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kirykl··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Amazon operates by capturing others margin, they’re just waiting for more to develop
kirykl··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
Would an unlimited context window enable you to solve all requests instantly ? No
kirykl··on How employment is changing at Anthropic
They present and immediately take away their own value proposition. Do AI CEOs also buy tokens, or is that the reason for human employees ?

>"One possibility is single-person startups, each with a human founder steering swarms of agents to rake in billions in revenue. Another is companies built by AI genius CEOs employing human agents only to wield pipettes and testify before Congress."

kirykl··on Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
They present and immediately take away their own value proposition. Do AI CEOs also buy tokens, or is that the reason for human employees ?

>"One possibility is single-person startups, each with a human founder steering swarms of agents to rake in billions in revenue. Another is companies built by AI genius CEOs employing human agents only to wield pipettes and testify before Congress."

kirykl··on Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
Laziness may denote intelligence, but not necessarily a desired part of it, according to Feynman
kirykl··on Apple HomeView
If they gave this a battery, removed the base, and allowed apps boy that would be a killer product
kirykl··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
A Chat AI creating on the fly UX widgets is like Amazon’s brick and mortar stores
kirykl··on US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
Did she visit a Russian wet market ?
kirykl··on Dots: Always-on agents
Seems like a solution in search of a problem
kirykl··on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone
April 2025: "Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613079
kirykl··on Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?
'Bad guys' is debatable. It was the humans who scorched the sky
kirykl··on Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
The starting value of felony
kirykl··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
maybe have the default behavior for the phone to reset if it doesn't get the right pin every so many hours
kirykl··on ChatGPT Work
All models I’ve used have been exceptionally bad at creating a high level business oriented vision and strategy from various inputs. The output just feels like it can’t see past the next word, or render distance, misses the big picture and anything not specified in prompt or input context
kirykl··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
You need to splice in a looped recorded video like in a heist movie, otherwise the camera detects blockage from the tape and incessantly beeps
kirykl··on Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing metal poisoning
There actually was an episode of House with this very diagnosis from a hip replacement, https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Practice
kirykl··on Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market
leadership knows that they get to charge those 150 sellers bidding based "advertising fees" to get the buy box
kirykl··on Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
I wonder if code quality goes up if you include “as a rockstar ninja” in your prompt
kirykl··on Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
add a less severe "Flag, as AI" button
kirykl··on Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
The technology they are discovering is called "Language". It was designed to encode emotions by a sender and invoke emotions in the reader. The emotions a reader gets from LLM are still coming from the language
kirykl··on Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment
Look into a job at Bridgewater https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-work-at-ray...
kirykl··on Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
Drive to the office and sit on a video call you can hardly hear because the coworkers next to you are on their own video calls
kirykl··on AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review
Add a single pixel manually
kirykl··on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
kirykl··on AI is going to kill app subscriptions
like how Roombas killed the housekeeping industry ?
kirykl··on Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
Dangerous only to your career and only if you posted about it on social media
kirykl··on Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.
I tried to buy a vacuum from a Sears store once. The cashier couldn't price match against Sears' own website, which had a lower price. So while inside the store, I purchased the vacuum on my phone, and selected in store pickup, and showed it to the cashier. But they had a separate building for in store pickup I had to drive around to.
kirykl··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
If the cameras are recoding public areas, isn’t it better the recorded footage stays public
kirykl··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
For JavaScript I’ve found Scrimba to be worlds better than anything on Udemy or Coursera
kirykl··on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
The whole memo just reeks of not trusting your employees.
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