thousand_nights

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Comment · 2 days ago
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

Comment · 3 days ago
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
Comment · 3 days ago
i mean us night owls have been used to society fucking us over with their schedules for our whole lives, it's nothing new
Comment · 5 days ago
> 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

Comment · 10 days ago
yeah beginning of the year Claude would refuse to help me with homebrewing beer because it relates to biology (yeast)
Comment · 10 days ago
turns out, 'you will own nothing and be happy' wasn't just a meme
Comment · 18 days ago
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
Comment · 20 days ago
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

Comment · 26 days ago
> 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

Comment · 26 days ago
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
Comment · 26 days ago
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

Comment · 1 month ago
am i the only one on HN who really likes passkeys?

so much better than fumbling around with a password managers

Comment · 1 month ago
it's an internet thing. people were typing lowercase on IRC in the 90s.
Comment · 1 month ago
> 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

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