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New comment by prng2021 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

prng2021 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:58:11 +0000

Yes but my original reply was to someone that seemed to imply that this founder was dumb not to verify that Railway’s API key that should have been limited to managing custom domains, truly was limited to managing custom domains. I’ve never used Railway but my pushback is that no one in the real world exhaustively verifies a key is scoped properly against all 3rd party endpoints. We trust vendors to document how they’re scoped and to actually do that.

New comment by prng2021 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

prng2021 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:43:40 +0000

“why would you not do the same for APIs you integrate with?”

Who does that? Jira and Salesforce have hundreds of endpoints each. AWS has hundreds of services, and each may have hundreds of endpoints. Who on your team is testing key scopes of every endpoint? Do you do it for each key you generate? After all, that external system could have a bug at any moment in managing scopes. Or they could introduce new endpoints that aren’t handled properly. So for existing keys, how frequently do you re-validate the scope against all the endpoints?

New comment by prng2021 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

prng2021 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:41:27 +0000

Sorry but are you implying that for every system you integrate with, you verify the scope of an API key by checking each CRUD operation on every API endpoint they provide?

OpenAI reportedly plans to double its workforce to 8k employees

prng2021 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-reportedly-plans-to-double-its-workforce-to-8000-employees-161028377.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472912

Points: 9

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OpenAI to create desktop super app, combining ChatGPT app, browser and Codex app

prng2021 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:06:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/openai-desktop-super-app-chatgpt-browser-codex.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448951

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by prng2021 in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

prng2021 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:02:21 +0000

How is anyone predicting timelines for AGI when these systems can’t do basic addition of 2 arbitrary numbers with 100% accuracy?

New comment by prng2021 in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

prng2021 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:53:20 +0000

“I think the decision was made because the people making this decision at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and motivated by trying to make the transition to powerful AI to go well.”

Every single one of these CEOs happily pirated unimaginable amounts of copyrighted content. That directly hurt millions of real human beings. Not just the prior creators but also crushing the future potential for success of future ones.

https://www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-godfrey-secures-1-...

New comment by prng2021 in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

prng2021 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:37:46 +0000

“You never needed 1000s of engineers to build software anyway”

What is the point of even mentioning this? We live in reality. In reality, there are countless companies with thousands of engineers making each piece of software. Outside of reality, yes you can talk about a million hypothetical situations. Cherry picking rare examples like Winamp does nothing but provide an example of an exception, which yes, also exists in the real world.

New comment by prng2021 in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"

prng2021 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:50:10 +0000

This was a great article. The section “Training for the next state prediction” explains a solution using subagents. If I’m understanding it correctly, we could test if that solution is directionally correct today, right? I ask a LLM a question. It comes up with a few potential responses but sends those first to other agents in a prompt with the minimum required context. Those subagents can even do this recursively a few times. Eventually the original agent collects and analyzes subagents responses and responds to me.

New comment by prng2021 in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

prng2021 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:22:01 +0000

Hard to tell how widespread it is but it’s not just 1 company. https://www.webpronews.com/silicon-valleys-2025-ai-boom-revi...

New comment by prng2021 in "Learning from context is harder than we thought"

prng2021 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:08:50 +0000

Thanks for repeating what the author explained.

New comment by prng2021 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

prng2021 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:54:50 +0000

Where did they say that?

New comment by prng2021 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

prng2021 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:48:48 +0000

Did they post the knowledge cutoff date somewhere

New comment by prng2021 in "Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time"

prng2021 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:47:41 +0000

Yea I guess that's accurate but they also explained that AI capabilities advance every 6-12 months and managing a team of agents buys you a few years. So their proposed solution and conclusion that it keeps you safe for years makes no sense right now. Multi agent orchestration, with an agent doing the orchestrating, is all the craze nowadays.

New comment by prng2021 in "Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time"

prng2021 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:24:22 +0000

The author gives this example of the problem and incorrect way to leverage AI:

"Sarah was relieved. She thought she could focus on high-value synthesis work. She’d take the agent’s output and refine it, add strategic insights, make it client-ready."

Then they propose a long winded solution which is essentially the same exact thing but uses the magical term "orchestrate" a few times to make it sound different.

MIT's new 'recursive' framework lets LLMs process 10M tokens

prng2021 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:48:12 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/mits-new-recursive-framework-lets-llms-process-10-million-tokens-without

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714626

Points: 2

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New comment by prng2021 in "Claude's new constitution"

prng2021 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:40:03 +0000

“existence is a requirement to have morality. That implies that the highest good are those decisions that improve the long-term survival odds of a) humanity, and b) the biosphere.”

Those are too pie in the sky statements to be of any use in answering most real world moral questions.

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google

prng2021 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/salesforce-rolls-out-new-slackbot-ai-agent-as-it-battles-microsoft-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600760

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by prng2021 in "Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company"

prng2021 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:19:52 +0000

Your original comment was:

“Humans aren't smart, they are really just good at appearing to be smart. Prove me wrong.”

New comment by prng2021 in "Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company"

prng2021 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:04:03 +0000

You didn’t answer my question