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Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:51PM (#50307610)
But there's a new skill blossoming there, right? That's what I'm noticing. The atrophying skill is one you don't need anymore. The new one - prompting, routing the output, spotting the hallucinations, managing singal/noise etc. - is now where you can add tremendous value.

To say nothing of being bold enough to run systems like that in the first place. I know some of engineers that are still folding their arms and refusing to engage with AI!

Re:US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:48PM (#50307567)
Everyone on social media seems to be HUNTING for signs that the powers that be are prepping for the end of the world.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:20AM (#50245297)
If one or more are AWS, GCP, etc. that would make a lot of sense. Connecting to Claude via API via AWS Bedrock is really nice.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:14PM (#50212314)
I'm tired, boss
It was fun being here today. Validated a lot of the live frustrations and quirks and discovery.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:21PM (#50184472)
yeah, not surprising but not great
Yep, all our efforts are now focused on working around that. It's pretty neat!
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#49901454)
I eventually got it to write pseudocode for reversing a linked list, but could never get it to output raw code.

Hat tip Claude Opus 5.5 for the jailbreak tips!

Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:46PM (#49820638)
In a year or two, articles like this will either be artifacts from peak hype or evidence of the beginning of the singularity. Right?
Re:Astra for Law on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:22AM (#49754051)
I think this is key. Lawyers make a lot of money for being experts on the sidelines of disputes with values greatly in excess of their fees. They were never paid for their busy work.
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:43PM (#49702790)
Not to mention CONNECTIONS, of which LLMs will start with 0 and never acquire more.
Re:A misalignment of AI in mathematics on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:50PM (#49663368)
Debatably the people who were getting 20 years of education will still be just as capable, and the 20 years of education was always a side effect of their capabilities, not the cause of them.
Re:AI Policy on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:05PM (#49540053)
Yeah. I buy that there are some use cases where AI is a trap, or not as good as people.

I'm also chatting with my logs and triaging things like 10x faster in multiple open terminal sessions while I post on HN right now. So I'm also certain there are some use cases where not using AI will soon be professional negligence!

Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:53PM (#49469521)
I see it in a slightly opposite way: even the good models are relatively cheap, and so I worry what we might miss by spending too much time playing with the Sonnets of the world when the Opuses are still objectively a bargain for the power they bring.
hell yeah it does, feels nice at the end of a long day
I like computers more than many members of my family, so...
Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified on Thursday August 13, 2026 @08:56AM (#49285230)
something something machine elves...
There's a huge market right now for "AI product, without much different than Gemini/Claude/GPT do out of the box, but from somebody you actually trust"
It's tricky because dissenting doesn't necessarily mean you'd reach the opposite conclusion in every respect.

In this case, I really doubt even the most conservative justices believe "birthright citizenship means whatever an Executive Order says it does." At a minimum, we know they aren't signing on to the reasoning the 5 in the majority used. And then we can learn whatever they feel like saying in the dissent, but a dissent is just an essay with no force of law.

Re:I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:17PM (#48714042)
It’s 2026 and my computer will happily give me the right answer even when i make typos. I love it.
businesses absolutely love not paying for things. each other, contractors, etc.

employees don’t realize how good they have it with payroll protections tbh. That’s how it should be of course!

Yep! It’s all just text files. Lots of acronyms in top of lots of ways to generate, send, and read structured text files.

One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.

Re:Is Fable 5 Back? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:35AM (#48555088)
Sadly no. And I might lose my bet it'd be back by Tuesday... alas...
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:01PM (#48532655)
Agents
I give it until Tuesday at the latest until it's accessible again.
Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:22PM (#48510927)
I've seen it turn right in business contexts. Sometimes you can even lower your standard of "good enough" and find quantity has a quality all its own.

But it requires taste and engineering to do it right, and on the right things. It'll be an interesting few years.

Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:17AM (#48504464)
That's more or less what Claude Cowork is.

Every serious engineer I've seen try to use it ran away screaming, because of limitations in the sandbox.

I've also seen people set their coding agents up entirely within containers -- that may be the better way going forward, but it's an extra stop and a lot of extra plumbing to maintain.

Re:Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @10:16AM (#48461471)
> Just getting the code to run on your laptop took a week.

This one surprised me. Claude Code in the CLI has made standing up an app and debugging whatever random dependencies or docker BS a dream compared to the before times, when you'd have to learn the architecture while simultaneously troubleshooting whatever isn't working on your machine

I think the hard part is acquiring the GPUs, first at all, then at any reasonable price.

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