AIorNot

Hyperoptimized Engineer 2026 /s

So no different, than humans repeating facts we hear every day as 1 in 5 dentists tells us

After having to get a windows laptop for work - I'm still in awe of my old M2 Max.. Apple makes the best general laptops out there by a wide margin

Many worlds as real ontology are just as wild as saying their is a God. Physicists are thus making claims that just as wild as the theologians .. I find this fascinating.

Just like the AI nerds and the AGI singularity or Musk saying we are in simulation...

ie so many crazy ideas.. for the rationalist, its like being in an insane asylum and trusting one mental patient or another..

I suppose at some level its just not rational why we exist. We must accept some wild, fundamental metaphysical assumption

Haha a “double agent” indeed- good idea

Correction: “Our Dear Leader’s”insane ramblings;)

Well to be sure I posted it for the HN community to reflect on the operational readiness of production AI coded applications like Codex

Ie are they ready for primetime - if some app kills all the space on your HD just running it daily its a bad sign that any SaaS company would want to address

That is not true for AI coding at all: ie the evidence is the massive difference between Claude code in opus 4.6 vs opus 5.5

That difference is enough to unlock AI coding for so many real life teams

No that is not a correct read -it might be based on this past few months or so state of the art, while instead that state of the art is moving forward every month- and at the rate these ai coding systems are improving and our harnesses for managing them- bug handling and brownfield codebases are becoming increasingly accessible to AI coding

Ie you are making the mistake of assuming the tech is static when it most assuredly is not

Well to play the opposite perspective:

If we assume that AI coding is just beginning- we can assume that humans will create systems to help Manage the increasingly complex interactions that machines will code - ie we are still early like when we first introduced the industrial revolution to the peasants (which led to decades of chaos- for sure)

But Just like a 787 is not flown by hand either - doesn't mean anyone is qualified to autopilot it

Complex engineering systems will require sme humans to help manage the underlying complex interactions in way that is comprehensible to human intelligence

No one except for a smaller group of specialists for example these days does much understanding of assembly or compilers.. but we build complex SaaS apps all the time without that knowledge

Eh, that was said about Javascript, electron, node, etc

The world adapted, that is to say if something is popular- they will keep it going through just enough fixes to keep it going