They're effectively at war and are freaking out about capital flight which poses a unique existential risk to them especially.I imagine most countries in that situation would clamp down on freedom of speech and prohibit sharing photos of missile strikes. This would include most of the ones that pay lip service to freedom of speech in peace time.Ukraine does this too.

Strange. It’s your retarded paedophile in chief who simultaneously is begging Europe for help whilst insisting he doesn’t need Europe at all.

I worked on deep sub-micron, full custom mixed-signal integrated circuits for more than a decade, and I can't pass the first level.> Wire an NMOS transistor so that when In is 1, the output is pulled to ground (0). When In is 0, the output should be unconnected (Z).Certainly:(a) The nMOS has 3 connections: its drain is only connected to the output (no +Vdd supply), it's source is tied to ground, it's gate is tied to the signal input(b) When the gate (input) is driven high, the nMOS transistor tu

I ran these in LM Studio and got unrecognizable pelicans out of the 2B and 4B models and an outstanding pelican out of the 26b-a4b model - I think the best I've seen from a model that runs on my laptop.https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/gemma-4/The gemma-4-31b model is completely broken for me - it just spits out "---\n" no matter what prompt I feed it. I got a pelican out of it via the AI Studio API hosted model instead.

My guess is Sam Altman is a better VC than CEO. Better at hype, networking, fund raising, and back room political hijinks than shipping a focused productHe seems to be trying to take almost a "venture studio" approach by throwing shit at the wall, but the problem with these things is always that the "internal startups" are "founded" by people who don't have enough incentive or control over their product to perform as well as an actual startup, and are distracted by internal politics. And frankly

Sora was losing 15M a day and it was running at least 3 months, so that's a total 1.3 Billion. That's a pretty expensive experiment. It sounds like a company with lots of VC to burn and no discipline. Even Jensen Huang accused them of lack of discipline in business approach.

People are much more willing to give the benefit of the doubt on things like that when the flagbearers of your industry aren't running around sucking all of the oxygen out of the system and telling people things are "solved": that your product will obsolete them in the next 6-12 months.We get it. They say that stuff to raise money, make sales and keep the party going. But don't expect too much sympathy when the strategy falters a bit.

> The cost to serve tokens is absolutely profitableCan you explain why you know better than the analyst at Cursor cited in this article?

You’ve said this above and have been corrected that Apple cannot single handedly veto proposals.Given the rest of your argument hinges on a misunderstanding of the process I’m not sure it holds much merit.

Isn't this pretty much the standard across projects that make heavy use of AI code generation?Using AI to generate all your code only really makes sense if you prioritize shipping features as fast as possible over the quality, stability and efficiency of the code, because that's the only case in which the actual act of writing code is the bottleneck.

Basically this is true for most startups in the world BUT Cursor, so here you are kinda inverting the logic of the matter. Cursor is at a size that, if they wanted to use K2.5, they could clearly state that it was K2.5 or get a license to avoid saying it.

Developer discovers context switching tax

I read this book last year and this application is spot on. There is a point in the narrative when the company automates a step in their manufacturing using an expensive machine and it has the effect developed here: the next step in the process is backed up further.The points specific to software where it might not even be producing in-spec is also very good.Comments that cite the solo dev/prototype case are of course not what this is getting at, but it's one good use of quick generation.I would

I was not saying that humans are always right. I was assuming that humans probabilistically would make fewer obvious mistakes, which of course could be wrong and hence my questions. Speaking of QA, we would require AI to generate test cases, right? If so, do we rely on human review to ensure the quality of the test cases?

It's close enough. If we had a build pipeline that kept prompts in source control, and ran it through an LLM and then a compiler to produce the build output, this would fall over constantly. You'd get radically different results every time. Build pipelines that store actual source code in source control, then run them through a compiler to produce the build output, are used all over the place and they generally work great.

In the 12+ years I've been a professional developer, I can only remember two bugs that were caused by the compiler / interpreter, everything else were logic bugs, oversights, 3rd-party libraries, misunderstanding of the requirements, internal contradictions in the requirements etc.So that's maybe 0.1% of all the bugs I've touched.In that sense, code generation isn't really an interesting source of bugs for the discussion at hand.

AI is really good when:1. you want something that's literally been done tons of times before, and it can literally just find it inside its compressed dataset2. you want something and as long as it roughly is what you wanted, it's fineIt turns out, this is not the majority of software people are paying engineers to write.And it turns out that actually writing the code is only part of what you're paying for - much smaller than most people think.You are not paying your surgeon only to cut things.Yo

It's so much faster too! How many meters of flesh have you cut this month, and how are you working toward increasing that number?

Actually the surgeon analogy is really good. Saying AI will replace programming is like saying an electric saw will replace surgeons because the hospital director can use it to cut into flesh.

The blog isn't even necessarily anti-AI yet the majority of responses here are defending it like the author kicked their dog.The sentiment that developers shouldn't be writing code anymore means I cannot take you seriously. I see these tools fail on a daily basis and it is sad that everyone is willing to concede their agency.

> I once watched a team spend six weeks building a feature based on a Slack message from a sales rep who paraphrased what a prospect maybe said on a call. Six weeks. The prospect didn't even end up buying. The feature got used by eleven people, and nine of them were internal QA. That's not a delivery problem. That's an "oh fuck, what are we even doing" problem.I have very much upset a CEO before by bursting his bubble with the fact that how fast you work is so much less important than what you a

"Our newest model reduces your Mean Time To 'Oh, Fuck!' (MTTF) by 70%!"

> Companies genuinely don't want good code.I might be more charitable. I'd say something like "Companies genuinely want good code but weigh the benefits of good code (future flexibility, lower maintenance costs) against the costs (delayed deployment, fewer features)."Each company gets to make the tradeoffs they feel are appropriate. It's on technical people to explain why and risks, just like lawyers do for their area of expertise.

This user has posted the parent post nearly verbatim twice. And the exact same responses about determinism several times.

Is this a copypasted response? I've seen the exact same bs in other AI threads on this site.

I really hate the trying to make LLM coding sound like it's just moving up the stack and is no different from a compiler. A compiler is deterministic and has a set of rules that can be understood. I can look at the output and see patterns and know exactly what the compiler is doing and why it does and where it does it. And it will be deterministic in doing it.

None of the comparisons make any sense. In short, these concepts are essential to understand:- determinism vs non-determinism- conceptual integrity vs "it works somewhat, don't touch it"

This. The comparison between compilers and LLMs is so utterly incorrect, and yet I've heard it multiple times already in the span of a few weeks. The people suggesting this are probably unaware of the fact that Turing complete languages follow mathematical properties not just vibes. You can trust the output of your compiler because it was thoroughly tested to ensure it acts as a Turing machine that converts one Turing complete language (C, C++, whatever) into another Turing complete language (AS

>Source code in a higher-level language is not really different anymoreSource code is a formal language, in a way that natural language isn't.

> review the ASM that GCC generates (we don't)Of course we do not. Because there is no need. The process of compiling higher order language to assembly is deterministic and well-tested. There is no need to continue reviewing something that always yields the same result.> We care that it works, and is correct for what it is supposed to do.Exactly. Which is something we do not have with an output of an LLM. Because it can misunderstand or hallucinate.Therefore, we always have to review it.That is

Sometimes being involved in the construction process allows you to discover all the (many, overlapping) ways it's the "wrong thing" sooner.In the long term, some of the most expensive wrong-things are the ones where the prototype gets a "looks good to me" from users, and it turns out what they were asking for was not what they needed or what could work, for reasons that aren't visually apparent.In other words, it's important to have many people look at it from many perspectives, and optimizing f

> Why not? Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster? Can it help? Of course! But I think the question is too vague here and you're (presumably) unintentionally creating a false dichotomy. I'll clarify with the next responses > Why can't we figure out the right thing faster by building the wrong thing faster? The main problem is that solution spaces are very large. There are two general ways to narrow the solution space: directly and indirectly. Directly by things like thi

"Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster?"Because typing is not the same as understanding.

Because you're working on the implementation before you understand the problem?

I'm reminded of the original Agile joke, "software you don't want in 30days or less." today it's "software you don't want in 5days or less."

> Why not? Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster?Sometimes you need to think slow to understand something. Offloading your thinking to a black box of numbers and accepting what it emits is not thinking slow (i.e. ponder) and processing the problem at hand.On the contrary, it's entering tunnel vision and brute forcing. i.e. shotgun coding.

>Why not? Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster?do you have a example (even a toy one) where typing faster would help you understand a problem faster?

Fast prototyping helps when the prototype forces contact with the problem, like users saying "nope" or the spec collapsing under a demo. If the loop is only you typing, debugging, and polishing, you're mostly making a bigger mess in the repo and convincing yourself that the mess taught you something.Code is one way to ask a question, not proof that you asked a good one. Sometimes the best move is an annoying hour with the PM, the customer, or whoever wrote the ticket.

Admitting the bigger problem, why should we believe any specific report that BBC puts out there? The have been shown multiple times to be heavily biased (to put it mildly) and posting fake or unconfirmed reports, data.

An eyewitness account from the article:(The eyewitness) told us the family car had just turned left into his street, facing uphill, and had come to a complete halt before any shots were fired, contradicting the Israeli army account. I asked if he had heard any warnings given by the Israeli forces, or any warning shots fired. "No, nothing," he said. "The firing directly targeted the car. I just heard the woman in the car screaming. The little kids were crying before they were killed."

> about an incident involving New Zealanders and MaorisReally?Aotearoan here. Our racist history is shameful. Many massacres, both sides but mostly one way traffic.Our history of "othering" indigenous people here in law was shameful too.But seriously, and with all due respect, fuck you!!We are facing up to our racist past, present and (Dog help us) future.Tikanga Māori is joining our legal system.Being openly racist to Māori is politically suicidal (some right wing politicians are giving it a

This isn't a war, though. This is an extermination. This is an army with effectively limitless power against unarmed civilians.

Which war? This happened in the West Bank!

It's not collateral damage in the gaza war. This was a family in the west bank, where there is no hamas and no "war", that was gunned down in cold blood for no reason. Not even presenting a threat. I hope one day you are able to find compassion.

> US Politics seems to get more of a pass,This goes beyond US politics. The US and Israel do not exist in a bubble. This conflict can and will have big repercussions which will impact our technical and entrepreneurial institutions.

I see people saying this story doesn't belong on HN. genuine question, if this story were about a german national would it be considered as political? is palestinian existence inherently more political than other peoples' existence?

The people being oppressed and exterminated belong to the same group.It's not even wrong to conflate atrocities in both regions as part of the same genocidaire campaign.

I live in DE too, it's terrifying. I didn't realize the extent of the armaments shipped to Israel from Germany until recently.The Israeli navy ships were built in German shipyards and subsidized 30%...

I am German. My government does not acknowledge the tragedy that has been unfolding in Gaza since the Hamas attack in October 2023. It’s absurd. Since then, Jewish people in Berlin who were demonstrating alongside Palestinians against the war in Gaza have been beaten down by the German police. In 2021, Esther Bejarano, the last survivor of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra, passed away in Hamburg. Whenever she commented on the culture of remembrance, the media was eager to report on it. Whene

> this is war 101, every day.Except this situation has been going on like this for 60 years - with Israel, or the other western states having absolutely no plans to change anything about it (except making it even worse).

> this is war 101The west bank isn't at war with Israel. There wasn't some conflict or event that has justified these actions.I wish people understood this better. Even if you could manage to justify what's happening in gaza as "this is war", Gaza and the west bank are separate entities with separate governments. The west bank, in particular, is more like an Indian reservation in the US, with the Israeli government effectively exercising supremacy over all aspects of the government.Theoretica

A certain amount of politics should/must be tolerated on HN, because you cannot compartmentalize technology, politics and morality.No-one, not even people who say they like technology but do not care about politics, should be able to live their life wihtout knowing that we live in a world where six-year old blind children are murdered with automatic assault rifles.(For the same reason that no-one should be able to live not knowing that jewish once were murdered in the millions in gas chambers.)

For those wondering, it is verifiable story, it is covered as fact in Israeli newspapers:https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-...https://www.ynetnews.com/article/p7mq5k5bsThe main justification floated is that the car was "going fast" and thus made the undercover Israeli soldiers feel unsafe.The New York Times describes it as such:"Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construc

I wonder what the second order effects of this on the HN karma system will be. It'll create a graph of karmic supernodes perhaps. Say I green-blob someone with a big reputation here, say jacquesm; no doubt lots of other people will do the same. The friends-of-friends icon is going to appear widely but it'll all be a single edge away from Jacques' node. Is that much of a signal? I dunno. That's 30 seconds of thought about it. It's a fun idea though so I'll try it.Version two: hide foes? Come to t