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New comment by sumanthvepa in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

sumanthvepa — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:53:19 +0000

It's a well known problem in AI. It's called Moravec's paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

The Myth of Exponential Hypergrowth

sumanthvepa — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://longform.asmartbear.com/exponential-growth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964179

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Pedagogy in the Age of AI [video]

sumanthvepa — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2a1J0UPeL4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680585

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?"

sumanthvepa — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:36:37 +0000

We definitely need mathematicians to understand it and verify to us that the math is correct. And it takes a mathematician to even talk to the AI in a way that will be useful. There is no way I could personally get Claude Fable or Opean AI GPT 6 to generate a proof of Fermat's Theorem in LEAN. It actually take mathematical skills. And real depth to understand the work.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI"

sumanthvepa — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:21:54 +0000

I'm pretty confident that no 15 year old would have learned about void coefficients if Chernobyl hadn't happened.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

sumanthvepa — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:17:08 +0000

Well. I own my business and I really hate this attitude that some startups executives have. I want quality. Not blind speed. I want speed to be a by product of a well built product and a system that builds it. Not a bunch of slop thrown over the wall that I have to then debug and fix.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

sumanthvepa — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:38:54 +0000

Yes. China is behind on some of the crucial technology that gives the West its advantage, but this framing that the country is on the verge of collapse is just not true.

Also recreating a know technology usually takes much less time even if you don't have access to the underlying tech.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

sumanthvepa — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:01:40 +0000

Not an American, but I would argue that this level while little bit of a concern is not a huge issue for a superpower that borrows in its own currency and has the military and economic might to crush any party (sovereign or corporate) attempting move away from that system.

You guys are too powerful.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals"

sumanthvepa — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:27:46 +0000

Using Pangram to detect AI slop is a very bad idea. I tried it on my own writing which I knew to be written by me and it marked it as AI generated.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Did they ghost you?"

sumanthvepa — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:42:13 +0000

Not quite in job interviews, but when I'm selling to a client, I just ask in the interview if it is okay, if I connect with them on LinkedIn. Some say yes. Others say no.

Should work in a job interview setting as well.

It also has the benefit of giving me a signal. Usually if the interview went well, the interviewer will happily agree to be connected. If not, you'll see either a refusal or subtle body language indicating discomfort with the connection. And you can then form your own conclusions about the probability of getting an offer before the firm gets back to you (or often ghosts you.)

Use every signal your prospect gives you.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

sumanthvepa — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:40:40 +0000

Dammit! Why am I the only 'Ivy type' that cannot raise a round?!!! .

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

sumanthvepa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:31:21 +0000

Yes. While they may have been justified in firing him for not following policy, they also lost a talented engineer. (I'm sure they don't care) I would have done the intelligent thing here and looked at how the project could have been made official. But that decision would have had to been made at a very high level, maybe even the CEO, because anyone lower down would have made a narrow and parochial decision in favour of the org they were protecting, rather than in the best interests of the company.

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

sumanthvepa — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:01:45 +0000

But why would ask these people about topics they don't understand? Or they sending you unsolicited responses?

New comment by sumanthvepa in "France pulls last gold held in US"

sumanthvepa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:46:00 +0000

They purchased 129 tons of gold in Europe. Their asset position did not change: they converted cash to gold of the same value.

They then sold the 129 tons gold in the US vaults for $16 billion. That gold was originally purchased I'm guessing many decades ago for $1 billion. The have a book profit of $15 billion and still have 129 tons of gold.

They captured some of the appreciation in gold value as a realised profit on their books.

Their balance sheet did not change, just their income statement

New comment by sumanthvepa in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

sumanthvepa — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:54:44 +0000

Very true. We have a private git repository running on a server that serves as our master. Works fine for us. We backup to GitHub. But it isn't used in any way in the dev workflow

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

sumanthvepa — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:52:48 +0000

I rarely run my apps fullscreen. It's because I have multiple 4k monitors connected to the machine. Using an app even chrome or an IDE fullscreen would be too big.

But do use apps fullscreen when Im traveling. The laptop screen is too small to use chrome or vscode any other way.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "This time is different"

sumanthvepa — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:30:37 +0000

Not true. I'm a really heavy user of AI. And it's improved my productivity dramatically as a developer, but it doesn't work in every situation even in programming. I see it as an indispensible tool, but its not, right now, a tool that will replace me as a programmer or product manager or salesperson, or marketer. or (in my case) an owner and investor.

Will that happen in the future, maybe. but I don't have enough insight into how AI is evolving in the labs to make a judgement on that.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead"

sumanthvepa — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:05:53 +0000

Most VCs can't read markdown.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

sumanthvepa — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:34:07 +0000

Interesting. I required all my devs to use local VMs for development. We've saved a fair bit on cloud costs.

New comment by sumanthvepa in "What makes you senior"

sumanthvepa — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:46:25 +0000

Learn for yourself then. I run my own company and learning new stuff so I can use it in my business is one of the few joys of being the owner. No permission required to try the new hotness (And if you screw up -- you have only yourself to blame.)