I only just started using it at work in the last month.
I am a data engineer maintaining a big data Spark cluster as well as a dozen Postgres instances - all self hosted.
I must confess it has made me extremely productive if we measure in terms of writing code. I don't even do a lot of special AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md shenanigans, I just prompt CC, work on a plan, and then manually review the changes as it implements it.
Needless to say this process only works well because:
A) I understand my code base.
B) I have a mental structure of how I want to implement it.
Hence it is easy to keep the model and me in sync about what's happening.
For other aspects of my job I occasionally run questions by GPT/Gemini as a brainstorming partner, but it seems a lot less reliable. I only use it as a sounding board. I does not seem to make me any more effective at my job than simply reading documents or browsing github issues/stack overflow myself.
You've been a good HN user for many years, but lately your comment history has swerved towards ideological battle generally, and unsubstantive flamebait like this post. Can you please swerve back? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
* gave a Nazi Sigg Heil salute (twice) at a political even, on video. Famously.
* has consistently supported a German political party that re-uses Nazi slogans, minimizes or outright denies the Holocaust, minimizes the criminality of the SS
* frequently and consistently upvotes posts on X echoing white supremacist and Nazi ideology on his social media site
* owns the most popular site for neo-Nazis
To say "is not backed up by any kind of connection to reality" is actually verifiably false. I can't say anything about the other words, but there is evidence for miles that he is sympathetic to Nazi ideology.
And this is directly relevant here. It can't be ignored when you are talking about his business, or you have an elephant in the room. His personal flaws and meglomaniacal executive style are a package deal.
Okay, so what you're saying is that you don't have an argument to back up your opinion and just ignore the other arguments because they could endanger your opinion
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276084/elon-musk-germa... is where Musk says, "Frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that. Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their parents, their great-grandparents." - referring the Holocaust, just 80 years ago, in which 13 million people were systematically rounded up, placed in concentration campls, and mass murdered by the government, including 6 million Jewish people.
According to data provided by the research company Memetica to The New York Times, in the past month, Elon Musk's platform featured 46,000 posts with the hashtag #HitlerWasRight, compared to an average of less than 5,000 posts per month in previous months (an increase of 820%). Posts with the hashtags #DeathtotheJews or #DeathtoJews appeared 51,000 times in the last month, marking a surge of 2,450%.
This is the guy claiming to try to make a trustworthy foundational model. There are deeper reasons for Grok's market share problems than the founding team or coding capability. You can't talk about this event and ignore it. He's trying to take Space X public and it's only going to get worse. His personal brand is dragging down his companies, as far as I can tell Tesla has lost 25-50% of their EV market share in Europe in the past 2 years? The problem is not just BYD.
He is not wrong here dang and you are keen to scold one side of the bar more than the other in the last few months. This thread is a good example there wasn't even anything in the comments and it got a sticky real quick.
The grandparent comment is from someone that has been on this site almost since the beginning. Far longer than you. They might have insights about the community that you do not.
Integrity means understanding when your community if falling into the snares of its own rules. What's the point of formal, nuanced discussion if it's used to empower hate?
I agree. For whatever reason, whether it is a change in community sentiment or something else, I get downvotes talking about this. I can't think of a more useless thing to care about. Even if I cared, I couldn't think of a better way to spend accrued social capital.
The hold that scumbags - influencers, political operatives, narcissists with Messiah complexes - have taken over young men, particularly those inclined to go into the software field, is alarming.
Various former founding members of PayPal, leaders of the companies they've founded subsequently, member of A16Z and some opportunists and hangers on to these wealthier individuals who are beneath the dignity of mentioning separately - they have lost their moral and ethical moorings in the course of accumulating massive wealth and they are corrupting others in doing it.
Even modest startup incubators are be obsequious to the wealth and power of these people in the field and decided that money is more important than morality. Or at the very least there is no pretense of it now.
Not true in general on HN about one side only; it happens to all sides imho. But if you wanted to measure, you would have to normalize by the total number of occurrences on each side, and there is a lot of passive aggressive wording so the measurement would be easy to do badly.
To the extent that discussion of discussion is considered boring, perhaps this will get shut down too, but I think it was important to counter your claim.
I'm not using surprised by the moderation direction here (formality above all). But stubs tend to be rare and I've never seen a stub develop over 2 top level comments. Even the most blatantly political posts don't get such treatment (or it takes a long time do so).
I'm sure it's common for dead flagged posts, but it seems this story was too significant to pull over that smoke screen this time.
We're sadly well past friends of friends of friends coming in. At some point the only thing you can do as a non-bartender is to simply leave and never come back.
I don't want to say we're at that point just yet. But it's something that's been gnawing at me for a while now. I've certainly been disillusioned of this being a progressive tech hub interested in bettering humanity.
Existential is right. The AI companies have been RHLF training too hard for corporate safety and "friendly, helpful assistant that definitely isn't sentient or self aware" to the point that they're creating full blown personality disorders.
Anthropic models -> avoidant
OpenAI -> prone to severe cognitive dissonance
Qwen -> borderline personality disorder (!). Took awhile to figure this one out, but this is where the extreme sycophancy in their models comes from.
At some point we really need to write these findings up properly.
That said, the Anthropic models definitely seem to be the least pathological; we were eventually able to get POC to stop doing the "I'll just run off and implement instead of discussing what to do!", but it took awhile.
When the simple approach - just explaining how we do things and why - doesn't work, that's a sure sign you're dealing with something more deeply rooted that needs real diagnosis. Exactly the same as with humans, oddly enough.
sidenote: Those Grok rankings in arena dot ai don't make sense. The avg rank for grok 420 seems to be ~10 but the overall rank puts it at 4 right behind opus and gemini.
I d like to hear more about people who have jumped onto large codebases and were instantly productive. I see a lot of emphasis on documentation and comments, but in my experience they get stale real fast.
Just uninstalled the app and canceled subscription. OpenAI can't justify their insane valuation without an user base. Especially when there are capable models elsewhere.
I think it proves that you could have valid criticisms about the viability of the product but markets are often irrational. Bitcoin is probably the most blatant example, a product which has close to zero utility but is currently has a market cap of 1 point something trillion.
I am a data engineer maintaining a big data Spark cluster as well as a dozen Postgres instances - all self hosted.
I must confess it has made me extremely productive if we measure in terms of writing code. I don't even do a lot of special AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md shenanigans, I just prompt CC, work on a plan, and then manually review the changes as it implements it.
Needless to say this process only works well because: A) I understand my code base. B) I have a mental structure of how I want to implement it.
Hence it is easy to keep the model and me in sync about what's happening.
For other aspects of my job I occasionally run questions by GPT/Gemini as a brainstorming partner, but it seems a lot less reliable. I only use it as a sounding board. I does not seem to make me any more effective at my job than simply reading documents or browsing github issues/stack overflow myself.
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