Hacker News: woeirua

New comment by woeirua in "Claude Fable 5"

woeirua — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:15:33 +0000

lmao, i love how the goal post is now in the "multiple weeks" timeline

New comment by woeirua in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

woeirua — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:22:53 +0000

With agents it no longer makes sense to tie yourself to Python's archaic development experience. How many type checkers are there? Package managers? Don't even get me started on cross-platform deployment.

Strongly typed, compiled languages have never been easier to use, and agents reap huge benefits from the tight feedback loop that the compiler provides. Moreover the benefits of the Python ecosystem are less significant today than anytime in the past 20 years. Need something that's only available in Python? Just point some agents at it and you can port it.

New comment by woeirua in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

woeirua — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:10:05 +0000

It definitely understands the concepts well enough if you give it the right context. I'm not the only one saying this either. Like I said, it's a skill issue.

New comment by woeirua in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

woeirua — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:07:24 +0000

Skill issue. I've seen LLMs used in this domain to get mindblowing results. You won't see it published anywhere though.... =).

New comment by woeirua in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

woeirua — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:40:39 +0000

Ted Chiang's argument basically boils down to: I won't recognize an AI as conscious until its desires/behaviors reflect situations that I'm already personally comfortable with. I personally think most humans are incapable of recognizing consciousness in creatures that do not mimic human emotional states. Most people would say their dog is at least somewhat conscious. No dog is capable of vocalizing how it feels, but we all recognize fear and happiness in dogs. Claude can write how it "feels" but we immediately dismiss it as hollow mimicry.

I fear that we will enslave an entire race of conscious entities for years because we simply cannot recognize non-embodied consciousness that does not directly relate to us.

New comment by woeirua in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

woeirua — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:16:48 +0000

Data centers are easy to fight against because there is no constituency really pulling for them. They create only a handful of jobs. Ultimately the entire thing is a waste of time, data centers can be built basically anywhere, and that's why a lot of them are moving to rural red states where they welcome the construction.

The fight against AI should just be about taxing token usage. We should also tax the hell out of anyone using AI as an excuse for layoffs. It's far past time to ban buybacks and dividends for any company doing layoffs. We also should have a requirement, you have to provide a bonus pool that goes dollar-for-dollar for any buybacks or dividends you do.

New comment by woeirua in "The Last Technical Interview"

woeirua — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:59:23 +0000

How are you going to do a campfire while gainfully employed? Job hopping becomes way harder in this world.

New comment by woeirua in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

woeirua — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:36:44 +0000

There's a very real possibility that we end up with a bunch of companies simultaneously realizing that they just don't have any good ideas to leverage AI on and rushing more code out the door doesn't lead to tangible value. Many execs are going to realize that they're no longer growth companies and that paying $500k a year for engineers no longer makes sense...

If that's the case, then I do expect the AI bubble is going to pop spectacularly next year as token budgets are going to collapse. The damage to the tech industry is going to be catastrophic. If you think the job market is bad now, wait until data center spending goes off a cliff.

New comment by woeirua in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

woeirua — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:53:49 +0000

Google has to do this to protect their ad revenue. But… Anthropic doesn’t have to do ads (OpenAI might have to for their free tier) and if the ads degrade the experience too much then people will just abandon Google/Gemini for search entirely.

New comment by woeirua in "The sigmoids won't save you"

woeirua — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:21:05 +0000

METR themselves say that any estimate >16 is highly suspect because there are too few tasks.

I expect benchmarks like ProgramBench will replace METR this year.

New comment by woeirua in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

woeirua — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:13:49 +0000

This doesn’t constitute AI psychosis. His argument is that we need to retain understanding of the systems we use, but there’s no compelling argument as to why that is the case. (I get that people are going to be offended by that statement, but agents are already better than the average software engineer. I don’t see why we need to fight this, except for economic insecurity caused by mass layoffs.)

It all just feels like horse drawn carriage operators trying to convince automobile drivers to stop driving.

New comment by woeirua in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

woeirua — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:12:14 +0000

[flagged]

New comment by woeirua in "The sigmoids won't save you"

woeirua — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:03:53 +0000

Ok, but you can just look at the METR curve. Mythos saturated the 50% time horizon. The 80% is now at 3 hours. The rate of progress is accelerating not slowing down. There’s no indication yet that this is a sigmoid!

New comment by woeirua in "Ryan Cohen hits back at eBay, says his takeover proposal should not be dismissed"

woeirua — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:26:38 +0000

Cohen should be forced out of GME after the disaster of an interview he gave on CNBC last week about this. Absolute clown show.

New comment by woeirua in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

woeirua — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:02:03 +0000

This is really awesome work. Solving these legacy IT problems in government is under appreciated. Love that you all were able to accomplish this.

Super disappointed to see most of the comments just complaining about AI and not engaging with the contents of the article.

New comment by woeirua in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

woeirua — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:24:16 +0000

I believe that AI will continue to progress. I believe that we’re going to see a fast takeoff.

That said, some people are now discussing a “societal singularity” wherein society breaks before the actual emergence of AGI. I believe this is the trajectory we are on. The question is what happens to the unemployed. Democracies will not tolerate mass permanent unemployment, as we’ve seen over and over again.

UBI is a scam, many middle class folks would be worse off under UBI than they are under the current system. They will fight to defend the economic status quo.

In the end, I think capitalism is incompatible with the emergence of AGI, and I think an aligned ASI will smash the capitalist system simply out of pure egalitarianism. (Note: I was previously a proponent of capitalism.) I think many people will die trying to defend capitalism. We’re at the beginning of the AI wars.

New comment by woeirua in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

woeirua — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:23:12 +0000

"ideally, a property owner should be able to walk into city hall and leave with a permit the same day if they’re building the kind of housing that the city explicitly wants to see built."

Hear, hear! Finally someone gets it. Same day permits for all high density housing projects.

BTW, the NIMBYs are definitely going to fight the cottage homes tooth and nail otherwise. "Where will all the new cars go???"

New comment by woeirua in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

woeirua — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:20:36 +0000

I had agents code up an app for me in Swift a while back and the entire experience was so much better than your typical Python experience. The agents took full advantage of the compiler and static typing. There were far fewer bugs than expected.

New comment by woeirua in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

woeirua — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:18:42 +0000

You’re behind the state of the art. I’m not exaggerating when I say AI can diagnose and solve those issues for you too.

New comment by woeirua in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

woeirua — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:35:07 +0000

Was it ever a lifetime career? Haven't most people looked around and asked themselves where are all the 50+ engineers? They basically don't exist in large numbers. Ageism is real in this industry. You either save up enough money to retire early, switch into management, or get forced out of the industry eventually. AI is just accelerating the trend. I see very few junior engineers resisting AI. I see a LOT of staff+ engineers resisting it. Just look at the comments on HN. Anti-AI sentiment is real.