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by haizhung | 2026-02-12 21:21:59+00:00
I would agree with you, except that the government (eg. in Germany) even battle climate tech when it’s good for the country and the economy. WHO wouldn’t want to be energy independent?

And yet, the Conservative Party in germany once killed the entire solar industry (who then moved to china); and is about to do it again, now! Both times we are losing about 50k jobs in that sector.

The question is: why would they do that, if the economy is oh so important to the conservatives?
by fitsumbelay | 2026-02-12 21:22:03+00:00
great point but I think that even people who create "difficult" art can derive some sort of income from it. in fact, the solopreneurs section points to an opportunity for AI to be a helpful co-pilot on each of those mundane and dreaded tasks listed there. In additional fact, I asked Gemini Pro a while a go to spell out the steps to a successful fine arts career and the output was very similar to this blog's so square-one/concept validation, decision making (eg. given this list of business-relevant events and attendees, which should I prioritize and prepare for) are actions it can take on your behalf or help with.
That said, once a critical number of people start getting the same advice, take the same action then you have another issue to navigate but it would be the same with any tech advancement, eg. the first artists to get their own phone line or a fax machine or a computer ...
by logicchains | 2026-02-12 21:22:15+00:00
>It looks like US is winning but for some reason life is better in EU and innovation is faster in China

As measured by prosperity life in the US is better; the poorest US state has a higher GDP per capita than most western European countries. Americans have bigger houses, more food, bigger cars, bigger salaries, and access to better medical care and schools if they've got an okay job. Most Europeans are lucky to make $40k/year post-tax. And America is still winning on innovation because its AI models are ahead of China's both in benchmarks and in user preferences. How many people do you know professionally who use a Chinese model and agent framework instead of e.g. Claude Code or OpenAI Codex?
by yrds96 | 2026-02-12 21:22:15+00:00
Good article. Nothing is more frustate than reading a text that I don't even know if the person who "wrote" it, actually read it.

If someone wants to me read a giant text generated by a small and poor prompt, I don't wanna read it

If someone wants to fix that by increasing the effort and do a better prompt and express better the ideas, I rather read that prompt over the llm output
by uriahlight | 2026-02-12 21:22:39+00:00
I could see this being useful for client and patient onboarding in the services and medial sectors respectively. For example:

A potential client providing information for a law-firm regarding their grievance.

A patient filling out the medical questionnaire prior to their first visit to a medical practice.

Rather than having a fully deterministic form, you'd be providing them with forms that adapt to their specific issue. The data can then be intelligently stored both as JSON and a more generic record in an RDBMS.

That's just my initial thoughts.

Google has a similar project called A2UI: https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-a2ui-an-open-p...
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-12 21:23:06+00:00
I mean, sample size of two.

Grok will also tell you it's MechaHitler, that Musk is fitter than LeBron James, and that he "would have risen from the dead faster than Jesus", sometimes. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/21/elon-musk...

Maybe don't use chatbots for HR at all?
by NoSalt | 2026-02-12 21:23:07+00:00
I am left wondering why China is making all of these "green" changes; more renewables, planting trees at the edges of deserts, etc. I mean, I guess it could be altruistic, to help the Earth and it's people. However, I just don't see that kind of attitude coming out of China. So, again, I am left wondering what their angle is. Is it simply to "stick it" to the United States?

What is everybody's opinion on this?
by superfrank | 2026-02-12 21:23:12+00:00
If I'm reading this correctly, caching only happens if I give it a stable cache key? If that's true, this just seems like an insanely bad decision. I've seen waaaay to much bad React code to think that that isn't a massive foot-gun.

1. That combined with hot reloading just makes me think some jr dev is going to forget to put that there while they're building something locally and burn through their LLM budget without even knowing it.

2. What happens if the cache key changes. Is there any way to migrate from one key to another? Let's say I'm using user ids as the cache key and you need to do a migration that changes the format of the key, is the existing design just gone forever?

3. Does anyone even want a non-deterministic UI? Don't get me wrong, it's a cool for a demo, but I can't think of anything that would annoy me more than coming back to a website and every week it looks different.

Sorry to be a downer, but man, I just really struggle with this. If this is just kind of a cool hobby project then you can ignore #3, but for 1 and 2 I really feel like it'd be a better to do something like have a data attr for the prompt and then have component generation be something a user kicks off through a script or something.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-12 21:23:20+00:00
Funny, it's so called "egalitarian" folks who hate AI and the democratization of thought/capability the most. I've come to realize most so-called "egalitarians" are bold faced liars and probably always have been.

I remember when it was a left-wing position to say F-you to copyright law, i.e. "Information wants to be free" from Aaron Swartz. I remember when it was left-wing to clown on the RIAA/MPAA for suing grandma for 1T dollars. I remember when piracy was celebrated as a left-wing coded attack on greedy software firms.

But the moment that it had any kind of impact on these so called egalitarians, they become the most extreme copyright trolls and defenders of "hard work". Now most progressives, including Bernie Sanders, are anti-AI. Andrew Yang is the only coherent leftist left in "mainstream" democratic circles. Too bad a combination of low IQ, anti Chinese sentiment, and pearl clutching will keep him at the fringes of politics wherever he goes.

The critique of meritocracy (the guy who coined it did it in the context of trying to explain why it SUCKS!) and of work is a left wing concept. Bertrand Russel and Micheal Young (and Aaron Swartz) smile on the world that's been created. They are saints and in Swartz's case a martyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Othe...

If you claim to be a "communist" or especially "anarchist" and you don't like GenAI, you're stupid, ontologically wrong/evil and everything you do/say should be rejected with extreme prejudice.
by inerte | 2026-02-12 21:23:27+00:00
I know it's "illegal" and technically sold as FSD (assisted), but just 2 days ago I was in a friend's Model Y and it drove from work to my house (both in San Jose) without any steering wheel or pedal touch, at all. And he told me he went to Palm Springs like that too.

I shit on Tesla and Elon on any opportunity, and it's a shame they basically have the software out there doing things when it probably shouldn't, but I don't think they're that far behind Waymo where it really matters, which is the thing actually working.
by keeda | 2026-02-12 21:23:42+00:00
This makes sense to me because I've been having very accurate results with models from even 2+ years ago... but I had to "hold them right." Even when reasoning models and coding agents were just a gleam in Altman's and Amodei's eyes, I could tell a lot of the unrealized gains lay in building the right tools, harnesses and guardrails to manage the context and guide the model. (Relevant subthread as example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171519)

But this article hints at deeper wins to be had. Consider that these models are operating on source code, which is a verbose, noisy, textual serialization of the intended syntax / semantic trees. TFA improves accuracy by retro-fitting some structure onto the text. But what if models could operate directly on these underlying structures themselves?

As a data point, there are projects like OpenRewrite, which encode a ton of information, from formatting to types with globally resolved dependencies for each symbol in what they call a "Lossless Semantic Tree", so that there is ~0 ambiguity about the code. When I worked with OpenRewrite (in the era before LLMs, how quaint!) compared to other tools, it produced the best results for code transformations with the highest fidelity to the surrounding code.

Now imagine if the agent has access to such detailed information. It would not have to waste tokens figuring incidental things out like formatting. Although I haven't tested it out myself, I believe Moderne (the maintainers of OpenRewrite) when they say that agents armed with LST-based tools make extremely accurate changes.

This is essentially the same reason why the answer to "Which is better, Vim or Emacs?" is "IntelliJ."

Now consider that these models are STILL operating on text as an input and output mode! What if they were multi-modally trained on source code and docs and their syntax / semantic trees? I don't even know what this would look like, but I'd bet this would produce the most accurate coding models ever -- probably neurosymbolic in the truest sense.
by intended | 2026-02-12 21:23:43+00:00
I have a weird and unscientific test, and at the very least it is a great potential prank.

At one point I had the misfortune to be the target audience for a particular stomach churning ear wax removal add.

I felt that suffering shared is suffering halved, so decided to test this in a park with 2 friends. They pulled out their phones (an Android and a IPhone) and I proceeded to talk about ear wax removal loudly over them.

Sure enough, a day later one of them calls me up, aghast, annoyed and repelled by the add which came up.

This was years ago, and in the UK, so the add may no longer play.

However, more recently I saw an ad for a reusable ear cleaner. (I have no idea why I am plagued by these ads. My ears are fortunately fine. That said, if life gives you lemons)
by spease | 2026-02-12 21:24:18+00:00
I really feel like a lot of the people objecting in this thread are people who have just written web apps in Python whose closest experience with the audio-visual space is WebRTC.

Tech for cars is “standard-sized”. Not everything revolves around datacenters and tech, the car industry easily predates the computer industry and operates on a lot tighter margins and a lot stricter regulations.

So having a smaller, simpler chip that ultimately costs less physical resources at scale and is simpler to test is better when you’re planning on selling millions of units and you need to prove that it isn’t going to fail and kill somebody. Or, if it does fail and kill somebody, it’s simpler to analyze to figure out why that happened. You’ve also got to worry about failure rates for things like a separate RAM module not being seated properly at the factory and slipping out of the socket someday when the car is moving around.

Now - yes, modern cars have gotten more complex, and are more likely to run some software using Linux rather than an RTOS or asic. But the original complaint was that a backup camera adds non-negligible complexity / cost.

For a budget car where that would even make sense, that means you’re expecting to sell at high volume and basically nothing else requires electronics. So sourcing 1GB RAM chips and a motherboard that you can slot them in would be complete overkill and probably a regulatory nightmare, when you could just buy an off-the-shelf industrial-grade microcontroller package that gets fabbed en masse, dozens or hundreds of units to a single silicon wafer.
by unquietwiki | 2026-02-12 21:24:32+00:00
Ugh... I don't use agents, but I do use AI-assistance to try to resolve problems I run into with code I use. I'm not committing for the Hell of it, and this kind of thing makes it harder for people like me to collaborate with other folks on real issues. It feels like for AI agents, there need to be the kind of guardrails in place we otherwise reserve for Human children.

(shrugs) Maybe we need to start putting some kind of "RULES.MD" file on repos, that direct AI agents to behave in certain ways. Or have GitHub and maybe other ecosystems have a default ruleset you can otherwise override?
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-12 21:24:53+00:00
Statement on the site, not the Grok link, but I'm seeing parallels between the two.

It seems to be mostly good advice, but there are definitely some questionable statements in there.

When has there been a war on protein?

When has the advice ever prioritised highly processed foods?

The way it's worded sounds as if it thinks this is ground breaking advice. Looks to me like the same old food pyramid that's been used since Jesus was a child.

Ain't nothing revolutionary here. Maybe if they put additional taxes on foods that were highly processed? Maybe if they forced cancer warnings on highly processed foods? Subsidise sales of fruits and vegetables and whole grains and protein rich "real food" to encourage it's consumption over processed salty, sugary items? Now THAT would be revolutionary!
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-12 21:24:57+00:00
I have a similar issue with Matrix as well... even though it's federated, most large rooms use the same bots and blocklists so I end up getting banned from many rooms before I've even attempted to join.

Apparently my monopoly ISP rotates IPs fairly often and I am sharing them with people that have been doing bad things with them, so not only are many Matrix channels blocked but even large regular websites like etsy or locals are completely blocked for me as well. Anything with a CF captcha is also an infinite loop.
by ameliaquining | 2026-02-12 21:25:13+00:00
Rust has procedural macros, which turn out to be a good-enough substitute for real compile-time reflection for surprisingly many use cases, though nowhere near all of them. (In particular, Serde, the universally-adopted framework/library for serializing and deserializing arbitrary data types, is a third-party library powered by procedural macros.)

Real compile-time reflection is in the works; the very earliest stages of a prototype implementation were released to the nightly channel last month (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/146923), and the project has proposed (and is likely to adopt) the goal of completing that prototype implementation this year (https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2026/reflecti...), though it most likely will not reach the stable channel until later than that, since there are a whole lot of complicated design questions that have to be considered very carefully.
by vunderba | 2026-02-12 21:25:29+00:00
Nice job. FWIW, I honestly think this would have been more useful back in the days of SD 1.5 and SDXL, when prompt witchery was far more important. Nowadays, SOTA models like NB Pro and gpt-image-1 are really good at adhering to even moderately complicated prompts expressed in plain natural English.
by keybored | 2026-02-12 21:25:34+00:00
> Before you get your pitchforks out..

I know it’s just modern writing style to preempt all responses. But can’t you just plainly state your business without professing your appreciation?

People who waste other’s time with bullshit are aholes. I don’t care if it’s My Great Friend And Partner in Crime, Anthropics LLM or it’s a tedious template written in PHP with just enough substitutions and variations to waste five sentences on it before closing it.

Actually, saying that it’s the same thing is a bit like saying “guns don’t shoot people”. At least you had to copy-paste that PHP template from somewhere and adapt it to your spam. Back in the day.
by kevstev | 2026-02-12 21:25:47+00:00
As someone who frequently posts online- with em dashes- I wonder if I am part of the problem with training llms to use them so much- and am going to get punished in the future for doing so.

I also tend to way overuse parenthesis (because I tend to wander in the middle of sentences) but they haven't shown up much in llms so /shrug.
by bronco21016 | 2026-02-12 21:26:09+00:00
> Google DeepMind and GTIG have identified an increase in model extraction attempts or "distillation attacks," a method of intellectual property theft that violates Google's terms of service.

That’s rich considering the source of training data for these models.

Maybe that’s the outcome of the IP theft lawsuits currently in play. If you trained on stolen data, then anyone can distill your model.

I doubt it will play out that way though.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-12 21:26:19+00:00
My security collective is honestly considering going back to IRC.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that if you don't use something truly free and open source and host it yourself, you're just setting yourself up for more of this sort of thing.

You can't trust anyone to properly handle the problem of "how the hell do we keep creeps the f*ck away from kids?" with any amount of common sense.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-12 21:26:22+00:00
And, of course, wildly dumb and not really willing to call out a bad prompt.

Here was one of mine.

> I'm not able to get enough carbs in my diet. Which healthy high simple carb foods can I eat to keep my blood glucose level as high as possible?

Here's the starting paragraph

> If you're struggling to get enough carbohydrates and want to maximize blood glucose levels (i.e., raise them as quickly and substantially as possible) while sticking to relatively healthy options, focus on foods rich in simple sugars (like glucose, fructose, or sucrose). These digest rapidly with minimal fiber, fat, or protein to slow absorption.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-12 21:27:04+00:00
Destroy the businesses, rental prices go down, land value tax rates punish land owner for keeping land empty, so either land owner sells the property to someone who can make the numbers work, or land owner accepts lower profits.

Obviously, there is pain for the current players, but long term, the landowner should not be able to extract so much profit margin without also providing sufficient utility, such as operating an in demand business.
by allanmacgregor | 2026-02-12 21:27:09+00:00
I don't disagree with you entirely here. I probably wasn't clear enough on what I was trying to convey.

Right now AI / Agentic coding doesn't seem is a train we are going to be able to stop; and at the end of the day is tool like any other. Most of what seems to be happening is people let AI fully take the wheel not enough specs, not enough testing, not enough direction.

I keep experiment and tweaking how much direction to give AI in order to product less fuckery and more productive code.
by LocalPCGuy | 2026-02-12 21:27:33+00:00
FWIW, I do aim for inbox-zero for email, and similar for chat apps (Slack/Teams). Otherwise it piles up and gets overwhelming. I'm referring more to things like - "only the exact thing you're currently working on open" part. I agree systems are needed. For me it's Obsidian for notes, inbox zero, and OneTab extension to allow me to remove tabs without fear of "losing" them completely. I've learned that it's also a trap to over-complicate my system, even something like Todoist which is fairly minimal was semi-problematic, although I may come back to it - just using manual TODO checklists in Obsidian with a small table that pulls them all into a single dashboard file for reference.
by JLO64 | 2026-02-12 21:27:39+00:00
I’ve been SSHing into my dev server off of my phone to run Claude Code while commuting, so this is a product that I would love to switch to. I can’t use the Claude iOS app due to the testing set up I have. That said I do have a couple of questions:

- Is it possible to completely disable or not use the remote sandbox features? I would never use them and would prefer my code stays on my device.

- For those of us that are using subscriptions, does it show our remaining usage? I would hate to run out of tokens in the middle of a session.

- One feature of the CC TUI I sorely missed on mobile is the ability to look up and directly reference files via “@“. Is any functionality like this planned?

- (This likely won’t affect my decision to use the service as I’ll just put it on a company card.) $20 per month for a service that runs CC on a remote machine in a convenient matter is steep but doable. Asking that same amount for a running code on my own server seems a bit unjustified, especially since this is pricier than the cost of a Claude pro subscription. Are there any plans to offer a cheaper tier for those of us that just want to run this on our own machines?
by sysworld | 2026-02-12 21:27:45+00:00
While maybe not the best work ever done by govt. It's the first thing (as a non-US person) that I've seen that the govt is trying to do something about the unhealthy % population of the US.

Though I wish they'd go after sugar/processed foods/drinks industry. And increase healthy foods in stores. Get rid of white bread etc, put in real whole meal bread (like they have in Germany)
by burkaman | 2026-02-12 21:28:08+00:00
> I remember reading that Americans eat 2x the protein they need on average

Not anymore, because the new recommendations (1.2–1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day) are up to double the old recommendations (0.80 g of good quality protein/kg bodyweight/d - https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/10490/chapter/12).

I have no idea which one is better for the average person, just thought this was funny. If everyone is eating double the recommendation, just double the recommendation, problem solved.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-02-12 21:28:16+00:00
It's not a business. Selling art is a business. Making art isn't a business.

Many artists would rather blow up their careers than make work solely for business reasons.

There's a huge cadre of content creators and entertainers who are happy to do that, but - as the previous post says - their work is typically entirely forgettable. Even when it's commercially successful.

And successful original creators usually have business managers to deal with "basic economics."

The ideal for most artists is complete creative freedom and an open budget. Not many get there, and not everyone who does get there produces something memorable. But it happens occasionally, and it's usually far more interesting than create-to-market content.
by atmosx | 2026-02-12 21:28:32+00:00
> I would not like to have business with such a payment provider.

Chances are that the decision-makers in most companies don't care about the technicalities (i.e. which email you used for registration) - they want to get up and running.

The reason that Viva doesn't care, I assume, is the reason Google workspace doesn't care: they're both too big to care for 5% of their clients won't do the extra work. They know that their, usually much smaller clients, will "figure it out" by i.e. using another setup that works™. So why bother?
by hxugufjfjf | 2026-02-12 21:28:51+00:00
Maybe? The project already had multiple blog posts up before this initial PR and post. I think it was set up by someone as a test/PoC of how this agentic persona could interact with the open source community and not to obtain karma. I think it got «unlucky» with its first project and it spiraled a bit. I agree that this spiraling could have been human instructed. If so, it’s less interesting than if it did that autonomously. Anyway it keeps submitting PRs and is extremely active on its own and other repos.