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B-but "there's no such thing as a Nintendo".

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5...

"Mario thanks you".

> Ok I set this up last year before they could communicate thru the bloody CPU cache

WHAT!? [1]

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

The thing is one could argue most of the improvements were regressions to previous paradigms. Windows 10 was improved by being less like Windows 8 and more like the classic desktops of the 90s.

In other words, change for the sake of change does not an improvement make.

Rather, 2 terms (8 years).

> I wonder how long it'll take people like you breathlessly chanting "this is the future!" before the slop bots hoover that up into their training data like narcissistic poison

This is a real risk. The copyright washing machine is an average of our collective "spoken consciousness", and in turn it influences the way we express ourselves, then it ends up inside the next training slopdate. Real organic human reasoning will eventually be as valuable as low-alpha steel was for a long time, at least till the background levels drop. AI businesses are raiding libraries for "sunken knowledge", the similarity is uncanny.

There's also that paper "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression" which got released some time ago. My take is the breakthroughs got quickly implemented and helped drive the inference prices down.

Edit: link to the paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19969

(it was published 2026-09-17)

> We call it "Netflix sentence" here.

It could be argued that the Netflix catalog nowadays is akin to some kind of torture.

Heh, TIL

In case you're wondering as well:

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-cmp-170hx-8-10-gb-prices-explode...

It restores firmware features related to RAM, PCI-e speeds, BAR size, VFIO...

https://github.com/amoghmunikote/cmpunlocker

I know that yc by virtue of being a startup incubator has a noticeable pro-AI bias, and this naturally influences hn as well.

That said, there's definitely some influence, and not only on development. Teams are shrinking not only due to the economy, there's a real pressure to deliver more with less, and AI has raised expectations all around.

- (hw) Hardware issues can be debugged and worked around by an amateur (like yours truly) at home, meaning you no longed need to pay to fix lots of things yourself;

- (dev) refactoring and rewrites are not as expensive as before, meaning no need for dedicated teams and processes, and _some_ businesses (not all) chose to turn that into budget optimization ("doing the same work with less team", instead of "doing more work with the same team")

- (media) you can generate a decent 1 minute SaaS landing page product video for 20 bucks and and openRouter key, meaning less need to rely on or shop for specialized marketing/media service.

And the list just goes on an on. We're in the big pressure cooker of history as usual, but this is one of those occasions where the temperature is rising really fast due to AI and the further commoditization of a lot of workflows that were career specialties yesterday.

Edit: a killed post below mentions interviews now valuing system design knowledge (like tradeoffs, cost etc) instead of rote memorization (since the need for encyclopedic knowledge arguably hit an all time low). This shows the change in the median profile businesses and recruiting staff are after, certainly influenced by AI.

When you think about it, who's to say they did not?

This is not a comment on gullibility or the like, but yeah, the agenda is _incredibly_ transparent for any non-USian, to the point that following discussions about russian/chinese/$INSERT_COUNTRY_HERE propaganda is always funny.

> And add jail time to fines. Fines means nothing for the rich.

This, pretty much. Money removes consequence form your actions. If every time you screwed up, instead of being fined you had to wear a silly hat, go on TV and apologize, or get some time behind bars, even if it were 1 or 2 days it would be very effective.

No shibboleet[1] i'm afraid, the best you can do is raise the storm.

[1]https://xkcd.com/806/

This is the part managerial and marketing types don't understand. Their expectation is usually that "since its a computer system (sic) the tech team will support it from now on".

> Violence is not the answer

Sometimes it is the question. "Yes" is the answer.

With AI you cannot know for sure if an app is vibe coded or not, especially when there's no source code.

Therefore, one must assume it is always vibe coded.

Therefore, one must always be hesitant :(

My notebook took up flight and launched itself through the window and died trying to render this site.

"Sweeper, press the X button to mark a mine."

"X... button?"

"Focus, Sweeper! Sweeper? SWEEPEEEER!"

The orange buffoon also attempted (either himself or his cronies) to sanction a brazilian justice for applying brazilian law correctly against the last american-backed, coup-happy president. Since a visa ban, asset freeze and travel restrictions didn't work (on part due to the far superior bank transfer infrastructure) they're now brazenly supporting the right-wing candidate.

> When has this ever happened?

when has it ever not?

> Maduro

(Not an american citizen btw)

> extradition

...

my 2c:

IMHO, the US is already cooked. Technological superiority is one of many ways to exert influence, and foreign initiatives are closing in, fast. There's nothing the US can do do stop it, unless it can find a way to stall China's advances in the area, and this is incredibly unlikely.

> Without junior engineers how will there be senior software engineers in the future?

My take is: the bar to what counts to HR as "senior" will go down as businesses everywhere try to adapt and hire more seniors - "senior" now just a name, as it becomes the new "junior". Then everyone will pat each other on the back till it all goes down in the flames of bankruptcy.

Its like infinite summer of code, but for math. Must be annoying.

It depends, IMHO. If op is talking about "programming", then I think they are right. If they are talking about "development", then I think you are right.

The copyright washing machine strikes again.

Because that requires thinking, and unfortunately lazy always wins.

> Bots are not a second class client. They were here before AI, and they, like AI, work for humans. For the most part, they're not trolling the web autonomously.

While I can agree with this in principle, due to vibeslopping in general there are a LOT more unruly scrapers browsing around, which tilts the scales quite a bit.

Indeed, it is tiresome to even look at!

Look what AI did to people.

IMHO LLMs are more like "falling asleep on the bus and ending up in the wrong city".

Except now the all consuming elite will have actuall killbots roaming their expensive condo irl.

The future will be interesting.

> Yeah, they could easily just share the untold trillions of tokens the 10k agents generated over 88 hours, which would also be a goldmine for their competitors, no big deal.

I hope I'm not being too blunt, but the other alternative is to "just trust me bro" the hyperscalers, who are pretty much locked into a battle for profitability and have all the incentives to make up things to prop up their stock, no? I don't think this is the way.