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whattheheckheck··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
We will need rigorous agnostic statistical experiments to know what stuff is better
whattheheckheck··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Yeah folks can also look into the Jeff Hawkins and a thousand brains
whattheheckheck··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
I agree with this expertise use of the tool is above and beyond what vibe coders are doing. But you can see how everyone collapses it into "unskilled labor" operating the chatbot (a replacement for real expertise)

See the Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth on why the industry is doomed to repeat the cycles.

We need a professional society thats not youtube podcasters hocking courses and sponsored content

whattheheckheck··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
The oxford book of ai ethics quotes and old definition of intelligence as "doing the right thing at the right time" and says "intelligence is an ordinary process that requires time, energy and space, thats why when you get down to it no one is ever really that smart. No one has time to process everything"

So spend your time wisely

whattheheckheck··on U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box
Groundnews, ballotpedia, govtrack.us, directly following politicians social media... you get a very clear picture of what's going on.

If people are lost to the Algorithm then we get what we deserve. Should have loved your family more

whattheheckheck··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
So many elon shills J. ust A. sking Q. uestion -ing off
whattheheckheck··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Scam company with no revenues
whattheheckheck··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Steal from everyone and shove their faces in the dirt and the social contract breaks down further
whattheheckheck··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Master builders ought to write blogs, books and speak at conferences and in podcasts for clout and subscriber money so the training data can get scooped up in the next loop. And pick the best of the best for master/apprentice training while you still can
whattheheckheck··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Let them attempt to use ai to build business critical systems and when they waste tens amd hundreds of millions they can rehire master builders who know what they're doing
whattheheckheck··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Lol the worst pattern
whattheheckheck··on MCP is dead?
Server implementers have an information advantage than the client coders wiring clis together to do a job
whattheheckheck··on Building durable workflows on Postgres
Soon this will be open-source

https://flawless.dev/

whattheheckheck··on Building durable workflows on Postgres
Can you not have a repo with conventional commits wired to do cicd for deployment?
whattheheckheck··on Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
Dull senses, sharp senses whats it matter if the degrees of freedom for your actionable choices with news information dont affect the winning coalition? You're not even part of the selectorate
whattheheckheck··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Humans will revolt and mutiny on the ai ceo so fast its not even funny
whattheheckheck··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Thats when your build a better Ralph loop around your llm for it to converge to an answer and not rely on 1 shots
whattheheckheck··on Show HN: skills-for-humanity – 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code
Why not add a little prefix to them all?

Like /sfh-*

whattheheckheck··on A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Curious how the people who dont pitch crazy complicated bs to keep themselves busy and other confused dont get rewarded
whattheheckheck··on The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble
Iceberg surface
whattheheckheck··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
Yeah not trying to pick on any particular project because its quite the mark that the writer didn't proof read the documentation and its quite widespread
whattheheckheck··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
Maybe we can come up with an spec for aligning asci diagrams. Can't really build anything with confidence when the attention to detail is lacking in these agentic systems

https://imgur.com/a/r4fhOwy

whattheheckheck··on Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
The industry has to tokenmax to juice the revenue numbers. Its a big club
whattheheckheck··on There's Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science
"Make no mistakes"

Is the non-math ceo going to validate his formula is right?

whattheheckheck··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
After 10 years of his bs I can't imagine anyone not realizing trump, maga, and heritage foundation people aren't intentionally malevolent
whattheheckheck··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
I agree robots do not have a race in the most literal, autistic interpetation of the sentence.

It's the shape of the behavior. It translates from a primordial belief systems that enables someone to say its okay to position themselves above something.

The word robot originates from the Czech term robotnik, meaning "forced worker," which is derived from robota, denoting forced labor or drudgery performed by feudal serfs. This Czech word traces its roots to the Old Church Slavonic rabota (servitude) and the Slavic root rabu, which literally means slave

Remember history? Its not okay to subjugate human beings?

People that pounce of clanker type behavior are definitely problematic behind closed doors

whattheheckheck··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Using clanker kinda shows how racist you are. If you get defensive its true
whattheheckheck··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Can you though? Can you be the final answer on everything?
whattheheckheck··on Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
This diminishes the llm performance by making it use random out of band non thinking tokens
whattheheckheck··on Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust
And just because you model the system in tla+ and its a valid model doesn't mean the vibe coded implementation matches the tla+ model
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