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Robdel12··on Gemini 4 Carbon
> Coming soon

Come on googs!

Robdel12··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Will this be another touchbar? Only time will tell but I never want to touch my screen. I don't even really do it with my iPad, lol
Robdel12··on Tesla Roadster
Movie special effects has been doing this forever, lol
Robdel12··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
> As our monorepo grows, it increasingly doesn’t fit that design space. The history of our main branch alone is almost 100 GB, and a compressed working copy is over 25 GB. We perform on the order of 25 million code checkouts per day for CI, before counting developer environments, agent sandboxes, and research jobs. Fetched naively, that would be over 600 PB of git traffic per day.

I read this and wonder what their agents have committed into the repo that people aren't looking at for _that much size_? Do they have a ton of binary assets in there or something??

Robdel12··on Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos
> These dyes are encapsulated in nanoparticles of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) — a medical-grade, glass-like plastic that is already used in medical implants and dermal fillers

Nano plastics? :p

Still pretty neat. I like the example picture in the article too

Robdel12··on Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack
I’m sure I’m wrong, but I remember reading about lasers being used as a cost effective defense mechanism

Something like https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-military-laser-shoots-down-c...

Robdel12··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
> I’d rather hear from people who correctly predicted 10 years ago that AGI would arrive by 2027

Where is this AGI you speak of? What?

Robdel12··on ChatGPT Pro 500
Yeah no. $200 was the top for me. Which doesn't super matter to me, I pretty much only use luna. I can't tell the difference between luna vs sol/astra other than those larger models do more ambitious things that I don't ask for.
Robdel12··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Man, I just do not care to see people’s LLM conversations. Those are not the artifacts. The changes are. It’s like attaching your slack convo with your teammate as a “pr”
Robdel12··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
This is awesome! More of this in YC and less Flock's.
Robdel12··on GPT-6 Astra
I don’t care about benchmarks, no way we can distill the breadth of software engineering into a number.

So, folks that have actually used this already, what’s it actually like?

Robdel12··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
How did you before LLMs 3 years ago?
Robdel12··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
100% agree with this. Want my browser search history too so you can see my thought process?

This is terrible. I have no desire to read your Claude conversation. I don’t even want to read mine if I do use Claude.

The code is the artifact. There’s no value in trying to make the noisy, verbose conversation one. It’ll likely be dead in future years anyway.

Robdel12··on Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
Yes, I'd love to! How? haha I'm robdel12 on pretty much everything (twitter, github, threads). Personal site w/email link https://robertdelu.ca/ I'd rather not put my email out here :p

Any/all work!

Robdel12··on Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
I will shamelessly plug https://pitstop.app. I've been working on this for years and I work on/race cars regularly.

I wouldn't fully trust LLMs with this :p BUT this project is still really freaking sweet.

Robdel12··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
I always will think of how everyone laughed at Bernie Sanders' reply in ~2016 to "What is the greatest threat to national security" and he replied "Climate change".

It's going to get ugly when large swaths of the human population struggles to get food & clean water.

Robdel12··on U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Poolside.ai as well
Robdel12··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBNVO7K0kA this is a really good little episode from PBS
Robdel12··on JetZero
This reeks of Vern Raburn and Eclipse Aviation all over again, haha. That failed terribly. SV’s ego is pretty funny sometimes. Eclipse even tried to develop their own avionics.
Robdel12··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donation-public-first-action

Probably because anthropic is pouring $40 million dollars into a political pact to regulate models. And they have not been quiet about wanting to ban/regulate OSS models either.

I have no idea why HN still treats them like ~their~ they are the ethical good guy.

Edit: I can’t English. At least we know this came from my dumb swishy brain

Robdel12··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
I 100% whole heartily agree with this. Anyone saying the models made a huge leap in fall 2025 / spring 2026 still aren't looking at whats going on. Just this weekend I thought I had a solid plan and evals/tests to let 5.6 sol work unsupervised over night while I slept and it made an absolute mess. Somewhere in the loop it had to make a decision and it made a wrong one. Making everything beyond that trash. The code 'worked' but it had the wrong system design and wrote the most brittle tests around its assumption, validating its own decision. It turned into a nasty feedback loop for the model. This is 5.6 sol high.

The models write good/great code. I'm very happy to never write code again but models are no where near good enough to run off on their own without a human in the loop. Models LOVE to cheat. Just peek at the tests they write.

And before you come at me, I have built 7 products in the past 1.5/2 years with agentic engineering, all with users. One of those projects is _dead_ because I let the vibe go too hard at the same time Anthropic decided to nerf both their harness and their models silently. If you care to look at the source: https://github.com/Robdel12/OrbitDock I spent a week or so and like a billion+ tokens trying to refactor and save it. It just wasn't worth it.

I wish people would be pragmatic about this. I get the dream is to let it do everything and not to be in the loop, because being in the loop is exhausting. But if you want to make whatever you're building be robust and survive more than 6 months, you have to. I don't care how good your tests, plans, skills, etc are. At some point the model will have to decide something and it'll be the wrong one. Compounding the slop from there forward.

Robdel12··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
> and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes — while being internally tested on a benchmark of cyber capabilities.

This is pretty wild but also I think this is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. This was not a model everyone has access to. I mean, still insane.

Robdel12··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
I’m going to be honest, this kind of regulation would make me disable the site(s) for the state (if there are fines, etc). I don’t have the time to play these games for my tiny projects
Robdel12··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
OpenAI is about to get ROCKED on this. From this report, this looks open and shut. Apple has basically infinite money and incredible lawyers. Not sure what OpenAI can counter with unless they have clear, hard evidence this hasn’t been happening.
Robdel12··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
You compared trains to YouTube videos, I cannot take _you_ seriously.
Robdel12··on New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview
…are we really drawing conclusions on this starting at April? When it was released in June?
Robdel12··on Claude Sonnet 5
Dario’s own mouth https://x.com/coinbureau/status/2071330294452666695/mediavie...
Robdel12··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN
Huge congrats to the intercom team on that! Intercom was pretty great for me during my Percy support years. Their current AI direction is rough, though. When I went to use them for my product I was (am?) building, I found intercom unrecognizable with the entire ai pivot. Honestly made me sad but that’s how it is these days
Robdel12··on Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
You find growing an incredibly water heavy crop in a place that doesn’t have the water supply to do so a weird comparison? And it’s not even a food that’s needed, so you can’t stand on that either.
Robdel12··on The ways we contain Claude across products
Hahahaha yeah, makes sense. Every time I use claude after codex I feel like I’m holding Claude’s hand the entire time. I imagine they have a lot of containing they have to do internally
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