Hacker News: swader999

New comment by swader999 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

swader999 — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:43:29 +0000

Fair points. I notice it's not hiding as much from me as earlier versions. It's telling me exactly where it has gaps, where someone might be critical of what it did. Then it's easy for me to adjust. Before it used to lie or just not tell me. Feels like it is acting more like a senior that has enough game and credibility to just tell it like it is. It's noticable in only a few long prompts so far.

New comment by swader999 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

swader999 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:42:27 +0000

I think we could run for at least a decade further with no model changes/improvements, just better harnesses and infra around this agentic way of developing.

New comment by swader999 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

swader999 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:39:45 +0000

Used it for a couple of long running prompts so far. Had to restart one that bonked on API errors. Of note, I really like the straight forward candor its using. 'More honest' than previous models is playing out in what its saying to me. Telling me straight up where it failed, where gaps are. I like it so far.

New comment by swader999 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

swader999 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:14:10 +0000

Just swap 'Honesty' with 'correctness in its claims' and you'll get what you need out of this aspect of the model description.

New comment by swader999 in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

swader999 — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:05:27 +0000

"An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees." Like physically, how could this even happen?

New comment by swader999 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

swader999 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:36:17 +0000

The implication that this somehow weakens Alberta’s constitutional status is false. Alberta is a full province under the Constitution of Canada with the same constitutional standing as the other provinces.

The Supreme Court has already ruled that Canada and other provinces would be obligated to negotiate terms of separation should a province ever vote to leave in a clear referendum.

Yes, support for leaving is probably at 10-20%. Just having the referendum will build the infrastructure and political machinery for keeping it alive for a long time from the first try. I live here and I'm not a fan of Smith for encouraging it at all.

New comment by swader999 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

swader999 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:56 +0000

We already have a clause in our constitution to allow for orderly withdrawal from Canada. We'd have to resolve the first Nations angle which would probably be more of a hurdle.

New comment by swader999 in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

swader999 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:32:25 +0000

I'm finding sound judgment, common sense, technical depth and breadth, a feel for the UX are skills that amplify Agentic coding. Deep knowledge of the problem domain and time with the customer (or SME's or end users) are what build these. Outsourcing this will never work, you can't put someone 12 hours ahead of the timezone your serving in front of the customer.

New comment by swader999 in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

swader999 — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:26:21 +0000

It is a clever title. It would be funny to have an April fool sounding hook but backed by a legit project.

New comment by swader999 in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

swader999 — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:09:46 +0000

Good April 1 article.

New comment by swader999 in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

swader999 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:24:22 +0000

They are already separate first nations not joined to Canada or Alberta. I don't understand why Alberta not wanting to participate in Federalism anymore is an issue.

New comment by swader999 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

swader999 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:13:13 +0000

On one hand, there's nothing new under the sun. On the other, these llms are just copies of us and they owe the collective some due. The trajectory right now has money, power, control, policy and even free will going to a very small needle point of humanity. It's not aligned with humanity flourishing, it only makes sense if the goal is to replace the humans.

New comment by swader999 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

swader999 — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:08:07 +0000

Everyone forgets that Amazon, Google, eBay had tens of competitors at the time. We only remember the winners.

New comment by swader999 in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

swader999 — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:56:40 +0000

Or upgrade their Tesla to that bio hazard filtration level

New comment by swader999 in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

swader999 — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:45:48 +0000

Are they included in the training too? Gee I hope so!

New comment by swader999 in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

swader999 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:14:50 +0000

It will be just fine to see other tools like opencode and pi and other models flourish as subscription benefits get increasingly nerfed.

New comment by swader999 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

swader999 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:06:23 +0000

It's it fear or anger?

New comment by swader999 in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

swader999 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:31:54 +0000

I think your last half remains to be determined.

New comment by swader999 in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

swader999 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:23:33 +0000

People need to start yelling, throwing things and publicly mocking execs that do this. What is wrong with you all? I do this (except the throwing) and I get nothing but respect. If you've been a good little soldier for years, done nothing but deliver and then you raise your ire people will listen.

If you can't change your company, change your company!

New comment by swader999 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 rav4 hybrid"

swader999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:45:29 +0000

If you get into enough trouble they'll get all your phone data and cell tower pings or your passenger's.