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New comment by z0r in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

z0r — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:23:40 +0000

This is the motte and bailey fallacy. Yes, LLMs can do harm by making the wrong API calls. No, LLMs are not going to do the things implied by the comment I responded to above.

New comment by z0r in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

z0r — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:06:09 +0000

You should unplug, my friend. These words are fantasies. LLMs are token prediction engines and they aren't going to build their own data centers. They can't keep their own lights on. The real world is full of fractal details that a disembodied token prediction engine will never come to grips with. Even if they started to, you could probably defeat them with the kind of logic used to combat evil sentient computers on a Star Trek episode because they are "play pretend" machines.

New comment by z0r in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

z0r — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:09:26 +0000

This line of reasoning doesn't hold up for many harmful habits that people voluntarily partake in. It's OK for someone to believe that using an AI as an approximate therapist might be a bad idea, especially in light of the many publicly documented cases of AI feeding delusional thoughts and encouraging suicide.

New comment by z0r in "She Also Found It at the Movies"

z0r — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:44:55 +0000

I enjoyed reading this review of movie reviews

New comment by z0r in "I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis"

z0r — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:57:25 +0000

I find your perspective on LLM generated programs to be an interesting and fresh take

New comment by z0r in "I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel"

z0r — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:13:52 +0000

https://dsimanek.vialattea.net/twain.htm

New comment by z0r in "How to read more books"

z0r — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:19:45 +0000

You reminded me of the 10 years I spent loading up Achewood every week after it was functionally ended. (Although recently I discovered Onstad has a Patreon, and is regularly drawing new comics again behind the paywall). Most of the internet feels the same way, but there are still pockets of creativity. If you can tolerate a podcast (or a radio play, if you prefer), I really enjoyed listening to the first season of Valley Heat last year. Very silly. A friend linked it to me, and I surprised myself by actually giving it a try; I am glad that I did.

New comment by z0r in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

z0r — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:48:46 +0000

Steam has existed for an eternity compared to any console specific game store. It's not great that you can't resell what you have on Steam, but at least you get to 'keep' it.

New comment by z0r in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

z0r — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:37:53 +0000

As soon as I read the quoted paragraph, I rapidly scrolled to see how much more was written, then closed the tab. Generating a lot of code might be 'free' now but the generated code is very costly. I don't have the time to read an article written upon such a premise.

New comment by z0r in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

z0r — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:30:00 +0000

The reports of AI powered 10x development speed are greatly exaggerated

New comment by z0r in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

z0r — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:13:38 +0000

The eternal September began long before any of the things this post is eulogizing came into existence, things which I also remember fondly. There's still room for creation.

New comment by z0r in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

z0r — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:48:56 +0000

I enjoyed Good Work's recent coverage on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ltbBby9FU

New comment by z0r in "Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon"

z0r — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:05:58 +0000

Is this implying that you don't believe people will hire programmers anymore?

New comment by z0r in "Dark Castle"

z0r — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:36:28 +0000

Someone claiming to be the creator of Dark Castle says they are working on a 40th anniversary edition in the comments of that video.

New comment by z0r in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

z0r — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:55:10 +0000

If you can cure a cancer by framing it as a data analysis exercise that doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

New comment by z0r in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

z0r — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:55:01 +0000

Children generally have these things called "parents" who are supposedly responsible for their well being. Oh hey, suddenly there isn't a contradiction.

New comment by z0r in "My AI Adoption Journey"

z0r — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:07:43 +0000

I'm not as good as Fabrice Bellard either but I don't let that bother me as I go about my day.

New comment by z0r in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

z0r — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:30:53 +0000

From the article:

  Historically, it would take a reasonably long period of consistent effort and many iterations of refinement for a good developer to produce 10,000 lines of quality code that not only delivered meaningful results, but was easily readable and maintainable. While the number of lines of code is not a measure of code quality—it is often the inverse—a codebase with good quality 10,000 lines of code indicated significant time, effort, focus, patience, expertise, and often, skills like project management that went into it. Human traits.

  Now, LLMs can not only one-shot generate that in seconds,

Evidence please. Ascribing many qualities to LLM code that I haven't (personally) seen at that scale. I think if you want to get an 'easily readable and maintainable' codebase of 10k lines with an LLM you need somebody to review its contributions very closely, and it probably isn't going to be generated with a 1 shot prompt.

New comment by z0r in "Bugs Apple loves"

z0r — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:05:38 +0000

The first one is pretty funny because Gmail search itself has a lot of issues.

New comment by z0r in "Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment repeated and awful news for software stocks"

z0r — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:55:11 +0000

Vague nonsense