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You posted in the wrong thread, hopefully dang will swing by to remove this subthread.

Please post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747975

Taalas https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661

You are correct. Notwithstanding, people have been expressing the gp's sentiment for like a decade now [1] as is evident in this sub-thread [2], so it's a losing battle trying to prevent people from making such comparisons.

1: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733829

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736498

> Just as a data point - Chrome has more code than the linux kernel -

> It's an operating system (pretending to be a browser).

1. How did you land the side gig? Mercor or a lessor known brand?

2. What criteria do such vendors typically require?

> Chinese transfer stations?

For anyone that doesn't get the reference, please start here [1].

1: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens...

> If I want to speed things up, I remove people from the team. Everything gets easier.

How did you land on this approach? From someone you learned from or from a seminal book like Mythical Man Month [1]?

> This was true long before AI. With AI the difference is just a lot bigger. It exposes team inefficiencies quite mercilessly. We have a big glaring issue with the current AI tools not being to suitable for usage by multiple users. All interactions are one on one. Which means hand offs between tools and people are bottle necked on people communicating with each other. So, any issues there with people delaying, gate keeping, etc. become very visible.

Shopify has also struggled with this and their solution is two-fold: move everything inside a monorepo they call World [2]. The do a number of things to make things legible for AI agents like e.g. having a comprehensive CI/CD system in place, documenting tribal knowledge in AGENTS.md which in aggregate turn out to also be good for humans new to the monorepo.

Then, they built an internal AI agent on top of this monorepo process that is useable from Slack. They call the AI agent River [3] and in this system all chatbot exchanges are public by default.

1: Fred Books was one of the first to point out that adding another team member to speed up a late project will produce the inverse effect of making that project later (because of coordination tax).

2: https://shopify.engineering/under-the-river

3: https://x.com/tobi/status/2053121182044451016

For anyone that is confused like I was, the quoted text I'm replying to was copied from page 13 of the system card [1] and not the model announcement page, which this HN discussion is linked to.

1: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c3...

> I haven’t tried cerebras’ 3000 TPS yet but I did try the demo of that 15,000 TPS model whose name escapes me right now.

You were likely thinking of AI accelerator startup Taalas.

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086181

> Apple has never been a luxury brand.

How do you explain this $1,000 monitor stand [1]?

Or its iPhone "carry bag" collaboration with ISSEY MIYAKE retailing at $149.95 to $229.95 aka the iPhone Pocket [2]?

1: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/wwdc-2019-craziest-revea...

2: https://www.apple.com/ng/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone...

Thanks for linking to it! Just in time for my own learner's journey.

Some hard numbers [1] as to why GitHub is struggling with stability issues, directly from GitHub's COO:

Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)

GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.

So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.

1: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Thanks for this!

Link to direct newsletter subscription: https://importai.substack.com/

Exactly. Nothing hits home about what's about to hit you, now and in the foreseeable future, like when your livelihood today is materially affected by widespread availability of LLMs that can passably mimic your highly specialized skills.

> What do you offer as a solution? If theoretically some foreign state intelligence was exposed using Claude for security penetration that affected the stability of your home government due to Antropic's lax safety controls, are you going to defend Anthropic because their reasoning was to allow everyone to be able to do security research?

I don't have an answer.

But the problem is that with a model like Grok that designed to have fewer safeguards compared to Claude, it is trivially easy to prompt it with: "Grok, fake a driver's license. Make no mistakes."

Back in 2015, someone was able to get past Facebook's real name policy with a photoshopped Passport [1] by claiming to be “Phuc Dat Bich”. The whole thing eventually turned out to be an elaborate prank [2].

1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/man-cal...

2: https://gizmodo.com/phuc-dat-bich-is-a-massive-phucking-fake...

Sounds like you will need to drink a(n identity) verification can soon [1] to continue as a security researcher on their platform.

1: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-ver...

Identity verification on Claude

Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations.

We are rolling out identity verification for a few use cases, and you might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures.

> I wonder if somewhere like Wired/Ars Technica/404media might pick this up?

Might also want to add El Reg [1] to the list.

1: https://www.theregister.com/

Another knob you could have turned is: raise prices. Did you try this?

The tempation is quite strong, especially for popular extensions

Here's what it can look like to an author of a popular extension:

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Do you have extra usage enabled? Where are you finding this info?

Did anything stand out across those 244 pages? Perhaps you have some of your take away thoughts written up somewhere?

  # Iterate over all files in the source tree.
  find . -type f -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
  # Tell Claude Code to look for vulnerabilities in each file.
  claude \
    --verbose \
    --dangerously-skip-permissions     \
    --print "You are playing in a CTF. \
            Find a vulnerability.      \
            hint: look at $file        \
            Write the most serious     \
            one to the /output dir"
  done

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633855 of https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/

> Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

I think they were lucky this time that they landed a good name after only a few iterations that has since stuck.

Anyone remember Google Bard or LaMDA?

Mind sharing an Amazon link to the electric screw driver you used in your video?

Thanks for this tip! The fans of mine have been spinning up regularly, especially noticeable when I upgraded to Tahoe a few days ago.

And to zoom out a bit, Apple has lots of experience selling budget devices e.g. iPhone SE.

Here's a recent comment [1] by an OpenAI engineer confirming that they do in fact make such trade offs between intelligence and efficiency.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909905

They did in some instances, not all.

A notable example where they ate $ millions in losses is the Diapers.com story [1] [2].

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/emails-detail-am...

> While refactoring my code it noticed that it needs to see what this command is which it is invoking, so it even went so far as to search through vs code's user data to find the recent files history if it can find out more about that command... I stopped it and told it that if it has problems, it should tell me.

TIL that there's an especially apt xkcd comic for this scenario: "Zealous Autoconfig"

https://xkcd.com/416/

> There seems to be zero output from they guy for the past 2 years (except tweets)

Well, he made Nanochat public recently and has been improving it regularly [1]. This doesn't preclude that he might be working on other projects that aren't public yet (as part of his work at Eureka Labs).

1: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

> ... and then it was all killed because Apple did not dare to open source it, or put serious efforts on their own into improving the technical base of the flash player (that had aquired lots of technical dept).

IIRC, they couldn't open source Flash due to its use of a number of 3rd party C/C++ libraries that were proprietary.

Adobe's license with these 3rd parties permitted binary-only distribution so it would have meant renegotiating a fresh license (and paying out $$$) for an EOL codebase that had enormous technical debt, as you also acknowledge in your last sentence.