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New comment by par1970 in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

par1970 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:51:24 +0000

> AI (in this form) will never be able to solve things we truly cannot solve yet.

Argument?

New comment by par1970 in "The sigmoids won't save you"

par1970 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:46:38 +0000

> LLMs are nothing close to AGI and not going to lead to it, they can’t distinguish right from wrong, they can’t count, they can’t reason, they generate plausible text from a vast databank of connected text.

Argument?

Are LLMs close to being able to significantly help AGI researchers?

New comment by par1970 in "The sigmoids won't save you"

par1970 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:41:53 +0000

Which doomer argument have you found what problem with?

New comment by par1970 in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

par1970 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:40:04 +0000

Do you deny the reported bug finding capabilities, or do you deny that they are dangerous?

New comment by par1970 in "Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine"

par1970 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:58:49 +0000

I think this is roughly solved. Tell the agent to do all of its calculations in python.

New comment by par1970 in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

par1970 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:29:01 +0000

Do you have a defense of why human-hammer-nail is a good analogy for human-chatgpt5.4-pwndsamsung?

New comment by par1970 in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

par1970 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:57:02 +0000

But the service also tells criminals and adversaries about the bomb locations.

New comment by par1970 in "Significant Raise of Reports"

par1970 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:41:54 +0000

Yeah, maybe you are right. But is doing math and reasoning about Turing machines a priori? If so, then it seems plausible to me that reasoning about a codebase (without running it) is also ‘a priori’.

New comment by par1970 in "Significant Raise of Reports"

par1970 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:42:34 +0000

> What do you mean "a priori understanding codebases"?

I took him to be distinguishing between (1) just reading the code/docs and reasoning about it, and (2) that + crafting and running tests.

New comment by par1970 in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

par1970 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:55:36 +0000

Why?

New comment by par1970 in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:13:32 +0000

Did you tell it that it should test, or did you have it generate actual tests that you could run if you wanted to?

New comment by par1970 in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:12:35 +0000

How much domain experience do you have? Is it helping you solve problems for paying customers?

New comment by par1970 in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:38:58 +0000

If your project requires the solution of a tricky algorithmic issue, then is the AI system able to solve that part, or do you have to give it the solution?

New comment by par1970 in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:16:03 +0000

What models + versions are you using?

Is it bad at designing systems that don't have a bunch of integrations?

New comment by par1970 in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:07:29 +0000

> I don't use ChatGPT, but i've been using an agent with Claude Sonnet 4.

Are you using Sonnet 4.6?

> So this AI Agent... It is much faster at doing code when given specific instructions. But it keeps loosing context on architecture, and i cant really let it build complex things with interdependencies that build on each other.

I've only built small things (< 1000 lines) with the systems, so I might be missing this problem.

Is it better than you at building small self-contained things?

> And i get a bad feel when i then wonder how is this app doing what it does? because my agent cant explain it, and i would be stupid to believe what it hallucinated because it sounds really solid until you scratch the construction.

Do you ask it to generate test suites for the things that it builds?

> it would be also faster to build a catastrophic spaghetti code nightmare if not used with great care.

noted

New comment by par1970 in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:59:45 +0000

Which models + versions are you using? Can you give a specific problem that you found them to be bad at?

Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?

par1970 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:36:45 +0000

I've been programming for 10+ years. From my usage of ChatGPT 5.4, it seems to me that it's better than me at programming. I never thought this about any of the ChatGPT 4.* models that I tried.

How do your abilities compare to the newest models?

edit: Please specify which model and version you are talking about.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445663

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New comment by par1970 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

par1970 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:39:10 +0000

Maybe we are talking past one another.

> Right, but that's explicitly not the body of government meant to represent people.

I haven't claimed that the Senate was intended to represent the people. I also haven't claimed that OP claimed that the Senate was intended to represent the people.

> So is he saying the Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 100 states, or is he saying the House is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people?

He didn't say either of those things. He said this "The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people."

New comment by par1970 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

par1970 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:22:51 +0000

I think OP is arguing that because they literally said "The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people and we’re going to continue to get absurd unrepresentative outcomes for as long as it remains a relevant body."

What do you think they are arguing?

New comment by par1970 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

par1970 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:52:12 +0000

Are you arguing this?

(Premise 1) If a country has 350 million people, then the Senate will produce unrepresentative outcomes.

(Premise 2) America has 350 million people.

(Conclusion 1) So, the Senate will produce unrepresentative outcomes in America.

(Conclusion 2) So, the Senate is bad for America.