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New comment by peterbower in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

peterbower — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:04:48 +0000

I don't. I understand it, and if there's anything I don't, I ask it about it and research until I do.

New comment by peterbower in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

peterbower — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:14:07 +0000

I hate to be controversial but if it helps more of those brilliant minds move from exploring and proving less practical number theories and into applications of numerical science to real-world problems, with AI as a supporting tool I think this is where the golden age begins.

New comment by peterbower in "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"

peterbower — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:37:46 +0000

It is like a vacuum cleaner.

New comment by peterbower in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

peterbower — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:21:19 +0000

What comes next? Are traffic lights connected to networks in this fashion?

New comment by peterbower in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

peterbower — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:40:42 +0000

There are quite serious misincentives here when OpenAI want a headline and then are done with it, leaving everyone else to mop up the mess.

If they want any credibility on these matters, they should be funding a lab of elite mathematicians and putting them to work alongside their own researchers to attempt to solve these properly within the realm of the community.

Propagating arse slop cannons onto social media and calling it a day is not that.

New comment by peterbower in "ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust"

peterbower — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:27:58 +0000

This is the thing. Anyone can one shot an app and accept what Claude does. But to go over every single feature where it gets it wrong, and actually get it to do the correct thing, over all of those tiny details in the program - that’s where the 3 days turns into a year and maybe 3.

There’s a major difference between a polished UI and a polished program.

The fact that a model can get this far is still impressive, and it will probably one shot the program properly in < 3 years.

New comment by peterbower in "Rust SIMD on the GPU"

peterbower — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:43:55 +0000

All well and good but where can we install it now?

New comment by peterbower in "Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3"

peterbower — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:55:05 +0000

This should be downloadable.

New comment by peterbower in "Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language"

peterbower — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:53:13 +0000

What would you say is its key value proposition compared to other languages?

New comment by peterbower in "Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust"

peterbower — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:48:47 +0000

Vista came out after XP. They rushed 7 out after that.

New comment by peterbower in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

peterbower — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:43:17 +0000

I agree - they have not been good games. However, the fact that it is able to build and work with shaders effectively is promising - massive time saver and lowers the barrier to entry for people who need these capabilities without double majoring in advanced mathematics and computer science/game design.

One would hope it accelerates AR/VR - if decent studios finally get behind it.