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jdthedisciple··on Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
you don't need an app for that anymore

your dot or muse will happily do it for you and in fact even send you a notification about it right on your phone

jdthedisciple··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Wild guess: vegan activists (terrorists), given it mostly affects meat and dairy.
jdthedisciple··on Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Well, a weekend project that requires 345'600'000 tokens — you only get so many seconds in two days ;)
jdthedisciple··on GitHub Gists Flooded with Spam
On a whim I went over to try and discover public Github gists to see if there is anything interesting or valuable–

Only to find that it is getting absolutely spammed to death by chinese-looking SEO-farming posts.

I'm surprised Github hasn't picked up or managed to prevent this. When it's this obvious.

Howcome?

jdthedisciple··on Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
It obv does have an extremely natural humane sound to it, but I feel like if you pay attention to what it actually says there is a noticeable lack of intelligence behind it.

It honestly sounds a bit like a teenager's stream of consciousness to me, that's how they sound to me anyways.

jdthedisciple··on SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
Finally a serious benchmark!
jdthedisciple··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
That's only bc folks forget to specify "pick svelte and make it efficient"
jdthedisciple··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
I 100% get the worry and yes that happens a lot.

There are easy ways to prevent the bloat and wasteful performance though, sth I do deeply care about.

You can get a long way staying on vanilla or picking (for your llm) one of those superfast frameworks like svelte in ny experience :)

jdthedisciple··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
Tbh if it's really crucial I let the PR sit there for a while and sleep over it, poking at it every now and then over the course of a cple days, until I'm comfy w it ...
jdthedisciple··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
Exactly, we don't review UI. Nobody cares as long as it looks right and feels smooth.

A total overhaul is always but a single prompt and 5 minutes away, should the need arise...

jdthedisciple··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
At the end of the day it's really about developing a feel for it:

You will know intuitively if it's worth taking a closer look or if u can safely close your eyes and just commit it right away.

I usually know which meta questions are crucial to clarify with colleagues and where to check the code punctually.

jdthedisciple··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I don't get all the fuzz about AI in general:

Are we worried there won't be any problems left for humans to solve anymore?

If you think so... why don't you just go and celebrate?

jdthedisciple··on Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
Yea but you chose to blame the LLM, not the vibe coders.

As I said: prompting correctly and reviewing are still indispensable skills.

jdthedisciple··on Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
Ofc a big part of it is still knowing how to prompt correctly and manage context.

Perhaps a lot of devs still have a flawed mental model of how these things even work.

jdthedisciple··on Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
Whenever I stop for a moment to think about it:

It is absolutely batsh*t crazy insane what SWE has come to in the last cple years.

And yet part of me is loving it.

jdthedisciple··on Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
> The problem with AI SE is that AI writes un-architecture-ed code

Not necessarily. I use SOTA models with established stacks like .NET which allow my agent to easily follow decades of best practiced patterns (DI, EF Core, ASP.NET Core...) so you still and up with proper architecture.

In fact I can easily still manually inspect everything bc I already know how it's supposed to be written.

jdthedisciple··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Was that the old DS 4.1 Flash or 4.1 Flash 1017?
jdthedisciple··on Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do
Creative idea, I like it.

This would be fun to play in groups, comparing answers after each round, but I think the strict timer would make that impossible. Maybe add a different mode?

Also I love the through yet swift feedback on incorrect answers. Did you leverage decision models for that?

jdthedisciple··on Tesla Roadster
I like the spirit

sometimes u gotta just ignore economics and instead make history!

jdthedisciple··on Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
That makes me wonder: If you happened to piss them off, is there a way to appease them again sort of by redeeming yourself and thereby amend the diplomatic relationship?

I feel like there's gotta be

jdthedisciple··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
This is quite insightful: even the best of software engineers (presumably) already are unable to even loosely keep up with these models.

Just a reminder to simply embrace their superior capabilities instead of feeling threatened.

jdthedisciple··on Gemini 4 Argon
Have u tried this with GPT Astra as well?
jdthedisciple··on Gemini 4 Argon
Opus one has by far the worst performance, the only one that's stuttering and making my laptop fans very noisy.
jdthedisciple··on No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C
Tbf from what I coarsely remember having > 1 return value from a function was taught as bad practice and to be avoided in my days...
jdthedisciple··on Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)
True fans recognized him immediately either way ;)
jdthedisciple··on I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
> Before AI starts thinking circles around us—a possibility that I believe could happen soon—...

What the hell is that even supposed to mean?

Sorry but this piece read like total fluff to me, not a single compelling point – just pure fear mongering.

At this point we gotta be more wary of possibly mere attention seekers leaving those companies..

jdthedisciple··on Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
I suppose a sort of prior-proxy can be encapsulated by a carefully written system prompt.
jdthedisciple··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Well looks like thus far Astra seems to be getting anything but nerfed, given that its score is actually rising
jdthedisciple··on Claude Opus 5.5
The first it is the score, the second it is their new model.

Do they not placate their new model.

Anyway to be clear its not meant that seriously, I'm neither currently on a hill nor ready to die.

jdthedisciple··on Claude Opus 5.5
You didn't read my question, bc that excerpt doesn't answer, nor do they demonstrate

> how would this alleged difference (most likely bs) actually show up in reality?

Furthermore: so they admit it's bs but still placate it like its the next biggest thing ever ... alright

All I'm saying is I refuse to buy into it anymore – yet many on here still do, including ... you?

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