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New comment by nis0s in "The revenge of the data scientist"

nis0s — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:50:48 +0000

> I agree with you take the there isn’t a lot of specialist work for data scientists to do with using off-the-shelf LLMs that can’t be done by an engineer.

Conversely, data scientists are doing software engineering, including webdev. It’s an interesting time. I think it’s less about the job title demarcation now, and more about output.

New comment by nis0s in "Ask HN: Do you yell at your AI agents?"

nis0s — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:24:29 +0000

Not yell (why?), but use all caps to emphasize. The yelling isn’t going to cure a shifting context window, no matter how much you do it.

New comment by nis0s in "Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid?"

nis0s — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:40:06 +0000

Where are all the production issues that have been created because of AI? Are there more incidences than before now? What’s the rate of production failures pre and post AI?

Only reason humans need to be in the loop is so there is someone to blame or hold accountable in a legal sense.

New comment by nis0s in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

nis0s — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:47:36 +0000

Not really, there’s a lot it does right. But any automated tool or calculator will be as good as its operator.

New comment by nis0s in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

nis0s — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:20:27 +0000

What’s important? That bridges get built and stay up, or that they’re built only after toiling X amounts of hours. AI will change the nature of work, it’s going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. But more importantly, it’s going to let people who understand things faster get the info they need to be productive.

New comment by nis0s in "Life Pro Tip"

nis0s — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:20:41 +0000

Why don’t people use their real accounts to make these spam posts? Degens.

New comment by nis0s in "Trump Administration Plans to Require Higher Wages for H-1B Visa Holders"

nis0s — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:51:30 +0000

The problem being solved is how to easily do grafts and kickbacks.

New comment by nis0s in "Is AI Conscious? It Depends What Consciousness Is"

nis0s — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:33:52 +0000

There aren’t different definitions of consciousness, rather different conditions which result in an emergent property. The field has generally accepted sentience as a level of consciousness, which needs further examination.

New comment by nis0s in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

nis0s — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:53:38 +0000

It’s likely a misdirection, it’s hard to say what might happen. It might not even be five days wait.

New comment by nis0s in "Pakistan's Markets Face Selloff from Surging Oil, Conflict"

nis0s — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:27:19 +0000

Why don’t they ask the Saudi to settle their debts, or pay for the defense pact SA made with them? Like US and NATO, currently.

New comment by nis0s in "Agents.md Are Useless"

nis0s — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:25:00 +0000

It depends on your context window, and how much else you’re relating to the agent(s).

New comment by nis0s in "Huang says would be 'deeply alarmed' if 500KUSD eng didn't use 250KUSD tokens"

nis0s — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:49:13 +0000

That number is so alarmingly arbitrary I am concerned such activities and related statements may amount to supporting some manner of a Ponzi scheme.

Huang says would be 'deeply alarmed' if 500KUSD eng didn't use 250KUSD tokens

nis0s — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453283

Points: 3

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New comment by nis0s in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

nis0s — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:24:37 +0000

One key reason you’re wrong is that many interesting things aren’t even getting published, they’re on the DL for years and eventually make it to public spheres and products.

Academia is just a daycare at this point, and many labs shouldn’t exists or get funding. The people who move the field aren’t necessarily the ones with the most citations, they’re usually hard at work in places that don’t publish at all.

New comment by nis0s in "Why can't he get funding and support?"

nis0s — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:18:12 +0000

Because as someone said in the thread that in two years the LLM will just read the docs and produce perfect Bend code.

New comment by nis0s in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

nis0s — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:43:56 +0000

I was in a programming class when ChatGPT/CoPilot first came out. I hadn’t started using it yet for classes because I was under the impression that “my work should be my own”. I was the only one in the class who would get 80+ average on quizzes, everyone else got nearly perfect scores. Oh well.

New comment by nis0s in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

nis0s — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:28:55 +0000

Something else is afoot in the markets, I wouldn’t take rando tweets at face value, especially if they’re confirming a narrative you’re biased to accept.

https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...

New comment by nis0s in "Oracle plans job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports"

nis0s — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:08:51 +0000

The problem is that inefficient systems will cost even more as you scale their use, but gains from such systems are not guaranteed, and profits even less so.

Oracle plans job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports

nis0s — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:08:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/oracle-plans-thousands-job-cuts-data-center-costs-rise-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-03-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268998

Points: 13

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New comment by nis0s in "Is anyone else drowning in terminal tabs running AI coding agents?"

nis0s — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:49:00 +0000

How much are you spending before you even see a $1 of revenue?

Nice tool, but the agentic workflow doesn’t sound cost efficient.