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New comment by riazrizvi in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

riazrizvi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:24:38 +0000

When you first lose everything, in the process you end up having to pawn expensive principles like that, so when other things like this happen, it's easy to seize the opportunity.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

riazrizvi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:02:37 +0000

One of the best ads of seen is for the Ava AI Sales Agent. I have to stare at it because of its location near one of my favorite spots. They've found a model with dead eyes that perfectly capture the existential dread you feel as you see a future with fewer humans in your life, and instead it's just more machines.

Not sure if that's their conscious intention, but somewhere along the creative process, some living soul was able to express itself in the final product.

New comment by riazrizvi in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

riazrizvi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:20:07 +0000

You're essentially making the case here that your work is now automated into a set of one-shot actions that can be performed by an AI model and your job has become to selectively apply these actions. That says either a) we don't do the same work, and instead you're doing some kind of low level devops function that I've only ever seen in rare cases where a human isn't needed anymore, or b) you've vastly oversimplified the software engineering you're doing.

Sophisticated chain of reasoning LLMs like ChatGPT have baked in some natural language operations and they make it so i can create at a higher level of the language expression stack. But I'm still formulating my own expression. There's no conceivable path I can see where an improved model is going to be able to do what I do. I think that is clear from my ChatGPT threads at least.

New comment by riazrizvi in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

riazrizvi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:33:21 +0000

That's not going away.

New comment by riazrizvi in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

riazrizvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:01:04 +0000

It's adorable that you think Iceland somehow maintains itself without power. In the 1976 Cod War with the UK, where we the UK asserted dominion over 200 miles of their water with our superior navy, Iceland countered with its superior position to surveil Soviet movements in the GUIK gap, and it leveraged that with a powerful alliance within NATO members to get the UK to back down.

In WW2 Iceland's sovereignty was merely overridden. Britain took it over, because the Nazis had done the same in Denmark. We gave it back because the nature of our political, economic and diplomatic profile, compared to Nazism, made it advantageous for us to do so, all things considered.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

riazrizvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:52:17 +0000

All you get here is some market signal from 1 or 2 posts if you already know how to do it. Most of these responses are garbage.

New comment by riazrizvi in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

riazrizvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:25:10 +0000

The reality that a contested position is determined by whoever can assert the claim, isn't a moral choice, it's simply an observable political fact.

New comment by riazrizvi in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

riazrizvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:44:00 +0000

For the same reason all land ownership across the world and across the ages and across all animal species has been determined.

New comment by riazrizvi in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

riazrizvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:28:18 +0000

After 400 years of Ottoman rule, we the Brits took that region because we won WWI. We gave some to different Arab groups, and some to the Israelis. The muslim religious head of Jerusalem wrote fan mail to Hitler advocating for the Final Solution. The hostility toward Jews had been whipped up for years and the general unwillingness of the neighboring regions to agree to the lines that the UK delegated to the UN is why after we left the region descended into war. The Israelis held on to their land. The Iranian mullahs came along in the 70s and jumped onto the cause because they feed on hate. My father was an advocate of the Iranian regime, because he was a vulnerable conflict survivor with deep psychological issues. But I saw what they were peddling 45 years ago and I heard what they were inculcating in him, through the mullahs that they trained and sent to the UK. They love to stress the idea of Abraham sacrificing his children. These are people that use children in war. They fire their rockets and shoot their guns where their own civilians will get hurt in the counterattack because they are just pawns to them. They sent young boys to the frontlines against the Iraqis and they use human shield tactics against the Israelis. It's a tragedy when innocents die, but against a foe that uses innocents in the propaganda war, only steely resolve and self-preservation will rid this world of the scourge that is these Iranian mullahs.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

riazrizvi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:51:23 +0000

It's not their domain, it's the domain of the Commander-In-Chief and his entire apparatus. The War Department are meant to be more focused around the tools they bring to the table.

The first line in the article describes a crisis between two powers. Not a theater of war.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

riazrizvi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:42:55 +0000

The beauty IMO of LLMs as a computational surface, is the ease of generating the data to feed it. Everyone understands how to create natural language records already.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

riazrizvi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:31:00 +0000

Simulations are only as good as the reality representations they are based on. If they keep using tactical nukes, they've been fed by weak data. Do the war games include the broader economic and politic environments that military successes are won on? WWI was settled by a naval blockade.

New comment by riazrizvi in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

riazrizvi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:15:43 +0000

I guess i'm the only one blown away by this announcement and super excited to get back into image processing.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

riazrizvi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:24:41 +0000

Yes. I've got no interest in leaving Spotify, I have the same loyalty to them as I do to Apple. Though of course anyone could screw it up. Then they lose me forever, like AT&T.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

riazrizvi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:26:56 +0000

Probably a generational and professional divide. I switched to Apple after a decade of coding on Windows, in 2006 when they were known for introducing UNIX as a commercial platform that effectively killed planned obsolescence in consumer software platforms. I'm still on their system today enjoying the fruits of that pivot that Steve Jobs effected with the NeXT team.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

riazrizvi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:07:59 +0000

It's very sad to see Apple using these lowbrow Microsoft tactics. Press ganging your users into launching your other shit product is brand cannibalism.

New comment by riazrizvi in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

riazrizvi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:57:37 +0000

Execution has just moved up the conceptual stack. We once wrote assembly, and then changed to higher order languages. Same is happening with lexical work generally.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

riazrizvi — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:06:33 +0000

Some ppl do dump trash on the street intentionally, out of laziness but also for some even their actual goal is to deteriorate a neighborhood. But you're pulling in a rare edge case to what by and large these GenAI blogs and Youtube videos are intended for. By and large ppl are trying make income. They are hoping their content will be well received and they will get repeat customers. They are trying to figure out how to use GenAI in a non-sloppy engaging way.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

riazrizvi — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:02:44 +0000

Spam and slop is to GenAI as pollution is to Industrialization. GenAI is beneficial generally but it comes at this cost.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

riazrizvi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:59:36 +0000

Thanks. I keep doing 3. I needed this.