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

nayroclade — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:32:56 +0000

> It's since november 2025, the so called "inflection point", that I'm still wondering for who coding agents become "really good".

The answer is "for lots of people, but not you".

You're doing a vague impression of being fair and even-handed, arguing for non-polarization, but underlying everything you're saying is an obvious attitude of poralizing superiority: That _your_ personal experience with AI is the real truth. That _your_ codebase is more intricate and more challenging than what other people are doing. That everyone else is being led by a "marketing hype train".

New comment by nayroclade in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

nayroclade — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:46:35 +0000

30 seconds searching GitHub turned up this: https://github.com/limpy183-dev/Photoshop-clone

New comment by nayroclade in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

nayroclade — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:07:26 +0000

Dependency versions are also locked for npm projects via package-lock.json, and this has been the default behaviour for years. The version ranges specified in package.json don't mean you just pick up the latest whenever you run npm install. Unless you delete package-lock.json or run "npm update", you and everyone else gets the exact same dependency tree each time. So it is just as reproducible as a Maven build in that sense.

New comment by nayroclade in "Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques"

nayroclade — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:42:28 +0000

The point is that "part" of the appreciation appears here to be all of the appreciation.

Yes, the context of who created a piece of art will have an affect on how you interpret it. But if the question of who/what created it can literally flip your interpretation between "it's genius" and "it's garbage", then that's the only thing you care about. All the actual characteristics of the thing itself are irrelevant. And if literally the only thing that matters about art is who created it, what exactly is the point of art?

New comment by nayroclade in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

nayroclade — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:38:06 +0000

Lol, this is SOP for the British state. There has been a revolving door between the civil service and the private sector for decades. You cannot conceive of how many billions have been wasted on "consultancy" contracts with the big four, IT projects that lasted for years and delivered nothing, etc.

New comment by nayroclade in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

nayroclade — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:37:36 +0000

For pre-training, yes. But for post-training you need high-quality labelled datasets for reinforcement learning. So far AI has been most successful in coding, because you can translate the usage into such datasets, and thus produce a virtuous cycle: More usage produces more data, which produces better models, which drives more usage.

The question is whether this same model can successfully be applied in disciplines like medicine, law, engineering, etc.

New comment by nayroclade in "The bottleneck was never the code"

nayroclade — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:28:06 +0000

It's hilarious to me to see the same kind of engineer, who throughout my career have constantly bitched and moaned about team meetings, agile ceremonies, issue trackers, backlogs, slack, emails, design reviews, and anything else that disrupted the hours of coding "flow state" they claimed as their most essential and sacred activity to be protected at all costs, suddenly, and with no hint of shame, start preaching about about the vital importance of collaborative activities and the apparent inconsequence of code and coding, the moment a machine was able to do the latter faster than them. I mean, they're not even wrong, but the nakedly hypocritical attitude of people who, until a year ago, were the most antisocial and least collaborative members of any team they were on is still extraordinary.

New comment by nayroclade in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

nayroclade — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:56:41 +0000

It seems like this policy will help them win at contributor poker in the short term, but lose in the end. The next generation of developers will, for better or worse, grow up using AI assistance to write their code, but none of them will ever become a Zig contributor.

New comment by nayroclade in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

nayroclade — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:32:53 +0000

I think both got taken by surprise. Last year the talk was that AI was a bubble, demand was soft, pilots projects were failing, etc. Model providers still believed, but thought they had a long ramp up period to build out their own datacenters. Then in late Autumn/Winter, something happened. Model capability reached a threshold and demand exploded, then just kept exploding. Model firms are scrambling to find any compute capacity they can, which means striking any deals problem with hyper scalers. So question is whether model providers can get enough compute without having to effectively sell themselves to hyper scalers.

New comment by nayroclade in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

nayroclade — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:49:42 +0000

Bear in mind, in the same survey this article is talking about, nothing and nobody had an overall positive rating amongst those polled. So yeah, AI is unpopular, but it's just one more thing that people hate amongst a broader cultural movement of generalised hate.

New comment by nayroclade in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

nayroclade — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:49:42 +0000

I think this touch-only idea would be more viable if we had far better haptic feedback from screens. All the fancy gestures and fluidic UI don't help when your only means of interaction is pushing against an unresponsive pane of glass. Maybe something better just isn't possible, but I'd love to see Apple push things forward in this area.

New comment by nayroclade in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

nayroclade — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:47:59 +0000

> Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible

I would agree with that, but its debt is to the people of that country, not their current government. But instead, Palantir conspires to surveil and repress those people at the bidding of an elite, anti-democratic minority.

And would the leaders of Palantir still argue it had a moral debt to serve the government if it was a left-wing one, engaged in a process of wealth redistribution? No, they wouldn't. This supposed moral ideology is a facile sham.

New comment by nayroclade in "Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie"

nayroclade — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:12:26 +0000

Are you kidding? Check out the index page for this "blog": https://smarterarticles.co.uk/

A new long-form article, published every day, like clockwork, since the 1st of June 2025. All about AI, all attributed to the same author.

Congrats to him on finally getting this slop to the top of HN, I guess. Shame on everybody here for upvoting it.

New comment by nayroclade in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

nayroclade — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:18:04 +0000

Hey bcherny, I'm confused as to what's happening here. The linked issue was closed, with you seeming to imply there's no actual problem, people are just misunderstanding the hidden reasoning summaries and the change to the default effort level.

But here you seem to be saying there is a bug, with adaptive reasoning under-allocating. Is this a separate issue from the linked one? If not, wouldn't it help to respond to the linked issue acknowledging a model issue and telling people to disable adaptive reasoning for now? Not everyone is going to be reading comments on HN.

New comment by nayroclade in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

nayroclade — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:13:01 +0000

The strategic playbook of the web era said: Get a huge userbase of normies, then figure out how to monetise them (usually via advertising). OpenAI stumbled into the userbase via ChatGPT, but it's unclear if the strategy or the economics apply to AI. Anthropic tried to compete in the consumer market, but couldn't, so focussed on coding and enterprise, and it looks like that's actually turning into a smart choice, at least right now, because it turns out people will pay subscription costs for agents that do their job for them.

New comment by nayroclade in "OpenJDK: Panama"

nayroclade — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:44:33 +0000

If you include a word like innovating in quotes it typically implies that you're quoting it from the link. It can also signify irony, but in a context like HN where we're discussing a published article, it's often ambiguous.

As for Java, I'd agree that its pace of advance was pretty glacial during the Sun era, but from what I've seen has picked up considerably since the Oracle acquisition and Brian Goetz became architect.

And however bad Java is, it's nothing compared to JavaScript. It takes a decade just to add new a library function, and every new syntax proposal is DOA.

New comment by nayroclade in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

nayroclade — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:12:32 +0000

I didn't mean it as condescending. I meant it literally is cute: A neat idea that is quite cool in its execution.

New comment by nayroclade in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

nayroclade — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:46:50 +0000

Cute idea, but you're never gonna blow your token budget on output. Input tokens are the bottleneck, because the agent's ingesting swathes of skills, directory trees, code files, tool outputs, etc. The output is generally a few hundred lines of code and a bit of natural language explanation.

New comment by nayroclade in "Extra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)"

nayroclade — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:03:41 +0000

Did Anthropic run Claude in a loop and tell it "work on our pricing and usage strategy", or something?

As far as I can tell, they now have Free, Pro, Max x5, Max x20, Team, and Enterprise tiers. Plus session usage, weekly usage, extra usage (up to a spend limit (set by you) and/or a monthly cap (set by Anthropic)), and now usage bundles, which are extra usage but with a lower price and a fixed amount.

I don't know, but it really feels like there's an LLM churning away somewhere, endlessly tinkering on a PRICING.md file that is gradually accreting strategic slop.

New comment by nayroclade in "Significant Raise of Reports"

nayroclade — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:56:37 +0000

> I don't know how long this pace will last. I suspect that bugs are reported faster than they are written, so we could in fact be purging a long backlog

Hopefully these same tools will also help catch security bugs at the point they're written. Maybe one day we'll reach a point where the discovery of new, live vulnerabilities is extremely rare?