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New comment by uejfiweun in "Fable situation update from David Sacks"

uejfiweun — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:59:28 +0000

I have a question. If A were to basically just release Mythos as-is, what would happen? What outcome are they so afraid of?

New comment by uejfiweun in "What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit"

uejfiweun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:49:39 +0000

This article asserts a pretty strong, contrarian thesis... and then fails to dive into it whatsoever. The "evidence" consists of one paragraph of random insults towards major tech CEOs. I have to say, I found it to be a complete waste of time with zero useful insight to provide.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

uejfiweun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:50:06 +0000

Conversational Siri - yes, absolutely. All the rest - probably not.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

uejfiweun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:46:11 +0000

All I want the ability to talk to Siri while I'm in the car. My buddy's Tesla has this feature with Grok and it's actually really awesome. Let me have an on-demand CONVERSATIONAL assistant, meaning something I'd actually want to have a conversation with.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Anthropic calls for global pause in AI development before humans lose control"

uejfiweun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:45:32 +0000

I don't disagree that theoretically there could be some kind of test ban treaty type thing. But the mere fact that the primary rhetoric we see from leaders is around "winning the AI competition with China", I personally can't help but interpret this as a sign that nobody in the US is even close to ready to come to the table ready to slow things down.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Anthropic calls for global pause in AI development before humans lose control"

uejfiweun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:48:20 +0000

How do you resolve the security dilemma? A cursory knowledge of international relations shows why a "global pause" is basically impossible, and that's to say nothing of current international conditions. These Anthropic guys are smart, and so I can't help but think that this posture is nothing more than grandstanding to build up hype and attention ahead of the IPO.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Stats from 30K AI debates: Opus 4.7 is the most influential model"

uejfiweun — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:21:56 +0000

Super cool project, thanks for sharing. Definitely conforms to my own battle-tested assessments of Opus, it's the smartest model by a long shot.

New comment by uejfiweun in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

uejfiweun — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:17:06 +0000

I wish China didn't have such a hostile government to the West. Because I'd love to buy a BYD car and see this for myself, or try the Xiaomi car that MKBHD was so keen on. But because of the hostility I kind of get why there are bans.

New comment by uejfiweun in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

uejfiweun — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:34:55 +0000

Fair enough. I'm feeling more than a bit pessimistic right now to be honest, looking at the CEOs gleefully talking about how we're gonna have to find new jobs. Hopefully the pendulum does swing the other way again.

On the dress code, for me personally, unless I'm at home in commando sweatpants and a sweatshirt, there is always a low grade cognitive tax of me being uncomfortable in the garb that society deems acceptable to wear in an office. And I'm one of the lucky ones, I can wear khakis and a polo. My heart goes out to those poor Wall Street guys who are stuck in suits all day.

New comment by uejfiweun in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

uejfiweun — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:07:33 +0000

Office work removes corporate friction at the expense of personal friction (commuting, dress codes, etc), while WFH removes personal friction at the expense of corporate fiction in the way you've just described. It's an interesting dichotomy. Given who the power lies with in our society, I think we all know which one will win out in the long run.

New comment by uejfiweun in "How Sam Altman fooled Sundar Pichai and pushed Google into cannibalizing itself"

uejfiweun — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:55:03 +0000

This has got to be the most thin, vague, stupid article I've ever read. It doesn't go into specifics whatsoever, and just retreads the same points people have been saying since 2023. A complete waste of time and I wish I hadn't read it.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

uejfiweun — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:45:17 +0000

I think you're just wrong on this. Stadia did flop, but that's a Google problem, not a tech problem. I play online games with multiple people who only play through GeForce Now, and they've never complained. Especially in an era of increasing hardware prices, this is just gonna grow.

Also, do you know much about the games space? There's an enormous difference between a live service game, and a cloud game streaming platform.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

uejfiweun — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:01:28 +0000

Yeah, absolutely. I feel like we've replaced "deep work" with constant context switching, breakages, and friction. I got into this line of work in order to go deep and build cool stuff, but now the vast majority of my day-to-day is spent fighting against interfaces. Couple this with unreasonable expectations from the man and yeah, my dev job is leaving me more exhausted than ever.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

uejfiweun — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:56:57 +0000

Unfortunately, we don't experience creative destruction in abstract terms like reading about it in a history textbook. Most people are really just focused on their own lives. Losing their job AND the economic value of their skills is nothing short of a disaster. I don't think telling them "relax, eventually you'll be able to switch over to entirely new categories of employment!" is really going to strike the chord you're looking for.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

uejfiweun — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:49:57 +0000

Prediction: it's not gonna be worthless for games. This is what's gonna make cloud gaming really take off. True, you can't use these as desktop GPUs, but they can be installed in data centers for purposes of video game streaming rather than AI.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Claude Opus 4.8"

uejfiweun — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:20:49 +0000

Yesssss dude!

Claude Opus 4.7 is literally the smartest entity I've ever interacted with. Well done to you geniuses at Anthropic. Can't wait to interact with 4.8.

New comment by uejfiweun in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

uejfiweun — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:58:55 +0000

I use DDG but the problem I have with it is that, well, the results just kind of suck. I have slowly used the "!g" operator more and more over the years to the point that now probably 95% of my DDG searches are just Google searches.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

uejfiweun — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:28:06 +0000

The thing I don't get though, is that most people just don't have that much work they need to do. I can use AI to pretty easily get my work done just via the regular chat interfaces. But because of the tokenmaxxing metrics that leadership tracks, I end up just having the AI deliberate for hours on random things just so that I can boost my token numbers. I think tokenmaxxing for the end goal you described is only realistic when the engineers are truly buried under a backlog of work.

New comment by uejfiweun in "Beating DeepMind AlphaEvolve [video]"

uejfiweun — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:04:31 +0000

This kid is about to get a $100m offer from Zuck, isn't he?

Ask HN: How can you have fun doing corporate dev work in the age of AI tools?

uejfiweun — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:03:19 +0000

My company, like many others, is heavily pushing agentic dev tools, putting up token usage leaderboards, etc.

My problem is that corporate SWE work was already boring enough. You already had no say in the product or UX. This was compensated for by the ability to enter a fun "flow state" during implementation work, just working deeply on a problem for many hours and watching time slip by, having lots of schedule flexibility.

Now, with AI tools, this seems totally gone. All that's left is constant context switching while you manage multiple agents and wait for them to complete at nondeterministic times. That, and increased expectations because "AI increases productivity", AKA more stress and more meetings.

I have to say - AI tools have made solo and small group building 5x more fun... but it has made corporate dev work 5x less fun. All my favorite parts of the job are gone and all that's left is the stuff I hate.

Is anyone actually having FUN out there in a corporate dev role with these tools? Is anyone actually reaching that flow state? Because I certainly am not.

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