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New comment by rekrsiv in "Statecharts: hierarchical state machines"

rekrsiv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:07:21 +0000

Out of curiosity, was that before or after LLM agents?

New comment by rekrsiv in "Statecharts: hierarchical state machines"

rekrsiv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:56:56 +0000

Oh right, I keep forgetting about those useful-but-historically-mentally-draining-to-update sources of truth. This might be extremely useful when paired with an agent.

New comment by rekrsiv in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

rekrsiv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:27:21 +0000

My theory is that most problem solvers are bad at solving problems, and most managers are bad at managing, and it doesn't matter how evolution created them: They'll make mistakes, they'll have finite time and energy, a finite context window, they'll lie and internally rewrite their own internal narratives as needed, and forget things, and drop balls, and they'll go in circles trying to find a bug they created but are too close to be able to see, and they're going to need a lot of external tooling to get through the day without forgetting anything, and constant reminders from others to get shit done. And this dynamic fundamentally creates peaks and valleys in productivity.

Wait, were we talking about humans or AI?

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Everyone seems to be assuming either the humans or the AI has to be special. What if neither are?

New comment by rekrsiv in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

rekrsiv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:20:30 +0000

No, AI wasn't supposed to solve all that drudgery. The hypothesized AI singularity would, but an ordinary AI agent running an LLM is just a problem solving automaton with no will of its own, just like a fleshy brain solving computer problems is just a code monkey.

New comment by rekrsiv in "At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared"

rekrsiv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:17:13 +0000

Yet another statistically misleading headline.

New comment by rekrsiv in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

rekrsiv — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:48:20 +0000

Time is finite and regression testing always gets punted to the back of the line when humans are excited. This simply reveals a staggering level of humanity.

New comment by rekrsiv in "I quit. The clankers won"

rekrsiv — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:14:11 +0000

The endgame in programming is reducing complexity before the codebase becomes impossible to reason about. This is not a solved problem, and most codebases the LLMs were trained on are either just before that phase transition or well past it.

Complexity is not just a matter of reducing the complexity of the code, it's also a matter of reducing the complexity of the problem. A programmer can do the former alone with the code, but the latter can only be done during a frank discussion with stakeholders.

A vibe coder using an LLM to generate complexity will not be able to tell which complexity to get rid of, and we don't have enough training data of well-curated complexity for LLMs to figure it out yet.

New comment by rekrsiv in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

rekrsiv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:55:49 +0000

I agree with everything you said except that the US is able to stop it. Think about it: Wouldn't Israel simply use these same tools in the US to install a puppet president they can easily manipulate?

Can we even prove it hasn't already happened?

New comment by rekrsiv in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

rekrsiv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:46:56 +0000

A bribe in a low trust society is not the same as a bribe in a high trust society.

In this context, a bribe is irrelevant compared to the act of election interference by a foreign actor.

New comment by rekrsiv in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

rekrsiv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:41:56 +0000

Quick question: Could they also be manipulating this message board's voting?

New comment by rekrsiv in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

rekrsiv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:12:39 +0000

You are correct. Robustness requires a system that is working within it's tolerance margin, and stressing that inevitably leads to failure. A fault-tolerant system in this case would require a large amount of redundant humans. Unfortunately, the capitalist mindset prevents accepting any amount of "waste" as tolerable, which makes a robust system impossible to implement over time. Every system touched by a capitalist optimizer will eventually fail.

The idea that waste must be reduced is killing society, and this mindset must be addressed first before any other safety-critical system can be made reliable again.

New comment by rekrsiv in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

rekrsiv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:05:52 +0000

I am alarmed at the high number of supposed engineers on this thread that are seemingly unaware of how safety-critical systems work. Literally every other piece of this system has redundancy built into it. Robustness is never optional in a scenario involving human safety.

When did this lunacy become an arguable position?

New comment by rekrsiv in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

rekrsiv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:53:12 +0000

Can a single human being reliably and robustly maintain a safety-critical system alone under any circumstances, ever?

Ever?

New comment by rekrsiv in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

rekrsiv — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:05:16 +0000

A terminal still offers a more composable interface than a GUI. Analog feedback is still a concern for high level pilots. You are confusing power tools with entry-level instruments.

New comment by rekrsiv in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

rekrsiv — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:03:42 +0000

It is still called the Department of Defense.

New comment by rekrsiv in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

rekrsiv — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:13:13 +0000

On the other hand, as long as the entire internet goes down when Cloudflare goes down, I'll be able to host everything there without ever getting flack from anyone.

New comment by rekrsiv in "AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society"

rekrsiv — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:40:12 +0000

You forgot to provide a counter-argument to the author's position while you attacked them personally.

New comment by rekrsiv in "AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society"

rekrsiv — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:33:05 +0000

You're ignoring the fact that going outside to protest wasn't something you could just decide not to do, just like buying groceries. BLM protests and gathering indoors for fun are not equal.

New comment by rekrsiv in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

rekrsiv — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:59:51 +0000

If it quacks like a Markov chain...

New comment by rekrsiv in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

rekrsiv — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:08:48 +0000

Not all artificial neurons are LLMs. Machine learning can be applied to any kind of large data set, not just human prose, and will start finding useful patterns before a human brain has time to learn how many fingers it has.