Hacker News: mycocola

New comment by mycocola in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

mycocola — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:45:53 +0000

I think it’s more analogous to view LLMs as taking steroids while not going to the gym.

New comment by mycocola in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

mycocola — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:40:36 +0000

His analogy might be accidentally appropriate given MMA-fighters propensity to develop CTE.

New comment by mycocola in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

mycocola — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:09:20 +0000

My impression with how the wind is blowing is that someone is going to come along, if your app has merit, and duplicate it with Astra/Fable. Then they'd back it with significant ad spend, outcompeting yours.

New comment by mycocola in "Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety"

mycocola — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:27:41 +0000

- Manufacture new hacking incidents at other AI labs, proving that lab A is the only one capable of creating aligned AI

- Credible death threats to individuals working at data centers, coercing them to enable attack vectors

- To distract the world, enable a terrorist attack by delivering intelligence to specific groups who can act on it

- Create a network of individuals vulnerable to leverage to be used as tools for enabling the ASI to act on the real world

- Convince Lab A workers to display to the public that progress at Lab A is slowing down, and during this time recursively self improve until the task can be completed

New comment by mycocola in "Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety"

mycocola — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:59:53 +0000

Lab A reaches ASI, and is prompted the following: "Permanently nullify all other AI labs".If it's ASI it would succeed.

New comment by mycocola in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

mycocola — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:13:12 +0000

I don't think there's enough information accurately assess this. Anti-AI movements might grow much larger than today, given AIs potential to replace jobs faster than we have the ability to create them. The movement could even result in AI going somewhere.

New comment by mycocola in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

mycocola — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:02:20 +0000

> Very few people actually "think".

Unknowable. And a callous notion.

New comment by mycocola in "GPT‑Live"

mycocola — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:08:54 +0000

- As models get better, have you considered some kind of filter or particular cadence to serve as a reminder that the user is not talking to a human?

- The videos felt scripted and dishonest

New comment by mycocola in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

mycocola — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:15:49 +0000

I think there is a meaningful distinction to be made between a human reading and an AI company consuming data without consent in order to train their models. Certainly if enough people feel the same then what AI companies are doing is "wrong" .

New comment by mycocola in "Exapunks (2018)"

mycocola — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:56:24 +0000

I adore your games. Would be curious to know your thoughts about using AI for game development. Personally I find it gross, but I am trying to be open to different views.

New comment by mycocola in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

mycocola — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:30:40 +0000

A reasonable compromise in the face of frostbite and hookworm.

I suppose critical thinking skills are also as bad, making you question the state of the world. Problem solving is another one, deluding one into believing there are solutions to suffering.

New comment by mycocola in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

mycocola — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:12:28 +0000

> why didn't the previous authors, supposedly grass-fed genuine checkmark blood-through-their-veins humans didn't notice the other 9-8-7-6-5... games, and still released their own version?

a) To make it better

b) To learn, in service of a) or another project

New comment by mycocola in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

mycocola — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:33:18 +0000

It's impressive that Fable 5 was able to resynthesise something like this from its training data, but I am really not looking forward to more of this. What's the point?

New comment by mycocola in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

mycocola — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:29:44 +0000

My point of view is that code is the experience. Dealing with the constraints of code is one of the ways game design evolves as one iterates over what could be cool and filter for what is possible.

New comment by mycocola in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mycocola — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:07:33 +0000

LLMs are not beings with thoughts or feelings, and if being mean to them were to somehow yield better results it would be no different than a cheat code in a game, or just constitute as clever use of game mechanics.

New comment by mycocola in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mycocola — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:37:06 +0000

The comparison fails because I don't send numbers to my potatoes either, but I do send thousands to calculators without a please and thank you.

Practicing communications skills with LLMs I can get, but asserting that people who don't are playing god? Getting off on power?

New comment by mycocola in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mycocola — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:59:42 +0000

The similarity to human interaction is irrelevant.

No one apologises to a potato being peeled, nor compliments it for doing a great job being mashed.

New comment by mycocola in "The Importance of Being Idle"

mycocola — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:03:27 +0000

The two states are in no way in opposition to each other. In fact, experiencing deep meditation can improve one's ability to get into that desired productive flow.

New comment by mycocola in "ARC-AGI-3"

mycocola — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:44:16 +0000

Seems well-designed. Great job! Sorry you didn't hear back from the comittee.

New comment by mycocola in "LLMs predict my coffee"

mycocola — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:14:08 +0000

The interesting bit about this physical experiment is that the water in the cup never starts at 100 celsius. That the act of pouring significantly reduces temperature is well-documented, so in some sense the LLM output is surprising.