Hacker News: rotis

New comment by rotis in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

rotis — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:14:50 +0000

Maybe we should use legion as a collective noun for vulnerabilities. Like murder of crows or school of fish. Would signal the urgency no matter the actual number or impact...

New comment by rotis in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

rotis — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:29:18 +0000

Maybe it's just a secret cabal of rogue agents downloading LibreOffice for no particualr reason whatsoever? I mean there is a precedent already: those fellas hijacked some poor wiki.

New comment by rotis in "A CVE Dispute"

rotis — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:59:44 +0000

In many (most?) companies it also takes nontrivial amount of time to patch potentially affected systems. In my company half IT department got recently an email that we need to urgently patch all Windows servers because of some critical CVE. I checked it. The description was maybe 3 lines and it said this affected domain controllers only. I raised this with security team and they said that in this case we don't need to patch everything. Now if we had to do this, it would force us to spend nontrivial time on unplanned patching. That this in itself disorganizes our operations can not be ignored. So comparatively me doing some legwork and checking the CVE was trivial effort and saved a lot of busywork for the department as a whole. That time we got lucky.

New comment by rotis in "Bug Blindness"

rotis — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:37:33 +0000

Later on he gives an example of Blackboard software that was very disliked. So I don't see what was unique in his perspective either. To me this article is not very focused and feels mostly like rambling. The core idea that we get accustomed to bugs/quality in software we use is sound. Just the article needs streamlining or better a complete rewrite.

New comment by rotis in "If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast"

rotis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:09:44 +0000

Sure. I don't give a damn about them. But Phil Collins man. I love reviewing his body of work before I get worked up. Obvously we cannot cut him, because I need him. So how do you decide what to leave out?

New comment by rotis in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

rotis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:24:58 +0000

This site's trustworthiness when it goes for pre-aquisition data was disputed here already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086786

New comment by rotis in "Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks"

rotis — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:15:33 +0000

Reminds me of this story from Windows land by Bruce Dawson (and similar on his blog):

63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocke...

Looks like Linux isn't immune to these types of problems.

New comment by rotis in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"

rotis — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:18:44 +0000

So the AIs end up being silly like in this video?

10 AIs Play Mafia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhBtg-lyKdo

New comment by rotis in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

rotis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:34:14 +0000

I have problems reconciling this story with the Amazon one from few days ago. If we take both for truth doesn't that basically imply Amazon researchers got scared by the ‘Fix this code’ prompt first and then spooked the feds? Shouldn't we make fun of those researchers first? I don't know. I feel there lies a lie somewhere in the open.

New comment by rotis in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

rotis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:07:55 +0000

Agentic engineering? Vibe coding? That is so yesterday. Chain-of-thought flow is where it is at now. You heard it here first folks. Early examples of such phenomena include Rube Goldberg machines

New comment by rotis in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

rotis — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:24:51 +0000

https://x.com/i/status/2053560589327180255

I sense a pattern emerging.

New comment by rotis in "The sigmoids won't save you"

rotis — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:09:09 +0000

Are you suggesting intelligent design got us here?

New comment by rotis in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

rotis — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:53:33 +0000

Not really convinced by the first graph (and following too). According to it on a 10 year old project developers only manage to spend 10% of their available time adding features because rest is consumed by maintenance? By 10 year landmark I would expect most of software to be mature, with less new features needed and most known bugs fixed.

New comment by rotis in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

rotis — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:22:58 +0000

Got it. Vibe coding is all about the end result, damned be the way we got there. So I assume agentic engineering must be the opposite here? Don't care what we will cook. If I get a calculator while asking for integrator that is the true agentic engineering.

New comment by rotis in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

rotis — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:00:04 +0000

Caring about what? I could slap an application and say I vibe coded it or I could equally claim I agentically engineered it. No one could tell the difference(if there is any) without seeing the code. The only thing you could say I used an LLM. And that is what is happening. Most of the code that is "engineered" we don't get to see. So who know what is really going on there and what is the actual result?

New comment by rotis in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

rotis — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:42:41 +0000

> my disturbing realization that vibe coding and agentic engineering have started to converge in my own work.

>I firmly staked out my belief that “vibe coding” is a very different beast from responsible use of AI to write code, which I’ve since started to call agentic engineering

Disturbing? Really? I admit I don't do agentic and am going only by vibes, but for me agentic engineering is basically vibe coding in a automated loop with some ornamentals. They both stem from the same LLM root and positioning them as significantly different is weird and unconvincing to me. There may be a merit to this article (I gave up after few sentences), but I reject this specific premise.

New comment by rotis in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

rotis — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:34:06 +0000

https://chatgpt.com/share/69f0dc83-ec70-83eb-896b-b258de2c9f...

https://claude.ai/share/ac4d2041-4328-4511-904a-ff8b1cbfc0bb

Looks like self-censoring to me. Grok has no problems answering, so it is not a technical limitation:

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_341d6428-ea7d-4b84-ad4d-8df9...

New comment by rotis in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

rotis — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:45:53 +0000

I don't have a problem with AI assistance either, but this undermines the point the article is making. For me it is like a priest preaching gay sex is wrong and then being caught in bed with a male prostitute (snorting cocaine optional). Leaves bad taste in the mouth.

New comment by rotis in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

rotis — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:34:13 +0000

He writes 2,253 candidates and 2,069 were disqualified. 184 were qualified, so 1 in 12 was considered competent.

New comment by rotis in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

rotis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:15:05 +0000

Asking ChatGPT about safety of someone traveling instead of asking that person is the nerdy thing to do. Somehow a hairstylist doesn't invoke image of a nerd in me. That is why I find this story implausible.