Hacker News: zaphirplane

New comment by zaphirplane in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

zaphirplane — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:13:34 +0000

Are there real acknowledgments cases of multiple companies coming together to bribe some state level people to increase their profit and splitting the bribe across the companies? Like GM, BNW and Honda coming together bribing and splitting the bill. Seems unlikely thou there was a RAM price fixing agreement caught but then again they were caught cause of the number of people aware

New comment by zaphirplane in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

zaphirplane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:12:51 +0000

rewrite SAS, salesforce or SAP, will never have the breadth and business know how

New comment by zaphirplane in "My Software North Star"

zaphirplane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:06:55 +0000

Everything we do is about anticipation, from cooking to walking to driving. You maybe thinking 100% or nothing

New comment by zaphirplane in "My Software North Star"

zaphirplane — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:52:20 +0000

What does nothing matter mean thou ? The extrapolation is very plausible outcome thou

New comment by zaphirplane in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

zaphirplane — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:40:41 +0000

That’s just not economically viable. Even if it becomes viable after some singularity event the path there will be 1000 the upheaval seen during the wipe out of manufacturing and mining

New comment by zaphirplane in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

zaphirplane — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:33:11 +0000

How strange or at least unintuitive. Buying should be cheaper than creating for a customer of 1

New comment by zaphirplane in "How LLMs work"

zaphirplane — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:03:34 +0000

But … how close a simulation is it. I can see why people are wondering

New comment by zaphirplane in "MCP is dead?"

zaphirplane — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:19:24 +0000

How do you ensure the cli can use the auth without knowing how to read it ? It’s potentially a bearer Token

New comment by zaphirplane in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

zaphirplane — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:14:49 +0000

Oldie but a goodie. Why would it matter thou

New comment by zaphirplane in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

zaphirplane — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:15:57 +0000

> 200m knowledge workers in the world, 30m developers

1 in 6 knowledge worker is a developer ! Surely that’s too high thou explains the job market

New comment by zaphirplane in "Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice"

zaphirplane — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:07:02 +0000

This sounds targeted, like 2 degrees of separation

New comment by zaphirplane in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

zaphirplane — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:49:18 +0000

What is the governance and audit trail on offer ?

New comment by zaphirplane in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

zaphirplane — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:52:09 +0000

Like which country allows companies to not follow a legal directive. How weird

New comment by zaphirplane in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

zaphirplane — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:57:54 +0000

Why does it “sound” like a good thing for the company?

Unless it’s a mega establishment product people move on and don’t stick with buggy crashing products

This wouldn’t be acceptable for a car safety, well I could like a whole bunch but you should get the idea

New comment by zaphirplane in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

zaphirplane — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:54:59 +0000

The redirect to a bank is worrying, isn’t it trivial to fake redirecting to a fake bank ?

New comment by zaphirplane in "Claude for Legal"

zaphirplane — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:00:28 +0000

I think they are asking about privileged communication

New comment by zaphirplane in "Claude for Legal"

zaphirplane — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:59:36 +0000

> pass a(n oftrn horrifically thorough) character background check.

Explains why so many let loose afterwards ;) jokes

New comment by zaphirplane in "Claude for Small Business"

zaphirplane — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:03:47 +0000

Wtf giving a non deterministic model access to use money! Seriously skynet ( terminator reference) isn’t going to be thru control of weapons it will be by buying itself and building a million trillion financial empire

New comment by zaphirplane in "A Caddy Cert Expired Because Systemd-Resolved Was Selectively Broken"

zaphirplane — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:32:06 +0000

Some docker issues archaeology says that there was tension between docker team and redhat / systemd

New comment by zaphirplane in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

zaphirplane — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:50:54 +0000

Hmm, it prevents Trojan binaries which is a small subset of backdoor IMHO.

Defense in depth obviously is a good thing