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New comment by potatoman22 in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

potatoman22 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:06:40 +0000

There's a point where they meet, but "faking it until you make it" doesn't work for productivity in the same way it doesn't work for getting rich.

But there's a secret: just buy my $399 masterclass and I'll teach you 17 simple productivity hacks to 100x your income.

New comment by potatoman22 in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

potatoman22 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:46:47 +0000

Bloomberg made a good video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gjnrMg9iSo

New comment by potatoman22 in "Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration"

potatoman22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:43:46 +0000

How did you install parakeet? It was a nightmare to install on windows

New comment by potatoman22 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

potatoman22 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:23:15 +0000

This project is called Levin, so Anna Kareninina. However, I learned Anna (as in the archive) is a pseudonym, so this is probably not the case.

New comment by potatoman22 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

potatoman22 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:57:05 +0000

Great name haha. Is Anna a reference to who I think it is?

New comment by potatoman22 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

potatoman22 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:54:44 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias

New comment by potatoman22 in "Using an engineering notebook"

potatoman22 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:57:20 +0000

I'm a software engineer, but I use it to write down hypotheses: the cause of a bug, how I'm guessing a system works, potential fixes for said bugs, what I think this piece of documentation means, etc

New comment by potatoman22 in "Stop generating, start thinking"

potatoman22 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:53:25 +0000

What theme did you use? I really like the "garden" theme

New comment by potatoman22 in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

potatoman22 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:55:14 +0000

Someone should analyze this and share results. The data should be there

New comment by potatoman22 in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

potatoman22 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:58:21 +0000

I've definitely noticed an association between how much I vibe code something and how good my internal model of the system is. That bit about LLM users not being able to quote their essay resonates too: "oh we have that unit test?"

New comment by potatoman22 in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

potatoman22 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:18:21 +0000

I wouldn't say so. Audible gives you 1 book a month for $15. Most e-books I see are around $10.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"

potatoman22 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:51:00 +0000

You need to buy an apple device

New comment by potatoman22 in "America's economy looks set to accelerate"

potatoman22 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:51:10 +0000

Elaborate?

New comment by potatoman22 in "T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models"

potatoman22 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:54:57 +0000

What's the use case of models like T5 compared to decoder-only models like Gemma? More traditional ML/NLP tasks?

New comment by potatoman22 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

potatoman22 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:46:37 +0000

At least I'm adding to the discussion.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

potatoman22 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:42:05 +0000

I'm saying LLMs are deterministic and because of that, prompt engineering can be effective. You knew what I was trying to say, but chose to ignore it.

You should follow the HN Guidelines. I'm trying to have a discussion, not a snarkfest.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Baumol's Cost Disease"

potatoman22 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:35:38 +0000

That doesn't quite make sense to me. A meter is a unit of measure for distance, but a meter is a distance.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

potatoman22 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:46:36 +0000

It's technically deterministic, but it feels nondeterministic in chatbots since tokens are randomly sampled (temp > 0) and input is varied. Using the right prompt makes the model perform better on average, so it's not completely dumb.

I like task vectors and soft prompts because I think they show how prompt engineering is cool and useful.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.15916

https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/conceptual_guides/prompting

New comment by potatoman22 in "Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model"

potatoman22 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:38:50 +0000

To be fair, discerning heteronyms might just be a gap in its training.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model"

potatoman22 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:37:48 +0000

Ah I meant heteronyms. Thanks!