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par1970··on Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?
What models + versions are you using?

Is it bad at designing systems that don't have a bunch of integrations?

par1970··on Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?
> I don't use ChatGPT, but i've been using an agent with Claude Sonnet 4.

Are you using Sonnet 4.6?

> So this AI Agent... It is much faster at doing code when given specific instructions. But it keeps loosing context on architecture, and i cant really let it build complex things with interdependencies that build on each other.

I've only built small things (< 1000 lines) with the systems, so I might be missing this problem.

Is it better than you at building small self-contained things?

> And i get a bad feel when i then wonder how is this app doing what it does? because my agent cant explain it, and i would be stupid to believe what it hallucinated because it sounds really solid until you scratch the construction.

Do you ask it to generate test suites for the things that it builds?

> it would be also faster to build a catastrophic spaghetti code nightmare if not used with great care.

noted

par1970··on Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?
Which models + versions are you using? Can you give a specific problem that you found them to be bad at?
par1970··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Maybe we are talking past one another.

> Right, but that's explicitly not the body of government meant to represent people.

I haven't claimed that the Senate was intended to represent the people. I also haven't claimed that OP claimed that the Senate was intended to represent the people.

> So is he saying the Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 100 states, or is he saying the House is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people?

He didn't say either of those things. He said this "The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people."

par1970··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
I think OP is arguing that because they literally said "The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people and we’re going to continue to get absurd unrepresentative outcomes for as long as it remains a relevant body."

What do you think they are arguing?

par1970··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Are you arguing this?

(Premise 1) If a country has 350 million people, then the Senate will produce unrepresentative outcomes.

(Premise 2) America has 350 million people.

(Conclusion 1) So, the Senate will produce unrepresentative outcomes in America.

(Conclusion 2) So, the Senate is bad for America.

par1970··on Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong
> We're nowhere close to AGI and don't have a clue how to get there.

Do you have an argument?

par1970··on Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
So do we already do this? And if not, why not?
par1970··on SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed
> Sadly, the answer is that you can't.

Suppose there are two distinct entities, each such that if it is learned about, then it kills the learner, call them Geigh and Ritaar. What happens when Geigh learns about Ritaar?

par1970··on SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed
How did you make a blank comment? I thought hn prevented it
par1970··on College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
How is that the same thing?
par1970··on "AI", students, and epistemic crisis
Okay. So, in your original comment are you asserting that teachers are mostly telling students to believe propositions without giving any epistemic justification for those propositions?
par1970··on "AI", students, and epistemic crisis
Does “self-evident” just mean that anyone who knows the sentence’s meaning can determine that it is true without any need to gather empirical data?

eg, All bachelors are unmarried.

eg, If X is a triangle, then X has three sides.

eg, the world is round or it is not the case that the world is round.

And does “universally recognized” just mean that most people believe the proposition is true?

par1970··on "AI", students, and epistemic crisis
> In order to not have to explain everything, almost all lessons are mostly teaching you some axioms, even if they really are disputed, or have caveats, etc. Good teachers make clear where there is an axiom, and where something is just being simplified or assumed for the sake of saving time.

What exactly do you mean by the word “axiom” here?

par1970··on Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
What about the guys who thought it was obviously a remote starter?
par1970··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
In what way does it feel different and why does this difference suggest a higher probability of truth?
par1970··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
I think that anyone who believed in Santa Clause as a kid should automatically discredit any “intuition” they have about things. How much more evidence do you need that you’ll just believe in kooky nice sounding things?

Maybe you didn’t believe in The Red Guy, but I did, and in retrospect I must be a complete retard.

par1970··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
“Only a hateful racist Nazi-adjacent person could think that the gap between American black and white socioeconomic status is caused by degenerate, pathologically retarded black culture rather than ‘oppression’.“

Am I doing it right?

par1970··on Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China
> Prison labor is compensating for crimes committed against society and other people

But the prisoners didn’t commit crimes against “society” they committed them against particular people. Why not force the inmate into indentured servitude under the injured party rather than an opportunistic third party like Walmart?

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