable.

I had great results using AI to help my son study for his final exams in chemistry and math. We went through the review guide the teacher provided, he did the problems, I checked them, and I had Claude generate additional targeted problems as permutations of the ones he had difficulty with. He worked them and got more practice in exactly the areas he was weak.

I could have set these problems up myself, but it was much smoother to have Claude set them up and I validate them. It let him get a lot more reps in, in exactly the areas he _needed_ more practice, than he would have otherwise.

The key is that to learn you have to do the work. AI can help you figure out where you're weak and provide the wherewithal to get additional practice, and there's huge value there. But you have to lift the mental weights yourself.

New comment by mwigdahl in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

mwigdahl — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:47:24 +0000

“Am I out of touch?”

“No, it’s the children who are wrong.”

New comment by mwigdahl in "Click (2016)"

mwigdahl — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:44:17 +0000

Is it capturing and selling user data? Avast would certainly know.

New comment by mwigdahl in "Ask HN: What's your go-to LLM for coding?"

mwigdahl — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:37:38 +0000

Opus 4.7 in Claude Code. I've used GPT-5.5 in Codex and it's good also, but I have a pretty developed workflow in Claude Code so it's hard to tell if GPT-5.5 is actually rougher or if it just doesn't have the same tooling support I've built up in CC over the past 6 months.

I should add that it's not perfect -- nothing in this space is -- but it to me has the best level of both consistency and quality of the setups I've tried.

New comment by mwigdahl in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

mwigdahl — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:20:58 +0000

One of those conditionals is a pretty huge assumption.

New comment by mwigdahl in "The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced"

mwigdahl — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:18:49 +0000

Teilhard de Chardin was, for one.

New comment by mwigdahl in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

mwigdahl — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:59:11 +0000

vi would be much easier to rewrite in Rust.

New comment by mwigdahl in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

mwigdahl — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:56:04 +0000

Clearly you are not a C++ programmer. :)

New comment by mwigdahl in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

mwigdahl — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:56:31 +0000

That was the first thing that jumped out at me also...

New comment by mwigdahl in "Knitting bullshit"

mwigdahl — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:01:51 +0000

Eventually they will all die, and then the upcoming Gen-Z and -Alpha will save the world with their well-documented refined tastes for artisanal, purely human short-form video slop.

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate – What to Do About Mythos

mwigdahl — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/aviate-navigate-communicate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009822

Points: 2

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New comment by mwigdahl in "Grok 4.3"

mwigdahl — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:49:48 +0000

GPT 4.1? Why not a 5-class model?