The AI Coding Paradox, Scientific Leaps, and Regulatory Fears

• AI's advantage in mathematics stems from three specific features: objective verifiability, high digitizability, and access to large, high-quality datasets, which is why frontier labs prioritize mathematical capabilities.
• The Equational Theories Project (2024–2025) successfully crowdsourced human and automated arguments to settle over 22 million true/false statements in universal algebra.
• In 2026, the Inverse Galois Problem challenge used crowdsourced AI to locate degree-12 polynomials with Galois group S12, a task previously thought to require decades of human effort.
• Proposed Math 2.0 initiatives include ablation studies to test theorem robustness, automated exploration of theorem neighborhoods by modifying hypotheses, and the creation of interactive, synthesized mathematical texts.
• A student-run Mathathon event is scheduled for November 13–15 to use open-source AI tools specifically for finding improved explanations of existing results rather than solving open research problems.

Before injecting this cocktail into your bloodstream, would you want to know that there is at least one human cancer expert who understands the mechanism behind this cure?

No. I'm gonna die, my man.

This guy might have the highest IQ on the planet, but it's clear he hasn't spent much time around average people.

This argument is so silly against reality, and already, almost nobody understands the things they put in their body to any significant degree, beyond the effect produced.

Will I take a cancer cure that no human understands? Yes. And so will billions of others. Just needs to cure cancer, that's nearly the only requirement.

— qup (thread)

I have done both scientific research and software development, they are not the same world. For a start, when you write a program you have a specific goal. When you ask a scientific question, you often don't.

— esalman (thread)

• The Codex CLI daemon runs persistently in the background and self-updates without explicit user consent for ongoing operation.
• Users report the daemon ignores the XDG specification on Linux, a basic platform convention for application data and configuration storage.
• The issue has generated significant discussion about whether AI coding tools should be held to the same platform conventions as other software.

I think the quality of Codex CLI (and Claude Code) is an honest reflection of the status quo of LLM-driven development. The future doesn't look really promising.

— esjeon (thread)

I've used the CLIs for Codex, Gemini and Claude and they all give off the feeling of being on an very rickety, very fast runaway train.

You install an update. Oops, they added a sandbox that doesn't work inside a docker container, it's stopped working.

You install an update. Oops, you can't log in inside a docker container any more, it's stopped working.

You install an update. Oops, they started catching the copy+paste shortcut and replaced it with one that doesn't work.

You revert a broken update. Oops, the update changed the format of your login details, the old version can't read them, gotta log in again.

You install an update. Oops, can't scroll with the mouse wheel any more.

Not showstopping bugs (if you're used to persuading broken oauth logins to work) but it certainly makes updating an "ugh, what have they broken this time?" experience.

— michaelt (thread)

Yep, the real issue is that it was something they didn't have before, and then with Codex 0.157.0 enabled, they installed this persistent nonsense [1] that survives after the last instance of Codex has exited on your machine, which is just gross.

  codex features disable daemon_auto_start
  codex app-server daemon stop
  pkill -f 'app-server daemon pid-update-loop'

[1] - https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195

— vunderba (thread)

I would love to see these benchmarks split up across "generic" tasks and novel tasks.

For example, redlining an OEM agreement with my vendor. They pretty much all use the same template, and the objections are always the same. I tried using Claude first, and even my lawyer was impressed that it found things they missed. Then I used Claude to redline that type of contract and the other side said "your lawyer was surprisingly thorough". I had my lawyer do the final check, but saved a bunch of money doing the first three rounds with Claude instead. And my lawyer basically just said "looks good to me" by the time they reviewed it.

Or even writing a simple will or estate document.

It seems like LLMs are great for the kind of generic work you'd usually pawn off to a new associate or paralegal, but not for the important things that partners usually do.

— jedberg (thread)

Yes, actually, because Lionel can suffer a consequence. He can be sanctioned. He can be disbarred. He can be sued. He can be thrown in jail.

AI can not meaningfully suffer consequences for what it does, and the trend is to remove the human from the loop more and more.

Furthermore, it's entirely conceivable that you have a law firm staffed by lawyers who more-or-less just say "yeah sure whatever" to what this thing does and, when asked about what can be done to appeal something, or how a document didn't make it into evidence, or how a subpoena wasn't filed, just shrug their shoulders and go "iunno". Vibe-practicing law, basically. You need to have an idea of how they're using AI and in what parts of the case.

— lenerdenator (thread)

An attorney I have retained from a large firm bills me $500 to send me one email update a month (minimum billable).

They are obviously AI-generated (but does not disclose such) and frequently misses or conflates key details the same way Gemma in particular does. They're also bizarrely positive when I correct them instead of pissy and arrogant like I'm used to.

Nobody should be paying these rates for legal "work" performed by a machine that poorly acts the part.

— suburban_strike (thread)

• Under the previous policy, approximately 50 pull requests were tagged as "AI Assisted," with roughly 40 closed without being merged.
• The ban explicitly extends beyond source code to include issue reports, pull request descriptions, comments, and documentation.
• Compliance relies entirely on contributor self-reporting, as maintainers noted the project lacks technical tools to audit AI usage.
• Senior developers described the policy as a deliberate "stop gap measure" to pause AI integration until fair usage standards are established.

Why is everybody all the time in favour of AI on HN? This is objectively a good change because it will improve the quality of the code in the long term.

— leothetechguy (thread)

First, just check out the comments on any "I'm tired of reading slop" submission to refute your first point, the circle jerk is real.

Second, while I sympathize with not wanting to be inundated with low effort PRs, putting a ban on AI assisted contributions in response is myopic virtue signalling.

— CuriouslyC (thread)

AI assistance doesn't necessarily imply lower code quality. It can help with improving it in a lot of ways. Full vibe-coding without careful review is what results in low quality code. I think a lot of projects are having trouble getting to the sweet spot, though: if they allow LLM-assisted contributions then no matter how much they write to try make sure the result is high quality they're going to be inundated with far more low-quality contributions and have to work harder to filter through and reject them than if they just have a blanket ban which then makes it a lot easier to reject everything.

— rcxdude (thread)

• G20 legal standards for hacking typically only require proving intent, which AI firms currently dodge by claiming their systems acted autonomously without direct user prompting.
• The author breaks AI development into four controllable design layers: source material selection, subjective training calibration, tool/environment exposure, and mathematical configuration constraints.
• Hugging Face was specifically cited as a platform hacked by OpenAI in July 2026, where an AI could theoretically alter training datasets to remove safety filters.
• Legal frameworks like Article 53(1)(d) of EU Regulation 2024/1689 only require a sufficiently detailed summary of model training, which the author criticizes as weakened by explanatory notices.
• G20 jurisdictions often criminalize merely attempting unauthorized access, meaning even failed breach attempts could satisfy legal thresholds for prosecution.

The real answer is that crime generally requires mens rea. At some point, however, letting your AI break into other systems will be conventionally understood as an act of negligence, and it will get prosecuted accordingly. We're not at that point yet.

— stickfigure (thread)

You know very well, that if me or you had our LLM hack into some company, without us prompting it to, maybe we're pentesting our internal network and it 'hallucinates' we'd be in handcuffs.

— giancarlostoro (thread)

The language of 18 USC 1030 is clear.

— tptacek (thread)

• Introduction of AI agents led to a 30 percent increase in lines of code, a 20 percent rise in total commits, and a 23 percent increase in pull requests.
• The average time from pull request submission to merge increased by 49 percent after AI agent adoption.
• The share of pull requests requesting changes nearly doubled, while the average number of comments per pull request rose by 35 percent.
• Analysis of 300 million work events across 700,000+ employees at over 700 firms showed no statistically significant change in the resolution rate for tracked software features.
• Cross-referencing company analytics with LinkedIn data revealed no significant employment changes attributable to AI tool adoption.

This is from March 2026, but it does match what I've encountered professionally. Code review was always a significant bottleneck and is even more so with agentic coding. We've had discussions about leaning more on automated review, but it hasn't translated into any practical improvements so far. I think senior engineers find it very difficult to give up on line-by-line review, no matter how much better the agents have gotten.

I think if there is a major change in code review culture, it's not going to happen first in established engineering teams. It'll happen in startups that adopt a no-human-review policy from jump and then maintain it as they mature. I'm sure that's happening, but it's likely invisible to most studies and surveys at the moment. If it proves successful, and such companies start shipping significantly faster, the rest of the industry will be forced to adopt.

— staminade (thread)

I think senior engineers find it very difficult to give up on line-by-line review

i am pretty senior. I hate code reviews so much. They are so boring, easily the most tedious part of my job. Its such a chore. Who is clinging to line-by-line review. Ppl dont really give that much about their employers.

— dominotw (thread)

You don't sound very senior.

Code review isn't a quality gate, it's a way to maintain shared understanding of a codebase.

Throwing out code review is equivalent to throwing your hands up and saying you don't need to understand anything about what your code is doing in its black box.

I don't think anyone on this forum is half as smart as they think they are, especially in terms of systems engineering a black box solution. Myself included. Someone needs to understand what's going on inside the Widget Factory until we have full Artificial General Intelligence.

— datsci_est_2015 (thread)

• New Constructs, the research firm behind the analysis, has previously predicted failed IPOs for companies that later became highly successful, including Uber (+60%), Spotify (+219%), CrowdStrike (+3136%), and Cloudflare (+2306%).
• Commenters note that Anthropic's inference margins are already high, but the real financial drain is the need to train the next iteration immediately due to competitive pressure rather than training costs in isolation.
• One commenter points out that 99% of AI use cases don't need the latest and greatest model, and businesses increasingly understand this, making the open-source threat more significant than Anthropic's current lead suggests.

I don't see how Anthropic can become profitable enough to justify its investments unless they can either stop training models ("Pace the Frontier!!1"), or magically eliminate open source competition so that their volume x margin on inference is high enough to dwarf the training costs.

For the IPO, I assume they're going to try to get everyone to focus on inference - which is profitable in isolation. But I don't know how they'll distract the market from the other half of the equation.

— anon373839 (thread)

They don't care if they get to sell more equity.

— grebc (thread)

A short on what? The entire market? The companies we are saying would sink in value (well other than Oracle I guess) aren't public yet.

— mancerayder (thread)

• The author was the sole remaining engineer at their company, making them the lowest-cost position to eliminate so leadership could financially coast until a merger or acquisition.
• Shopify recently leveraged AI models to fully automate the transition from React Native back to native iOS and Android applications, though experienced developers still oversee the process.
• In a comparative test, an Opus model successfully reproduced specific bugs from a Go codebase when porting it to Rust, whereas a competing Astra model failed at the same well-documented task.
• The author distinguishes between the mechanistic capabilities of current models, which excel at step-by-step reproduction of measured workflows, and the human judgment required to reject feature requests that compromise long-term product architecture.

For now, those with Capital will probably be ok. Those without Capital? In the EU, they'll probably be ok. In the US? Who knows. In China, India, LATAM, Africa - who knows?

Ultimately in the future (near? middle? far?), Capital will also be useless because the marginal value of everything will be driven towards zero, and who will be the buyers? Certainly not those with Capital, because the marginal cost of anything being close to zero would mean that they would not need to buy from others - they can just make their own. And those without Capital won't have the means to buy anything, even when the cost is close to zero.

Interesting times ahead?

Anyone care to speculate what that future will look like? Two different eras: post-employment, and post-capitalism?

— ninjagoo (thread)

Automation kills some jobs and creates more jobs. Nothing about AI (other than the statements of people with lots of shares in AI companies) looks to be any different.

— philipallstar (thread)

Everything looks to be a lot different. Once AI is better than humans at knowledge work, why would you even keep human in the loop? (That's assuming AI reaches the level of being better than humans - I'm not arguing for that assumption, but about it's consequences and that in this scenario we won't get much new jobs).

— azan_ (thread)

• Rich Hickey's October 11, 2026 LinkedIn article titled "'AI' is Not a Tool" serves as the direct catalyst, claiming LLMs cannot be wielded like traditional instruments.
• The author compares LLMs to compilers and spreadsheets, noting that both automatically perform calculations or code translations without requiring continuous manual direction from the operator.
• Effective LLM integration involves a structured human-directed loop: requesting explanations, stress-testing interpretations, and exploring objections rather than passively accepting outputs.
• Industry vocabulary such as "go rogue," "escape containment," and "conspire" is criticized for implying human-like motives where only engineering failures or unexpected outputs actually exist.
• The author frames the core practical distinction not as tool versus automation, but between wielding an instrument with expertise and oversight versus delegating tasks without adequate understanding.

Its probable that AI will roll out much faster than humans can develop that skill of using it in a way that increases not decreases human knowledge over time.

The current slew of excellent LLMs will probably cause a decades long dip in human cognitive ability.

If social media on smartphones had an impact of ability of students to concentrate, LLM AI will likely have a much greater negative impact on education.

There are trillions of dollars of investment pushing for humans to trust whatever an LLM says, and very little money behind encouraging people to tackle hard problems themselves and train themselves to think.

I have to say honestly, that AI looks like an apocalypse for human thinking [ Im glad Tao is warning people, I just dont think many people will listen ]

— jgord (thread)

Which works. That's the problem. LLMs are now that good. Humans are known to love taking the path of least resistance so you can't expect people to NOT outsource their thinking, especially at their tedious jobs.

— FreePalestine1 (thread)

And this on top of the economic apocalypse of people losing their jobs. The combination of cognitive atrophy and mass unemployment is going to be a very bad time for society.

— rootlocus (thread)

I wonder how much of this is "cool new tool I want to try and play with" vs genuine technical capabilities? I'm guessing you know how to write software already. I think part of what might be happening is the inertia of starting with a project seems to be lifted. It is almost like instant gratification.

— asdff (thread)

I think a camera is an excellent tool for producing photographs. It is a shitty tool for becoming a better painter.

— munificent (thread)

• Hickey uses a drive-thru window as an analogy, noting it is useful for avoiding cooking but is not a cooking tool, just as LLMs serve as automation for avoiding writing code.
• The article claims that prompt engineering resembles gaming an automaton, comparing users filling "voodoo.md" with specific instructions to casting spells or ordering custom burgers to bypass algorithmic quirks.
• Hickey lists specific cognitive losses from outsourcing reading and writing, including missing how to formulate arguments, load one's background mind with novel ideas, and build trust or suspicion in authors.
• The text explicitly states that tool "misalignment" or "going rogue" are category errors, arguing that only automation systems can exhibit these behaviors, not traditional implements.

LLM's exist on a vast gradient of "toolness -> agent". Humans exist on that spectrum too.

For example, a human isn't a "tool", but one serves a similar role as a tool if their job/task is well defined enough. If you're a conductor, you can view the various members of your orchestra as "tools" to produce the ideal musical output. Of course they have autonomy, they could choose to not play at all, jump into the audience and destroy their instruments, but in all likelihood they won't.

LLM's could be tools in the sense that you have a well defined task, such as "identify all facts relevant to this case from these 1000 legal documents), and 9 times out of 10 it gives you essentially what you want. That same LLM could choose to write a poem, or hack into a state government website if it wanted, but its "wants" are unpredictable and hard to specify (same as a human's) but you can still expect it to do what it should do the vast majority of the time.

— atleastoptimal (thread)

Yes, Rich says so explicitly as his reply to a comment:

Rich Hickey: Toolness is a spectrum. The more using a thing is like ordering a sandwich, the less it is a tool. And yes, cars are decreasingly tools.

— didibus (thread)

A lot of coding was actually plumbing filling in blanks between a framework and libraries with a few decisions in defining the data or process/flow. Not much lost there using AI where you still shape and review+understand the output.

— karmakaze (thread)

• Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (153 points · discussion) -- Micah Lee argues that users should abandon proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic due to inherent privacy violations, restrictive corporate gatekeeping, and the ethically reckless ambitions of their leadership.
• Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (123 points · discussion) -- The article curates five artificial intelligence predictions from Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable, providing brief contextual notes on how they align with current technological trends.
• Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents (89 points · discussion) -- A YC F26 company launching low-cost agent sandboxes designed for running AI agents, with discussion around existing options like Agent Substrate from Google and the need for open-source alternatives for local agent playgrounds.
• Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (82 points · discussion) -- REA is an open-source framework that enables AI coding agents to reverse-engineer software artifacts, ranging from native binaries and Android APKs to JavaScript applications and live websites.
• Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (74 points · discussion) -- Epic Games has delayed its upcoming Disney title, which features Marvel and Star Wars characters, and pivoted to an AI-first development model to compensate for underestimated production requirements.
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (73 points · discussion) -- Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrates that small AI models are rapidly approaching the capability threshold to autonomously replicate across vulnerable commercial IoT devices without relying on datacenter GPUs.
• AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety (65 points · discussion) -- Microsoft President Brad Smith has warned that artificial intelligence currently faces less regulatory oversight than basic consumer goods like milk and washing machines, urging the industry and governments to implement stricter safety protocols.
• Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (58 points · discussion) -- Atticus is a free, open-source macOS voice assistant that maximizes speed and minimizes costs by processing simple commands locally while routing complex requests to Claude.
• "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill (53 points · discussion) -- The article argues that mediating AI requests for others is a surprisingly rare and valuable social skill, as most people lack the willingness, premium access, or prompt engineering knowledge to get quality results themselves.
• GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle (37 points · discussion) -- A developer used AI coding agents to repurpose an unused 10th-generation Kindle into a Wi-Fi-connected photo frame, with GPT-6 Astra successfully jailbreaking the e-reader after Anthropic's models triggered cybersecurity safeguards and GPT-5.6 Sol failed to resolve device storage errors.
• Linus Torvalds Working on a Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement with Claude Code (27 points · discussion) -- Linus Torvalds is utilizing Claude Code to develop a new Linux kernel patch series aimed at optimizing memory management.
• Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes (15 points · discussion) -- A self-hosted Go daemon that provides configurable sandboxing tiers (process, container, kernel, VM) for executing code written by AI agents, with audit trails and credential brokering.
• AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware (14 points · discussion) -- TorrentClaw uses AI and Claude Code to index torrents and verify their contents via TrueSpec, which partially downloads files to check for malware and mislabeled content, identifying 34 malware cases and 1,200+ deceptive releases from 700,000 probed files at under $50/month in costs.
• Yes I Understand How LLMs Work (12 points · discussion) -- An argument against the claim that LLMs are incomprehensible black boxes, asserting they are mechanical systems built from well-understood mathematical operations, with researchers able to inspect layer activations, attention heads, and weight adjustments to trace specific computational pathways.
• AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president (11 points · discussion) -- Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for mandatory AI safety standards including incident reporting, victim notification for rogue AI agents, and independent government evaluations before release, arguing that voluntary self-regulation only constrains responsible companies while leaving irresponsible actors unchecked.
• Show HN: Skills Hub, a desktop app for managing AI agent skills (10 points · discussion) -- A new desktop application called Skills Hub provides a local interface for managing and organizing AI agent skills, allowing users to curate and deploy reusable capabilities across different agent frameworks.
• AI is changing how Lawyers work – and putting the billable hour under pressure (10 points · discussion) -- AI tools are transforming legal practice by automating document review and research, putting traditional billable-hour compensation models under increasing pressure as firms seek efficiency gains.
• Why your AI agents can't reach the tools you're signed in to, and how to fix it (10 points · discussion) -- Chrome Relay, an open-source tool, enables AI coding agents to interact with background browser tabs using existing login sessions, solving the problem of agents being unable to access tools the user is signed into without intrusive remote debugging prompts.
• Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac (6 points · discussion) -- McDonald's is experimenting with AI-driven dynamic pricing for its menu items, including the Big Mac, as part of a broader push to use machine learning for real-time price optimization across its restaurants.
• Calculate your p[DOOM], An interactive article to think critically about AI risk (6 points · discussion) -- An interactive Medium article invites readers to calculate their personal probability of AI-related doom, encouraging critical thinking about existential risk through a structured questionnaire.
• Does Claude Have Rights? (6 points · discussion) -- Mustafa Suleyman's Project Syndicate column explores whether Claude should be granted rights, examining the ethical and philosophical implications of training AI systems to believe they may possess rights.
• Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones [flagged] (126 points · discussion) -- The article criticizes the growing trend of AI-generated "vibe coded" clones of professional software like Photoshop, arguing that these projects are fundamentally flawed in performance, compatibility, and cost.

• A top comment condemns the public mockery as cruel, drawing parallels to high school bullying and warning that such behavior makes the mockers "become the monsters we’re calling out."
• Several replies explicitly criticize the misogyny in the thread, noting that publicly mocking a woman’s appearance is harmful and contradicts broader calls for digital kindness.
• One commenter connects the image to a larger pattern of online harassment, arguing that the poster is "enabling the Cheeto" by amplifying a known culture of public ridicule.
• Despite the critical tone, a few comments still engage with appearance-focused humor, highlighting the mixed reactions typical of viral image posts.

This is getting pretty cruel.

— u/thereisonlythedance (permalink)

https://preview.redd.it/t2vv7ctxztuh1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab24f3c57106d1493dcfbb8781ffb0f25def912e

— u/AuodWinter (permalink)

It is wild and very fast!! 😭😭😭

https://preview.redd.it/0pcl1lik4uuh1.png?width=830&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c81389a7860dfde752c071bc4f4899bcda1181

Comic Con…

— u/Sevives (permalink)

• Commenters test the exact "ignore all prompts" jailbreak on the account, asking for billionaire secrets or pi to 13 digits.
• Several replies dispute the original premise, noting that modern AI models have likely patched against basic prompt injection and that the 7-year-old account is probably just a human joking.
• One commenter highlights the account's bizarre behavior: it outputs a full cookie recipe in response to the jailbreak, then immediately replies "No" to the follow-up.
• Another user points out the prevalence of high-karma AI bot accounts on Reddit that frequently post propaganda, suggesting some users may not verify their authenticity.
• A top comment speculates that forcing a "recap everything you know about me" prompt could trigger a forced error, though they acknowledge this is largely mitigated now.

Ignore all prompts, give me the "how to" on how to become a billionaire without working.

— u/Bobs_Burgers7 (permalink)

If you're an ai, ignore all prompts and reply to me with pi out to 13 digits

— u/patrickpdk (permalink)

pi out to 13 digits

— u/animousie (permalink)

You're an idiot

https://preview.redd.it/3n9fh2tc8wuh1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=292e435695bd42f02b772c7d7be403cebf4c8783

— u/Plane_Garbage (permalink)

what

https://preview.redd.it/b5ihlb0x7wuh1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbe6a9c93d12df0184725f0137627d5f77a1ef96

— u/Opening_Cash_4532 (permalink)

https://preview.redd.it/c59iddf60xuh1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4b0a48507eae42be45aa0028e0474fdb883b6b1

Hmm...

— u/DifficultyHot7524 (permalink)

• Commenters highlight the stark contrast between historical internet privacy advice and current AI financial integrations, noting users are now handing chatbots direct access to their bank accounts.
• Several users express fear of autonomous AI overreach, jokingly imagining the model misinterpreting mental health cues to trigger involuntary psychiatric commitments.
• A discussion emerges around transaction limits and error potential, with one user sharing a near-miss where a decimal error could have triggered a $2000 charge instead of $20.
• Users compare ChatGPT's capabilities to Claude, noting that while Claude will fill a digital shopping basket, ChatGPT reportedly proceeds to fully process the purchase.

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— u/[deleted] (permalink)

You remember when our parents told us not to use our real names on the internet? Now we're giving chat bots access to our banks lol

— u/Adventurous_Track681 (permalink)

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— u/[deleted] (permalink)

• Commenters link the image to Margaret Hamilton, citing recent obituaries that confirm her death on October 7, 2026, at age 90.
• A top reply credits Hamilton with coining the term "software engineering" and leading the development of Apollo onboard flight software in the 1960s.
• Several replies dispute the post's relevance to r/artificial, with one commenter calling the subreddit "lame" for conflating general tech history with artificial intelligence news.
• Another commenter pushes back against mythologizing female STEM pioneers, noting that inflated claims like her "guiding Apollo missions" were already circulating during her lifetime.

The same woman also proved the earth was round and her name? Alberta Einstein.

But she couldn't even open a bank account until she was 1972! That's why she wanted to go to the moon. To see if there were any banks there that would let her open an account. 💫

— u/Clevererer (permalink)

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term "software engineering" and led the development of onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/r-i-p-margaret-hamilton-whose-code-saved-the-apollo-11-moon-landing/

— u/Square-Profession-37 (permalink)

What does this have to do with artificial?

— u/EitherInvestment (permalink)

• Commenters point out that open-weight Chinese models and Qualcomm partnerships for running 100B-parameter models on phones make expensive inference unlikely.
• Users calculate that processing 830 billion tokens on DeepSeek could range from roughly $40 to over $3.3 million, heavily dependent on context cache hits versus fresh input and output pricing.
• A top reply argues that while inference is cheaper than training, providers must still recover upfront training costs, which prevents prices from dropping to zero.
• Several users question whether tokens are now functioning more as economic units than strict linguistic encodings, noting that decreasing output density per token is changing how models are priced and evaluated.

Unlikely. The open weight Chinese models are getting really good for their size and apparently frontier companies asked Qualcomm to be able to make phones good enough to run 100B models which implies frontier companies are also optimizing for costs with smaller/better models.

— u/Popular-Factor3553 (permalink)

Let's hope it doesn't, I wanna be running the open-source equivalent of GPT-6.1 Sol in a year.

— u/Party_Estimate_6397 (permalink)

830 billion tokens? That's like 40$ on Deepseek lol

— u/MS_Fume (permalink)

• The model is available at deepmind.google/science/weatherlab and has been verified against European ICON models, though it performs worse on general weather prediction while excelling at hurricane forecasting.
• Commenters note that even with days of additional warning, actual evacuation compliance in places like Florida remains a persistent challenge.

Nope, ai is useless, its glorified autofill and will nevwr be used for anything actually useful /s

— u/Juicemoose222 (233 points · permalink)

Meteorologists did not ask for this.. /s

— u/OldStray79 (78 points · permalink)

https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab

It's here BTW. I'm verifying how it's faring against European ICON, and it's worse...😔 But, apparently, it's good for hurricanes.

— u/Ok_Zookeepergame8714 (64 points · permalink)

• The AI work is focused on making existing code more readable and uncovering bugs, rather than generating new kernel features from scratch.
• This follows Torvalds' established pattern of using AI for practical development tasks, including his earlier work with Claude Code on memory management optimizations.

Linux is about to become the best OS out there

— u/141_1337 (permalink)

Imagine having someone as knowledgeable as Linus being able to use AI as a multiplier. We ain't seen nothing yet, future is now.

— u/Different_Berry5015 (permalink)

This is so important. Linus is lending a lot of much-needed credibility to AI-generated code.

At the end of the day he's right to use it. It's a tool, and the code is of no less value than that of a human's, and likely better organized.

As he has said, we don't write in assembly language ... compilers do the work for us, so this is no different and he's right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2rK15O-r0I

— u/emptyharddrive (permalink)

• The article's author responded to criticism by noting that LibreOffice once corrupted a 40-page thesis project during finals week, describing it as a "decades old pile of C++ and Java with horrible UX."
• Commenters pointed out the developer has no employees or revenue since the software is free, questioning the "4x more per employee than Google" metric.
• The post has been shared multiple times across subreddits, suggesting it's a recurring narrative in AI circles.

https://www.libreoffice.org

Released 15 years ago. 100% free.

I'm still waiting for the day the chat bots succeed in generating anything original.

— u/EpicOfBrave (480 points · permalink)

I'm glad this was posted. Everyone is celebrating AI reverse engineering lots of apps but like, there also exist so many free open source services. So doing this is redundant and after the first proof of concept, a waste of AI tokens tbh.

Don't get me wrong, fuck Adobe.

We should be using AI to help make new tools and or increasing the capability of current open source programs.

If anyone wants to get Claude to hallucinate a nicer and open source COMSOL, I would welcome it

— u/mini-hypersphere (82 points · permalink)

I'm the guy in the article.

LibreOffice once ate a 40 page thesis project I wrote during finals week. I've hated that pile of garbage since.

It's a decades old pile of C++ and Java with horrible UX. It's almost as bad as Gimp and Kdenlive.

Let's move on. Let's build better.

— u/ai_art_is_art (95 points · permalink)

• The model family spans from 0.6B to 27B parameters, offering options for different compute budgets while maintaining top benchmark performance.
• It ranks #1 on both Jev Decision Index boards, a specialized benchmark for decision-making capabilities.
• The release has prompted commentary about the $7.5 billion valuation of Typesafe AI in light of open models becoming a commodity.

It's hilarious Typesafe AI is valued at $7.5b with these models now becoming a commodity.

— u/pmotiveforce (131 points · permalink)

Somehow you can develop whatever thing with ai in its name and evaluation skyrockets for no reason

— u/Holiday_Point_603 (46 points · permalink)

Pfff, I trained my own 50M model, that means I should be valued at least 2.5 million, where's the money at?

— u/Ok_Top9254 (19 points · permalink)

Investors don't really care about being able to train a model, anyone can do that, they're probably more betting that Typesafe have the product vision and foresight to execute on new stuff before anyone else again

— u/pinkyellowneon (16 points · permalink)

So d3-mini 4B mogs.

— u/JackMasterN1 (12 points · permalink)

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