Hacker News: rotis

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.

New comment by rotis in "Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?"

rotis — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:49:43 +0000

Agreed. Lead main source in nature is galena, which is relatively nontoxic. It rarely occurs in metallic form.

New comment by rotis in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

rotis — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:09:53 +0000

The fire started on 26th September and news about it reached HN only now. I think this is telling how disruptive for South Korea daily life this accident really was.

New comment by rotis in "Just let me select text"

rotis — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:44:54 +0000

Reminds me of one of the stupidest hacks I discovered (In my mind). In one of my previous companies we had many similar Lotus Notes databases and one of them didn't allow to copy text from it. You could paste, I'm sure. You could select the text. But not copy. Turns out you could DRAG the selected text to other window. This copied the text over. So being able to highlight a text may mean you can indeed copy it ;)

New comment by rotis in "Gemini in Chrome"

rotis — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:59:47 +0000

I'm sceptical a layperson will understand or care what it means that their data will be used in training. If you are concerned about such things this heavily implies you don't want to share your data. Just don't agree to the terms and move on.

New comment by rotis in "450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown"

rotis — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:56:42 +0000

Exactly. This is a basic optimization technique and all the dinosaur era databases should have that. But if you build a new database product you have to implement these techniques from scratch. There is no way you shortcut that. Reminds me about CockroachDB and them building a query optimizer[1]. They started with rule based one and then switched to cost based. Feature that older databases already had.

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/building-cost-based-sql-o...

New comment by rotis in "Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'"

rotis — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:56:32 +0000

Everything else aside moving to R and Python to escape the USA hegemony means you are still dependend on Python Software Foundation and R Fundation. First is American. Second is based in Vienna, Austria yet still has big American presence among its members. So you end up still dependending on USA. Same with most free and open source. Even if its authors may appear to be European, they may turn out to be Americans (Linus Torvalds) or work for US company anyway (Guido van Rossum)

New comment by rotis in "CO2 sequestration through accelerated weathering of limestone on ships"

rotis — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:29:43 +0000

All that and who will pay for it? Politicians? They use taxpayers money. Companies? They will pass on the bill to the customers. So in the end same group will experience higher prices. I can't wait for all the poor becoming poorer.

New comment by rotis in "Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise"

rotis — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:20:38 +0000

Yes, this paper and many others will be forgotten as soon as they leave the front page. Afterwards noone refers to articles like these here. People just talk about anecdotes and personal experiences. Not that I think this is bad.

New comment by rotis in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

rotis — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:11:11 +0000

That's another issue I have with this article. It lists the risks, but does not provide any specific well documented examples. It (and many others privacy related) does not try to quantify them either. Driving a car, flying a plane pose risks too. Yet milions of people take the risk daily. Jumping from 10th floor is also risky and here somehow most peoply don't try it. People intuitively can evaluate the risks on their own and ultimately you cannot do that for them. If examples of negative consequences of their data being sold start appearing, they will stop using these apps by themselves. But I personaly think these risks are blown out of proportion.

New comment by rotis in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

rotis — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:49:33 +0000

The author defends mediocore code, yet wrote this piece:

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/

Where he dunks on how SSH access works in VSCode. I don't know. The code and architecture behind this feature may well be bananas, but gets the work done. Sounds like a clear case of mediocority. I wonder how does he reconcile those two articles together.

For me this is more of a clickbait. Both of the articles. With that in mind, if I am nuts for being sceptical of LLMs, I think it is fair to call the author a clickbaiter.