All in all, it's clearly the AI skeptics that have egg on their faces. Sam Altman is very flawed and you could make a strong argument for why that's why he blew an enormous lead to Anthropic. Dario's predictions in…
Millions of books go in the trash every day. Should all private property come with such an asterisk that it ought to be preserved for whatever unlikely contingency you can imagine? I don't know, AI actually seems like a…
The current year is 2026. I think it's quite likely AI will make the top 3 by then. Putting this on my calendar.
What do you think of people that say that about climate change? It seems you don't understand fully. This is not the time go get tired, right before this actually starts impacting jobs and people in other ways.
I "pair" with claude-code and still write 30% by hand, with additional review with gpt-5.4, but I definitely write fewer bugs than before. I'd estimate my speedup to be 2x.
Software jobs have been steadily outpacing other white collar jobs for the past year, but it's unlikely you will find one unless you work on your attitude and your ability to communicate respectfully.
This is a great point, because when you ask it (Claude) if it has any questions, it often turns out it has lots of good ones! But it doesn't ask them unless you ask.
This has nothing to do with burden of proof, it has to do with journalistic accuracy, and this is obviously a hit piece. HN prides itself on being skeptical and then eats up "skeptic slop."
"You can use AI but you are responsible for and must validate its output" is a completely reasonable and coherent policy. I'm sure they stated exactly what they intended to.
What percent of the time do you have to drive your car?
I don't think so, I think it's more about openness. I've noticed older software engineers tend to be more anti-LLM and quick to dismiss. The shortcomings are aplenty, but they don't bother me. The things it can do…
This statement doesn't even make sense, where are you acquiring this knowledge if not from experts? Are you out there doing field research and conducting your own scientific experiments on every subject you're…
You are taking my Russian roulette analogy way too literally. The "bullet" is not literally just dead people, it's also the economic impact of letting this disease run rampant, which you are clearly not accounting for.…
Sure, I was referring to this study which shows that 20% of cases were either severe or critical: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9... True, this is only in China. In most other countries,…
>And what % of patients infected actually end up in the ICU vs. just have a sniffle and a cough for a few days? This data is easily available: ~20% of people who get the virus are in life-threatening condition. Thats a…
You can't just cherry-pick South Korea's case fatality rate because it's convenient to your argument. The case fatality rate worldwide is currently 3.7%. Regardless of what the reasons for that may be and whether it…
I get it, some jobs are more desirable than others, and there has to be some reason for people to take the less glamorous job, but that barrier could just be skill. I support hard work when it comes to training. Hey,…
Let's say you manage to carve out 2-4 hours a day to work on your side project while remaining a decent person to your wife and kids. Leaving your job means you could spend 11-13 hours a day on it instead. That's an…
Mindfulness and meditation have been popular for thousands of years...
"Collapsing into the downward spiral of poverty and homelessness" is not an appropriate outcome for not being frugal, and a system where this is the case is probably not very good. Again, circling back to the idea that…
I would qualify: people aren't just dissatisfied because of the "unfairness" of growing inequality. The growth of the wealth gap has some very real ramifications, ie: on the distribution of power in politics.
Regulating the price of medication isn't a slippery slope to outlawing MacBook pros. What a preposterous thing to say. The law is whatever society decides it should be. There is nothing inherently rational about it.…
That's just not my experience at all. But clearly, it's been yours. Perhaps there are two very different sides to this field, in which case my advice is to keep looking if you find yourself on the wrong one. From where…
Some of the good advice in this blog post is taken too far, like the advice about intentionally writing shitty code in order to learn from your mistakes. Coding is like any other skill. You learn from your mistakes only…
Not to diminish Dean Karnazes' feat, but you might be interested to find out someone recently did 50 Ironman races in 50 days (http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/50-ironmans-in-...). An Ironman includes a 2.4…
All in all, it's clearly the AI skeptics that have egg on their faces. Sam Altman is very flawed and you could make a strong argument for why that's why he blew an enormous lead to Anthropic. Dario's predictions in…
Millions of books go in the trash every day. Should all private property come with such an asterisk that it ought to be preserved for whatever unlikely contingency you can imagine? I don't know, AI actually seems like a…
The current year is 2026. I think it's quite likely AI will make the top 3 by then. Putting this on my calendar.
What do you think of people that say that about climate change? It seems you don't understand fully. This is not the time go get tired, right before this actually starts impacting jobs and people in other ways.
I "pair" with claude-code and still write 30% by hand, with additional review with gpt-5.4, but I definitely write fewer bugs than before. I'd estimate my speedup to be 2x.
Software jobs have been steadily outpacing other white collar jobs for the past year, but it's unlikely you will find one unless you work on your attitude and your ability to communicate respectfully.
This is a great point, because when you ask it (Claude) if it has any questions, it often turns out it has lots of good ones! But it doesn't ask them unless you ask.
This has nothing to do with burden of proof, it has to do with journalistic accuracy, and this is obviously a hit piece. HN prides itself on being skeptical and then eats up "skeptic slop."
"You can use AI but you are responsible for and must validate its output" is a completely reasonable and coherent policy. I'm sure they stated exactly what they intended to.
What percent of the time do you have to drive your car?
I don't think so, I think it's more about openness. I've noticed older software engineers tend to be more anti-LLM and quick to dismiss. The shortcomings are aplenty, but they don't bother me. The things it can do…
This statement doesn't even make sense, where are you acquiring this knowledge if not from experts? Are you out there doing field research and conducting your own scientific experiments on every subject you're…
You are taking my Russian roulette analogy way too literally. The "bullet" is not literally just dead people, it's also the economic impact of letting this disease run rampant, which you are clearly not accounting for.…
Sure, I was referring to this study which shows that 20% of cases were either severe or critical: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9... True, this is only in China. In most other countries,…
>And what % of patients infected actually end up in the ICU vs. just have a sniffle and a cough for a few days? This data is easily available: ~20% of people who get the virus are in life-threatening condition. Thats a…
You can't just cherry-pick South Korea's case fatality rate because it's convenient to your argument. The case fatality rate worldwide is currently 3.7%. Regardless of what the reasons for that may be and whether it…
I get it, some jobs are more desirable than others, and there has to be some reason for people to take the less glamorous job, but that barrier could just be skill. I support hard work when it comes to training. Hey,…
Let's say you manage to carve out 2-4 hours a day to work on your side project while remaining a decent person to your wife and kids. Leaving your job means you could spend 11-13 hours a day on it instead. That's an…
Mindfulness and meditation have been popular for thousands of years...
"Collapsing into the downward spiral of poverty and homelessness" is not an appropriate outcome for not being frugal, and a system where this is the case is probably not very good. Again, circling back to the idea that…
I would qualify: people aren't just dissatisfied because of the "unfairness" of growing inequality. The growth of the wealth gap has some very real ramifications, ie: on the distribution of power in politics.
Regulating the price of medication isn't a slippery slope to outlawing MacBook pros. What a preposterous thing to say. The law is whatever society decides it should be. There is nothing inherently rational about it.…
That's just not my experience at all. But clearly, it's been yours. Perhaps there are two very different sides to this field, in which case my advice is to keep looking if you find yourself on the wrong one. From where…
Some of the good advice in this blog post is taken too far, like the advice about intentionally writing shitty code in order to learn from your mistakes. Coding is like any other skill. You learn from your mistakes only…
Not to diminish Dean Karnazes' feat, but you might be interested to find out someone recently did 50 Ironman races in 50 days (http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/50-ironmans-in-...). An Ironman includes a 2.4…