Hacker News: shishy

New comment by shishy in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

shishy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:53:06 +0000

Do you think it's impossible for someone to have a 25K line PR / diff but not know what's going on in the system?

I ask because I've pushed some of this to the limit in my own testing and when I get the right building blocks / primitives in place in the repo, I'm able to get plans written in a way where I don't just describe what I want but specifically mention outcomes, verifications, constraints, etc. that utlimately describe the shape of my system and my intent.

My plan is my understanding of my system and the changes I'm making, and the execution of that plan (e.g. with subagents), verified against my spec, is the code itself.

With the correct building blocks, I've found that frontier models can write code in fairly predictable ways that lets me maintain my understanding and confidence in pretty large PRs.

I think perhaps the quoted part of your post seems to imply it's not possible / isn't phrased with that nuance?

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

shishy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:32:23 +0000

> In fact, the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret and handed only to the People’s Liberation Army for use in drones and the Ministry of State Security for surveillance and repression.

Aren't Anthropic models used in project maven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Maven ?

New comment by shishy in "Midjourney Medical"

shishy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:26:48 +0000

yeah. they could have called it Medjourney.

2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture with Jack Clark, Co-Founder of Anthropic [video]

shishy — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:10:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIcP5WlShw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284443

Points: 1

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We Are Not Language Machines

shishy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/we-are-not-language-machines.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920581

Points: 1

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Serendipity Machines

shishy — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/serendipity-machines.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900333

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shishy in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

shishy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:44:55 +0000

This must be the Opus 4.7 constitution

New comment by shishy in "2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident"

shishy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:17:40 +0000

i used to watch this on repeat when i was a kid. it makes for a great christmas movie these days :)

The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

shishy — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://possessedmachines.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758253

Points: 27

# Comments: 3

New comment by shishy in "This is not the future"

shishy — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:17:54 +0000

Hi - the opportunity space page is meant to be broad; a more specific and targeted programme thesis within that is going to come out in the coming months. I should mention that it's not just a call for technical solutions because, as you note, a lot of this is deeply rooted in social systems and requires design solutions (i.e. it's not just building more tech). But that is good feedback!

New comment by shishy in "This is not the future"

shishy — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:16:23 +0000

The idea that the future is architected by our choices (or lack of it) is the crux of one of the opportunity spaces at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) in the UK.

Worth getting on your radar if this stuff is of interesting: https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/collective-flourishin...

(full disclosure: I'm working with the programme director on helping define the funding programme, so if you're working on related problems, by all means share your thoughts on the site or by reaching out!)

New comment by shishy in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

shishy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:15:48 +0000

People are probably copy pasting already without that disclosure :(

New comment by shishy in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

shishy — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:48:20 +0000

> It was easy to swallow that failure. I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

what a ridiculous statement

New comment by shishy in "AI Bubble 2027"

shishy — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:05:49 +0000

Yes well bubbles are a core part of the innovation process (new tech being useful doesn't imply a lack of bubbles), see e.g."Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital" by Carlota Perez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...

The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge

shishy — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/bazaar-of-scientific-knowledge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355109

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shishy in "'It is a better programmer than me': The reality of being laid off due to AI"

shishy — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:14:15 +0000

I agree with you but there's something ironic about seeing that comment here, especially considering how many jobs tech has replaced in the last few decades without people having the time to retrain.

New comment by shishy in "Startup Equity 101"

shishy — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:36:11 +0000

They probably meant a "once in a generation" startup like a unicorn

A New Scientific Operating System

shishy — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:04:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/scientific-operating-system.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210919

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shishy in "Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research"

shishy — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:44:44 +0000

Yes, it depends on what you're doing; for general paper discovery / search tasks, title abstract can be enough (which is also why Springer and Elsevier have been pulling even their abstracts from sources like OpenAlex).

But for something like that you need full texts to look into results sections. I'm very curious how you're dealing with information contained in tables, or if you're dealing with snippets of text from the full-text alone. Have you poked around Elicit yet?

New comment by shishy in "Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research"

shishy — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:42:42 +0000

grobid is a wonderful resource, patrice did an awesome job (I used it at my previous job at scite.ai)