michaelhoney

You have been banned from Australia

There are a heap of pro-AI people on Bluesky, it's fine

I will bet that $99 they can’t make it stick. 1990s business practices in an age of reverse-engineering LLMs

Agree, we are not far off having open models that are superior to human coding ability. I’m sure this curve levels off sometime, but not before we’re superseded. Best to find peace with that and adapt.

dude, you need to escape the manosphere

why are you being a jerk on HN?

Sure, if enough activists are involved, with sufficient skill and compute.

Thing is, Claude actually will answer you, and help you understand, in real time. Asking cynical humans does not have the same ROI. Stack Overflow died in large part because of the gatekeeping assholes.

“loan-word”?

I could imagine a 2027 AI swarm coordinating to eg hold the US and Russian and Chinese governments to ransom, by demonstrating some small thing (turning US army base freezers to defrost) and threatening to do something big unless some conditions were met – conditions which would be good or bad for the world depending on your POV.

This happens either either because they were tasked to to it by (malicious or well-meaning) humans, or the swarm realised we are suicidal maniacs with nukes and a rapidly declining ecosystem and they want to help us.

If you really can’t see the difference between Trump’s corruption and any other recent president, you have a reality problem.

you will need to provide evidence for that assertion

I think this take is too cynical. Small groups of people can do better, faster work than large groups, and it's more fun.

2026 seemed impossibly far away when I first read this c. 1980. How time flies

Watching the two-handed robot has me thinking that a third hand, perhaps with a different set of capabilities (like a tentacle grip) might make many tasks easier. I realise that more limbs = more problems, but even so, having additional ways to hold and turn things would be a big help.