<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ricksunny</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ricksunny</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:37:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ricksunny" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ricksunny in "Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only thing I wonder is what practices deployment engineers will lobby management for under well-aligned incentive structures</p>
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<p>Well I think we’ve all seen the clickbait-y headlines declaring that X phenomenon has been ‘DEBUNKED’,and those headlines are definitely engineered to spread (and benefit from performance metrics feedback).<p>To go further, Eric Weinstein vecame knwon for coining the term ‘pre-bunked’ narratives.  This was a version of memetic inoculating where the debunking had to get out ahead of the inconvenient narrative requiring debunking. A good and (by now) pretty uncontested example of this was Peter Daszak’s actions throughout the first half of 2020, with The Lancet Letter (aka Calisher et al, The Lancet, 2020) he organized (with Nobel signatories no less) providing a massive pre-bunk at a time when few in the public were seriously countenancing <i>any</i> pandemic origin, much less a research-related one.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)</a><p><pre><code>  (I should offer disclaimer here that I remain an advisor to BiosafetyNow, an advocacy organization).</code></pre></p>
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<p>I wonder if vibe coding dev-ops will follow the path blazed by virtual machine managers vs bare metal servers. If the bare metal server crashes, you had to go out and, like a rancher’s calf, nurse it back to health. If the VM crashes, you take it out into the pasture and shoot it (and re-spin up another VM).<p>In the vibe coded world, if a bug is found (or a relied-upon api is deprecated, or a a dependency is found to suffer a security vulnerability, a vendor changes. etc) do we simply kill the codebase and vibecode up a fresh one de novo from the same prompts as the original, adding only knowledge of the recent failure mode?</p>
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<p>Treating quality investigative reporting like the scarce resource that it is, as one of the most well-known can you shed any light on why Reuters would delegate resources to commission investigative reporters to unmask Banksy (in a world where all-things-Epstein represents an unending source of investigative opportunities in the public interest)?</p>
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<p>>As a scientist (computational physicist,<p>Is there one that you prefer for, i dunno, <i>physics</i>?</p>
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<p>Sure, disinformation narratives get seeded all the time to inoculate the population from any narrative that a vested interest determines is counter-agenda by rendering the narrative into an anti-meme.<p>• this person who suspects a research-related origin of covid is not a published, experienced virologist.  Conclusion to draw: only virologists funded by research grants have credibility to sound-off publicly on covid origins. 'research-related covid origin' becomes an anti-meme.<p>• this person who asserted 'X' is an antisemite. (conclusion to draw: 'only people who accept 'not-X' are not antisemites' X becomes an anti-meme.<p>• this person who saw [unexplained craft in a sky / in a hangar] has Y derogatory items in their reputation.  conclusion to draw: ;only people with derogatory reputations see UFOs' [unexplained craft] becomes an anti-meme.</p>
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<p>I would imagine that’s SOP at this point.</p>
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<p>Can you share a link to her saying that?</p>
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<p>>Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments.<p>Use flameview:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713858">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713858</a><p>Life-changing for HN users.</p>
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<p>Same recruitment pool (like same "hiring pool" /  market segment).  Therefore, competing.</p>
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<p>I wonder how many of Gulf War II's 17-19-year-olds they'll get to re-enlist.</p>
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<p>With all the posts lately about Karpathy's autoresearch, it remains unclear to me whether this name is intended to convey that this LLM-codebase should be useful for research across all domains - like molecular biology, aircraft control, sociological, ww2 history, etc. or is it intended only to discover new  LLM capabilities.</p>
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<p>I'm being a bit glib anyway; call it gallows humor to help me process currents events.  Even worldwide, long-lasting nuclear winter must passes & settle eventually, and such sunlight-enabled microfiche files could be useful to subsequent generations if not earlier.</p>
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<p>Oh do you mean a water source replenished by the hydrologic cycle, powered by (checks notes) the __?<p>While we're on that, for how long will water sources remain in liquid phase?</p>
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<p>joke’s on the survivors who have to go find sunlight in nuclear winter</p>
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<p>I never thought much of Adrian Gage as a director anyway</p>
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<p>I solved the tangle issue going on years now with this:
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z8G6VH4?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3&th=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z8G6VH4?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...</a><p>You accustom to the wrap-unwrap motion and then that's it.</p>
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<p>Since I'm yet to seriously dive into vibe coding or AI-assisted coding, does the IDE experience offer tracking a tally of the context size?  (So you know when you're getting close or entering the "dumb zone")?</p>
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<p>Haven't opened the article yet, but surprised the comments so far are generally in the framework of "oh, economy produces more X, but too much more of a proportion of X is going to [the fortunate few] and too little to [the unfortunate many]." where is X is some kind of fungible consumable. Rather what I see are asset holders and liabilities holders (same spectrum, some enjoy the positive side, some struggle on the negative side).  Goods (the consumable, fungible sort) flow in, around, between, and all throughout them.  But the only ledger that matters, the one that makes some stressed out and others feel empowered & satisfied, is the asset-liability spectrum.<p>Update:<p>And now I've read at the article.  Decent, it might sa well be the GPT of "Update Das Kapital for the 21st century".  (GPT here being a figure speech, i.e. irrespective of whether an LLM helped in composing the piece). Article still fixates too much on differential parceling out the flow of economic product, and not the asset-liability ledger which everyone is jostling around with each other on.  (It almost touches on it in "Mechanism #3", but not quite).</p>
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<p>either the business press is very US-bound or parochial, or more likely, it believes its readership is.</p>
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