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New comment by mxkopy in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

mxkopy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:49:49 +0000

Solutions to more actual problems are more expensive. It’s easier to ask millions of people for $0.01 than it is to ask thousands for $100. Things that are easy to sell to millions of people for $100 are rarely innovative (transportation, food, entertainment, etc), and if they are, they’re world-changing (cars, supermarkets, smartphones, etc).

New comment by mxkopy in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

mxkopy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:55:26 +0000

They are saying coding agents are winning similarly to NNs and that’s what I’m pushing back on

New comment by mxkopy in "I quit. The clankers won"

mxkopy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:54:54 +0000

I don’t think it could be the most important skill to have. The most common, and the most standardized one for sure, but if coding agents are doing fundamental R&D or running ops then nobody needs skills anyway.

> As it turns out, neural nets “won”

> The people who scoffed at neural nets and never got up to speed not so much.

I get the feeling you don’t know what you’re talking about. LLMs are impressive but what have they “won” exactly? They require millions of dollars of infrastructure to run coming around a decade after their debut, and we’re really having trouble using them for anything all that serious. Now I’m sure in a few decades’ time this comment will read like a silly cynic but I bet that will only be after those old school machine learning losers come back around and start making improvements again.

New comment by mxkopy in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

mxkopy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:40:11 +0000

The market hasn’t been built out yet. There’s that post from a couple days ago where someone frontloaded the entire UX of an operating system onto an LLM, so you just tell the hardware what you want to do and it does it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557165

The growth is there but it’s going to be a marathon, not a sprint. I don’t know why everyone’s in such a goddamn hurry all the time

New comment by mxkopy in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

mxkopy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:13:40 +0000

I mean they did execute a wealthy banker a couple years ago. So I think the mercantile class occupies a different place in society there than in America

New comment by mxkopy in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mxkopy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:02:54 +0000

This is one ruling out of many, many of which directly benefit Trump. See Trump vs. United States 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States

There’s absolutely 0 reason to be optimistic towards a court stacked explicitly in his favor.

New comment by mxkopy in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

mxkopy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:29:18 +0000

Eh I don’t think it’s something we can ever discount. Some cavewoman could’ve daydreamed the entire theory of general relativity in her own private language while weaving a basket and we would never know because she never felt the need to talk about it. On the other hand there are people today who will emit novels of profound nothingness.

Technology and language is sort of like speaking in this sense, it’s evidence of mind but it’s not mind. And the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence and all that

New comment by mxkopy in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

mxkopy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:17:00 +0000

One thing I will give to them is the MSVC ecosystem. (Something something developers)

No doubt it’s starting to show its age but it’s like watching a lion die. Win32 amenities just being automatically available is quite sick and I wish there was something similar for Linux.

It’s like windows devs and users live in alternate realities, I’m sure a lot of cool things can happen if they bring some of that dev love over to their UX.

New comment by mxkopy in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

mxkopy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:29:23 +0000

The phrase you’re looking for is “anatomically modern human”, which has been around for 200,000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human

New comment by mxkopy in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

mxkopy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:14:32 +0000

It honestly seems a little control freakish to think this way. People leave companies and that’s a good thing, they explore the industry and generally become more capable. If you leave on good terms there’s nothing holding back a renewed relationship, now with the added benefit of new perspectives; maybe meeting at conferences or working on a project. My gut is telling me these companies don’t part on good terms with their employees.

New comment by mxkopy in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

mxkopy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:15:14 +0000

The reason LLMs fail today is because there’s no meaning inherent to the tokens they produce other than the one captured by cooccurrence within text. Efforts like these are necessary because so much of “general intelligence” is convention defined by embodied human experience, for example arrows implying directionality and even directionality itself.

New comment by mxkopy in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

mxkopy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:33:17 +0000

I’d like a source for that. College graduates are no longer at an employment advantage compared to their uneducated peers. The average age of a new hire increased by 2 years over the past 4 years.

Young people in the west have definitely seen declining salaries, if only by virtue of the fact that they’re not being offered at all.

https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...

https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/social/65-and-still-clockin...

New comment by mxkopy in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

mxkopy — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:00:21 +0000

Money and power don’t usually make you smarter, in fact they usually make you dumber. You can have every anti social belief and the intentions of the antichrist, but if you’re smart and run your system well everyone will still benefit.

New comment by mxkopy in "Compiling models to megakernels"

mxkopy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:18:51 +0000

RLHF is one that comes to mind

New comment by mxkopy in "Compiling models to megakernels"

mxkopy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:02:21 +0000

AI actually has some optimizations unique to the field. You can in fact optimize a model to make it work; not a lot of other disciplines put as much emphasis on this as AI

New comment by mxkopy in "String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?"

mxkopy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0000

New comment by mxkopy in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

mxkopy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:02:58 +0000

Read Capitalism and Schizophrenia, and tell everyone you know to read it too.

New comment by mxkopy in "Dead Internet Theory"

mxkopy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:23:49 +0000

The insinuation that racism in the US is not systemic reeks of ignorance

Edit: please, prove your illiteracy and lack of critical thinking skills in the comments below

New comment by mxkopy in "Dead Internet Theory"

mxkopy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:18:55 +0000

I think they’re just saying we should interpret this video in a way that’s consistent with known historical facts. On one hand, it’s not depicting events that are strictly untrue, so we shouldn’t discredit it. On the other hand, since the video itself is literally fake, when we discredit it we shouldn’t accidentally also discredit the events it’s depicting.

New comment by mxkopy in "Dead Internet Theory"

mxkopy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:15:16 +0000

Think they did the exact opposite

> Also, faked evidence can be done for a variety of reasons, including by someone who intends for the faking to be discovered