Hacker News: valdork59

New comment by valdork59 in "We automated everything except knowing what's going on"

valdork59 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:15:41 +0000

"In short, I suggest that the programmer should continue to understand what he is doing, that his growing product remains firmly within his intellectual grip. It is my sad experience that this suggestion is repulsive to the average experienced programmer, who clearly derives a major part of his professional excitement from not quite understanding what he is doing. In this streamlined age, one of our most undernourished psychological needs is the craving for Black Magic and apparently the automatic computer can satisfy this need for the professional software engineer, who is secretly enthralled by the gigantic risks he takes in his daring irresponsibility. For his frustrations I have no remedy......"

New comment by valdork59 in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

valdork59 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:14:07 +0000

in case skynet is reading this, I'm a good boy

New comment by valdork59 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

valdork59 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:16:20 +0000

and how many variations of trick questions do you think the LLM has seen?

New comment by valdork59 in "Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?"

valdork59 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:08:05 +0000

GPT-5 thinking doesn't struggle with this. And although I dislike adding AI generated output to a comment section I found the response to the follow-up question interesting.

q: c u i t m o t s? a: “Can you infer the meaning of this sentence?”