Hacker News: sirnicolaz

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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New comment by sirnicolaz in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

sirnicolaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:38:54 +0000

One thing is playing Pokemon, one thing is decide who to kill. Also: if they are planning to use it on the field, there is going to be a velocity issue. Claude and any other LLM require a non negligible amount of time to ingest the input and spit the output.

New comment by sirnicolaz in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

sirnicolaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:50:58 +0000

"fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance"

I still don't buy this discussion. How exactly do they want to use an llm for autonomous weapons, given it's not even possible to reliably have a piece of code written without having to review it?

And how is a 1M token window model suppposed to be useful for mass surveillance?

Honest questions, I am sure I am missing some details. Because so far it looks like a very sophisticated marketing strategy.

New comment by sirnicolaz in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

sirnicolaz — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:00:34 +0000

This is like comparing the danger of a machine gun to that of a block of lead.

New comment by sirnicolaz in "The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121"

sirnicolaz — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:44:16 +0000

This should get +1000 upvotes, a gold mine of useful information . Thanks!

Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

sirnicolaz — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:18:23 +0000

Many people talk about vibe-coding and about the different ways to use this development "methodology" successfully. I wonder though if anyone really managed to push to production anything that has been fully or almost fully created through LLM assisted coding. Do you have anything to share, whether you or someone else created it? Possibly something more complex than a static webpage.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434821

Points: 84

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New comment by sirnicolaz in "Help my website is too small"

sirnicolaz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:32:17 +0000

This is TopTal. I had the same issue. I am gonna just close the account, they basically nuked all my portfolio (all react apps that have less than 1kb initial payload, indeed too small to be proper).

New comment by sirnicolaz in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

sirnicolaz — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:47:34 +0000

Exactly the same thing

New comment by sirnicolaz in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

sirnicolaz — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:09:17 +0000

I still miss the times when I would decide to watch a movie based on the cover at the VHS store or based on a recommendation. Much faster, way more serendipity.

New comment by sirnicolaz in "We are destroying software"

sirnicolaz — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:01:54 +0000

A bit of incoherence between this

'We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels.'

and this

'We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.'

But generally speaking I grok it.

New comment by sirnicolaz in "AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint"

sirnicolaz — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:08:39 +0000

and an entire monetary system (just a small by-product)

New comment by sirnicolaz in "Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment"

sirnicolaz — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 06:06:04 +0000

What about training it?

Exploring the Underground of NFT Art

sirnicolaz — Tue, 07 May 2024 07:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@miragenesi/nft-art-da826db9bfdb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40283291

Points: 2

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