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zurfer··on CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
I do think it's more subtle. AI can replace very few jobs end to end with the same quality, maybe none. But AI can be put to work on high ROI problems. Now when the new marginal job is not obviously as high ROI as putting another 100k of tokens to work, no human gets hired.

Next, comes natural attrition in a company where a certain percentage will leave every year. Will they get replaced with a human or their budget goes into tokens?

Only when these 2 angles are exhausted, a typical company will start thinking about layoffs.

Now, some companies are already stressed: customer buy AI products instead of theirs, AI makes it easier to build what they offer, customers believe they can vibe code things. These companies will layoff first, because of AI. Not because AI will do the persons job but because the money gets spend differently.

zurfer··on AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI
Don't fall for it. Its a trick question. Capitalism made everybody replaceable a long time ago. :P

The more interesting question is: Has the ease of replacibility increased because of AI?

zurfer··on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
Naive question but if it works best wouldn't companies that have a four day work week outperform theirs peers and because of that grow faster, and become more common?

I see the opposite in most startups that have a 6 day work week to get ahead of the "slowly moving" 5 day work week competition.

zurfer··on OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
Anthropic will probably IPO as well
zurfer··on How fast is N tokens per second really?
yeah 3t/s seems human. only that i never wrote code perfectly top to bottom.
zurfer··on Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
Kudos to the team. Please consider making the model available via API!
zurfer··on Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
In almost every wealthy country the birth rate has fallen below sustainable, meaning we're shrinking if life expectancy doesn't magically explode.

Viruses btw never reflect on killing the host :P

zurfer··on Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
Techno optimist here who expects the following to make a big contribution to reducing human made future climate change: better batteries+solar/wind, nuclear fusion, self driving cars (we'll need to manufacture less cars for the same amount of miles humanity drives), AI helping with better resource allocation in general (hopefully).

The answer can't be, let's just consume 10x less. We have to engineer our way out of it.

zurfer··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
Maybe, or they use the same smartphones as everybody else. The mass market also wants the best model and will pay accordingly.
zurfer··on DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble
Bubble or not, this is great!
zurfer··on AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
It's priced at 1/10, but deepseek is probably not profitable, also it's slow.

Even more interesting is the question if we would have a deepseek model without the US frontier models.

And then what's the value of the advantage that the frontier models have. It's definitely 100x more valuable to find zero days 3months earlier. Probably not in every domain but in enough domains having the smartest model is valuable.

zurfer··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Down voted because the comment is not providing any new insights and is just insulting.
zurfer··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
salaries are opex, data centers are capex, you can't compare them in the same timeframe.

4B over 5 years is 20B, which is significant.

zurfer··on DeepSeek v4
lots of great stuff, but the plot in the paper is just chart crime. different shades of gray for references where sometimes you see 4 models and sometimes 3.
zurfer··on Bring your own Agent to MS Teams
this is vibe coded :D. the drop down for Python not working.

I remember when we started working on our teams bot in 2023, Microsoft announced that they will stop supporting Python for the teams sdk, which felt super short sighted. Eventually they silently picked it up again and the old sdk never stopped working.

Kudos for turning it around. I believe it'll last this time as AI agents in communication tools are something a lot of people want. and unlike pre LLM chatbots and agents, they are so much more useful now.

zurfer··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Naive question but are you not afraid z.ai will train on your personal data?
zurfer··on Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Hmm, if the stock keeps falling that might really happen.
zurfer··on NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
original: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentag...
zurfer··on Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update
They should just fall back to gpt 5.4. would save me the hustle to setup codex.. :P
zurfer··on N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?
Really cool. One thing wonder: Are they allowed to search the internet? If so, how do you filter out results after the vuln got published?
zurfer··on Distributed DuckDB Instance
As someone working in the field I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the terms differential storage nor do I really understand what hybrid execution means. Maybe you could describe it both from a simple technical point of view and what benefits it has to me as a user?
zurfer··on Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon
You know some people grow up in untrustworthy environments and auto didact their way to something like first principles thinking and depending on things shaking out you might only believe what you've personally seen with your own eyes. And well, earth looks pretty flat in daily life.
zurfer··on Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
> Muse Spark is available today at meta.ai and the Meta AI app. We’re opening a private API preview to select users.
zurfer··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
too much pressure. the author deleted the real source code: https://github.com/instructkr/claude-code/commit/7c3c5f7eb96...
zurfer··on ARC-AGI-3
it's just not binary. today's world is dominated by capitalistic competition and a lot of people earn a living by competing with their labor. If AI + robots can do the labor better, cheaper, faster, most (90%+) of today's jobs are gone without obvious replacement.
zurfer··on Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
"In this scaffold, several other models were able to solve the problem as well: Opus 4.6 (max), Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.4 (xhigh)."

I find that very surprising. This problem seems out of reach 3 months ago but now the 3 frontier models are able to solve it.

Is everybody distilling each others models? Companies sell the same data and RL environment to all big labs? Anybody more involved can share some rumors? :P

I do believe that AI can solve hard problems, but that progress is so distributed in a narrow domain makes me a bit suspicious somehow that there is a hidden factor. Like did some "data worker" solve a problem like that and it's now in the training data?

zurfer··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
Buy public openai investors, e.g. Microsoft. It's diluted but easy.
zurfer··on Elevated errors on login with Claude Code
this takes long enough for me to give codex a new try
zurfer··on Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?
https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336889
zurfer··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
I liked how it read. Not as a perfectly thought out post but more an ongoing conversation.

These are confusing times for engineers as the automators can now automate themselves away at even greater speed. Reminding ourselves to play positive sum games seems relevant.

The cake is too small to divide with humans and AI. We all feel that. Time to make more cakes :)

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