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New comment by skolos in "Claude Opus 4.8"

skolos — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:03:36 +0000

How many times did you try? Same model running multiple times can produce both very good and very bad results. In my benchmark even 10 runs often not enough to tell for sure if one model is better than another.

New comment by skolos in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

skolos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:24:06 +0000

I like Mathematica and use it regularly. But I did not see any benefits of using it over python as a tool that Claude Code can use. Every script it produced in wolfram was slower with worse answers than python. Wolfram people are really trying but so far the results are not very good.

Coding agent is a slot machine

skolos — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kvit.app/posts/variance-claude-vibe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480662

Points: 2

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Coding Agent Is a Slot Machine

skolos — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:28:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kvit.app/posts/variance-claude-vibe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359323

Points: 2

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New comment by skolos in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

skolos — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:43:35 +0000

Claude code regularly asks me questions - I like how anthropic implemented this

Coding Agent Is a Slot Machine

skolos — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:04:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kvit.app/posts/variance-claude-vibe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328873

Points: 2

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New comment by skolos in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

skolos — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:29:14 +0000

Looking at examples I see:

``` c = Sector(radius, start = 180°, end = 270°).translate(y = radius); ```

Programming language that requires (maybe it does not require, but then example is not good) to type degrees. Or maybe it is not designed to be typed and rather ai generated?

New comment by skolos in "Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China"

skolos — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:21:23 +0000

They did operate on a "continuous refresh" basis. However, it mostly stopped for almost 2 years now. Other than HW4 I don't think anything else is different between current models and their iterations 2 years ago.

Edit: mostly speaking about Model Y, as Model 3 had actual refresh recently.

New comment by skolos in "Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel"

skolos — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:48:46 +0000

Here you go: https://blog.adaptiverisk.com/post/2023-08-22-dataslicer/ Calculations are local, not in the cloud.

New comment by skolos in "Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive"

skolos — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:31:20 +0000

> shit build quality

That's old news. If build quality is your only concern, I suggest you to check them again. They supposedly improved build quality significantly after initial rollout of M3. As a data point: my family owned and drove 6 different Teslas over last 3 years - we did not have build quality (or any other) issues with any of them. All recent horror stories you heard are because of current Tesla scale and media negative bias against the company - you don't hear similar stories from other manufacturers.

New comment by skolos in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

skolos — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:20:58 +0000

Last two years used Tesla prices were higher than new ones. You need to wait up to a year to get new Tesla though. So you could actually make some money while driving newest versions of cars.

New comment by skolos in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

skolos — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 04:12:32 +0000

> the company optimizes delivery numbers of cars sold by sacrificing quality control

How do you know this? Did you see their internal data? There are lots of anecdotes going around about Tesla's quality. However, with all the TeslaQ it is hard to believe that there is real correlation between anecdotes and data. Here are my anecdotes - I owned 6 Teslas over last several years. Not one of them had any QC issues. I had one service done because I hit tire debris and front break dust shield started making noises. Tesla fixed that for me quickly with no charge. As for the data - during earnings calls they mentioned that they do pay close attention to their customer experience data and they had period of time where service was lagging. But they started addressing this issue and saw improvements. The way they are growing I do believe they need to keep close eye on customer experience, but looks like they understand that themselves and use data to make sure they are on top of this. Unfortunately there's not much reliable independent data to have better understanding of this issue.

Add: The intent of my comment was to ask if parent info is based on specific data or just anecdotes. As an example, I gave my own anecdotes and mentioned that they are not reliable correlation to the data. Somehow the responses I've got are all about anecdotes, mine or others, also some personal judgement of my ability to appreciate cars or judgment of my life circumstances that required me to have these many Teslas. Can we get back to discussing the main point I'm making - do we have data to make any of these judgements?

New comment by skolos in "Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters"

skolos — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:46:02 +0000

It does work: NIO does it (they have 700 battery swap stations already). CATL also announced that they will produce swappable car batteries.

I, myself, don't see how this can be more competitive than superchargers. But I do see that some customers would like to have this option.

New comment by skolos in "Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters"

skolos — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:29:09 +0000

They did try it in 2013, but abandoned the idea: https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event

New comment by skolos in "ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]"

skolos — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:15:37 +0000

How Russian people would know about this? You are underestimating efficiency of Russian propaganda machine. Russian government does not shy away from inflicting damage onto Russian people and pointing finger to the West.

New comment by skolos in "Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions"

skolos — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:43:04 +0000

Interesting point. How would you resolve this chalantly? 144 million people who probably will struggle to purchase their next iPhone vs 44 million people many of whom might die, loose all property and homes. What is a good way to resolve this in your opinion?

New comment by skolos in "Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions"

skolos — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:29:25 +0000

I bet the polls will show overwhelming support - after 8 years of wall to wall Russian propaganda and extermination of opposition most think Putin is their savior from Fascist Ukrainians. (Source: I have relatives who still live there)

New comment by skolos in "Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? (2002)"

skolos — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:31:22 +0000

I am using a lot of Numpy and Pandas at work and hate them. When I come home I open Mathematica and enjoy every minute of it. It is much more polished, consistent and faster than anything in Python land.

The only place where Python is better if you need to share your code - not everyone has Mathematica license.

New comment by skolos in "Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux"

skolos — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 01:58:02 +0000

Without "the best" the title reads to me as that they somehow removed chunk of original Windows and replaced it with WSL. That's why I came to this topic. I thought to myself - really - so they now replacing windows code with Linux? Original title is clear and not clickbaity.

Tesla with ‘No One’ Driving Crashes in Texas, Killing Two

skolos — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:47:18 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-no-one-driving-crashes-010039334.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860070

Points: 3

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