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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.

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

rekrsiv — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:32:39 +0000

We use logic to design our technology, but evolution does it by literally shaking all the atoms into place, no design involved. Our brains were created randomly.

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

rekrsiv — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:49:24 +0000

But we don't even need a human brain. We already have those, they take months to grow, take forever to train, and are forever distracted. Our logic-based processes will keep getting smaller and less power hungry as we figure out how to implement them at even lower scales, and eventually we'll be able to solve problems with the same building blocks as evolution but in intelligent ways, of which LLMs will likely only play a minuscule part of the larger algorithms.

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

rekrsiv — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:44:33 +0000

On the other hand, a large part of the complexity of human hardware randomly evolved for survival and only recently started playing around in the higher-order intellect game. It could be that we don't need so many neurons just for playing intellectual games in an environment with no natural selection pressure.

Evolution is winning because it's operating at a much lower scale than we are and needs less energy to achieve anything. Coincidentally, our own progress has also been tied to the rate of shrinking of our toys.

New comment by rekrsiv in "Development speed is not a bottleneck"

rekrsiv — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:23:51 +0000

Development is often divided into 80% known unknowns and 20% unknown unknowns. AI can only help with one of those, and it's the one that takes the least amount of time to complete.

Research and thinking is always going to be the bottleneck.

New comment by rekrsiv in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

rekrsiv — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:30:27 +0000

Feel free to point to said data.

New comment by rekrsiv in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

rekrsiv — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:06:58 +0000

I believe this is true for literally anything that replaces practice. We're meant to build muscle memory for things through repetition, but if we sidestep the repetition by farming it out to another process, we never build muscle memory.