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New comment by rsoto2 in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

rsoto2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:48:01 +0000

Figured out a better way of explaining it:

dev A knows exactly what the program should do and how to verify the AI output

dev B thinks they know what they are doing but are actually misguided by bad psycophantic AI output they have incorrectly verified.

both work on product C

New comment by rsoto2 in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

rsoto2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:46:01 +0000

or the AI could lead you to a completely unusable experiment and lead you to believe it was successful wasting weeks of work. Not saying it will happen to you, but there is a huge "survivorship" bias already in software for what tools are useful or not. Maybe it's the person and not the tools.

New comment by rsoto2 in "The AI Aesthetic"

rsoto2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:26:11 +0000

lol this is actually my art(slop). I "prompted" it from the internet and it materialized on my screen. I own it, please don't misattribute it.

New comment by rsoto2 in "Deflock Casa Grande"

rsoto2 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:05:59 +0000

Also, he and Flock recently boasted on LinkedIn that they are not shipping face-tracking in some cities. Wow this makes them so much more secure and private right? No it's likely because most people are looking at their phones and they can more easily identify you via the way you walk, the clothes you wear, and the places you visit.

New comment by rsoto2 in "Deflock Casa Grande"

rsoto2 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:56:57 +0000

They will investigate themselves?

Police do not prevent crime and rarely catch criminals, in fact they are often _involved_ in crime. There are scientific approaches to solving crime and larger budgets for more cameras and police tanks is not it.

New comment by rsoto2 in "Deflock Casa Grande"

rsoto2 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:55:00 +0000

The Flock CEO Garret Langley called people that didn't want his unsecure surveillance state in their own communities "terrorists". A term that has a very loose meaning but is always used to invoke state violence. So he wants to create a strong police state and violence against regular people for money aka he's a fascist.

(but HN will flag me for "name-calling" a person promoting and creating violent state oppression)

New comment by rsoto2 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

rsoto2 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:45:35 +0000

It does zero good "for me" but hopefully someone thinks twice the next time before expressing such a dumb incorrect opinion. Not sure why adults are such precious little creatures that can't deal with a bit of criticism. If being correct was a virtue instead of being nice we wouldn't be backsliding into a world of misinformation in which science is being dismantled and people are lynched on the streets while billionaire corporations use dumb people free propaganda spreaders.

New comment by rsoto2 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

rsoto2 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:31:44 +0000

Where's the guidelines about misinforming people which has actual societal implications? Where are the guidelines for openly promoting products that harm people's mental and social health?

New comment by rsoto2 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

rsoto2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:49:30 +0000

Wow it's almost like modern datacenters use way more power due to GPU consumption. Emit way more pollution. Use way more land. Make way more noise. Produce slop instead of functioning products. Do yall use your brain before chiming in and misinforming everyone?

New comment by rsoto2 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

rsoto2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:42:01 +0000

Lol the entire pro-data US center is ran by elon musk and the other cronies that bribed the Trump admin to let them violate the clean air act. They use gullible losers that will swallow their propaganda whole and promise them "AGI."

New comment by rsoto2 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

rsoto2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:40:19 +0000

Yes, the AI Datacenters are much worse for the environment. xAI is using methane-turbines to power theirs, and they are allowed to pollute your communities because they bribed the Trump admin.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/16/elon-musk... https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/data-centers/elon-musk-... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1014655584252361

New comment by rsoto2 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

rsoto2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:12:25 +0000

nice try clammy sammy.

We're gonna continue to push for scientific based approaches to education not some lunatic's idea of an educational experiment that waste's children's education. We tried this with Bill Gates already.

New comment by rsoto2 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

rsoto2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:10:32 +0000

I mean that's this entire thread in a nutshell. Armchair experts emboldened by their $100 ChatGPT University Diploma.

New comment by rsoto2 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

rsoto2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:02:03 +0000

No, the rationality of humans is not defined by how gullible they are towards LLMs. Are yall getting your psychology degree from ChatGPT university, my god.

New comment by rsoto2 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

rsoto2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:58:56 +0000

All AI is flawed and prone to "hallucinations"(doing exactly what it was designed to do) that's why Microsoft considers it an "Entertainment" product.

New comment by rsoto2 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

rsoto2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:57:33 +0000

"this is akin to givin someone a textbook on an obscure subject that has certain factual errors." My brother all LLMs give factual errors so, no this is not a problem with the study. In your fake experiment you are hypothesizing a 100% factual LLM which does not exist.

"This study tested none of those" So the study is bunk because it didn't test your favorite LLM flaws?

New comment by rsoto2 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

rsoto2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:44:06 +0000

What capabilities? Regurgitating a collage of training data? Again it's pretty easy to understand why this happens. The "magic" you are perceiving is language itself not these models. Language is a constantly evolving tool and we constantly imbue it with our collective knowledge.

New comment by rsoto2 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

rsoto2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:40:33 +0000

Yes. When someone is teaching you language as a baby you have eyes and ears and 100 million nerve endings and constant "training" to understand language. You cannot understand the word "semantics" as a human without this crucial "training" step. My god you people will pull out the most bs metaphors to justify being in awe(and debt) to a software program.

New comment by rsoto2 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

rsoto2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:37:27 +0000

a bone box.. with eyes and 100 million nerve endings to experience the world...

New comment by rsoto2 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

rsoto2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:36:10 +0000

We know exactly how LLMs work. you don't understand how they work and so you think they are free of physical limits like scaling. There are several rudimentary articles on hackernews for you to peruse to understand weights and scaling. IMO the "magic" derived from LLMs comes from one of humanity's actual greatest inventions and constantly evolving tools: language.