syngrog66
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a real "galaxy brain" epiphany might come when one considers idea that perhaps we dont need software to exercise
just exercise. it will be ok, really. somehow we managed for millions of years, kiddos, and both gravity and the human body are unchanged in any relevant way since which suddenly requires "an app". I can get out of bed without an app, or an AI. I can prepare a meal and eat without any kind of app, or any kind of AI or LLM. its a true and real thing, in the real world, promise!
vim use is whats reliably helped me to remember vim commands. a bonus is I can use the same tactic for all other software and in many other domains where I'd like to keep related skills fresh in mind, at figurative fingertips
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programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.
author of perf cheatsheet
writing book on HPC
US citizen, native English
ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)
research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec)
game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built small sw biz
recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend
LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib
you joke but that sounds like how many of the fully AI-psychotic shops operate
both "extensive" and "test" are the load-bearing terms there
I wish more of us had the courage to speak up and say things like that. thank you
should you have done that in the first place? its a database engine
LLMs not needed for programming or software engineering, and overall harmful in many dimensions. I look forward to the hype bubble popping and the AI industry collapsing.
Hopefully more of humanity's clearly vast amounts of discretionary wealth liquidity can be re-directed to better areas like health/medical, carbon crisis climate mitigation, clean/renewable energy, democracy defense and truly useful common infrastructure for society.
look at the author bylines:
* Arthur Agatston
* Oren Mechanic
Anthropic is a malware vendor (on many levels of abstraction): confirmed. But plenty of evidence visible to public eye, prior.
I forbid all-things-Anthropic on any machine I control, as of many months ago. In my private vendor "DNP" blacklist. Its designed as bait for the gullible or ignorant: the telltales are all right there. (Just like OpenClaw, for example.)
what is the meaning (or units) of your first numbers?
been visiting HN for almost 20 years, likely most/all of its existence
your wording is rude. when you post a comment reply to someone online, ask yourself if you would choose the words F2F. if they would be rude F2F they are rude here
lastly, I am allowed to express my opinion, and no harm was done. I express it precisely to try influencing, to nudge the world around me in a better direction. nothing about that is wrong. indeed it is wise
may you behave better in the future
I am long on EVs, battery power and solar. Among the few silver linings in the otherwise dystopic hellscape timeline we're heading down now.
The US has no actual national security at moment.
The silver lining, if any, is Jeff Atwood made FU levels of money (AFAIK) from it, ultimately, and now he's become a philanthropist.
its long past the point where I've "seen enough" about Anthropic's competence/intent with respect to security and privacy. if Claude bites you by now its because you let it. there are alternate choices available
not a fan of recent AI wave. but if I wanted to be long on it I'd pick robots, drones and AMI (essentially +1 on Yann LeCun). if Amazon were to be refocusing/doubling-down on those areas too I'd respect it
I saw an estimate that as of 2022 Jetbrains employeed at least 2000 or 3000 Russians, and I'm curious how much that number has shrunk since, and then what percentage ended up also working on their AI/LLM related features. Not taken close look at that repo yet.
post reads like it was AI-gen
by that logic, every fart, burp and sneeze should make the HN front page, and be shared with the entire world. And I'm not exaggerating much because clearly large portions of 2026 socmedia are approaching that if not already there. Many Reddit forums are going to hell from a lack of standards for minimum quality, novelty or signal value. "Look at this stick figure I banged out in a few seconds just now, guys!" posted into the input feeds of millions/billions around the world, worsening the world that much more.
The easy avail of massive amounts of pre-existing "good enough" video shows to stream, music to play, games to play, books to read means we could prob stop producing anything new today and for the rest of our lives still have more to watch than we'd ever have the time to get through. I once had 5 to 7 distinct paid streaming services, at my peak, then realized that just Prime or HBO alone could keep me saturated, or say Prime plus YouTube. heck YT alone might be reaching that point for me, with free videos by indie/influencer/longtail channels.
The bar is much much much higher today to standout and be worth one's attention, and most sources of entertainment/stimulation are very fungible.
its existed for a few weeks (and was vibe coded, I assume) and... you're announcing it to the entire world?
code has been clay for 4+ decades now, kiddos, I can confirm firsthand
I literally included it. more broadly: dont install any so-called AI/LLM "black box" agent anywhere if you want to minimize attack surface and risk. Claude might be the most notoriously foolish but the same security-sloppy design decisions are likely present in the other similar codebases. And the line between reckless naivete and intentional maliciousness is conveniently blurry.