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Yes, the men running concentration camps are 100% absolved of their culpability. Not their fault!

So don’t use it!

Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!

From what I understand, this isn’t so far from what Germany does with their secondary schools

Serious question, tell me what you think of using IQ tests to hire SWEs? Should we just do that instead?

Imagine the cognitive dissonance at play there, doing some DS work, realizing your product actively makes people depressed...all while driving back to your 5M+ home in a Tesla listening to podcasts about sunning your ballsack

The archetype of the "jerk engineer" is over, because it turns out coding isn't all that valuable anymore. We now need "engineers" who understand much more than coding.

it seemed HN was moving the right direction when we added the "no AI comments", and yet, every single post about a new model is from you and your pelican. it's tired. please stop, it adds no value and has become cliche.

I think mandates are irrelevant. Unless you work at a monopoly or cutting edge domain, I don’t see how anything other than a “software factory” wins.

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

lowercasing doesn’t obfuscate the stench of LLM

I have a 20$ for both and like each for unique reasons. How do you all switch your programming paradigms for Codex vs CC?

Ai shit post

Does anyone have any solid patterns they can share around the “scenarios”/holdouts concept from the Dark Factory, where you create external system(s) to verify your main one?

I largely agree with you. And, given your points about “not going back” — how do you propose interviewing SWEs?

A lot of people here like this guys writing.

For a longer and more biting critique of SF one should read

Private Citizens (2016) by Tony Tulathimutte

“ Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire.”

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year

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How do people evaluate creative writing and emotional intelligence in LLMs? Most benchmarks seem to focus on reasoning or correctness, which feels orthogonal. I’ve been playing with Kimmy K 2.5 and it feels much stronger on voice and emotional grounding, but I don’t know how to measure that beyond human judgment.

LLM shit post

Can the same thing be said for using docker compose etc on a VPS to host a web app? Ie you can get the ergonomic / ease of using Fly, Renderer?

Historically, managed platforms like Fly.io, Render, and DigitalOcean App Platform existed to solve three pain points: 1. Fear of misconfiguring Linux 2. Fear of Docker / Compose complexity 3. Fear of “what if it breaks at 2am?”

CLI agents (Claude Code, etc.) dramatically reduce (1) and (2), and partially reduce (3).

So the tradeoff has changed from:

“Pay $50–150/month to avoid yak-shaving” → “Pay $5–12/month and let an agent do the yak-shaving”

Crayons, paper, some magnatiles.

It would be a deep irony if LLMs ended up ushering in the social rupture that never arrived in the industrial era. When the pigs turn hogs and refuse to share even the scraps, they shouldn’t be surprised if the system they depend on becomes their undoing.

I can’t get over the range of sentiment on LLMs. HN leans snake oil, X leans “we’re all cooked” —- can it possibly be both? How do other folks make sense of this? I’m not asking for a side, rather understanding the range. Does the range lead you to believe X over Y?

In CC or Codex (or whichever) — “run git diff and review”

100% required on all Pynchon novels that's for sure.

This is pretty cool!

Since we’re sharing related work, I’ve been building something at a very different layer of the stack. Shameless plug warning!

Where Phind gives you an interactive answer right now, I built SageNet for the opposite problem: when you want to go from zero → actually good at something over weeks/months, not just get a one-shot result.

SageNet:

- builds a personalized learning plan

- adapts as you progress

- generates short audio lessons

- gives real projects

- has a daily voice check-in agent

- lets you share a public progress dashboard

If anyone wants to try it: https://www.sagenet.club

or, they wrote it and asked an LLM to improve the flow

I've been building SageNet, a voice-first AI coach that turns your goals into structured, adaptive learning plans.

After a 2-minute voice conversation, Sage generates a personalized 6-module roadmap with build-first projects. It checks in by voice, analyzes your reflections, and regenerates your plan if needed. You can invite friends to your Support Squad for accountability.

The biggest insight so far is people don’t want “infinite content.” They want structure and someone who remembers them.

would love feedback!

http://sagenet.club

I recommend the books Cherry or Wasting Talent for two semi-autobiographical novels that show heavy/gnarly addiction. As a non addict, it wasn’t until I read a book like these until I was able gain more empathy for the spiral. Unlike news articles or stats, these offer much more human (perhaps mildly fabricated) anecdotes of how seemingly impossible it is for addicts to get clean. I’m aware my consumption of these stories borders on “poverty porn”, while also helping me empathize with that side of the human condition.

Where can one learn more about this?