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New comment by whattheheckheck in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:42:12 +0000

Its been 10 years of historical abuse. You're a battered spouse in a bad relationship with the most audacious narcissist that has ever lived.

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:12:47 +0000

What's the actual antidote to this? 5calls.org?

New comment by whattheheckheck in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:18:28 +0000

He was bragging about having a ti calculator in the 80s was seen as cool in that "interview" he filmed with Steve bannon

New comment by whattheheckheck in "How a new DSL may survive in the era of LLMs"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:30:25 +0000

Is pandas a DSL for dataframes or a library?

Beware https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple...

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Trying to fix complicated problems"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:18:54 +0000

Danield Schmattenberger made a distinction between complicated problems and complex problems as the difference between a highly technical blueprint of a deterministic machine vs something more like a nonlinear dynamical system that feeds into or models itself.

Additionally there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

So get cracking tokenmaxxers

New comment by whattheheckheck in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:13:17 +0000

How would you even be able to recognize the proof is valid? Or its own proof that it understands its own proof.... This ain't the future

New comment by whattheheckheck in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:12:17 +0000

Except medicine is 1000x older than software engineering as a field

New comment by whattheheckheck in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

whattheheckheck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:32:27 +0000

Let's see their private journals, private conversations, messages to peers, all meetings and every side conversation, and then tell me its unintentional.

Thats incredibly infuriating to hear someone say.

Obviously no one is absolute control of everything but physics is essentially shows nothing other than information determinism. There has to have been a thought of intention in the minds of these people as they play in the largest arena publicly.

"No one is doing it intentionally because I think theyre dumber then I think other people think they are"

"They're taking advantage of people intentionally"

"People dont have political power to do anything about their victory laps"

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

whattheheckheck — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:10:43 +0000

What a fun system we have set up and continue to be trapped in

New comment by whattheheckheck in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

whattheheckheck — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:56:27 +0000

What is the gold that were all mining for?

Ah yes higher fidelity, external stimulus + human response tuples to feed the ad revenue machine

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

whattheheckheck — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:50:30 +0000

Yeah has anyone discovered sociocracy?

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

whattheheckheck — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:47:36 +0000

What does he say

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Doing nothing at work"

whattheheckheck — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:09:14 +0000

Business will take everything you give. Theyre bean counters will be always calculating when it costs more to hire and onboard a new dev than to let you take your time....

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

whattheheckheck — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:08:11 +0000

Yes my bad I even checked it in the calculator but then typed in .01 again but added % again. I meant to do it to serve as an example of how bad humans are at thing.... right...

Yes 1%

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

whattheheckheck — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:06:31 +0000

Idk one of his yt video presentations was saying we're entering a "designer" age of the universe

https://youtu.be/ThFq87Rp21s?si=SrKj72_X8bjnB6ED

Around 35min mark

New comment by whattheheckheck in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

whattheheckheck — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:26:23 +0000

Bad for society

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

whattheheckheck — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:52:02 +0000

Anecdotal.

13 million swe roles with .01% is 130,000 compromised devices.

Process problem

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Doing nothing at work"

whattheheckheck — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:54:47 +0000

You can say no thats too much work load, we're understaffed or its too tight of a timeliness for the results.

But understand the ecosystem. People make promises that arent entirely dependent on them to be able to deliver

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

whattheheckheck — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:11:44 +0000

Yeah take the gpu rental cost, what it can run, how many tokens per second come out and see the true rate per token. Plus the margin on harness special sauce

New comment by whattheheckheck in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

whattheheckheck — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:03:18 +0000

The cheap models may ask subpar questions leading to subpar solutions