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New comment by tudorizer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

tudorizer — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:06:29 +0000

https://lab.enverge.ai/b200-challenge/ - making high-end compute available to a few researchers, who are conscious about the impact of data centers on climate and local communities.

Win free access to a DGX B200 for 24h

tudorizer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://lab.enverge.ai/b200-challenge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134236

Points: 2

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New comment by tudorizer in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

tudorizer — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:42:04 +0000

I'm working on something that proves to be more ambitious than initially thought: pure Python notebooks + zero-emission GPUs + git = https://lab.enverge.ai

Currently struggling with an experiment where DeepSeek-R1 is being overly verbose.

New comment by tudorizer in "Periodic Table of Cognition"

tudorizer — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:48:00 +0000

There's a smell of pseudo-science here. That weird blend of interesting + plausible with sprinkles of heavy-handed parallels.

After "Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived" the level of trust fell drastically.

Sure, the periodic table was extremely useful and we were using electricity before we understood it, but we understand LLMs far better, mostly because they are our own creation.

Maybe the lines between exploration, creation and discovery are fuzzy sometimes, but this article tips over into AI propaganda.

New comment by tudorizer in "Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap""

tudorizer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:25:49 +0000

Well ... what is independent analysis? The author is not a reporter, but someone who understands business principles.

I think you got the causality the other way around here.

New comment by tudorizer in "Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap""

tudorizer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:23:48 +0000

Right, but critiquing with the right perspective is important. Statements about making a loss must contain the entire economic picture, otherwise they simply aren't true at some point.

A business can't be scrutinized unless the units of economics are understood.

New comment by tudorizer in "Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap""

tudorizer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:40:56 +0000

Most likely tickling an own itch. Also to validate/invalidate if sanity wasn't lost.

Plus, Ed's articles have been circulated in some investment groups and nobody expressed a clear counter-point.

PS. I wasn't familiar with that saying.

New comment by tudorizer in "Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap""

tudorizer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:17:08 +0000

> because the average person is bad at explaining what they want an LLM to do

Agreed. It's the saving grace for most platform which integrate LLMs even right now. Eg. v0 narrows the scope of general purpose LLMs and offers educated guides.

Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap"

tudorizer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:03:15 +0000

A lot of attention is aimed at the huge investment rounds, cash burned into training foundation models (the trillions mentioned by Sam A.) and not enough analysts explain the units of economics to understand a business.

If you wonder why investors still think it’s a good idea to part with their money, I tried to break down the economic units and long term potential how all this could make sense.

Partial TL;DR

- Cash burn is not a fair approximation for COGS. OpenAI spends mostly on R&D like a pharmaceutical company does. - ChatGPT 4o could be making more than 12.8% in gross margin. - ChatGPT OSS 120B could be making 89% gross margin. It is 90% cheaper than 4o-mini with equivalent reasoning and 3x faster inference. - ChatGPT 5's gross margin is most likely to fall between 12.8% and 89%.

Full breakdown: https://medium.com/@brenoca/openais-road-to-profitability-8c7231f8494b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45035935

Points: 6

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New comment by tudorizer in "VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]"

tudorizer — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:10:48 +0000

This video nerd-sniped me so hard. All these mechanics put a smile on my face.

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:05:26 +0000

> Boundaries and purpose

This can't be emphasized enough!

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:04:30 +0000

As long as you're not going too far down the "the hammer will start using itself" path.

Recursive feedback loops and fast pace of improvements are priced in.

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:56:42 +0000

This hammers starts sounding like Excalibur given all the mythos around it. :)

Agreed on the minimal-chargeable-bar point. The beauty arises when juniors grow.

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:01:23 +0000

I have tried quite a few and would defo agree with your conclusion. Also not fully buying the "you're holding it wrong" answers.

I point at long such lists of tools only to indicate a certain level of complexity, which will most likely fall in the realm of "oh, this is too technical for me. I should delegate this to Alice, because she good with tech". This is only shifting the problems and problems mean opportunity.

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:37:15 +0000

Absolutely.

When complexity grows and lines between boundries of what's what blur, opportunity for misunderstanding sneaks in.

We should welcome scrutiny, though.

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:32:41 +0000

If the myth of the "copy-paste dev" has any truth to it, then salaries are inflated.

On the flip-side, lists like "here are 80 agentic tools for your start-up" sounds like new opportunities for devs on quite a few dimensions, no?

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:23:09 +0000

BTW, this wasn't meant as a direct jab to your post. My post is sparked by many sources.

New comment by tudorizer in "AI Is Not a Dev"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:21:34 +0000

Tell this to junior devs who get demoralised.

Analogies have power.

New comment by tudorizer in "Ask HN: If Google will sell Chrome, is that a good thing?"

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:18:48 +0000

Depends on who this other company is and what their goal is. Perplexity? Most likely no.

Some open-source foundation? Maybe.

AI Is Not a Dev

tudorizer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:17:23 +0000

Within the single context of writing code, we've had quite a few attempts throught history to generate code. Often times within very rigid constraints.

GenAI is fits in the same space, but with extra steps, benefits and drawbacks. It's not "a junior dev". It's a new hammer.

The craftsman enjoys the new hammer, pushes its limits, nerds out about the intricacies. Tools have limits in terms of wear and tear, plus cost.

Junior devs are humans, looking to survive and flourish. They pick up new tools faster than most. The only barrier the same that has always been: access to said tools and visibility over the outcome.

What's the benefit of over-anthropomorphizing a hammer?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44950732

Points: 4

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