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kooi

163 karma · joined July 30, 2026

Research Engineer

Current research Interests: Rust for embedded systems, real time signal processing, control barrier functions for robotic manipulators

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kooi··on Ask HN: How are you leveraging AI/LLMs as software dev TEAM
LLM assisted operations is very interesting. I can but only brainstorm...

Very recently I have been thinking about bash and systems automation because Luna is quite cheap and decent at command line interaction.

Incident automation -> have Luna poll emails and distribute work requests/assignments.

Maybe log those requests and let a larger model analyze them for insights.

We are a small R&D company where everyone is a core contributor so we're stuck in that 1st mode you mentioned...

kooi··on Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
I suppose the hinge point is if algorithmic improvement + compute capacity is or exponential improvement. I flip/flop between the options as I listen to the Moonshot Podcast bros (lols because of obvious over-hype) and Lex Friedman's state of 2026 AI with Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka.

If exponential, then yes I see more variance humanity's short/medium term outcome. More chance of doom, more chance of boom.

If logarithmic, well then improvements continue, but they will be incremental to what we have now and we will continue into some form of widespread agent adoption. Similar to wireless communication technology is prolific, but now taken 100% for granted.

Personally, even with Sol, the results I get from "stress test" one-shot prompts are abysmal. Hallucination of solutions to non-existent bugs as popped up multiple times.

So AGI take over, meh, low chance IMO.

I think one real risk is solo or sleeper cell type nefarious actors having a semi-competent engineering consultant which can enable small-scale weapons deployment.

Overall, I think the most probable short term risk is AI companions, hyper individualization and deterioration of social institutions. Much less flashy, but much more likely.

I mean look at the effects of social media on mental health. And that was only created 1 generation ago.

kooi··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Weights can be baked into silicone or programmed into hardware ala FPGA, but the context will always be dynamic.

High speed SRAM is where the $$$ is

kooi··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
"Stochastic gradient descent algorithm in Haskel"

"LMS algorithm in bash"

Just barfed it up lol.

Amazing.

kooi··on Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
My conspiracy theory is they purposely run these scary cyber intrusion tests on low security environments to bolster demand for LLM based cyber research, audits, and tooling.
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