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by AngryData | 2025-10-09 07:27:14+00:00
It is a good use for VR, but I also imagine most serious flight sim users already use TrackIR which seriously hampers their adoption to VR. Im not sure if I was offered one or the other for free if I would even choose a VR headset despite being a much higher monetary value because TrackIR already works so good, doesn't restrict vision from my actual controls, and doesn't isolate me from other things that might be going on around me.
by worldsayshi | 2025-10-09 07:27:21+00:00
This is of course bad but: humans also makes (different) mistakes all the time. We could account for the risk of mistakes being introduced and make more tools that validate things for us. In a way LLM:s encourage us to do this by adding other vectors of chaos into our work.

Like, why not have tools built into our environment that checks that links are not broken? With the right architecture we could have validations for most common mistakes without having the solution adding a bunch of tedious overhead.
by seec | 2025-10-09 07:27:55+00:00
Yes that's the point. They import cheap labor ready to take jobs at lower prices than the native population because they don't have to live in the same social circles. It's almost the same as delocalization, it's a form of social dumping and all of this is possible because governments are both incompetent and addicted to the tax money. The pension deficit is the result of an overly socialized system where governments promised unrealistic benefits to a generation who fully profit from it and now let their children pay for it.

This is the result of relying too much on politics. If parents where to ask their children to pay for their expensive retirement benefits directly, most who tell them to fuck off, rightfully so. But since politicians have placed a level of indirection in between, it's not the responsibility of anyone yet everyone pays for it.

Socialist systems have a way of self-destructing after a while because nobody ends up being accountable for anything. Currently the politicians are good scapegoats but really the people who put those politicians in place bear as much responsibility.

If it had been about their own money, things wouldn't have turned out this way. Funnily enough since most people don't trust governments that much, they have double dipped, saving on top of retirement benefits and "investing" in real estate that they now rent at a high price to their children. This has created an obscenely well-off generation, that is now voting for immigration in order to keep their obscene retirement benefits, furthermore fucking their children.
by aragonite | 2025-10-09 07:28:11+00:00
Has anyone had success getting a coding agent to use an IDE's built-in refactoring tools via MCP especially for things like project-wide rename? Last time I looked into this the agents I tried just did regex find/replace across the repo, which feels both error-prone and wasteful of tokens. I haven't revisited recently so I'm curious what's possible now.
by xpe | 2025-10-09 07:28:41+00:00
I'll propose through a simple scenario: An organization wants to compare the risks of deploying a user-facing application backed by an LLM. Let's say they are comparing two LLM options:

1. a self-deployed open-weight LLM (such as DeepSeek)

2. a hosted LLM (such as Claude)

Do you understand the scenario?

Claim: When assessing this scenario, it is reasonable to compare risks, including both hijacking and jailbreaking attacks. Why? It is simple; both can occur! Agree? If not, why not?

I ask you discuss good faith without making unsupported claims or repeating yourself.
by ruszki | 2025-10-09 07:29:03+00:00
The exact people who said to me that I’m using LLMs wrongly, and showed their code, showed me bad code. So let’s say, that “more documentation, which is unnecessary most time, ie noise, more test cases, which test not necessarily what they should, and an NLP interface which lies from time-to-time”, and we agree. LLM generated code is noisy as hell, for no good reason. Maybe, it’s good for you, and your type of work. I need to provide way better code than that. I don’t know why we pretend that “good code”, “good documentation”, “good tests” etc are the same for everybody.
by archerx | 2025-10-09 07:29:27+00:00
Logitech’s build quality is now terrible. I bought some Logitech 2.1 speakers, not the cheapest ones either and the power button is broken so I have to tape it down or put a weight to lean on it. Also the volume nob makes a lot of static, I have to find the sweet spots for it not to produce constant static noise. While the sound quality is decent, I won’t be buying anymore Logitech products ever again.
by cheema33 | 2025-10-09 07:29:31+00:00
From the article: > I contest the idea that LLMs are replacing human devs...

AI is not able to replace good devs. I am assuming that nobody sane is claiming such a thing today. But, it can probably replace bad and mediocre devs. Even today.

In my org we had 3 devs who went through a 6-month code boot camp and got hired a few years ago when it was very difficult to find good devs. They struggled. I would give them easy tasks and then clean up their PRs during review. And then AI tools got much better and it started outperforming these guys. We had to let two go. And third one quit on his own.

We still hire devs. But have become very reluctant to hire junior devs. And will never hire someone from a code boot camp. And we are not the only ones. I think most boot camps have gone out of business for this reason.

Will AI tools eventually get good enough to start replacing good devs? I don't know. But the data so far shows that these tools keep getting better over time. Anybody who argues otherwise has their heads firmly stuck in sand.

In the early US history approximately 90% of the population was involved in farming. Over the years things changed. Now about 2% has anything to do with farming. Fewer people are farming now. But we have a lot more food and a larger variety available. Technology made that possible.

It is totally possible that something like that could happen to the software development industry as well. How fast it happens totally depends on how fast do the tools improve.
by ggm | 2025-10-09 07:30:27+00:00
I think the economics here are not that reductive. Yes, American domestic workers were displaced. And, lots of other Americans made a lot of money in their Roth, and got to buy cheaper goods and services. Doesn't help the unemployment problem. Did help everyone else.

The same pressures are visible in Germany. Merkel responded to business need for 1.5m more workers. The overwhelming majority are productive and enough are visibly not, and different she's ignited a racist backlash. Nobody has managed to convince me the 1.5m body count wasn't needed.

America has always grown economically through immigration. It's also always been painful.
by thinkingemote | 2025-10-09 07:31:17+00:00
"Hi I noticed you weren't that online as recently as you were are you ok?"

Wow that must be a lot of work

Wow I feel for you, friend

Yea id be happy to help out from time to time.

--- But needs to happen with other things.

Quite often seen in GitHub where an attacker can contribute to build trust. With Reddit, mini modding, regular submissions, good comments etc

Defense includes not being shamed or pressured when life seems more important.
by armada651 | 2025-10-09 07:31:21+00:00
That's not true, most of those condemnations come from the European parliament which also regularly condemns those practices within Europe:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230505IP...

https://www.unwantedwitness.org/european-parliament-condemns...

The problem is that the European commission loves surveillance and suppressing free speech and they hold the actual real power in the EU.
by furyg3 | 2025-10-09 07:31:29+00:00
This is exactly how we describe them internally: the smartest interns in the world. I think it's because the chat box way of interacting with them is also similar to how you would talk to someone who just joined a team.

"Hey it wasn't what you asked me to do but I went ahead and refactored this whole area over here while simultaneously screwing up the business logic because I have no comprehension of how users use the tool". "Um, ok but did you change the way notifications work like I asked". "Yes." "Notifications don't work anymore". "I'll get right on it".
by pkphilip | 2025-10-09 07:33:36+00:00
Reddit has a huge moderation issue. Mods run the place like their fiefdoms with no regard to being fair. There should be a way of flagging reddit users and especially mods if they are seen to have a clear conflict of interest (as is the case with Michael Novati) and Reddit should not allow them to run groups where they are openly harassing their competitors.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-10-09 07:33:40+00:00
Live at the Aria high stakes table!

Today, we've got 6 Las Vegas locals, and 1 rich Chinese tourist.

The LV locals are making small-talk, "hey bro you go to the gym today? Nah my back is super-sore from my last work out. bla bla bla"

All 6 locals have butt-plugs plugged in. Two clenches means, 'I got this'. The tourist doesn't stand a chance.
by higeorge13 | 2025-10-09 07:33:41+00:00
Funny thing is that i had a negative experience helping someone who was laid off. I reached out, offered help, provided excellent reference for them, covid hit and hiring froze for that particular company, followed up a few times, ghosted, never talked again. It's you last phrase, that's the way the world and people works. It's people with their own troubles, insecurities and character. The most important bit is be yourself. If you are "built" to think and help others, keep doing it. If not, whatever.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-10-09 07:34:41+00:00
You also have to be a bit careful:

“Fix the issues causing these warnings”

Retrospectively fixing a test to be passing given the current code is a complex task, instead, you can ask it to write a test that tests the intended behaviour, without needing to infer it.

“The argument passed is now wrong” - you’re asking the LLM to infer that there’s a problem somewhere else, and to find and fix it.

When you’re asking an LLM to do something, you have to be very explicit about what you want it to do.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-09 07:34:46+00:00
Or it's all kosher as per their "internal policy" which translates to "yes, it was deleted on the server where you first uploaded it" but "pre-deletion" it was "transitioned" to "another secure server" for "your convenience" and "everything is as per our T&C that you agreed to and we follow the highest standards of data security and safety. Thank you for your time".

If Kafka were alive today, he'd see the world has outdone itself.
by etiennebausson | 2025-10-09 07:35:30+00:00
The companies in question could have a flag in every user data to confirm they are over the age limit.

At worse keep the birth date, since various aspect of a service can be available depending on age (and user can change locality / country, and therefore be subject to different law).

If you keep on top of it, you have at most 3 days of user's "ongoing verification" sensible data available for theft. Keeping more than that will always be an invitation to bad actors.
by rossant | 2025-10-09 07:36:00+00:00
It was a fairly big refactoring basically converting a working static HTML landing page into a Hugo website, splitting the HTML into multiple Hugo templates. I admit I was quite in a hurry and had to take shortcuts. I didn't have time to write automated tests and had to rely on manual tests for this single webpage. The diff was fairly big. It just didn't occur to me that the URLs would go through the LLMs and could be affected! Lesson learnt haha.
by coldtea | 2025-10-09 07:36:08+00:00
>I feel like I have to tell it exactly to make changes X and Y to class Z, remove class A etc etc, at which point I can't let it do stuff unsupervised, which is half of the reason for letting an LLM do this in the first place.

The reason better turn to "It can do stuff faster than I ever could if I give it step by step high level instructions" instead.
by gambiting | 2025-10-09 07:36:15+00:00
Again, for sure and I agree with you - but we're talking about institutions that already have our IDs in some form or another, so just asking them to issue a certificate that says "yeah this user is actually over 18" seems like a no brainer functionality on top of an existing system. Like obviously our government office has a copy of my passport and ID card, but if those leak then we have a much bigger problem as a country.
by saghm | 2025-10-09 07:36:32+00:00
> On the other hand, teaching the model to be unsure and ask questions, requires the training loop to break and bring a human input in, which appears more difficult to scale.

The ironic thing to me is that the one thing they never seem to be willing to skip asking about is whether they should proceed with some fix that I just helped them identify. They seem extremely reluctant to actually ask about things they don't know about, but extremely eager to ask about whether they should do the things they already have decided they think are right!
by janmarsal | 2025-10-09 07:36:39+00:00
My biggest issue with LLMs right now is that they're such spineless yes men. Even when you ask their opinion on if something is doable or should it be done in the first place, more often than not they just go "Absolutely!" and shit out a broken answer or an anti-pattern just to please you. Not always, but way too often. You need to frame your questions way too carefully to prevent this.

Maybe some of those character.ai models are sassy enough to have stronger opinions on code?
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-09 07:37:21+00:00
I always appreciate articles like this, where you can clearly see the engineer’s way of thinking.

I was just puzzled by the middle part of the article, where they start investigating their code but seem to overlook the fact that it only happens on ARM64.

Still, I understand that it’s professional to proceed step by step logically.

Great article, it was a pleasure reading it!
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-09 07:37:38+00:00
I got caught up in the hype a bit. I went to meet-ups, tried the tech and was blown away by VR.

Here’s the thing, though. To experience VR properly, you need to be able to walk arbitrarily through space. And houses are small. It sounds stupid and people have proposed solutions like rolling floors, but it’s actually not stupid. Sometimes a technology has a fundamental flaw (hello, there, hallucinating LLMs) which really does mean most of the value is unrealisable.

VR needs neural interfaces. Until then it’s going to be a minor sport.

The short term solution to this is AR. You can walk arbitrary distance subject to physical constraints you can navigate. This will drive the industry forward until neural interfaces are ready. Apple are right with Vision Pro, it’s absolutely amazing for a first product, but like the Newton they are just miles ahead of the curve, too far ahead.

* fortunately for AI companies, hallucinations simply require conceptual developments to fix - they’re not a hard constraint. They just need to stop overfocusing on scale.
by xpe | 2025-10-09 07:37:40+00:00
> [AI] lacks actual reasoning capabilities.

Evals are showing reasoning (by which I mean multi-step problem solving, planning, etc) is improving over time in LLMs. We don't have to agree on metaphysics to see this; I'm referring to the measurable end result.

Why? Some combination of longer context windows, better architectures, hybrid systems, and so on. There is more research about how and where reasoning happens (inside the transformer, during the chain of thought, perhaps during a tool call).
by jbstack | 2025-10-09 07:38:16+00:00
Nonetheless, there's a fundamental legal difference between ownership (e.g. of the notes and coins in your pocket) and a chose in action (the right to sue the bank for the money which you don't own).

If you own something and someone withholds it from you, in the general case that's theft. Because theft is a criminal offence, people generally won't risk doing it. With a chose in action, you have to sue in a civil court for damages. In the meantime, the bank might go bust, you might lose your case, you may give up without even going to court because the amount they've kept isn't worth the time and legal costs of recovery.

You've probably heard the phrase "possession is 9/10ths of the law". If the government introduces a no-warning one-time $5000 levy, they still have to recover the money from you. The effort of doing so is on them and they have the burden of proof. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Maybe you'll decide to leave the country before the legal process concludes. These are some of the advantages of ownership.

When the money is in the bank, the bank and the government can simply agree (without a court's involvement) that you owe the $5000 and there is nothing you can do other than try to sue the bank (and likely lose) because you never owned the money in the first place. The burden of proof shifts to you and it's unlikely you'll ever see that money again.
by jansan | 2025-10-09 07:39:13+00:00
I was hoping that LLMs being able to access strict tools, like Gemini using Python libraries, would finally give reliable results.

So today I asked Gemini to simplify a mathematical expression with sympy. It did and explained to me how some part of the expression could be simplified wonderfully as a product of two factors.

But it was all a lie. Even though I explicitly asked it to use sympy in order to avoid such hallucinations and get results that are actually correct, it used its own flawed reasoning on top and again gave me a completely wrong result.

You still cannot trust LLMs. And that is a problem.
by AngryData | 2025-10-09 07:39:20+00:00
This is why I keep lithium batteries in a steel box when they aren't being used. I think you can but purpose built ones, but I use steel ammo boxes from military surplus stores. Its a bit of a pain, and won't stop the toxic clouds of smoke from filling my house, but it could very well prevent my house from being burnt down.

Some day I might make a dedicated battery box corner with a vent to outdoors though because batteries only seem to be getting bigger and more powerful.
by neuronic | 2025-10-09 07:39:38+00:00
This is why I am really looking forward to PIDs in the European Digital Identity ecosystem (EUDI) [1]. This works with the OpenID Verifiable Credentials spec built on top of Oauth2. There are open source solutions in the competition for building the EUDI Wallet and the architecture and reference framework is openly accessible [2]. All credentials are kept with the holder (you) at all times. Basically implementation of the EU eIDAS 2.0 regulation, obviously subject to GDPR.

Mandated to be accessible to EU citizens by 2027 when all Member States have developed a Wallet solution.

Not associated but learned through it at work recently, just awesome project and thought I'd share in this context.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

[2] https://eu-digital-identity-wallet.github.io/eudi-doc-archit...

[3] https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/credo-ts
by Y-bar | 2025-10-09 07:40:15+00:00
Minimum wage for one adult with one child in California is $16.50/hr: https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/06

Assuming part time work (approximately one day every two weeks) at 10% of the yearly ~2000hr worked per year that equates to about $3300 per year, which seems sensible to me.
by Tor3 | 2025-10-09 07:40:33+00:00
In the past it was more common to suspect the compiler, as others mention here. On a minicomputer I worked with in the late eighties, early nineties, I occasionally found errors in the compiler output. This was a Pascal compiler and because of that it didn't take too long to figure out that the code was actually correct and something else must be going on. Then firing up the debugger/tracer and scrutinizing and analyzing what happens in the disassembly.. when the problem was found, send a fax (yes!) to the head designer of the compiler, get a fixed test compiler back on a set of floppies.. went through this several times. I still have a printout somewhere with my pen marks pointing out a bug in the generated code.
by Ruarl | 2025-10-09 07:40:43+00:00
I'm the wrong kind of engineer to work it out, but I'd be interested to know what the implications for the strength of the cable and specifications for the winch would be for a heavy cargo glider.

Thinking on, specifying the weak links and managing failed winch launches (which happen fairly regularly) is interesting to consider. Recreational gliders are light enough to be manoeuvred by hand, although old farm tractors are used to move them more than a few dozen feet. How would all that work?
by dangus | 2025-10-09 07:40:52+00:00
Micro Center has always been an extremely well-run company that doesn’t resemble many of their failed competitors.

You’d be surprised at how many sections of the store are competitive with online pricing, and last I checked they do price match as long as it’s a live website and not a static screenshot or printout.

If you have one near you it’s the absolute best way to score a graphics card during shortages or at a new product launch at a reasonable price without dealing with scalpers and floods of customers trying to buy limited stock in websites. Just be willing to show up mildly early in the morning and that’s about it. They check ID to make sure you haven’t bought a card from them in the last 30 days to stop scalpers and only sell them in store.

Their 3D printing and maker supplies are also excellent especially considering it’s a real brick and mortar store. It’s pretty cool to be able to do things like buying a replacement hotend without waiting for a shipment and without paying a price premium.

Their store brand (Inland) SSDs are my go-to, they’re an anmazing price/performance value, and their Inland brand in general went from being a joke 20 years ago to being a serious competitor. Their Inland 3D printing filament brand is also very respectable.

That said, Micro Center isn’t going to beat Amazon on value with all the random 6 letter brands from China for various “cheap product where perceived quality is generally equivalent” products.

Since you’re bringing up nostalgia I will also point out that people who have been used to buying stuff on Amazon probably don’t realize that Best Buy is extremely competitive both online and in-store. People blow money on Amazon Prime when Best Buy will ship you lots of electronics overnight for free without a membership (or you can pick up the same day in store obviously). Best Buy is another company that’s extremely well-managed unlike a lot of its failing big box store brethren.