AIorNot

After having to get a windows laptop for work - I'm still in awe of my old M2 Max.. Apple makes the best general laptops out there by a wide margin

Scott Aaronson of Shtel Optimzed and now at OpenAI has a great podcast episode discussing this -worth watching

https://youtu.be/3yXtXTwz4J4?si=mmePkdRBQrlO3BlD

Many worlds as real ontology are just as wild as saying their is a God. Physicists are thus making claims that just as wild as the theologians .. I find this fascinating.

Just like the AI nerds and the AGI singularity or Musk saying we are in simulation...

ie so many crazy ideas.. for the rationalist, its like being in an insane asylum and trusting one mental patient or another..

I suppose at some level its just not rational why we exist. We must accept some wild, fundamental metaphysical assumption

Haha a “double agent” indeed- good idea

Correction: “Our Dear Leader’s”insane ramblings;)

Well to be sure I posted it for the HN community to reflect on the operational readiness of production AI coded applications like Codex

Ie are they ready for primetime - if some app kills all the space on your HD just running it daily its a bad sign that any SaaS company would want to address

That is not true for AI coding at all: ie the evidence is the massive difference between Claude code in opus 4.6 vs opus 5.5

That difference is enough to unlock AI coding for so many real life teams

No that is not a correct read -it might be based on this past few months or so state of the art, while instead that state of the art is moving forward every month- and at the rate these ai coding systems are improving and our harnesses for managing them- bug handling and brownfield codebases are becoming increasingly accessible to AI coding

Ie you are making the mistake of assuming the tech is static when it most assuredly is not

Well to play the opposite perspective:

If we assume that AI coding is just beginning- we can assume that humans will create systems to help Manage the increasingly complex interactions that machines will code - ie we are still early like when we first introduced the industrial revolution to the peasants (which led to decades of chaos- for sure)

But Just like a 787 is not flown by hand either - doesn't mean anyone is qualified to autopilot it

Complex engineering systems will require sme humans to help manage the underlying complex interactions in way that is comprehensible to human intelligence

No one except for a smaller group of specialists for example these days does much understanding of assembly or compilers.. but we build complex SaaS apps all the time without that knowledge

They really are Mr Meeseeks

https://youtu.be/l5wvqKcqL7c?is=AjitdD6Jk2h2kGmE

Eh, that was said about Javascript, electron, node, etc

The world adapted, that is to say if something is popular- they will keep it going through just enough fixes to keep it going

Well looks like my post hit the frontpage of HN, so maybe openai will fix the bug :)

sounds good

I created the following feature request:

https://github.com/enes-alatas/spool/issues/925

If OpenAI's super-intelligence can solve Navier-Stokes why can't they fix this stupid bug that ate up 330GB of my Mac's disk space? come one please triage your github issues?

See this: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921#issuecomment-62...

oh,oh

Looks like need to build in the Three Laws now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Very interesting- will check it out

how does it work from a cost management perspective

Ie one subscription to each project - can we have spools of different claude subscriptions working together-

Trying to contain my dev costs and prevent claude orchestrated agent to subagent api overruns

It’s not ghoulish but it also perpuates a never ending cycle unfortunately- we as in each culture, man, woman are all wronged in so many ways and most have legitimate grievances and are skilled in restarting and kindling those grievances with the next batch of children..ironically religion and nationalism kindles that even further while also providing a base identity to create fellowship between its adherents

But is the only way out further death and destruction?

Blessed be the peacemakers, as they say

So here's the question:

in America we have had 20 years of "Tech Disruption"., making the world a better place and relentless technical innovation, combined with the 'corporization' of America

Has our day to day lives improved?

Do we work less, live healthier, have less stress?

Seems like this (the younger generation) is far worse off then pre-internet connected, smartphone generation

I think the other article from Js Sommers on the awe inspiring complexity of Biology is also worth a read through

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

update: just realized there IS an Accents selector- excellent

This is hilarious except not a single of the AI generated voices have Indian, russian or south american accents in any of the SRE, Software or API meetings so immediately suspect :) -also everybody is extrovert?

Listening to so many white-coded american voices talk about APIs has never happened in any American company I have ever worked for (Except maybe the Fed Gov)

-please do the needful

https://iminafleeting.com/?v=en-US&m=api

Hmm I was more interested in this alternative to backprop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701182

Its just an insufferable AI way to say best set of options given

isnt this the plot of the Movie Kimi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gr2zXuEBL0

how does this relate to WebMCP

Lovely pics, but no country as much as America idolizes and worships its adolescents..MTV, VH1, now instagram, tiktok and all that.. according to mass media we spend the rest 50 years of our lives trying to recapture that short youthful phase.. in reality for a lot people adolescence was a painful and thankfully short period from which you matured and and were able to appreciate adulthood.. nothing wrong with few gray hairs too

this is a good summary of the problems of AI decision making, but its assuming corporate decision making before was any better.. its probably about the same

ie we have companies making decisions just as badly before AI as with AI..

You need human vision and leadership to move an org.. AI is just a tool at this point

Man your graphical choices are pretty difficult to bear.. too much noise not enough information

Give them a break, they got into a War with Trump over this..it will come soon enough

The problem with this is not technology- its the lack of interesting meetups i want to join in my city

Eg meetup at least has critical mass of users and meetups