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The Retirement Machine: AI, high earners, and the risk to global stock markets

te_chris — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schroders.com/en-gb/uk/intermediary/insights/the-retirement-machine-ai-high-earners-and-the-hidden-risk-to-global-stock-markets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266763

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New comment by te_chris in "What Is Gridifcation"

te_chris — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:01:52 +0000

Man fuck that. Audio engineers lost their minds snapping all these live performances. One thing to make dance music on the grid but a live high school band?

New comment by te_chris in "Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor"

te_chris — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:29:49 +0000

I looked at the code a year ago and decided I will always avoid it.

New comment by te_chris in "What shall I teach my son?"

te_chris — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:30:00 +0000

The research is sound and comprehensive. Validate someone’s emotions then try and fix the problem.

New comment by te_chris in "What shall I teach my son?"

te_chris — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:16:43 +0000

As the parent of a 4 year old, we're allowed to raise them to be mini us until the tell us otherwise, then we can respectfully disengage. Sharing things we're good at and enthusiastic about only helps kindle their enthusiasm for things in general, in my experience.

New comment by te_chris in "Programming Isn't Special"

te_chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:59:07 +0000

You didn't read the article. He literally talked about the essence of art being the dutiful practice of the mundane as the only reliable path to brilliance.

New comment by te_chris in "Evolving programming languages in the AI era"

te_chris — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:30:12 +0000

I’ve reimplemented some python science code into rust using LLMs and it absolutely works well if you setup the criteria for done. In my case it was GIS-ish code so a key requirement was identical in/out pairs at 10k points across CONUS. It worked, and when it didn’t it showed up bugs that the agent would go and research, read up on other implementations, then try again.

Net result faster (10-70x) and massively lower memory footprint. Now we’ve got a service that can do something essentially instantly that most people wouldn’t have even bothered to try before.

New comment by te_chris in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

te_chris — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:19:58 +0000

I think coding is done, as a trade practice. But a lot of jobs have sucked for a while anyway - endless api glue, js tedium.

There’s now a chance to do more with software.

I actually think art is safe. The machines don’t value it but we do. There’s something in that.

New comment by te_chris in "Claude is a Contrarian"

te_chris — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:02:35 +0000

Yes, definitely load bearing.

New comment by te_chris in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

te_chris — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:38:28 +0000

Yes I agree. I got it to vibe up a simple react router app. When it crashed it was obvious that it had totally swallowed all errors in the name of a tidy error page. Getting it to re-add logs and debuggable errors was an exercise in patience as astra just got more and more tweaked while trying to solve the problem.

From an alignment perspective I’ve got no idea who it’s aligned to but it isn’t me, the meat proxy, who just wants to know why it crashed.

New comment by te_chris in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

te_chris — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:04:23 +0000

Public libraries pay for their books

New comment by te_chris in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

te_chris — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:53:50 +0000

Proust. In search of lost time (caveat I’m halfway through book one) is a story in which almost nothing happens but it is described exquisitely.

New comment by te_chris in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

te_chris — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:03:20 +0000

Because it’s a port of a scientific process and that’s what the scientists work in.

New comment by te_chris in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

te_chris — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:15:46 +0000

This, 100%. I’ve rewritten some hydrology code in rust using codex sol to first a) profile and create comprehensive tests of the python, b) create full benchmark suites, c) create full scientific benchmark suites, then d) port to rust using a few different techniques.

It works, it’s at least 5x faster, sometimes much more, and memory use is like 10x less and even less in cases where lots of map tiles are involved.

This shit rules.

What I’m wondering now is can we reliably evolve python and have codex act as an extremely unreliable transpiler to the rust.

New comment by te_chris in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

te_chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:49:44 +0000

Well, I can tell you this is making me actively reconsider dropping duckdb for ch as we go from prototype to prod

New comment by te_chris in "Software for One"

te_chris — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:37:45 +0000

No, it’s a plague on anxious, over-optimised middle class parents.

The idea that someone can send over a schedule in advance is pure voodoo. Much like huckleberry, the ml app that makes new parents insane over wake windows.

New comment by te_chris in "Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore"

te_chris — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:12:40 +0000

This is a lovely piece of writing. Well done.

New comment by te_chris in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

te_chris — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:35:43 +0000

“What it is today”.

Oh, glad we managed to not miss out on the 2-sided ai slop panopticon

New comment by te_chris in "The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm"

te_chris — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:53:14 +0000

It’s great and the deep compiler integration means with a skill the agents write it well

New comment by te_chris in "The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed"

te_chris — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:49:42 +0000

I think there's a secondary competitor to certain types of process-SaaS like Vanta for smaller orgs: a smart Fractional (CISO, in the compliance case) paired with good AI. The purchaser gets proper human judgement, and you can handle the record-keeping bit with an ai-enabled DB like notion.