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New comment by stAInley in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

stAInley — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:20:52 +0000

This reply is not directed to you specifically, but that attitude is why improvement doesn't happen.

"My peers are all bad", "Management has no idea what's going on", "My boss is out of touch", "My staff keep screwing up".

But if you're consistently seeing the problems while everyone else becomes defensive, you (that think that way) need to learn how to communicate effectively in a way that doesn't result in being 'the baddie' and solve the interpersonal dynamic along with the technical problems. "Crucial Conversations" is a good place to start.

New comment by stAInley in "No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s"

stAInley — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:38:59 +0000

My first computer from the 80's had autocomplete: ZX80.

Was only BASIC, but needed as there wasn't any way to save...

New comment by stAInley in "UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction"

stAInley — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:41:22 +0000

Sure, but visa and mastercard share their transactions with the US government (among others). "Hot Watch": where the US gov gets real time surveillance on a target. Bank Secrecy Act: where private networks and their issuing banks are legally mandated to act as unpaid deputies for the state. At least with UPI you're sharing with less governments?

New comment by stAInley in "Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?"

stAInley — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:07:19 +0000

You missed the AI generated graphic to go with the post.

New comment by stAInley in "I Still Live in the Terminal"

stAInley — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:49:26 +0000

> Text is the universal interface

The nipple is the universal interface. Everything else is an abstraction.

Show HN: Building effective Human-AI hybrid decision-making ecosystem

stAInley — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:19:29 +0000

I'm running an experiment to discover ways to move AI agents from "instruction followers" to "process owners". Most agents fail when a task requires evolving intuition or persistent, multi-day workflows.

The core of this experiment is a collaborative "do-and-learn" loop where the agent executes a proven, high-stakes lead generation methodology, and the human provides the "judgment" layer.

This is an ambitious experiment exploring a few points:

Judgment vs. Execution: Humans learn good judgment through direct experience, failures, and working through problems. If we offload the doing to an agent, how do we build human-level judgment in the loop? Recursive Skill Building: Moving beyond simple Chain-of-Thought or generic skills. Can an agent document, refine, and store their own processes as they execute based on feedback? Training via Methodology: Using a proven, multi-million dollar revenue lead-generation methodology as the training data to see if an agent can move from instruction-follower to process-owner.

I’d love feedback on the architecture of the agent loops and how others are handling the "education" of their agents in complex, multi-day task or research cycles.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48127744

Points: 2

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Secure AI and Agent Coding Policy

stAInley — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://galdren.com/secure-ai-agent-coding-policy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969265

Points: 1

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New comment by stAInley in "Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories"

stAInley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:16:33 +0000

Comes down to what is meant by 'friendly'.

Is it friendly to tell someone they've got spinach in their teeth? Is it friendly to agree with everything someone says? Is it friendly to ask about someones dead parents? Is it friendly to insult? Is it friendly to talk around a personal issue, never stating the obvious?