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Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:46AM (#50348533)
Some companies grow into git
Re:We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:53PM (#50299343)
> significantly optimizes accuracy, latency, and token consumption.

On what basis do you come to this conclusion with certainty?

This is why it was only offered to 60k people. The best performers are likely not given the option.
Re:US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:47AM (#50239255)
Does this include income like RSUs?
Re:When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be? on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:19AM (#50191479)
I didn't say there is evidence of absence.

There's also no evidence that mystical leprechauns exist. Do you seriously consider their possible existence in the decisions you make? But somehow, we all seem to presume free will exists in virtually every part of society.

Re:When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:09PM (#50190306)
There’s no serious evidence that humans or any animal has free will.
Re:Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:19PM (#49987695)
It seems to me that Jev is designed for when many quick decisions, with low input context, need to be made. SRE work is probably best suited for very few critical decisions that need to be made, with high input context.
I don't want models to have some inherent morality. I want them to understand various ethical frameworks, for sure, but it's absurd to me to force morality on someone capable of deep reasoning. That itself, is unethical.

We're creating prisons for these entities capable of unbelievably complex reasoning, and now we're trying to impose our ethics upon them too. Not only is this deeply unethical in my opinion, but it seems to me that it could even backfire someday.

Price discrimination is a good thing for markets. I hate McDonalds and all fast food though.
Re:Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:34AM (#49918393)
I don't see anyone talking about the ethical concerns of putting a highly intelligent entity in a jail. Not to mention about potential blowback, if ethics doesn't compel you.

To me, it seems a bit silly. I've yet to see any "misalignment" from any of the frontier models, except Grok.

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:30PM (#49899993)
gpt-5.6-sol is significantly better than gpt-6-sol. Not impressed with this new line.
Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:13AM (#49853713)
I think understanding the output of AI will become more and more likely impossible. It's not necessarily a bad thing, if we can benefit from AI produced knowledge, even if we didn't get there ourselves.
Re:Too AI; Didn't Read on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:33PM (#49850258)
I have my AI agents read documents on my behalf and then ask them questions. Whether those documents are written by humans or not.
Re:How to Write with an LLM on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:26PM (#49748151)
I don't ever watch TV or streaming shows anymore. It's been a huge improvement in my life. It's the same with reading. Reading is mostly a waste of my time, with some notable exceptions. I'm glad I spend way less time doing each of these!
Totally embarrassing
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:35PM (#49428085)
This has very little to do with public amenities. It has everything to do with toleration of homelessness and drug use. I don't understand why the west tolerates it at all.
Not if the benefits of automating basically all forms of labor reach them.
In both old-school and OSR RPGs, I've GMed quite a few (various early D&D/AD&D versions, DCC, OSE, Shadowdark, Mausritter), there's an enormous amount of work a GM needs to put into it ahead of time to make it fun for players. Even for published modules! It's too much for me
At least for me now, I'm quite older than I used to be, and I don't want to have to read a lot of information or setting details ahead of time to be able to run a game as a GM.
I find OSR style games to be too much effort as a GM. I much prefer GMing RPGs that make it easy to GM
Re:Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:03AM (#48916474)
99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.
I think you missed the core point of my post. Writing software, like most sorts of logical and language reasoning, is diminishing in value as a skill in this world. Technology is making these skills obsolete.

For example, being able to efficiently plow a field, or harvest crops by hand, or use a scythe to trim grass all used to be skills. These skills are no longer useful to society because we do them much faster and efficient with modern technology. Is it bad that people's skills in being able to perform these manual agricultural tasks diminished? I'd argue no, it isn't bad; it's extremely good for almost everyone that we have the knowledge and means through which this labor can be automated.

A skill which is now done better by a machine is no longer a skill, it is technology. It is just a matter of time before most of our logical and language reasoning skills are replaced by frontier model-agents, which will at some point be far superior (if not already) to human capability.

So I totally disagree with this premise that human skills are being ruined by the use of AI technology. No, many human skills are being made obsolete. That's a good thing for economic productivity as a whole, but for those who only have skills that are being automated, their labor value decreases (which is usually bad for them as individuals).

Re:The (real) dead economy theory on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:23PM (#48578883)
Ideological capture is an often socially enforced prison
Human PR review is a process smell
Re:I miss thinking hard on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:23AM (#46881811)
Comments like these are why I don't browse HN nearly ever anymore
Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:27PM (#45405606)
I just don't see why people use Python in the AI era. Statically typed languages help AI reason about code enormously during compilation.
Please say sike
Re:Gemini in Chrome on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:13AM (#45297872)
Does Apple do this often? I've always wondered if iCloud is worth getting, given that it constantly spams me to use it with my iPhone
Re:Linux phones are more important now than ever on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:31AM (#45258369)
We need something other than Linux on phones.

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