Really nice read. I'll add that it's effective to scope design docs up and down as needed, both in terms of how big your project is and how big your company is. A 50-person startup doesn't need a full design doc with…
> I never understood why anybody would pay for Slack when its based on IRC and IRC is free, but whatever. Comparing IRC vs Slack maybe made sense when Slack was very young, and it was like buying a Honda Civic vs a…
> Simple example: feature X is rarely used (thus we should get rid of it) Oh man, I remember a very specific example of this: many years ago now, Google Chrome pushed an update that got rid of the option on the menu bar…
> Why not paying the technician $80,000 a year? Because every other company has also replaced their 6 warehouse workers with a fleet of robots and 1 technician, and that technician's skills are more rare and specialized…
Source? I still see people with titles like Art Director which would map pretty directly to the warehouse worker vs technician dichotomy.
I'm saying if you gave me full admin credentials to every ISP, BGP router, DNS provider, etc., then yes, I could effectively destroy the internet in an afternoon, and LLMs wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it.
> and what has effectively happened in some industries already, is to have a fleet of robots and 0 technicians. Which specific industries are these which currently have a fleet of robots and 0 technicians?
> This is an oxymoron. Huh? Not really, internet shutdowns are a documented and real thing. Suggested reading (all of which refer to the internet as being shut down or blacked out): [0] [1] [2] The fact that you need to…
As crazy as it sounds, I'm not going to commit a felony to prove that disrupting a data centre's operations for a sufficiently motivated individual is a fairly easy task.
> The Internet virtually indestructible against people smarter than a toddler. It's already impossible to turn off. This isn't true at all. The internet has already been turned off in localized areas during major…
The use of the phrase "curious toddler" is called a metaphor[0], which is a figure of speech[1] used to make writing more interesting. I apologize for the confusion that caused you to interpret this as a literal,…
Thankfully I don't have to; Iran already showed with me-central-1 that you can take a data center offline with conventional weaponry very easily.[0] [0] https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
"Humans use <new technology> to do evil things" is a tale as old as time, though. An AI didn't decide to fly into a warzone and start shooting people on its own.
> Can someone please explain to me how an LLM is going to "destroy humanity"? Even if the claims of ChatGPT, Claude et al. are true that their super scary agents were able to escape a sandbox and start hacking other…
> If we pursued the "Most Qualified" in its truest form, then ~95%[1] of the jobs in this country would be handed over to foreigners. [1] The USA is less than 5% of the worlds population. This would be true if you're…
> Kind of a bummer that 95% of software engineering is dedicated to creating a padded cell to make sure no one makes a whoopsie instead of doing creative and interesting things. s/software engineering/running a…
> The ChatGPT moment for humanoid robotics is coming within a year or two. How long after that moment did the ChatGPT robots need to invent the time travel machine which let you come back to 2026 to confidently claim…
It's funny that private trackers are now more about ensuring uploads are high quality and properly labeled, and that people actually seed, than they are about dodging copyright enforcement. Reflective of the times. Most…
> Python is awful. > I often work with data scientists and have to productionize their jupyter notebooks I'm not a huge Python fan, despite working with it fulltime, but this feels like mixing correlation and causation.…
> Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of gatekeeping "we know better" from programmers. I assume the…
It's interesting to look at what was being attempted when the vulnerability was introduced[0] > Workflows like jira_close.yml use deprecated atlassian JIRA actions and have a dependency on the gh-actions repo. This is…
> Anyone remember when YC declared they would replace Hollywood? I specifically remember a prolific HN commenter working on an AI video startup claiming that by the end of 2025, children would be able to create…
> It’s much easier to say someone else’s job is going to be fully replaceable by AI when you don’t actually know what they do. Too true. This isn't limited to AI, either. The most obvious example in my lifetime was…
> the opportunity costs of throwing everything onto your "competent developers" isn't free. They still need time to review and correct output on top of whatever else they were doing in their day to day. Maybe it wasn't…
I don't agree here. Yes Claude is great at following patterns, and for very standard tasks (e.g. "add this HTTP handler" which can copy existing patterns for database transaction management, session management,…
Really nice read. I'll add that it's effective to scope design docs up and down as needed, both in terms of how big your project is and how big your company is. A 50-person startup doesn't need a full design doc with…
> I never understood why anybody would pay for Slack when its based on IRC and IRC is free, but whatever. Comparing IRC vs Slack maybe made sense when Slack was very young, and it was like buying a Honda Civic vs a…
> Simple example: feature X is rarely used (thus we should get rid of it) Oh man, I remember a very specific example of this: many years ago now, Google Chrome pushed an update that got rid of the option on the menu bar…
> Why not paying the technician $80,000 a year? Because every other company has also replaced their 6 warehouse workers with a fleet of robots and 1 technician, and that technician's skills are more rare and specialized…
Source? I still see people with titles like Art Director which would map pretty directly to the warehouse worker vs technician dichotomy.
I'm saying if you gave me full admin credentials to every ISP, BGP router, DNS provider, etc., then yes, I could effectively destroy the internet in an afternoon, and LLMs wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it.
> and what has effectively happened in some industries already, is to have a fleet of robots and 0 technicians. Which specific industries are these which currently have a fleet of robots and 0 technicians?
> This is an oxymoron. Huh? Not really, internet shutdowns are a documented and real thing. Suggested reading (all of which refer to the internet as being shut down or blacked out): [0] [1] [2] The fact that you need to…
As crazy as it sounds, I'm not going to commit a felony to prove that disrupting a data centre's operations for a sufficiently motivated individual is a fairly easy task.
> The Internet virtually indestructible against people smarter than a toddler. It's already impossible to turn off. This isn't true at all. The internet has already been turned off in localized areas during major…
The use of the phrase "curious toddler" is called a metaphor[0], which is a figure of speech[1] used to make writing more interesting. I apologize for the confusion that caused you to interpret this as a literal,…
Thankfully I don't have to; Iran already showed with me-central-1 that you can take a data center offline with conventional weaponry very easily.[0] [0] https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
"Humans use <new technology> to do evil things" is a tale as old as time, though. An AI didn't decide to fly into a warzone and start shooting people on its own.
> Can someone please explain to me how an LLM is going to "destroy humanity"? Even if the claims of ChatGPT, Claude et al. are true that their super scary agents were able to escape a sandbox and start hacking other…
> If we pursued the "Most Qualified" in its truest form, then ~95%[1] of the jobs in this country would be handed over to foreigners. [1] The USA is less than 5% of the worlds population. This would be true if you're…
> Kind of a bummer that 95% of software engineering is dedicated to creating a padded cell to make sure no one makes a whoopsie instead of doing creative and interesting things. s/software engineering/running a…
> The ChatGPT moment for humanoid robotics is coming within a year or two. How long after that moment did the ChatGPT robots need to invent the time travel machine which let you come back to 2026 to confidently claim…
It's funny that private trackers are now more about ensuring uploads are high quality and properly labeled, and that people actually seed, than they are about dodging copyright enforcement. Reflective of the times. Most…
> Python is awful. > I often work with data scientists and have to productionize their jupyter notebooks I'm not a huge Python fan, despite working with it fulltime, but this feels like mixing correlation and causation.…
> Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of gatekeeping "we know better" from programmers. I assume the…
It's interesting to look at what was being attempted when the vulnerability was introduced[0] > Workflows like jira_close.yml use deprecated atlassian JIRA actions and have a dependency on the gh-actions repo. This is…
> Anyone remember when YC declared they would replace Hollywood? I specifically remember a prolific HN commenter working on an AI video startup claiming that by the end of 2025, children would be able to create…
> It’s much easier to say someone else’s job is going to be fully replaceable by AI when you don’t actually know what they do. Too true. This isn't limited to AI, either. The most obvious example in my lifetime was…
> the opportunity costs of throwing everything onto your "competent developers" isn't free. They still need time to review and correct output on top of whatever else they were doing in their day to day. Maybe it wasn't…
I don't agree here. Yes Claude is great at following patterns, and for very standard tasks (e.g. "add this HTTP handler" which can copy existing patterns for database transaction management, session management,…