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> And not just in this instance, nerfing has been complained about in a cyclical fashion for many months.

No, it gets complained about constantly even if there is no model coming out. A completely unrelated thread on Claude will feature comments like "can I just say that [model] has suddenly become useless this week?" Merely asking that question is bound to get people agreeing with you because we are evaluating all of this on vibes and placebos.

I too feel that way sometimes, I don't think it's ridiculous that Anthropic might silently downgrade you as demand warrants. But asking others if they "feel" something I feel is less than useless.

That's a valid and measured take, but most of the comments in here are not talking about the affair in such terms. They are mostly painting Jensen as some kind of innocent child who was manipulated with Jedi Mind Tricks, when there's no reason to think her approach was anything but blunt.

I don't even care that much about what Jensen did, I don't even know what his marriage is like. It wouldn't bother me if he stayed on Nvidia. But people are defending him in a way that comes off less like "we can all make a dumb mistake on the wrong day" and more like "all men want secretly to ditch their wives, and his mistake was doing it with a spy."

The implication is that HN commenters have a tendency to attribute more humanity and depth to rich and powerful figures than they do "nobodies."

If that were the case I imagine he'd divorce his wife privately and not publicly admit to cheating on her.

> Is HN just this millionare-friendly

He is a billionaire and people here fall over themselves idolizing figures like him. You get the sense reading HN comments that they respect founders they don't know more than their own spouse or kids.

Maybe I'm just weird, but I love my wife and wouldn't cheat on her, even if a nation state tried to craft some kind of "ideal woman." It's a bit alarming so many people on this thread are treating it like a foregone conclusion that all men are doomed to cheat on their wives if given the right hair color and conversation topics.

> A significant proportion of the people I know that won the startup lottery ended up losing the money when the girl they were into at high school flies themselves at them, has their kids, then goes back to the dude they were with before with the kids and child support

What in the world are you talking about? Most successful people you know get honeypotted by their high school crush? I don't know anybody like that. How did you determine it was a honeypot and not just a regular divorce?

> The people in here acting like they would be immune to all this are kidding themselves

Maybe speak for yourself.

> And I have seen many real problems solved with Lisp, regardless, that is why commercial Lisps like LispWorks and Allegro are still in business

Can you think of some domains where Common Lisp is a better choice than other languages? I have enjoyed Clojure for a lot of things, but I have not really found the features of SBCL useful for the kind of work I do.

For instance, restarts without unwinding the stack are cool, but for a server that's going to be running in production, it's not something I really leverage. I could use conditions to change the context of code called downstream, but I just haven't had a reason to do this yet.

> You're arguing security through obscurity, which is a particularly dead concept in the age of AI

Most of these huge AI discoveries of vulnerabilities have not been through probing an unknown server with a custom stack. They've been through probing a known/discoverable tech stack that is open source. Security through obscurity is never good, but if anything, the next couple years on known tech stacks is going to be worse.

> Being able to blame a supplier/library is almost always preferable to assuming the liability yourself

This only works if it's Log4j, or PHP, or some big vulnerability that hits mainstream news. Clients do not care if the tiny library only you picked had a vulnerability in it, and they shouldn't either.

If you're desperate to discredit the substance of the comment with pedantic word games, sure. What they are describing sounds like engineering to me.

What made you move to Clojure?

Again, nobody in this letter said woke. You're just nonsensically calling things you don't like Woke to post rationalize the types of censorship these people are okay with.

> It's very clear to observers of reality that the vast, vast majority of prominent people and organizations who criticized wokeness have moved on to criticzing Trump

Definitely not. What kind of claim is this? You can't think of anybody that complained about Woke censorship that still supports Trump? You are pointing out the exceptions.

> indie games with quality similar to Hollow Knight do not come out all the time

Which is completely expected, and not unique to this era. The commenter said "Released recently," as though there was some time where we were basking in masterpieces. If that's your definition for quality, the situation is still better now than it was at any other time in the industry.

There used to be hardly any indie scene. Steam was not dominant yet and consoles didn't let just anyone on their platforms. Because of this, there were far fewer games, and many of them were shit. But of course, we only remember the excellent ones, or the ones from our youth, as we do for film and music.

Today, the variety of different stories and risky ideas being tried dwarfs any other time, and people are pulling off more ambitious things with less money. And the games are also cheap. I got Songs of Syx for $25.

For what it's worth, there are a bunch of indie games I like more than Hollow Knight. I think it's a good game, but it's a pretty specific genre. I don't think we "peaked" there.

Silver Pines has a 97% on Steam. It might not be your genre, as Clair Obscur is not mine, but people obviously think it's excellent.

If you have a limited interest in genres, no, you're not going to enjoy a lot of games, which has always been true. There is not some mythical time before now where a greater quantity of excellent games were being made.

Maybe, but they would have months before the results of the midterms practically affect them.

Silver Pines, Order of the Sinking Star, Hellraiser, Retrospace. Those all came out in the past month.

This is the language of people just looking at high budget games. Much like people insisting there are no good films when they only look at superhero movies. Quality indie titles come out all the time.

> Unique stuff worth playing is extremely rare, if you're not 7 years old and you played more than a couple of games in your life of course

I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has played as many games as I have, and I couldn't disagree more. I find this sentiment more common amongst people who have played 20-30 games in their lifetime. The more I play, the more interested I am in the smaller titles sprinkled throughout the month. Even a janky, low budget game can do something unique. I have a massive backlog.

There are very cool games coming out every week, IMO. Just this next month,

- The Kingsfield inspired game Queen's Domain. That looks visually amazing.

- Noble Fates is a very cool Colony Sim that surpasses Rimworld in some respects (even if it comes short in others)

- Worship is a game where you play as a cult leader and command minions like Pikmin (I'm a sucker for cult games).

- County of Fortune is a massive city builder that goes a scale beyond what most city builders allow

- Silver Pines is a horror game borrowing from the genre's greats. It got a 97% on Steam.

> It's more about "staying in the flow" and in this regard, humans and agents are not much different.

They are absolutely different. An LLM can be paused and pick back up in the exact same place. It makes no difference if compilation take a second or an hour. A human has to remember what they were doing. That's what people talk about when they mention flow state.

> Besides, you're just ignoring the main talking point of my comment - the state

I don't think I ignored that, I talk about it directly. I said it could conceivably lead to more problems because the LLM could overly lean on live evaluation as context degrades. I would feel more comfortable with it in an immutable language.

I like Lisp, I was not generally disregarding REPLs. But

> programmer/agent stops guessing

I think programmers and agents are fundamentally different, and require different approaches. I don't see the benefits to an agent avoiding recompilation when they may take 30+ minutes on a couple prompts. I don't think compilation time even accounts for 1% of what my agents do, but I could be wrong (again, I'm not working on something massive).

I also don't think I want them to assume they solved something because the current image is working as intended. I don't really trust them to know if they have a working solution, or if they have built up a very specific state that works, but can't get the same solution from scratch.

Also I feel more comfortable doing localized tests through the REPL than letting an agent do it. I would need some kind of test suite or harness to check a bigger trail of behavior than let it assume a problem was fixed. But I doubt this will be a problem for long

No, more like effortless, unprecedented scale of misinformation.

Seems like a really bad article. They have a loss, but their revenue is still trending up, which suggests they are spending more money building products (perhaps with better AI tooling). That's a pretty normal thing for a healthy business to do in this landscape.

The article doesn't mention this at all. It just blindly includes that graph and than muses about the death of Jetbrains for a few paragraphs.

Is that an industry?

> no restarting, no re-compiling

Is this really a problem with agentic programming? I have done some pretty complex tasks with it and I never thought "this would go a lot faster if the compilation speeds weren't slow." Seems like the time Claude takes dwarfs any build time.

I am not working on 1M+ LOC codebases though, so I could see how slow compilation times could be a problem then, but I imagine the agentic part would also slow down.

Good thing Microsoft is known for maintaining good quality.

You originally said this

> Feels bad to buy an expensive piece of hardware, a $60+ game, and then be asked to pony up another hourly fee

That's why people were confused. You made it sound like you couldn't use your hardware to play games. Why are you streaming from cloud PCs in the first place if you have the hardware?

From what I understand, it puts up way more fuss investigating exploits than it does reverse engineering. Right now I think you can pretty much put any Ghidra output into Claude and it won't care.

Meh. Plug your ears if opinions offend you. I just explained why a lot of people don't like him. He's a really bad film critic that lacks domain knowledge, but he's stumbled into a dead horse he can kick.

> That's a sweet but also very baseless accusation. You should do better research

Okay, here he is doing just that. Didn't watch it, tries to weigh in on it for clout. His own comment section is not having it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ubB8tjL04.

> I very much doubt he calls every woman lead a diversity hire. I think you are overreacting and putting him in the chuds tribe you are already very opinionated about.

You don't have to take that literally. He wears kid gloves for male actors. He takes on a different tone when talking about women.

> I think you are overreacting and putting him in the chuds tribe you are already very opinionated about.

I didn't call him a chud, you're just inventing stuff now. But it's definitely easy to see who butters his bread.

In his Sydney Sweeney video, which is a pretty bad video in general because it doesn't engage at all with why people might not like her, he has a very long rant (for him) about liberal women and how broken they are. How they've been corrupted by college and they're just secretly jealous of beautiful women. Just empty ranting full of every stereotype he could pull out of a hat. He doesn't respond to the fact that it's a gambling ad at all, which a huge amount of people criticized. He boils everything down to "She's hot and women hate that." He doesn't even think it's worth mentioning what people actually said. He posts a bunch of completely unrelated studies to the point he is making.

Then he, for whatever reason, attacks the interviewer that asked Sydney about the American Eagle ad? Implying she's a secret liberal placed there to make her look bad? Even though she gave her the most softball questions possible. Like, I think anybody can understand this is an interviewer giving a person a chance to react to news. Why is he just seeing a woman and implying she's secretly seething with anger? It's an extremely creepy way to talk about people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVovsQQGdk

For the record, there was a bunch of non-functional vibe coded fixes flying around during this PHP bug. If you were just running the first thing AI made because you were worried about "not reacting," you would likely end up running a crap script.

AI is quite good at finding vulnerabilities, but it's been rough for patching them. The old adage "defenders have to be right every time, attackers only have to be right once" applies to AI security patches.