Hacker News: rambojohnson

New comment by rambojohnson in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

rambojohnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:42:35 +0000

Online.

New comment by rambojohnson in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

rambojohnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:41:48 +0000

Just tried it and got the usual six fingers, and half a thumb. What are they actually iterating on with these models by now…

New comment by rambojohnson in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

rambojohnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:40:54 +0000

Just tried it and got six fingers and half a thumb on a simple portrait. Mickey Mouse stuff.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

rambojohnson — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:09:45 +0000

So intelligence has turned into a utility per Sam Altman et al., and now the same companies get to hike the price of accessing it by 20–30%, right as it’s becoming the backbone of how teams actually ship work. People are pushing out so much, so fast that last week’s output is already a blur. I’ve got colleagues who refuse to go back to writing any of this stuff by hand.

And now maintaining that pace means absorbing arbitrary price increases, shrugged off with “we were operating at a loss anyway.”

It stops being “pay to play” and starts looking more like pay just to stay in the ring, while enterprise players barely feel the hit and everyone else gets squeezed out.

Market maturing my butthole... it’s obviously a dependency being priced in real time. Tech is an utter shit show right now, compounded by the disaster of the unemployment market still reeling from the overhiring of 2020.

save up now and career pivot. pick up gardening.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

rambojohnson — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:07:55 +0000

tech industry suffering from a kind of zoocosis / stockholm syndrome perhaps.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

rambojohnson — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:28:10 +0000

Why wouldn't they.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

rambojohnson — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:50:08 +0000

It's pretty damn good, and it's seen a real exodus of conscientious users; the QuitGPT movement alone hit 1.5 million participants, with Claude skyrocketing to #1 on the App Store virtually overnight. No surprise the servers are getting hammered.

time to give your devops guy his job back.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

rambojohnson — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:49:08 +0000

enshitification at scale, propped up by noise/water-pollution datacenters the size of several football fields, but all we care about is the price of RAM. cheers!

New comment by rambojohnson in "GPT-5.4"

rambojohnson — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:58:44 +0000

> is extremely woke

yikes, I've heard enough.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

rambojohnson — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:38:24 +0000

A couple years ago I went to a county fair because someone said the pie judging was worth seeing. I’ve been to fairs before but never really watched the judging part. They had all the pies on this weird low table, like not quite a kid’s playset table but close, so people leaning in to look kept bumping it with their legs and thighs without noticing, and after a while one of the pies just slowly started sliding toward the edge every time the table got nudged until it eventually tipped off and landed upside down on the floor while the judges were busy debating crust integrity on another pie.

I picked it up and put it back and they still gave it third place.

New comment by rambojohnson in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

rambojohnson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:11:28 +0000

Actually disagree. Based on the last 20 years of my experience in corporate America, “practical decision-making” was never part of the job at any level of leadership.

New comment by rambojohnson in "GPT-5.4"

rambojohnson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:53:57 +0000

the company's values... such as?

New comment by rambojohnson in "GPT-5.4"

rambojohnson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:48:44 +0000

it's shallow release theater at this point, trying to fake-spike engagement.

New comment by rambojohnson in "GPT-5.4"

rambojohnson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:47:00 +0000

Great. A new version of the same model, or a different one that performs worse or exactly the same. This whole release theater, just to give shareholders the impression of growth, is such a bullshit grift.

and considering the stance on openai with a majority of the users here compared to the number of upvotes, are HN likes bot-farmed?

New comment by rambojohnson in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

rambojohnson — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:33:27 +0000

super mild. Instant, as in... ?

New comment by rambojohnson in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

rambojohnson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:18:50 +0000

get fucked OpenAI. cancelled my subscription.

New comment by rambojohnson in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

rambojohnson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:34 +0000

religious rhetoric is for the fools they've indoctrinated to their cause. it does not drive policy. I was being sardonic with "security doctrine".

New comment by rambojohnson in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

rambojohnson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:29:25 +0000

You’re mistaking the packaging for the product. Religion is the language leaders use. Power, territory, oil corridors, regional dominance, and domestic political survival are what they’re actually fighting over.

Tehran isn’t calculating missile ranges based on sutras. Washington doesn’t position carrier groups because of metaphysics. Israel’s security doctrine isn’t a meditation retreat.

Spiritual narratives make clean moral theater for the public. They mobilize bodies. They sanctify retaliation. But the machinery underneath runs on leverage and deterrence, not theology.

Wake up to the real world.

Calling it primarily religious violence feels tidy and tragic in a philosophical way. It’s harder, and more uncomfortable, to admit that it’s strategic violence dressed in symbols people recognize.

Shunyata is a beautiful lens for seeing through ego. It doesn’t dissolve geopolitics.

New comment by rambojohnson in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

rambojohnson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:26:07 +0000

u sweet summer child.

New comment by rambojohnson in "We Will Not Be Divided"

rambojohnson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:18:37 +0000

outside of just the tech sector, this country has already crossed MANY irreversible turning points. also, good luck with your midterm elections. we have started war with Iran. cheers from Barcelona from this American refugee.