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ryanjshaw — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:11:36 +0000

7) ChatGPT wouldn’t let me generate a fake high bank account balance screenshot (was meant to be a response to all the “vibe coding can make anybody rich now” posts I saw on X)

8) ChatGPT wouldn’t let me generate a script to crack a password (even though I suspected I knew all but 2 characters in a 16 character password, which makes it highly unlikely I’m randomly trying to hack something)

The stupidest part of this is I could easily do these things myself, I just wanted to save a few minutes.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000

Approximately half of the people with schizophrenia don’t believe they are ill, which is why they refuse treatment (see: anosognosia). It is a very strange illness.

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ryanjshaw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:57:51 +0000

Depending who you believe, approximately half of them are unable to see they are ill (re: anosognosia).

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:56:28 +0000

It’s more complicated than that, re: anosognosia.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:54:15 +0000

Re: anosognosia.

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ryanjshaw — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:08:05 +0000

Maybe for some people. For me, they work perfectly and integrate with all my other Apple stuff (MBP, iphone, TV, iPad), everything just works. My stress levels demand it.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Your phone is an entire computer"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:59:44 +0000

I moved to a beach town and found out the tides app only exists on my Apple Watch. I went through 10 iOS apps that didn’t work properly or wanted me to pay subscription before giving up. I just don’t understand… do they not use their own products or something?

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ryanjshaw — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:31:35 +0000

I recall being shocked the first time I used Azure and realizing so many resources aren’t namespaced to account level. Bizarre to me this wasn’t a v1 concern.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Willingness to look stupid"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:37:09 +0000

> It exists only for the people who think it exists

Right. Which means it does exist. And the point of the article is to bring about self awareness of the phenomenon so that people can improve.

I think you have the same goal with your comment, but your style of communication needs work.

Ironically, I would argue you might benefit from caring a little about how others perceive you.

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ryanjshaw — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:34:54 +0000

That telephone cord is impressive.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

ryanjshaw — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:12:31 +0000

You discarded the context within which he made that statement.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

ryanjshaw — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:49:55 +0000

Yup. I’m not expert so maybe I’m completely off base, but if I were OpenAI or Anthropic I’d likely just hire 1000 highly skilled engineers across multiple disciplines, tell them to build something in their domain of expertise, then critique the model’s output, iteratively work on guardrails for a month or two until the model one-shots the problem, and package that into the new release.

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ryanjshaw — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:34:15 +0000

Until a year ago I believed as the author did. Then LLMs got to the point where they sit in meetings like I do, make notes like I do, have a memory like I do, and their context window is expanding.

Only issue I saw after a month of building something complex from scratch with Opus 4.6 is poor adherence to high-level design principles and consistency. This can be solved with expert guardrails, I believe.

It won’t be long before AI employees are going to join daily standup and deliver work alongside the team with other users in the org not even realizing or caring that it’s an AI “staff member”.

It won’t be much longer after that when they will start to tech lead those same teams.

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ryanjshaw — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:45:32 +0000

And in 1990 people were complaining about the same thing [1].

[1] Why Aren’t Operating Systems Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware? https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/osfaster.pdf

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs"

ryanjshaw — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:28:02 +0000

You can also argue that posting with a real name encourages you to reflect on your identity.

Or do both. Also post anonymously to see what kind of a person you are when masked, and compare.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

ryanjshaw — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:45:52 +0000

Seems like they ought to be dedicated security teams monitoring for exactly this: does a key to X give users access to not-X. Even more bizarre is their VDP team not immediately understanding the severity of the issue.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

ryanjshaw — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:04:09 +0000

I’ve settled on the idea that my job as parent is to introduce my kid to a bunch of different things, help them process that information, but ultimately the decision of where they choose to focus their energy is up to them. I’m proud of whatever they do, as long as they try their best.

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ryanjshaw — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:31:03 +0000

Could have been worse. Anybody remember that story where the keycard readers would randomly work and eventually it was discovered the log file had grown huge and was being appended by reading the whole thing into memory over the network, appending the line, and writing the whole thing back out again, thus creating what the random pattern because I guess it would sometimes time out?

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