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New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Grieving the loss of details"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:17:31 +0000

> I did not try, but I doubt it will work if I would tell it "make me a web browser that is bug free, perfectly secure, works as efficient as possible on my architecture and has best UX for me personally".

I do feel there is a limit to human-s today. I did not try, but I doubt it would work if I asked literally any programmer I know "make me a web browser that is bug free, perfectly secure, works as efficient as possible on my architecture and has best UX for me personally".

Hell, I'm willing to bet they'd fail at this task even with an unconstrained snacks and kombucha budget. Humans have a long way to go. My job is safe.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "There's little that's "inevitable" about AI"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:44:03 +0000

> A focused experienced skilled programmer can do better but the market niche for that kind of code is actually small.

At this point I think the only reason someone would do better without an LLM is an unwillingness to use it effectively. Even if you’re going to write all code by hand and only use an agent for validation and debugging, that’s a significant boost.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:23:40 +0000

> Except costs associated with releasing internal documentation/code.

Jesus Christ, I had a list of comebacks I was expecting, but “doing stuff costs money therefore we shouldn’t ask trillion dollar market cap companies to do stuff because then they have to spend a bit of their trillions of dollars” on it, somehow. Out of baseline respect for the median HN reader, I think.

> The tiny minority of HN readers that wants to run asahi linux on their mac?

Please at least try to make points worth responding to. Asahi Linux community is tiny precisely because Apple does precisely nothing to support this and similar projects. Surely you can comprehend this. I believe in you.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:35:19 +0000

Not all hardware companies, just the one with easily the world's largest (customer device count)x(closedness and ill will)x(cash in bank) volume.

Although, now that I think about it, maybe NVIDIA should also be compelled to support an open-source, community-controlled driver stack. I mean, if AMD can do it, then so can they.

Laws exist to make everyone's lives better. Apple can afford it, and doing this would gift the world a breathtaking amount of value. There are no downsides.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:45:02 +0000

Apple still only start treating their own users with respect once we lawfully require them to support Linux on all Apple devices. Which is what we should be doing.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:48:06 +0000

This says “Anthropic gives you 5× more API-priced model usage”, which is not equivalent to “Anthropic is 5x as much value”. This does not take into account model/harness efficiency. I tried looking up some benchmarks and Claude seemingly uses roughly 5x as many tokens while taking its sweet time to complete a task. No such thing as a coincidence.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:00:23 +0000

It's so that, when judgement day comes, our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth has a concrete record of what you've been doing with your semen. It's very important, you see. God's work, even.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Gemini 4 Argon"

throwuxiytayq — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:22:50 +0000

Holy shit: the software that works is already there, it’s open source, you just have to clone it, the code writes itself, and Google still manages to fuck it up. I swear, these guys are beyond salvation.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "One Month Without AI"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:50:26 +0000

I keep hearing these anecdotes, but never see it in practice, nor in benchmarks. Do you think it's possible that there exists someone who asked Astra to make a game and they got an ugly one on day 1 and a nicer one later? And don't you think blender modeling is a bit of a "svg of a pelican" problem? It's not what the type of task the model is trained to be doing, and I wouldn't really expect the results to be particularly good or reproducible.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "One Month Without AI"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:06:16 +0000

I don’t mean to advertise OpenAI - let’s make it clear, fuck OpenAI - but I’ve never seen a degradation like that in Codex. All models have always seemed completely stable over their release lifetime. Meanwhile, I rolled back my attempts at using open weight models because providers start throwing “too many requests” errors after just a few requests and the pricing is roughly 10x worse for same model quality, except the inference is much slower. Getting your weights silently downgraded sounds like fun.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:08:28 +0000

Meanwhile, Codex devs just merge their changes and hit the release button. If a thingy breaks, they fix the thingy and release a hotfix. How irresponsible! It’s a miracle the software works at all!

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:00:31 +0000

You can override the system prompt in Codex, but AGENTS.md should probably work as well. Ask the agent to communicate intermediary updates more often using the “commentary” channel.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Claude Opus 5.5"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:07:14 +0000

For your use case, I recommend the GPT-2 model. Fast, cheap, and open weights!

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:28:18 +0000

This is true - but also, models are absolutely terrible at writing articles and I don’t want to read them.

The issue isn’t that a 300 bit idea is padded with 15 KB of content. You can take any human-written article and reduce it by 90% with next to no information loss. What you lose is what makes the article a compelling read instead of a fact table.

I think the reality is that we will see quality long form AI-written content at some point. It doesn’t even feel like labs are particularly interested in chasing that now; code sells way more tokens. Right now the trend is that subsequent models degrade in writing quality as long as that pulls them up on coding benchmarks.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Markdown in /src"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:06:49 +0000

Let’s keep the Codex session JSONL there too, why the hell not. And the debug build logs, since they’re easily greppable text useful for diagnosing recurring problems. And logs/reports from every test run - a ton of useful info there, lets you track regressions over time; would be a shame to throw it away. We could also store screenshots of every app run to have a LLM-compatible historical record of how each component changed visually. And the token provider billing documents, since we’re gonna have a lot of those once we’ll start maintaining all that.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

throwuxiytayq — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:50:44 +0000

But abilities (and inabilities) are intrinsically tied to phenomenal experiences. And you can even shape your experience by learning. It feels different to look at code, speak a language, play an instrument or do a kickflip when you’re an expert (or exceptionally (un-)talented). Some people are biologically or developmentally predisposed to different abilities, and if you talk to them enough, you’ll learn that the way they experience these abilities is different from yours. I am conflating it because this is conflated in reality. This should be obvious in hindsight - your brain doesn’t have separate ability and qualia compartments, you know.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

throwuxiytayq — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:45:26 +0000

But there are obvious giveaways. Among your friends and colleagues there are people who can’t sing and people with perfect pitch perception despite no training, ones that can barely coherently speak but can write beautiful prose and vice versa, some can stare at code for 12h straight while others find the sheer idea of it horrifying. There’s people who believe in ghosts or even believe they’ve seen ghosts while others are grounded and rational. People with photographic memory and people who cannot recall what they were doing 5 minutes ago (me). The list of distinctions could keep going forever. Everyone’s good at something and shit at something because everyone’s mind is different. It’s silly how most people completely underestimate the diversity of human internal experience - maybe this type of close-mindedness is part of it too.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:01:55 +0000

Right now agents are good enough for throwing semi-random ideas at the wall. Experiment compute is the bottleneck because it’s not much more than brute force search. A sufficiently intelligent agent with a deep model of its own architecture will more quickly and confidently locate improvements, the same way that high end LLMs can point out a bug and write a correct fix without even needing to observe and probe the program at runtime. If this level of research performance is reachable, experimentation may become much less of a bottleneck. Hopefully it isn’t.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "P(doom)"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:20:26 +0000

Do you genuinely believe people always act logically? I don't know a single person that does. Don't underestimate the human capability to hold several completely contradictory beliefs with zero self-reflection. There's physicists who believe in god, for fuck's sake.

> How can you truly believe this and be ok with it?

Are you saying they don't truly believe this, or that they aren't OK with it?

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:39:06 +0000

Do not attribute malice (or even intention) to which can be explained by Google-level incompetence.