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New comment by notpachet in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

notpachet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:20 +0000

We seem to have come around to a new magical age.

New comment by notpachet in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

notpachet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:27:44 +0000

> the guy

> he

Your gender biases are showing!

New comment by notpachet in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

notpachet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:23:46 +0000

And that, furthermore, the new labs and the old labs still both remain incentivized by the regulatory environment to chase the wrong targets. The new lab might just iterate towards the wrong targets faster.

The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams

notpachet — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:53:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/light-flip-is-the-modern-stylish-dumb-flip-phone-of-your-luddite-dreams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007776

Points: 2

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New comment by notpachet in "Control the Ideas, Not the Code"

notpachet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:45:31 +0000

"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs"

- Dijkstra

New comment by notpachet in "Automation Without Understanding"

notpachet — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:26:01 +0000

I think about this a lot. From the POV of a medieval peasant, we likely reached the singularity a long time ago.

New comment by notpachet in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

notpachet — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:23:37 +0000

`command_a | vim - -c "file /dev/stdout" | command_b`

or, assuming vim is your $EDITOR, you can use vipe:

`command_a | vipe | command_b`

New comment by notpachet in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

notpachet — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:18:21 +0000

Languages are always evolving, because the needs they serve are always evolving. Stasis is death.

> I have been using ruby since 2005 or so. Static types were never relevant or needed in the slightest here.

We are like Liebniz monads, with disjoint views of the same universe due to our different experiences. I worked for several years at Shopify and there were droves of developers begging for types. Shopify itself recognized this need. We contributed early to Sorbet and began implementing it in the main monolith prior to it being publicly announced. I personally was the incident response on-call for a million-dollar bug that static typing would have prevented from ever being merged. And so on.

New comment by notpachet in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

notpachet — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:25:47 +0000

No, it's just a tool someone posted that's written in Ruby, with a strong signal that the authors are LLM proponents. It could have been a todo list and I'd still have the same question.

New comment by notpachet in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

notpachet — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:25:05 +0000

I didn't misunderstand what this library is about. I assume the authors are using LLM's to help author their code in general, even meta-frameworks like this.

New comment by notpachet in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

notpachet — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:26:06 +0000

Why would anyone still build in dynamically typed languages in 2026? Why relinquish the crystal clear signals that static typing is able to provide to the LLM?

New comment by notpachet in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

notpachet — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:13:29 +0000

That's my favorite algorithm of all time

Untrusted Impersonation of the Project at Simplescreenrecorder.com

notpachet — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/1086

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by notpachet in "The dead economy theory"

notpachet — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:31:59 +0000

But orangutans are where the protein's at!

New comment by notpachet in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

notpachet — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:45:15 +0000

Another strong contender for humanity's epitaph

New comment by notpachet in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

notpachet — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:40:18 +0000

Water Mafia

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

notpachet — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:08:19 +0000

In a shocking twist, it turns out that Mootools is the agents' preferred framework

Light Phone is making its dumb phone more useful with third-party "tools"

notpachet — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-light-phone-developer-kit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022447

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by notpachet in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

notpachet — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:18:59 +0000

> Convenience is our Achilles heel

More generically, our species' Achilles heel is our inability to factor in the long-term cost of negative externalities when evaluating processes that yield short-term positive results.

New comment by notpachet in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

notpachet — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:13:55 +0000

Counterargument. The author is primarily looking at AI trend lines. Let's say our industry continues moving along alternate, equally compelling, trend lines: increasing global volatility, chaos in the energy markets, growing likelihood of great power conflict this century, climate collapse, mass migration, societal unrest, yada yada.

What happens to all of these AI-native companies if the AI bubble is not able to survive in these conditions? If your current development process is built on the metabolic equivalent of 400kg of leaves per day[0], then when the allegorical asteroid hits, you're going to be outperformed by smaller, nimbler companies with much lower resource requirements. Those companies may be better suited for survival in hostile macro conditions.

In other words, I think a lot of companies believe that they're trimming their metabolic fat by replacing engineers with AI. Lower salary costs! But at the same time, they're also increasing their reliance on brittle energy infrastructure that may not survive this century. (Not to mention the brittleness of the semiconductor fabrication pipeline, RAM availability, etc)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatosaurus