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at my company they are trying to get us engineers to absorb that role so now we spend a lot of our time doing meetings and human interactions like this with other parts of the business and making decisions

idk how common this is in the industry though, but since the introduction of AI my role has expanded so much beyond what is just writing code, i'm now a devops/product/dev person and expected to do all of that at once for the same pay as before

i actually enjoy it myself cause you feel less like a ticket pusher

i'm disappointed that Mythos is an Anthropic model because it would be the perfect naming for Google's models since they only actually exist in benchmarks or press releases

i mean us night owls have been used to society fucking us over with their schedules for our whole lives, it's nothing new

> https://hex.tech/

that is one of the most unhinged landing pages i've ever seen, it looks like a vibe coded claude mess that somehow raised 100M

is no one looking at what they're releasing anymore? do people just not care? i guess they don't have to if some intern can just prompt "make cool website for our useless company" and then 100M appears at your door from eager VCs

yeah beginning of the year Claude would refuse to help me with homebrewing beer because it relates to biology (yeast)

turns out, 'you will own nothing and be happy' wasn't just a meme

i don't think OCRing a bitmap font is very expensive or power hungry, if you know the exact pixel configurations of the glyphs ahead of time

i'm personally quite perplexed how sloppy the harnesses are from the leading AI labs, you'd think these are their primary products and would have some human attention devoted to them

it's embarrassing when every claude code release has obvious bugs in it like telling you to upgrade when you're on the latest version or codex opening visible powershell windows for every command that pop up on your screen

like 5 minutes of human testing would catch this obvious shit but obviously they don't bother because vibes are the future and stuff? idk

> Their ads are terrible.

I imagine they are that's why I pay for YT Premium, which I think is my most bang for buck subscription based on the amount of time I spend watching it

> Curation doesn't exist.

I don't find this a problem personally because 95% of my feed is just channels I'm subscribed to but YMMV depends on what you expect out of it

independent-ish creators (I'm aware that a lot of channels seem to be bought out by private equity lately), but mostly science, technology, speedrunning, mysteries, recipe guides, things like that, basically stuff that I'm interested in

youtube has slowly become like 90% of my TV time over the past few years, I think it's the fact that you don't have to commit to watching 40+ minutes of something every time and there's just way too much interesting content on it

and i'm not even someone you'd class as young anymore, so I don't think this is a younger generation thing

am i the only one on HN who really likes passkeys?

so much better than fumbling around with a password managers

it's an internet thing. people were typing lowercase on IRC in the 90s.

> You wouldn't ask an agent to review a PR then just copy/paste the output into the PR, would you?

of course not, it's disrespectful to the author even if they used an LLM to generate the code. what you should do is actually try to understand what the LLM is saying about the proposed changes, check whether it's talking shit or legit, and if legit, rephrase in your own words why you think a certain thing should be changed

> The figure was rhetorical, not a disclosed 100-times investment return.

seems no one is reading the article..

very cool. that being said, I have never not wanted to play anything more than this :D

this is nice to know as someone who is the adult child.

i used to argue a lot with my parents when i was still living with them, but ever since i moved out and we only see each other once every few months, our relationship has improved so much, and we're always happy to see each other in smaller doses

that game had such a dope soundtrack!

> He was a bright and broken child

i wasn't there and i didn't know him, but talking about a 26 year old man like this makes it seem like you're just taking away his autonomy

people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible

yes of course, I understand that. but I feel like it would've been nice to include in the article because the main point of it is the effort and overthinking

i feel like Simon omitted an important part of how Qwen's "reasoning" levels work. they are just one sentence additions/omissions to the system prompt

xhigh -> "Reasoning effort is set to xhigh. Please think carefully through the task, validate key assumptions, consider plausible alternatives, and prioritize correctness, consistency, and clarity in the final answer."

medium -> no mention of effort (sentence omitted)

low -> "Reasoning effort is set to low. Keep your thinking brief and focused, moving directly to the conclusion without unnecessary elaboration."

in my testing this doesn't seem to produce exactly deterministic thinking levels, because it's just a system prompt nudge. i had instances where medium thought longer than xhigh

agreed, reads like a breath of fresh air, no fluff

> a ~9-second 480x864 clip at 20 steps takes me a bit over an hour

that's rough. for comparison, i tried the exact same parameters on my 5090 RTX and it took 2 minutes to generate.

i believe diffusion models are primarily compute bound so the macs aren't really the ideal hardware for this kind of stuff

for a moment i thought this was a commentary about my relationships

i do homebrewing and asked it to compare some beer yeasts for me and hit the safeguards because... biology i guess lol

same tbh but i feel like we're still required, maybe not in the same numbers as before, and our job description has just changed. it feels more akin to an "AI Agent Operator" or something similar.

i'm still pretty confident someone like my mom wouldn't be able to do my job even with the same access to all the latest LLMs, so we're still providing some value, just in a very different way. whether the market will reprice the cost of our labor, we will see

seems to happen daily when USA wakes up and Europe is at peak working capacity, I don't think it's a coincidence

there's nothing stopping them from saying that, which is my point which you missed

> So we're looking at different options to keep delivering a great experience for users.

his title should be changed to Head of Corporate Bullshitting