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New comment by shsbdncudx in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

shsbdncudx — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:58:32 +0000

By the same measure, of an llm really sucks we stop using it, same solution

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)"

shsbdncudx — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:08:42 +0000

fwiw I think there’s no valuable distinction. Both take in their learnings and evaluation an output.

It’s even pretty common for us humans to hallucinate outputs.

Remember that restaurant we went to in Rome where we had pizza?

No, it was Paris, and we didn’t have pizza we had crepes.

We’re not that different.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon"

shsbdncudx — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:33:34 +0000

I just can’t fathom this. If I was asked to design a lunar lander… “if it falls over, it’s fucked”, wouldn’t make the cut.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't"

shsbdncudx — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:15:48 +0000

I use ai “voraciously” coding every day. Even the best models are not very good. I found that if something is hard to do it’s because it’s not documented properly, and therefore it’s not in the data anyway so the model can’t out, just guess. If it is documented properly then I don’t need its help so much.

I barely get 1 line of code that I’d actually ship unchanged. It’s really useful but still has a long way to go

New comment by shsbdncudx in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

shsbdncudx — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:50:58 +0000

That’s wildly inaccurate to the point of trolling so I’ll leave it there

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Why sprints are taking the joy out of building software"

shsbdncudx — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:45:40 +0000

I’m old too and have been doing this just as long.

What’s the most impactful task for the business right now? What’s the feedback from the sales team? What tickets are coming into customer support? What are our competitors doing? What do the marketing team need? You’re across all this? What about the other 250 developers in the business?

At some point it doesn’t scale. So maybe you need someone further up the pipeline identifying opportunities and looking at risks, talking to customers and aggregating the data so that we can be focused on the most important thing.

Maybe you’ve only worked in very small companies over those 20 years but it’s a naive take on things.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought"

shsbdncudx — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 01:17:25 +0000

When we eventually nail agi, I think we will look at llm’s as nothing more than the interface to ai, how we interact with it, but we won’t consider it to be ai.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time"

shsbdncudx — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:29:48 +0000

There’s something sad about how basic this is compared to say FrontPage (so shoot me) which was oh ~25 years ago.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Ask HN: What's the Alternative to Agile?"

shsbdncudx — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:44:22 +0000

Ignore those handbooks they’re selling you snake oil.

The original agile manifesto though is still valid. Guiding principles is all you need

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Ask HN: What's the Alternative to Agile?"

shsbdncudx — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:54:06 +0000

Read the agile manifesto and tell me you don’t want to do those things…

New comment by shsbdncudx in "The Art of Good Software"

shsbdncudx — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:13:33 +0000

Software is made to a price just like other products. Great software takes time and skill, like other great products.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI"

shsbdncudx — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:37:17 +0000

Presumably “scraped” isnt the right term here. They already have the raw data, they Won’t be “scraping “ it from the website they’ll just be investing it from where they store it

New comment by shsbdncudx in "A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge"

shsbdncudx — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:03:17 +0000

In Orkney (north east Scotland) they have the sanding stones of Stennes. Not nearly as impressive as Stonehenge but also not surprising there’s some connection.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

shsbdncudx — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 03:35:16 +0000

My son built his first interpreter in Haskell when he was 18months old

New comment by shsbdncudx in "The best way to have complex discussions?"

shsbdncudx — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:20:56 +0000

You’re right. We shouldn’t try to improve what we are doing now.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017)"

shsbdncudx — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 01:38:03 +0000

Conspiracy theories are like religions, they’re an act of faith not rationale

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Show HN: A url only notepad that hosts itself"

shsbdncudx — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 14:15:23 +0000

It’s pretty cool. Definitely not a world first. Not even a HN first, I’ve seen these posted occasionally over the year. Still like it though!

New comment by shsbdncudx in "A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024"

shsbdncudx — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:24:12 +0000

Because it’s not just about configuration, it’s also about reputation and a low sending volume you are in danger of getting dropped merely out of not being a well known sender

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Peter principle"

shsbdncudx — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:20:10 +0000

I’ve always found it a little naive. Sure, day 1 of a new job you are not going to be as good as you are 2 years later. Seems like a normal part of growth.

New comment by shsbdncudx in "Just 2 cans of soda per week is too much – even if you exercise"

shsbdncudx — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:39:13 +0000

The proble with that is, it’s very hard to moderate. It’s more addictive than alcohol but doesn’t come with the stigma or controls