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New comment by wonnage in "The End of Rationing"

wonnage — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:30:14 +0000

Maybe OP can explain why with unlimited tokens neither OAI nor Anthropic have any first party apps other than the main Claude/chatgpt apps

There are only so many rust migrations you can do, at some point you gotta ship something user visible which means you have to deal with people which means the code was never the bottleneck even in 2014

New comment by wonnage in "Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally"

wonnage — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:27:17 +0000

> If a ghost is close (nearest_ghost_distance small, " "within 2 steps), choose flee_ghost. Otherwise choose " "chase_dot to eat the nearest dot."

Dude, this is AI psychosis. Just ask the LLM to write you a program (“compile”) and then you can run it locally forever

New comment by wonnage in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"

wonnage — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:16:43 +0000

They’re not fundamentally different at all. In fact the paper is using existing models as a backbone and just providing a shortcut between the two ends of the pipeline

New comment by wonnage in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

wonnage — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:04:36 +0000

Pass the blunt my guy

New comment by wonnage in "Why We're Banning AI"

wonnage — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:41:14 +0000

Maybe AI can help you read the article first

New comment by wonnage in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

wonnage — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:54:29 +0000

If we’re learning anything from the past 15 years it’s probably not to extrapolate AI progress in a straight line.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/godfat...

Progress is spiky and not guaranteed. The capital costs have also ballooned to the point where the rate has to level out

New comment by wonnage in "Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones"

wonnage — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:49:58 +0000

The vibe coded crap fills the same niche as the consonant slop brands on Amazon

New comment by wonnage in "Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)"

wonnage — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:00:25 +0000

I’m confused, so now that he is considered influential in the fields he lacked credentials for how is that in any way a negative

Unless you think those fields were scientifically rigorous until they decided to adopt his ideas?

Maybe you just disagree with the existence of “male gaze”

New comment by wonnage in "Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation"

wonnage — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:20:18 +0000

This comment is a joke about how Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code) boasted that “coding is solved” and immediately received the expected mockery/screenshots of bugs in Claude Code. He replies to one of them “Coding is solved, bugs are not yet solved. Fix incoming”

New comment by wonnage in "Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine"

wonnage — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:24:15 +0000

> If AI conjures up a cocktail to cure cancer and we don't know how it works, but it passes a phase 3 trial, you can bet we will be on our knees thanking it, or more likely giving a standing ovation at our plenary session.

Ironic that his vaccine skepticism evaporates when there’s an opportunity to be contrarian. Or maybe he’s changed his mind now that the overwhelming evidence of the Covid vaccines proves he was full of shit

New comment by wonnage in "Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation"

wonnage — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:00:51 +0000

Go ask the man himself

https://x.com/bcherny/status/2090649326032945591

New comment by wonnage in "Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation"

wonnage — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:57:58 +0000

corollary: coding is solved, bugs are not solved

New comment by wonnage in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

wonnage — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:27:27 +0000

I think the effect is twofold - spend/pupil tends to benefit poorer students more (diminishing returns), so a good school in a poor neighborhood needs more $$ to achieve equivalent outcomes. And then the lower property tax revenue in the poorer neighborhood makes it harder to sustain that higher spend

New comment by wonnage in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

wonnage — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:13:11 +0000

Even "bad" schools use this strategy to move some of the "good" kids into special programs, etc. to raise their average scores. Which makes the remaining classes even worse. It's an eternal struggle between raising the floor vs raising the ceiling

It's also a feedback loop, once you're known for "good schools" then the homes become more expensive. If you don't care about moving then it's often cheaper to buy a home to send your kid to a good public school vs. sending them to private school.

New comment by wonnage in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

wonnage — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:01:23 +0000

The common perception is that OAI/Anthropic are pumping up their hype before they unload on retail in their IPOs

New comment by wonnage in "Decisions API is in public beta"

wonnage — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:36:17 +0000

The only way they can get lock in is with the data. Right now it’s like a return to the early Web 2.0 days where everyone had an API. You hook the harness up to Slack, Gmail, GitHub, etc. so it can do work.

And like Web 2.0 I’m sure the day will come where the walled gardens return. All the old SaaS companies are starting to charge for agentic access. Proportionally more of the AI budget will go to them instead of the model providers, who are still stuck in this price war

New comment by wonnage in "Decisions API is in public beta"

wonnage — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:23:09 +0000

It’s interesting that both companies have fully embraced agentic development with unlimited token budgets and yet still can’t expand beyond the original core products

All of those companies that naive HNers used to say they could code in a weekend literally can be coded in a weekend now, so why haven’t they?

If enterprise is the goal they’re really at the whims of the old school software companies because they own no data of their own. Imagine Google decides to push Gemini one day and now ChatGPT can’t write docs anymore.

New comment by wonnage in "Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness"

wonnage — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:24:38 +0000

Might as well be questions for believers in flat-earth

New comment by wonnage in "The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?"

wonnage — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:46:07 +0000

Projects were already doing this by making you jump through hoops to submit an issue. It filters out the low effort chaff. I think asking for people (instead of their agents) to submit reports is on the same level.

New comment by wonnage in "The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding"

wonnage — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:15:40 +0000

“Solved” = roughly back on par with 4.8. This is like Apple rolling back the butterfly keyboard and telling you it’s the best keyboard yet