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Posted by
mday27 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I remember reading an essay, at least five years ago and maybe as many as ten, that made the point that a good programmer working with good abstractions could replace a whole team, specifically when working on the kind of boring line-of-business Java code that is 99% of software by LOC.It contained a line something like this: "We're switching into a higher gear now. Can a human breathe pure...
Posted by
mday27 on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:45AM
from the systemsoflife.substack.com dept.
full disclosure: I work at EDAMAME, and I think we've built something pretty cool -- runtime behavioral analysis to catch a wide spectrum of attacks and agent divergence attacks. Happy to answer questions too!
Posted by
mday27 on Monday May 18, 2026 @09:52AM
from the experimental-history.com dept.
hallucination on steroids, wow. I had to read through the abstract to believe it:
"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest Xray question-answering benchmark without access to any images."
never heard of this before, very cool
Given that this includes rat and mouse studies, it seems like this theory is more around the idea that criticality is a characteristic of how brains work in general, not that human brains hit criticality as a peculiarity of our particularly high intelligence
This is an especially good analogy because facing a well-resourced adversary in cybersecurity is like finding out that the enemy brought artillery -- hopefully you weren't relying entirely on obscurity because pretty soon there will be nowhere to hide
this is a pretty brilliant analysis that I've never heard before, and it definitely rings true to my experience as a freelancer
True, but if your true calling was coding, this change would be much harder to stomach
lol what? that wasn't a hype comment for Ramp, I'm kinda put off by Ramp's attitude. It gives me the ick like all the founders saying "I work 100 hour weeks" -- who cares, let's talk about your product.
FWIW I agree with your criteria for AI agent success, and I haven't seen it happen yet.
Funny connection here between the proliferation of easy-to-install but not-quite-dependable dependencies and the recent spate of supply chain attacks.
And, at the same time, we have these AI tools that make it super easy to roll your own version of something. Feels like there's a big push from both sides to start reducing external dependencies.
wow, I knew it was bad but I was gaslighting myself a bit. 0 9's is crazy.
Ramp does seem to have a genuinely good product, but every time I interact with anyone who works on it, I'm struck by how much they want to talk about how hardcore and advanced their working style is. This was true before AI, and it's very true now
Seems to me like there's also a divide between observational laws (e.g. Hyrum's Law just says "this seems to be true") and prescriptive laws (e.g. Knuth's Law, which is really a statement about how you ought to behave)
It's like we're back in 2009 with "did social media cause this?"