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by wrs | 2025-07-05 00:07:32+00:00
I know with only 5 years experience this may not be obvious, but this is only the first of many “revolutionary” technologies making everyone around you lose their minds that you’ll have to deal with in your career. Like every other such technology, I recommend that you engage with it, understand it, relate that experience to what your employer does, and be the voice of knowledgeable pragmatism about where to use it. In other words, be an engineer.

If that can’t be done where you are, or isn’t valued, you’re in the wrong place.

I’ve been through this with (including but not limited to) PCs, OOP, client-server, SOA, XML, NoSQL, blockchain, “big data”, and indeed, multiple definitions of “AI”. Turns out all but one of those were actually somewhat useful in the end, when applied properly, but they didn’t eliminate the industry. Just roll with it.
by thunky | 2025-07-05 00:09:01+00:00
> One thing I find frustrating is that management where I work has heard of 10x productivity gains.

That may also be in part because llms are not as big of an accelerant for junior devs as they are for seniors (juniors don't know what is good and bad as well).

So if you give 1 senior dev a souped up llm workflow I wouldn't be too surprised if they are as productive as 10 pre-llm juniors. Maybe even more, because a bad dev can actually produce negative productivity (stealing from the senior), in which case it's infinityx.

Even a decent junior is mostly limited to doing the low level grunt work, which llms can already do better.

Point is, I can see how jobs could be lost, legitimately.
by ionwake | 2025-07-05 00:10:20+00:00
If you look at the video he says " this is real time simulation .. can you believe it" basically : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jD5y1eQ3Y_o

Yet he lists all the RL stuff that we know is used in the robot, he isnt being silent and saying " this robot is aided by AI" , or better yet, not commenting on the specifics, ( which would have been totally ok ), instead he is saying " This is real life simulation", which it isnt.

EDIT > apparently I am wrong - thank you for the correction everyone!
by user____name | 2025-07-05 00:10:35+00:00
The sad truth is that with rasterization every renderer needs to be designed around a specific set of antialiasing solutions. Antialiasing is like a big wall in your rendering pipeline, there's the stuff you can do before resolving and the stuff you can do afterwards. The problem with MSAA is that it is pretty much tightly coupled with all your architectural rendering decisions. To that end, TAA is simply the easiest to implement and it kills a lot of proverbial birds with one stone. And it can all be implemented as essentially a post processing effect, it has much less of the tight coupling.

MSAA only helps with geometric edges, shader aliasing can be combatted with prefiltering but even then it's difficult to get rid of it completely. MSAA also needs beefy multisample intermediate buffers, this makes it pretty much a non-starter on heavily deferred rendering pipelines, which throw away coverage information to fit their framebuffer budget. On top of that the industry moved to stochastic effects for rendering all kinds of things that were too expensive before, the latest being actual realtime path tracing. I know people moan about TAA and DLSS but to do realtime path tracing at 4k is sort of nuts really. I still consider it a bit of a miracle we can do it at all.

Personally, I wish there was more research by big players into things like texture space lighting, which makes shading aliasing mostly go away, plays nice with alpha blending and would make MSAA viable again. The issue there is with shading only the stuff you see and not wasting texels.
by keyringlight | 2025-07-05 00:11:47+00:00
As much as they've got large resources, I'm not sure what projects they could reasonably throw a mountain of money at and expect to change things, and presumably benefit from in the future instead of doing it to be a a force of chaos in the industry. Valve's efforts all seem to orbit around the store, that's their main business and everything else seems like a loss-leader to get you buying through it even if it comes across as a pet project of a group of employees.

The striking one for me is their linux efforts, at least as far as I'm aware they don't do a lot that isn't tied to the steam deck (or similar devices) or running games available on steam through linux. Even the deck APU is derived from the semi-custom work AMD did for the consoles, they're benefiting from a second later harvest that MS/Sony have invested (hundreds of millions?) in many years earlier. I suppose a lot of it comes down to what Valve needs to support their customers (developers/publishers), they don't see the point in pioneering and establishing some new branch of tech with developers.
by transpute | 2025-07-05 00:13:17+00:00
As a Schrödinger-like property, it may vary by observer and not be publicly documented.. One could start with a commercial product that ships with coreboot, then try to find identical hardware from an upstream ODM. A search for "bootguard" or "coreboot" on servethehome forums, odroid/hardkernel forums, phoronix or even HN, may be helpful.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-07-05 00:13:33+00:00
Exactly. Running games at a lower resolution isn't new. I remember changing the size of the viewport in the original DOOM 1993 to get it to run faster. Making a lower resolution look better without having to run at a higher resolution is the exact same problem anti-aliasing has been tackling forever. DLSS is just another form of AA that is now so advanced, you can go from an even lower resolution and still look good.

So even when I'm running a game at native resolution, I still want anti-aliasing, and DLSS is a great choice then.
by schiffern | 2025-07-05 00:13:56+00:00
>Use uBlock Origin with JavaScript disabled, as described above, but also with ALL third-party content hard-blocked. To achieve the latter, you need to add the rule ||.^$third-party to the My Filters pane.

This is a worse way to implement uBO's "Hard Mode" (except with JS blocked), which has the advantage that you can easily whitelist sites individually and set a hotkey to switch to lesser blocking modes.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
by strictnein | 2025-07-05 00:14:06+00:00
This really makes no sense:

> This in turn sparked rumors about NVIDIA purposefully keeping stock low to make it look like the cards are in high demand to drive prices. And sure enough, on secondary markets, the cards go way above MSRP

Nvidia doesn't earn more money when cards are sold above MSRP, but they get almost all the hate for it. Why would they set themselves up for that?

Scalpers are a retail wide problem. Acting like Nvidia has the insight or ability to prevent them is just silly. People may not believe this, but retailers hate it as well and spend millions of dollars trying to combat it. They would have sold the product either way, but scalping results in the retailer's customers being mad and becoming some other company's customers, which are both major negatives.
by timschmidt | 2025-07-05 00:15:43+00:00
I have written motion control firmwares for 20+ years, and "this is real time simulation" has very domain-specific meaning to me. "Real time" means the code is responding to events as they happen, like with interrupts, and not via preemptible processing which could get out of sync with events. "simulation" is used by most control systems from simple PID loops to advanced balancing and motion planning.

It is clearly - to me at least - doing both of those things.

I think you're reading things into what he said that aren't there.
by jorl17 | 2025-07-05 00:16:12+00:00
12 months ago, if I fed a list of ~800 poems with about ~250k tokens to an LLM and asked it to summarize this huge collection, they would be completely blind to some poems and were prone to hallucinating not simply verses but full-blown poems. I was testing this with every available model out there that could accept 250k tokens. It just wouldn't work. I also experimented with a subset that was at around ~100k tokens to try other models and results were also pretty terrible. Completely unreliable and nothing it said could be trusted.

Then Gemini 2.5 pro (the first one) came along and suddenly this was no longer the case. Nothing hallucinated, incredible pattern finding within the poems, identification of different "poetic stages", and many other rather unbelievable things — at least to me.

After that, I realized I could start sending in more of those "hard to track down" bugs to Gemini 2.5 pro than other models. It was actually starting to solve them reliably, whereas before it was mostly me doing the solving and models mostly helped if the bug didn't occur as a consequence of very complex interactions spread over multiple methods. It's not like I say "this is broken, fix it" very often! Usually I include my ideas for where the problem might be. But Gemini 2.5 pro just knows how to use these ideas better.

I have also experimented with LLMs consuming conversations, screenshots, and all kinds of ad-hoc documentation (e-mails, summaries, chat logs, etc) to produce accurate PRDs and even full-on development estimates. The first one that actually started to give good results (as in: it is now a part of my process) was, you guessed it, Gemini 2.5 pro. I'll admit I haven't tried o3 or o4-mini-high too much on this, but that's because they're SLOOOOOOOOW. And, when I did try, o4-mini-high was inferior and o3 felt somewhat closer to 2.5 pro, though, like I said, much much slower and...how do I put this....rude ("colder")?

All this to say: while I agree that perhaps the models don't feel like they're particularly better at some tasks which involve coding, I think 2.5 pro has represented a monumental step forward, not just in coding, but definitely overall (the poetry example, to this day, still completely blows my mind. It is still so good it's unbelievable).
by cardanome | 2025-07-05 00:17:36+00:00
> doesn’t mean everyone else should be forbidden from choosing to work more

No one is forbidden to work more. You seem to miss that those laws apply to wage labor. You keep bringing up all kinds of work that have nothing to do with this.

> You're describing a world

I am describing the status quo in Germany and many other developed countries. The US are the outlier.

> someone can't become a viruouso cellist

No one is telling you how much or little you are allowed to practice an instrument. You can practice 24/7 in as far as the German state is allowed. Not to mention musicians that are self-employed anyway.

Same with the other points. You can dedicate all you waking time into practicing to solve leet code questions. You can focus everything on your research.

You can work on any hobby you have as much as little as you want. You do do as much research as you want. You can work on your own business as much as you want.

The ONLY, the ONLY thing you can't do is employ someone to work more than 48 hours per week. And reverse be employed on a job that requires you to work for more than 48 hours.

I think that is pretty reasonable.

> it's not the state’s job to "equalize" life paths by punishing those who don’t have children or want to pursue different goals.

Children used to have the freedom to work themselves to early death in mines and factories. It got so bad that it threatened the very foundation of society. So after that yeah people figured the state absolutely should protect children and families.

And again, this has nothing to do with wanting to equalize everyone. There are many areas where exceptional people can go.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-07-05 00:18:19+00:00
Microsoft and other companies need to stay human - even and especially in the face of widespread usage of AI.

This tone deafness doesn’t surprise me - and these so-called ‘leaders’ should take a hard look at how they are treating fellow humans.

There were some articles on similar tonedeaf behavior - like taking the rest of the team to a team lunch after fellow team members were laid off!
by viraptor | 2025-07-05 00:19:18+00:00
> Or you can oust them, and quite literally take a >50% productivity hit on your team.

In a short term, possibly. But do you think bcachefs is better in the current situation than if it moved at half the speed, but without conflict? By being out of kernel it will get less testing, fewer contributions, the main developer will get some time wasted on rebasing the patch set with every release, and distros are unlikely to expose bcachefs to the user any time soon. When you're working with an ecosystem / teams, single person's performance really doesn't mean that much in the end. And occasionally Kent will still have to upstream some changes to interfaces - how likely is anyone to review/merge them quickly?

And now, what are the chances this will ever become more than a single person project really?
by Ancapistani | 2025-07-05 00:20:11+00:00
I disagree with some of the article’s points - primarily, that nVidia’s drivers were ever “good” - but the gist I agree with.

I have a 4070 Ti right now. I use it for inference and VR gaming on a Pimax Crystal (2880x2880x2). In War Thunder I get ~60 FPS. I’d love to be able to upgrade to a card with at least 16GB of VRAM and better graphics performance… but as far as I can tell, such a card does not exist at any price.
by leptons | 2025-07-05 00:20:14+00:00
>Yes, they are non-deterministic

The LLM is more like a Ouija board than a reliable tool.

>I can ask it to write user stories or prototypes

By the time I write enough to explain thoroughly to an LLM what to write in "user stories" or "prototypes", I could have just written it myself, without the middleman(bot), and without the LLM hallucinating.

If half the time I spend with an LLM is telling it what to do, and then another half is correcting what it did, then I'm not really saving any time at all by using it.
by heldrida | 2025-07-05 00:21:06+00:00
Software engineering is not about typing. The LLM would write the unit tests based on the implementation you provide. Regardless of the LLM's output, you'd be expected to read and understand it before committing, or at the very least, review, refactor, tweak, etc. Reading is crucial for both personal and cognitive development. That is not vibe coding! There are top devs in the industry using them in top applications, such as Ghostty or Bun. The biggest names in the scene! The reality is that you would not know if your favourite app was partially or fully built with LLM help, sorry to disappoint!
by NewsaHackO | 2025-07-05 00:21:15+00:00
Yea, this seems like the initial poster has reading comprehension skill deficiencies and is blaming NVIDIA for lying about a point they never made. NVIDIA is even releasing some of the code they used to power the robot, which further proves that they in no way said the robot was not being operator controlled, just that it was using AI to make it’s movement look more fluid.
by Cordiali | 2025-07-05 00:22:23+00:00
If you happen to be there and like this sort of thing, the lace museum in Calais is definitely worth a visit:

Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/

It's been about fifteen years since I visited, but they had a big section on the evolution of the techniques. It started from hand lace making, then progressed through periods of different looms. From memory, I'm pretty sure they had a punch-card loom about 200 years old, that was actually operating while I was there.
by WealthVsSurvive | 2025-07-05 00:25:25+00:00
He's an Ai marketing scheme by some y-combo felons. Top-to-bottom, pre-planned commercial to distract from the copyright issues central to everyone's mind, the recent ruling on which only served to further illegitimize US courts, highlighting obvious conflicts of interest, skirting due process, and making every citizen question the efficacy of the current Republic and constitution in regards to protecting our personal liberties.
by defrost | 2025-07-05 00:26:27+00:00
Sorry chap, I've neither flagged nor downvoted your comment (or rather I did downvote it and then reversed that in an effort to preserve your position, which apparently no one is buying).

There are a number of sources that claim to counter or disprove the central AGW position as outlined in the IPCC reports that are regularly updated.

Having a source isn't an argument, persuading others in the climate, biosphere, and geophysical domains is where it's at .. so far that's over 90% for, few against.

Here's a decent overview of Milankovitch cycles that acknowledges their link to cyclic changes in global climate .. that's not been denied in the AGW climate arguments, just that they're not significantly at play in the recent sharp changes over the past centry. https://skepticalscience.com/Milankovitch.html

My own background is pure|applied mathematics with a transition to exploration geophysics working for mineral resource exploration and some oil and gas application, with later work summerising the state of global resource knowledge for investors.

If you can find the sources that support your position you should with a modicum of effort find papers that address those claims.

A very good start is the first broadly accepted paper that set out the effect and scale of CO2 added to the atmosphere and flow on water vapor feedback .. most things flow on from there and it's a matter of comparing other factors (actual orbital variation, actual solar flucuations, etc) against the predicatable rise in trapped energy as a result of more insulation.

Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity (1967) - Syukuro Manabe, Richard Wetherald
by daxfohl | 2025-07-05 00:26:35+00:00
Makes sense. In my experience, LLMs are not very good at maintaining deterministic state machines internally either. Our team did an experiment trying use an LLM to guide users through a four step signup flow, and gave it very explicit instructions what order to collect information, rules for validating it, under what conditions a step could be skipped, how many times each step could be retried. The rules were highly simplified, just as a proof of concept. Still, it would get lost half the time. So yeah, I have a hard time imagining it would do any better managing the full state of some RPG it made up
by dahart | 2025-07-05 00:27:52+00:00
Agreed, I would too. Getting paid is the main difference, and while it would be hard if it happened a lot, it’d at least put food on the table. I just know from time spent contracting and from jobs with periodic and/or seasonal layoffs (films & games in my case) that most people in those jobs still don’t like the unpredictability, even when they choose contracting for it’s flexibility, and even when turnover is limited to once every year or so.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-05 00:28:18+00:00
I think the reason you see things like Blizzard killing off Overwatch 1 is because the Lindy effect applies in gaming as well. Some things are so sticky and preferred that you have to commit atrocities to remove them from use.

From a supply/demand perspective, if all of your customers are still getting high on the 5 (or 20) year old supply, launching a new title in the same space isn't going to work. There are not an infinite # of gamers and the global dopamine budget is limited.

Launching a game like TF2 or Starcraft 2 in 2025 would be viewed as a business catastrophe by the metrics most AAA studios are currently operating under. Monthly ARPU for gamers years after purchasing the Orange Box was approximately $0.00. Giving gamers access to that strong of a drug would ruin the demand for other products.
by awkwabear | 2025-07-05 00:29:25+00:00
This seems like a really bad take.

I do PhD research for superconducting materials and right I've been adapting and scaling an existing segmentation model from a research paper for image processing to run multithreaded and took the training runtime per image from 55min to 2min. Yeah it was low hanging fruit but honestly its the type of thing that is just tedious and easy to make mistakes and spend forever debugging.

Like sure I could have done it myself but it would have taken me days to figure out and I would have had to test and read a ton of docs. Claude got it working in like half an hour and generated every data plot I could need. If I wanted to test out different strategies and optimizations, I could iterate through various strategies rapidly.

I don't really like to rely on AI a bunch but it indisputably is incredibly good at certain things. If I am just trying to get something done and don't need to worry about vulnerabilities as it is just data collection code that runs once, it saves a tremendous amount of time. I don't think it will outright replace developers but there is some room for it to expand the effectiveness of individual devs so long as they are actually providing oversight and not just letting it do stuff unchecked.

I think the larger issue is more how economically viable it is for businesses to spend a ton on electricity and compute for me to be able to use it like this for 20 bucks a month. There will be an inevitable enshittification of services once a lot of the spaces investors are dumping money are figured out to be dead ends and people start calling for returns on their investment.

Right now the cash is flowing cause business people don't fully understand what its good at or not but that's not gonna last forever.
by toofy | 2025-07-05 00:29:35+00:00
If a founder hires an engineer who develops a product, the founder is not magically an engineer. He hired the work out.

This isn’t complicated but people struggle to understand it for some weird reason.

If I have someone photograph my wedding, and then sit at my computer, once the pictures arrive to me, distribute the photographs, I’m not suddenly magically a photographer.

I could go on and on. Using an LLM to write a biology paper does not make that person a biologist.

Typing out a request to my friend to write me a poem about chickens with red mittens doesn’t magically somehow make me a poet.

It wild that so many struggle with this basic ass concept.
by subjectsigma | 2025-07-05 00:29:42+00:00
No, that’s stupid. You’re replying to someone who would consider themselves fairly conservative. And in my mind conservatives follow and respect the rules and traditions. This is not following or respecting anything.

Though I will say, it’s been very clear to me since Trump ran in 2016 that he is not actually a “conservative” and that the GOP has been crumbling into degeneracy under him
by mrtksn | 2025-07-05 00:30:20+00:00
An employee on salary is different from a consultant on hourly rate. Essentially, the employee is an ally whom all the intellectual output is retained and will be paid in full regardless of their performance.

By all accounts Parekh did not fulfill his obligation, apparently he is a very good engineer, but he did not give his time to the companies he was hired by. He was constantly calling sick, fail to finish his tasks up until got fired. Since he was a salaried employee, he still received the paycheck despite his abysmal performance.

That said, he definitely became a folk hero :) He is a charming person who pulled a fascinating stunt.
by transpute | 2025-07-05 00:31:00+00:00
QNAP TS435XeU 1U short-depth NAS based on Marvell CN913x (SoC successor to Armada A388) with 4xSATA, 2xM.2, 2x10GbE, optional ECC RAM and upstream Linux kernel support, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43760248