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New comment by serial_dev in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

serial_dev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:59:48 +0000

But some worker in Italy bolts on a zipper in the end so it’s actually Italian, believe it or not.

New comment by serial_dev in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

serial_dev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:51:08 +0000

> The best case is it does no harm.

No it’s not. The best case it gives you energy (it’s in the name!) to do whatever you want and it does no harm.

Assuming it actually does no harm, why wouldn’t you want more energy any time you want it, any time you drink some delicious fizzy neon green liquid?

I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t drink energy drink (because I assume and feel that it actually causes harm, not because I couldn’t use some extra boost in energy sometimes).

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

serial_dev — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:01:27 +0000

> it produces some extremely crappy code that would've NEVER passed a code review 1 year ago

The 10x speed up comes from the fact that we have all given up on properly reviewing each others code and we just say “meh, it will be fine, lgtm”

New comment by serial_dev in "Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)"

serial_dev — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:29:59 +0000

If we do it, it's training a model. When they do it, it's distillation attack. - Anthropic

New comment by serial_dev in "Our position on open-weights models"

serial_dev — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:18:30 +0000

they wanted someone click “ok” before firing off bombs to a thousands of, partially hallucinated, targets? They are my resistance heroes.

New comment by serial_dev in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

serial_dev — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:48:32 +0000

Fable ends up in a confusion loop for me all the time.

New comment by serial_dev in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

serial_dev — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:53:39 +0000

It's basically supply and demand?

New comment by serial_dev in "I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year"

serial_dev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:49:37 +0000

At least some of it (not all of it) will leak from devs pain to users pain... Untidy unaesthetic unreviewed code will sooner or later introduce inconsistencies, poor performance, and bugs, and as you get more of it, the harder it is to clean up properly and get things under control.

New comment by serial_dev in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

serial_dev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:46:08 +0000

You have no idea, to slop-circle is getting more common.

In 2025, sometimes I decided to put a slop LinkedIn post to ChatGPT (back then) to deslopify.

Now, the slop circle is everywhere.

Your PO uses automations to create tasks? Half of the comments are bot slop? Links to documents never edited or read by another human? A lazy three sentence description of a task requirement you would have gotten previously sounds like a dream. Now everything generates pages long texts and you can't possibly go through the slop without AI agents. You need your agents comb through the slop and demystify the task for you.

Same with the other end... Slop PRs will be reviewed by your agents, hoping you catch 2-3 issues so that you can pretend you did a review. The author didn't do a review on their generated slop, but sure, let's pretend reviewers still review code.

New comment by serial_dev in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

serial_dev — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:56:15 +0000

“You found it didn’t you?, then we weren’t actually hiding it, so please stop looking into our finances too much”

New comment by serial_dev in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

serial_dev — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:08:44 +0000

the only thing that point into you being in a bubble is thinking that credibility matters? In the end, companies will buy the best models for their use case based on capabilities, price, ease of access, etc, they will sign up with some providers and coders will just use whatever their employees give them 95% of the case.

New comment by serial_dev in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

serial_dev — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:04:26 +0000

Developing the thing they say will cause the end of the world?

Look, if I was worried about nuclear bombs, I wouldn’t work on a nuclear bomb developing research center.

It’s all fake and pompous garbage.

New comment by serial_dev in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

serial_dev — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:55:29 +0000

How is RPE relevant if they are spending hundreds of billions on compute and data centers?

New comment by serial_dev in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

serial_dev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:53:39 +0000

Hah, I used to tell my agents “eli5 (this task)”, then I started to worry that it will actually explain things as you would to a 5yo…

It’s just an irrational fear I have, in the end agents are not the HN comment section and they usually understand what I actually mean.

New comment by serial_dev in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

serial_dev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:47:29 +0000

I don’t think they need the hardware to become affordable (as a regular end user).

They need their models to be good enough and cheap enough. Then the rest will follow. Companies will figure out how to host them for you efficiently, and you pay them monthly.

I don’t think I will ever want to set up a home server, no matter how inexpensive the hardware gets. At work I still use Cursor (with Anthropic models usually) because it’s paid by my employer, but for private stuff, I’m already using cheap models with OpenCode, and it’s extremely cheap and surprisingly capable.

I think there was around half a year between where the best models became good enough (last year December?) and where the cheap models became good enough (couple of months ago?).

New comment by serial_dev in "Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written"

serial_dev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:31:28 +0000

> if it makes communicating research more effective, while not reducing the quality of the output substantially

That’s a big if. We all know that’s not what’s happening.

New comment by serial_dev in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

serial_dev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:26:06 +0000

I might be missing something but what’s the real story of the 20%.

To me it sounds like 1. Either your tool is just not that good and reliable as you thought, 2. AI is trained on human written articles, so some of that human written content informed the now established “AI slop”.

There are people who shipped “slop” before AI.

New comment by serial_dev in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

serial_dev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:37:25 +0000

AFAIK, video surveillance is less computationally expensive than LLMs, and much of the work can be done at the edge devices.

So don’t worry, there is already probably a nationwide video surveillance system out there, even without Kevin

New comment by serial_dev in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

serial_dev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:55:18 +0000

It might have been AutoCorrect, and the “social rules” the original comment makes hundred times more sense that way

Rustwright – a Rust Rewrite of Playwright

serial_dev — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:29:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/rustwright

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932230

Points: 5

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