Hacker News: nvdchttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nvdcHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:04:29 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nvdc in "I resigned from Anthropic today"]]>i don't think everything that comes out like this is marketing. however, i do think that these companies are largely staffed by "true believers" (anthropic especially) -- people who are so lost in the sauce and embedded in very specific, very peculiar, sf-based rationalist circles where the ai apocalypse is a foregone conclusion.

i understand that these models are powerful and pose certain risks. i use them daily for work and the pace of improvement has been pretty remarkable. that said, i don't buy for a second the borderline-religious proclamations coming from some of these researchers, even if i believe that they are making these claims in earnest

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:38:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621559nvdchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621559https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621559<![CDATA[New comment by nvdc in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"]]>i have no idea why this would be preferable to failing immediately on write

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