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ermantrout··on Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers
This makes sense. Why would everyone be coted for the same answer
ermantrout··on The open-source Claude Design alternative has 77k GitHub stars and 1M+ installs
I used their free version, before I reached out for an interview, it worked really good for me.
ermantrout··on The open-source Claude Design alternative has 77k GitHub stars and 1M+ installs
I interviewed the team behind this. Full disclosure, I run the site. Happy to answer questions about the methodology, and the numbers here are theirs and labeled self-reported in the piece.
ermantrout··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
"Code is a liability" is the part that usually gets hand-waved, and there's a number on it now. Veracode's 2025 GenAI report ran 80 tasks across 100+ models: when a task could be solved securely or insecurely, the models picked the insecure path 45% of the time, at roughly 2.7x the vulnerability density of human-written code (Java was worst, at a 72% failure rate).

So the mediocre-dev case may be worse than "10x more mediocre code." It's more code that also skews insecure by default, and that cost shows up downstream in review and incidents, not at the PR. Throughput goes up, and so does the liability per line.

ermantrout··on Don't Fight AI
Adapt or die
ermantrout··on If you can't hold it, you don't own it
My ps3 disc reader os broken and the only games i can play are digital games. At anyppint they can shut down the servers and the game that i boight wont be available anymore
ermantrout··on Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron
Hey this is pretty cool
ermantrout··on The economics of a one-person AI business
How is it slop?
ermantrout··on Ask HN: I'm hesitant to helping colleagues, why?
The cause is that you are selfish and want to look after yourself. You need to let go of your ego and be happy for the success of others.