Hacker News: sirnicolaz

Ask HN: What do you do with LLM articles?

sirnicolaz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:01:50 +0000

I don't want to make a rant about articles written entirely or partially with the aid of LLMs. I do myself sometimes resort to that type of help if I get stuck. I just would like to know your feelings when, at some point through the reading, you realize that what you have in front has not been written by a person. The signs are by now pretty clear and at least my brain clicks as soon as that happens (I usually confirm it with an LLM detector). Emotionally, I feel a profound sense of frustration (I like the notes and imperfections that different humans bring to a perspective). Rationally, I fear that the more of this I read, the more damage I might do to my brain. Imagine reading books only from 1 author. And that author is only interested in their book sales. Maybe I am overthinking it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441480

Points: 3

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Bye Bye Copilot – new pricing looks to be a joke

sirnicolaz — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/comments/1tq9bea/bye_bye_copilot_new_pricing_looks_to_be_a_joke/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344115

Points: 8

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New comment by sirnicolaz in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

sirnicolaz — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:23:03 +0000

I remember when working for one of my old clients last year that the business as usual slack conversation was:

- lead AI engineer asking tech advice - me proposing something (out of my experience and knowledge) - he invoking inline slack bot to ask if what I said made any sense - me telling that the AI arguments were kind of off - he invoking again the same both asking why I said that - .... so on... - third developer kicking in responding with obviously ChatGPT generated message

I left the company shortly after.

New comment by sirnicolaz in "The worst job interview I ever had"

sirnicolaz — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:23:38 +0000

I hope for his mental sanity that he didn't

New comment by sirnicolaz in "Magnifica Humanitas"

sirnicolaz — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:42:14 +0000

"people should aim to reengineer humanity and eliminate illness, old age, suffering and vulnerability"

sure, that's exactly where AI is headed.

also: just imagine a world where people don't age. just imagine it for a second.

As a Doctor, I Can Understand the Allure of ChatGPT

sirnicolaz — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:40:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/opinion/doctor-ai-chatgpt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256148

Points: 3

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New comment by sirnicolaz in "Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus"

sirnicolaz — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:17:18 +0000

> AI usage

> I used ai for a single rust scope issue that google wasn’t giving me clear answers for.

Nowadays, this needs to be highlighted. Congrats

New comment by sirnicolaz in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

sirnicolaz — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:30:45 +0000

I had a professor at my CS university (one of the greatest I had) who used to say (in 2008): "a developer should write no more than 5 lines of code a day"

New comment by sirnicolaz in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

sirnicolaz — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:25:59 +0000

Because the SWE benchmarks for LLM coding are done on python code bases, hence you are likely gonna have superior results

AI replaced the management, not the engineers

sirnicolaz — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:36:15 +0000

Article URL: https://dontdos.substack.com/p/what-if-the-robots-came-for-the-org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094824

Points: 6

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New comment by sirnicolaz in "How much electricity does AI consume?"

sirnicolaz — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:48:16 +0000

Thanks for the breakdown! I myself tried to do some poor man calculation, and using this website https://tokenomy.ai/tools/energy-usage-estimator I have came to the conclusion that 1000 developers using 100k$ worth of tokens in a month (20B) would equal the total estimated energy used to build the Great Pyramid

Ps: yes apparently at Meta there are devs consuming a yearly salary of tokens in a month, according to a recent NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-a...

New comment by sirnicolaz in "Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?"

sirnicolaz — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:22:51 +0000

Hi! Also in my 40s, 20+ years of experience. I took the coding career because I like solving problems with code. I use agents for one-shot tasks, quickly understand big code bases, finding what I need in messy documentation, have a test suite foundation (things which I always didn't like much). I will continue this way for now because, honestly, if my job has to become reviewing tons of code vomited by an AI the whole day, I'd rather become a bar tender. I won't jump the panic train now just because everyone is obsessed with coding agents. Wait a couple of years, see what will actually remain out of this bubble and then see if and how to pivot, now it's not the time. Indeed if you have interests and budget, do go back to school and reinvent yourself, but that should be a decision independent from the current AI hype.

Agentic Coordination, Human Delivery

sirnicolaz — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:16:00 +0000

Article URL: https://dontdos.substack.com/p/what-if-the-robots-came-for-the-org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853198

Points: 1

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New comment by sirnicolaz in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

sirnicolaz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:57:28 +0000

Consider that SWE benchmarking is mainly done with python code. It tells something

New comment by sirnicolaz in "AI Agents replacing mid-management, not developers"

sirnicolaz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:03:46 +0000

It's the very reason why I don't get this brutal attempt to replace developers with AI. I would have considered a more reasonable approach to use it for things were "chatting" is the main skill.

AI Agents replacing mid-management, not developers

sirnicolaz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:41:00 +0000

Article URL: https://dontdos.substack.com/p/what-if-the-robots-came-for-the-org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831389

Points: 3

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What if the robots came for the org chart instead?

sirnicolaz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194053020

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806952

Points: 2

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New comment by sirnicolaz in "Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?"

sirnicolaz — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:42:13 +0000

https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

New comment by sirnicolaz in "A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests"

sirnicolaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:23:44 +0000

This made my day, thank you

Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?

sirnicolaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:55:12 +0000

I have recently asked the same question in a HN thread, which was mysteriously downvoted. The question remains to me: there is a lot of talk between Anthropic and the DOW about adopting LLM technology for warfare. Specifically, for "fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance". Does anyone understand how these two goals can be achieved? LLMs don't seem to me the right tool for this. Autonomous weapons would require a much faster and much more reliable and deterministic AI. LLMs might be a better use for mass surveillance, but I am not really sure how they would cope with the massive amount of data and the limited context window (unless they use the data itself for training). RAGs might only mitigate the problem. Does anyone have some ideas?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271391

Points: 5

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