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"More importantly, when this loop matters enough for me to care about a 5x speedup, I want the vectorization to be explicit and predictable. I don't want an unrelated code change or compiler update to quietly turn it back into a scalar loop."

Only tangentially related but this is by far the most painful part about optimizing code for JIT compilers like V8. Even changing a constant from 1 to 1.0 somewhere else can change the optimizations performed and lead to an unexpected performance decrease.

This is standard practice in the games industry.

"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion."

These people really have nothing better to do?

"I wrote this series as a learning exercise, in collaboration with AI (Claude Opus 4.8). It's me thinking out loud with a model to understand the stack end to end, not an authoritative reference. Take it with a grain of salt, and double-check anything you plan to rely on."

The author admits as much. It's basically him prompting, "Hey Claude write a long series about LLM tech." Waste of time.

Also I just realized, the information might be subtly wrong or misleading because Anthropic makes Claude dumber when trying to reverse engineer LLMs, which is hilarious. And the author is basically saying hey, I don't know if any of this is correct but, like, enjoy reading it! Hah.

This is going to create some kind of maladaptive social issues with heavy users, just like sexual dysfunction from pornography addiction. These people won't be able to bond with regular people, or maybe even their own family, after a while.

A novel is a bunch of words

What's valuable in a novel (or a poem) is in the words.

Even if the words are a lie? Misleading? False?

I'm not even talking about LLMs. What if it's propaganda designed to influence your thinking, possibly against your own interests; are those still valuable words that you'd cherish reading?

My point is that the source matters, intent matters, and authenticity matters. To me, anyway.

They interpolate data in an XYZ dimensional space. The implications of that is beyond our comprehension.

I have a hard time believing that all novel concepts yet to be discovered are contained within that space, though.

Curious if this can be combined with AI-generated videos that "maximally drive a targeted brain region" (another post on the front page of HN today).

These poor kids don't stand a chance... to not learn something!

Product and service reviews are completely useless now too, and have been for a while. Restaurant ratings are pure noise, everything is 4 stars and there is absolutely no correlation to the quality of food or service. None of it is real.

It's bleak out there, on the internet.

I don't understand the EU's position on privacy. On the one hand, they enacted GDPR to give you control over access to your personal data.

On the other, they need access to all of your data.

We should all keep in mind that foreign interests, primarily China, are astroturfing to drive resentment in the USA against AI and datacenters.

I'm pretty sure the economics of it for the average citizen takes care of the resentment all by itself. No need for elaborate conspiracy theories.

1-on-1 interviews with a LLM sounds like it'd go over about as well as AI customer service.

How do you merge changes to a texture, mesh, audio file, etc?

Resolve elevated errors, don't stop until you are finished.

Amazing. Next year you'll need to be nice to Claude and praise the geniuses working at Anthropic to maintain full productivity.

Those newspaper tech job ads have been going on for at least the last... 20 years. When you see those, the company already has the role filled, they just need a justification for the visa. "We tried to find a US worker but failed!" Which honestly may or may not be true, I think the ad is just standard procedure at this point.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating.

Ok, but there's also nothing wrong with celebrating not using AI.

Tax the tokens, I actually like that idea. It'd be like a gasoline tax -- drivers pay for infrastructure maintenance. In this case, token consumers would pay for the increased burden on the grid.

Don’t be fooled, they already 100% do that if you use any of these products.

Just to clarify for anyone not paying attention -- Anthropic has written postmortems detailing their Claude Code monitoring and how they "coordinated with authorities" as they "gathered actionable intelligence" from users creating bad content [0].

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

Fair but my point is simply, if a gun kills a person it's functioning as intended, but you can't say the same about a chat bot.

The purpose of a gun is to kill things, whereas the purpose of a chat bot is to help people. They're not really in the same category of tool.

If "Open AI" was their ethos, it was lost immediately. I'm not sure what the ethos of Anthropic is.

LMGTFY was rude. You'd never send that to a coworker, unless you were close friends and wanted to rib them a bit for having a brain fart.

This is completely off topic now but, "it's worth being precise about ..." is a much stronger AI-ism than the usage of the word genuine.

How is the censorship when asking for "dangerous" actions like writing a port scanner?

I can’t help but read the logic as not being too far off from: “libfoo switched to being developed using emacs instead of vim so we can’t trust it anymore”

So let's say they up the ante and set up a cron job to rewrite the entire codebase in a new language on the first Monday of every month: from Rust to C++ to Go to Swift and back again.

For customers using the product, that's basically the same as a maintainer switching editors? Irrelevant detail?

Well I'd get that either way if I write it myself.

Also I was joking, I'd never do that; feels gross. But I suppose it is a legitimate "productive" use of AI.

how many problems that you work on have many existing free solutions but you neglected to use that code and decided to spend days doing it yourself?

Only when the existing free solutions are licensed with something like GPL. Now I can just say, write me a C webserver library similar to mongoose and I get the functionality without the license burden.

We'll just move to a higher level of abstraction; thinking will be like efficiently coding in assembly, no longer necessary in today's world.

Anthropic just needs to buy Zig! Problem solved.