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New comment by renyicircle in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

renyicircle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:31:41 +0000

Tractatus - highly aware of its limitations and refuses to speak about too many topics. Really likes numbering statements. Unusable due to a context window bug which is patched after considerable delay.

New comment by renyicircle in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

renyicircle — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:22:30 +0000

I really loved that article. Creating games always seemed so daunting to me since I don't know a lot about how it's done, there are so many different processes involved. The solutions described here are so satisfyingly compact and so easy to understand given the simple constraints, and yet they produce an actual game that looks nice.

New comment by renyicircle in "two strangers. one call. no names"

renyicircle — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:28:21 +0000

Well can't you at least appreciate how it's all in this cool and down-to-earth lowercase? Clearly there was a stylistic effort.

New comment by renyicircle in "Various LLM Smells"

renyicircle — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:15:00 +0000

> Humans trust symmetry because it feels like intelligence made visible I hope this one didn't make it into the author's math blog. I don't understand what this means. I don't "trust" symmetry, I never think of symmetry as having to do with "intelligence". How did it even come up with that.

New comment by renyicircle in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

renyicircle — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:39:24 +0000

>writing flawless English

Is there still grammar police on the Internet, calling out people for making grammatical mistakes in their writing? Who is asking for flawless English? Thinking that the LLM style is an example of flawless writing is a common mistake of ESL people. It's not flawless. A single rhythm, structure and flow permeates every piece of LLM writing. There is no variation whatsoever. People have been reading so much of that stuff recently that they don't bother to read the article if they spot one of these patterns. They're so easy to avoid, too.

> Fired. And the part that gutted me: His proudest accomplishment at AWS? Restoring my account.

change to

> I was gutted to read that his proudest accomplishment at AWS was restoring my account.

Is it flawless? Probably not, I'm not a writer, or a native English speaker. However I think it's more sincere, explains the feelings without any fluff, and is just simpler.

If the author's goal is to have people read their article, they should consider that people are tired of reading these patterns over and over again, it's not "flawless English" and it's not "writing clearly" because the patterns are unnecessary and obscure the message.

New comment by renyicircle in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

renyicircle — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:28:34 +0000

The way the author thanks the person from AWS who helped him with a human approach is an AI generated article blaming AWS for using AI. Brilliant.

New comment by renyicircle in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

renyicircle — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:24:54 +0000

Remember sharing simple thoughts between each other? Now you can do the same thing but with two AIs in between, one that produces words out of an idea and one that collapses them back. This is the way of the future.

New comment by renyicircle in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

renyicircle — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:13:14 +0000

Agreed, I can't read articles anymore with that Claudish stench of confidence, impactful sentences and dramatic negative parallelism. At some point you just start to skim it and reverse engineer the simple original prompt which is "write an article about how people don't speak up because it can hurt their career, use real world examples".

New comment by renyicircle in "Up in Smoke"

renyicircle — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:19:22 +0000

To be honest I don't know anything about marketing or publishing books, but I couldn't imagine promoting anything on tiktok either. Thanks for the response. Best of luck with your book.

New comment by renyicircle in "Up in Smoke"

renyicircle — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:16:54 +0000

> get a self-published novel noticed on booktok

Can anything that's not young adult fantasy pornography actually get noticed on booktok?

New comment by renyicircle in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

renyicircle — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:57:05 +0000

I didn't want to paste all the job requirements from that link here, but fair point.

New comment by renyicircle in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

renyicircle — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:50:40 +0000

You can just check any of the vacancies on their website to see what they're looking for.

Example: AI Agent Engineer (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/jobs/jr-202606937/ai-agent-...)

> We are seeking an AI Agent Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI-powered agents that enhance employee productivity and decision-making in a complex enterprise environment. The ideal candidate combines strong AI/ML foundations, hands-on experience with agent frameworks, and a pragmatic approach to delivering business value in partnership with cross-functional teams.

Does not look like pure vibe-coding to me. More like developing wrappers over LLMs.

New comment by renyicircle in "AI slop is killing online communities"

renyicircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:31:55 +0000

> I am not an AI-hater. In fact, I think AI-haters are on the wrong side of history. > It’s just that I know when to keep my crayon-drawings to myself ;) And I am getting increasingly sad and frustrated seeing communities that I value slowly wilting under the onslaught of shit

Disliking AI, even for reasons admitted by the author as valid, and on which they post rants, has become so low status that people now have to preface their articles with this. It's fine to be be happy with the good aspects of a thing and be mad at the bad ones. We don't need to split between sides of history (whatever that means) because of this. Eventually you might want to weigh the benefits against the damage though.

New comment by renyicircle in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

renyicircle — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:15:08 +0000

The link to paper documentation seems wrong, it's for some Minecraft server.

New comment by renyicircle in "Prism"

renyicircle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:11:01 +0000

It's as if it's marketed to the students who have been using ChatGPT for the last few years to pass courses and now need to throw together a bachelor's thesis. Bibliography and proper citation requirements are a pain.

New comment by renyicircle in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

renyicircle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:12:57 +0000

I'd love to see a root cause analysis post by Cloudflare for this one. The ones they do after outages are always interesting to read. How did this make it into the blog? What is the review process for these posts and what failed this time? What measures will be taken to restore Cloudflare blog's reputation?

New comment by renyicircle in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

renyicircle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:54:00 +0000

New damage control commit just came in, removing "production grade" from README, mentioning AI assistance, and fixing the misaligned ASCII diagram. https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/fd412f41...

Should have just nuked the whole thing to be honest, the blog post and the repo.