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There are many internal developers at $dayjob (where core products are not based on AI) that spend over a thousand dollars every day on average, which is likely higher than their salary.

I doubt they are bringing that much value to the company for whatever work is done with that much token.

Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:24AM (#50315985)
There are more ardent second amendment supporters among tenured professors in US universities than you think.
Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:06PM (#50310128)
As a (light) gamer for two decades who has been reading about the gaming industry for the past few months, I cannot understate how hard it is to create a good game, let alone a great game. So much money was spent/wasted on hopeless endeavors.

These people have no idea what good games mean.

Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:02PM (#50310098)
What's their revenue?

Do players like it?

Will the history of gaming remember this game?

Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:14PM (#50309535)
I was just looking at some user-facing error messages Claude generated for me which contained unnecessary/irrelevant technical details while failed to provide clear instructions or fix.

Earlier, I reviewed code that does way more than specified scope, changes public API and introduces new behavior. I had to almost redo the whole thing.

I thought to myself, no way I am going to ship the code as written without actually reading through it (or as some people put it, only looking at the "intent"). I'll get more complaints from users while having absolutely no idea what's going on with the code or actual behavior.

It's a puzzle to me how these orgs can pull it off.

Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:18PM (#50306090)
It shouldn't.

Be as close as AGI we are (/s), this issue from 2018 is still open:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116

I don't know what we are doing.

Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:51AM (#50303183)
As someone who cannot work on screens with resolution lower than 4k 27" monitors, the pixel density on quest 3 makes me want to cry
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:44AM (#50302639)
You are either lucky or compromised.
Benchmarks or this is no better than my one line "do a code review on this change"
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:39AM (#50287441)
Looks like it only works on a certain older Samsung phone.

Thanks to some genius at Samsung who thinks this is a good idea.

Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:32AM (#50287369)
Serious answer though, LLMs are getting good at recognizing actions that have side effects these days and often won't act without explicit confirmation
Re:The Agent SDK on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:34AM (#50274343)
I see people spending so much time creating "workflow" skills that have no benchmark whatsoever to prove they are any more effective than plain one sentence prompts.
Re:About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:09AM (#50272975)
There are so many "likely" in this comment that I don't know if I should care about a single word at all. Looks pure speculation if not fiction to me.

Looking forward to a comment that is much more grounded than substantial than this.

Security practice was generally very, very bad two decades ago, by today's standards, across the industry.

I don't see the point of being so fixated on that.

Re:New iMac with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:29AM (#50271888)
Most people, i.e. people that are not on HN, can't tell the difference between 27" 1440p vs 4k monitors, unless you ask them to look really carefully.

Lots and lots of people use 15.6" laptop with 1080p screen and are perfectly happy.

Every time I see people talk like this, I have to wonder who it is for.

Not what I am seeing. not sure if there is A/B testing here.
They could have removed GLM 5.3 from the title, and the title and the body would still make perfect sense.
What's the point of even mentioning GLM-5.3? That's a detail that only belongs in the body.

Did you ever given any thought about how confusing the title may be?

Did AI write this title and you just use it without ever wondering if it makes sense at all?

That fight was already lost back in 2024.
Re:Somebody please stop the spam texts on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:59PM (#50250848)
I don't know I should feel good or bad, but I have not received a single political campaign message over the past few election cycles. Never.

Says something about the political climate of where I live.

Maybe check how twitter/X is doing these days.
Re:The new iPad mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:03PM (#50250095)
Since when have we established "thinner and lighter" equals "better"?

In the case of iPhone Air and Galaxy Edge phones, there were notable compromises to achieve a thinner body, for which many people don't consider an improvement.

Granted, I have not seen or used the new iPad mini, and I don't know if any such compromise has been made. But probably should leave it open until we conclude this is a plus.

Even if 500 employees refuse to show up to work because of this, Meta will easily replace them within a month if not a week.

If Meta keeps those positions at all.

Re:The new iPad mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:49AM (#50244719)
> in an even thinner and lighter design

Never once did I hold my iPad mini with a case and think, "damn this thing is heavy"

I once overheard someone in a coffee shop saying that she needed GPU to run inference. But gaming laptops are too heavy with short battery life, while MacBooks are expensive.

I really wanted to tell her -- what she needed was compute, not hardware. Her best bet was to rent GPU which is easily available from many services. If she was paid to run inference, cost is not a concern. If she did it for her own work, she wouldn't need to shell out a ton of money initially and then be left with hardware that she no longer needs when the work is done. In any case, she wouldn't need to worry about purchasing hardware or battery life. ssh to a remote machine is simply way superior than running inference on a laptop she carries around by any means except in a few rare occasions (e.g. no Internet access).

Same thing for a company. Why would any company who has a business to run get themselves burned in acquiring GPUs, setting up racks, load balancing etc when Bedrock/Azure Foundry etc is right there with tons of both open and closed models and ZDR? And then see hardware depreciate in just a few years?

I doubt you'll get an answer here, and people in "type 1" don't want to talk about type 2.

My take, without directly addressing your questions: "have fun" doesn't go very far, and you'll discover that if you want to be good at anything, you'll need to put in many hours of practice with endless repetition and go through setbacks and self doubt, none of which is fun. And for sure there are singers and musicians that never go through formal training, including at the highest levels, they are few, when most musicians you know have been learning music since they were kids.

This.

As an amateur musician who can afford private lessons, I cannot understate how important a teacher is in music learning. You can try to learn things on your own and mess with these stuff, but a teacher goes a long way. They spot your mistakes instantly and help you progress efficiently.

I understand that it is not financially viable to everyone, but seriously, if you are able to, get some professional guidance.

> Calif, one of the security firms that had reported the issues mistakenly published a video.

> Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images ...

Won't be the last time this happens. If there is no consequence of breaking the rules, people will keep doing that.

Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:51AM (#50179359)
Years ago I migrated all my personal sites to being statically generated, since they don't have actual dynamic content anyway. That was a good decision.
Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:29AM (#50179129)
What does that prove?

I can vibe code my own CMS with one major version update everyday but that means nothing.

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