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New comment by prime_ursid in "Anthropic S-1"

prime_ursid — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:11:52 +0000

“They would not want” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. There exists a group of people with influence in the AI industry who believe in AI successionism: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-worthy-successor

New comment by prime_ursid in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"

prime_ursid — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:22:06 +0000

> This is about computer code. Debunking is either "it runs or doesn't". Not hard.

I have to ask. Did you even skim the article you’re commenting under?

New comment by prime_ursid in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

prime_ursid — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:57:52 +0000

If the climate effects don’t get you, the political fallout of a million climate refugees showing up at your borders will.

New comment by prime_ursid in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

prime_ursid — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:09:06 +0000

Wouldn’t that be against TOS?

New comment by prime_ursid in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

prime_ursid — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:44 +0000

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

New comment by prime_ursid in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

prime_ursid — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:16:00 +0000

The trajectory is that the LLM providers have been making prompting increasingly dead-simple for the past 2 years. Any edge a group of individuals may have in knowing how to use LLMs gets absorbed into the LLM product.

New comment by prime_ursid in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

prime_ursid — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:49:33 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill's_law

> What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away

New comment by prime_ursid in "Half-Baked Product"

prime_ursid — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:08:13 +0000

Nah, I disagree. I can see why you think this is another piece glorifying engineers at the expense of the business. However, as a technical founder in a former life, I saw a handful of mistakes that the engineers made. Lack of focus, lack of pushback, poor management of the engineering team, lack of product thinking, lack of connection to and empathy for the end user. I could find more if I re-read it.

I found this piece to contain more layers of detail than the usual feel-good dunk-on-bean-counters rants.

New comment by prime_ursid in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

prime_ursid — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:51:18 +0000

This is a technique called LLM-as-Judge. Well-studied at this point. Here’s a good intro: https://www.evidentlyai.com/llm-guide/llm-as-a-judge

I recommend reading Hamel.dev posts. Here’s an example: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/

New comment by prime_ursid in "The AirPods Effect"

prime_ursid — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:48:44 +0000

> If you ever listen to music and sing along, even for a few seconds, the volume cuts

Yup, and I also have this problem when I laugh out loud listening to comedy podcasts.

New comment by prime_ursid in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

prime_ursid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:31:01 +0000

> We have tolerated low quality art for far too long because we pretend mechanical dexterity is what makes art, art.

Who is “we” in this sentence? A tiny subsection of metalheads? The vast majority of people aren’t seeking out the most mechanically dexterous musicians to listen to.

New comment by prime_ursid in "Why vampires live forever"

prime_ursid — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:38:57 +0000

I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds.

First, the structure of this satirical post is headings and bullet points. Fine, whatever, a lot of people write this way.

Then there's the exhausting litany of super short sentence fragments.

> He published this. Openly. In a book. As a priest.

This is how airport novels and LinkedIn "thought leadership" clickbait is written, so ok, fine, I'll let it pass.

Then I started to notice a lot of: "It's not X. It's Y" or "this isn't just A. It's B."

> Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis.

Before LLMs, people weren't writing this way. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon: it's insulting to read, like the reader is a 5-year-old.

When several of these smells pile up, I close the tab immediately and try to forget about it. This one was so egregious that I had to read the whole thing and then come to the comments to rant a bit.

New comment by prime_ursid in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

prime_ursid — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:08:37 +0000

And where did those people get their Masters degrees and PhDs from?

New comment by prime_ursid in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

prime_ursid — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:39:19 +0000

Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.

New comment by prime_ursid in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

prime_ursid — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:37:24 +0000

If choosing your place of employment to align with your values is a “virtue signal,” then maybe we should all be signaling our virtues a lot more.

New comment by prime_ursid in "ChatGPT Pulse"

prime_ursid — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:37:52 +0000

This is so sad. I read this comment a few hours ago and keep thinking about it. You seem to be making a relatively good effort to understand but coming up short.

Our society is so cooked, man. We don’t even realize how over it is, and even people genuinely trying to understand are not able to.

New comment by prime_ursid in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

prime_ursid — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:32:29 +0000

If you’d trust generative AI over a physician, go in wide-eyed knowing that you’re still placing your trust in some group of people. You just don’t have an individual to blame if something goes wrong, but rather the entire supply chain that brings the model and its inference. Every link in that chain can shrug their shoulders and point to someone else.

This may be acceptable to you as an individual, but it’s not to me.

New comment by prime_ursid in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

prime_ursid — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:04:44 +0000

“Labor power” in this context refers to unions, collective bargaining, and so on. The NLRB has been de facto shut down by this administration.

New comment by prime_ursid in "DynaVR Paul, Killed in His Labyrinth [Satire]"

prime_ursid — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:07:15 +0000

A blog post from a parody of Silicon Valley productivity blogs.

DynaVR Paul, Killed in His Labyrinth [Satire]

prime_ursid — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:07:15 +0000

Article URL: https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/optimalism/posts/labyrinth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303981

Points: 1

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