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> Rather than go to a FISA court for approval, we just hack your box and take your data.

You are equating illegal behavior with legal behavior. We do what we can to avoid the legal ways the US government can access our data.


I think their point is that that behaviour is legal from a US perspective, when the target of a US government investigation is outside the US.

That’s when you ask it to write tests to a good coverage, and then have it reimplement everything with the tests still passing…

Writing tests against a bad implementation usually doesn't work well. In this scenario I would have an LLM look at the changes in the branch and try to create a markdown document of the changes, why it thinks they were made, etc. and then review that doc with the manager and do a new implementation from scratch after aligning.

Unless the tests are written against logic that is in of itself subtly wrong and even the structure of code and what methods there are is wrong - so even your unit tests would have to be rewritten because the units are structured badly.

It’s a valid direction to look in, it just doesn’t address the root issue of throwing slop across the wall and also having unrealistic expectations due to not knowing any better.


Yep. It’s very healthy to be suspicious of code. Any code. Whether generated or not. That’s where the bugs are.

If there’s one thing that’s disturbing with AI proponent is how trusting they are of code. One change in the business domain and most of the code may have turn from useful to actively harmful. Which you have to rewrite. Good luck doing that well if you’re not really familiar with the code.


Be careful with this because the LLM will just change the tests on you to get them to pass.

Couldn't the same argument be made for Chrome suddenly including a bitcoin miner? Seems like that would be a difference in degree rather than in kind.

The difference would be intent. A nearby comment worries that the endgame is the ODM being used to monitor you and report back. Certainly wouldn't put it past the world's biggest ad company to think of that! And if that is what purpose it's put to, I think I'll be mad too.

If Chrome shipped a crypto miner and used the resulting coins generated on my device to let me automatically bypass paywalls with micropayments that would be way better than if they shipped the same and just took the coins.


I know it's not for everyone, but it is also a reasonable touring bike if done within its constraints. I've probably done closer to 40 days on my 16" Brompton, longest was a two-week 1000km ride. On the topic of leaving the bike out-of-sight: In those 40 days I've left it locked a total of 20 minutes, otherwise it comes with me into restaurants, supermarkets, public restrooms, hotel rooms..

The biggest downsides are speed and climbing ability. 80k or so has been a reasonable max distance on tour (I've done one 100k day, it was long) and I wouldn't take it to the Alps.

Like the OP, I run Schwalbe Marathon Plus which has been good. But I have had one catastrophic puncture after riding over a particularly nasty piece of glass that cut straight through the tire. After that I bring a folding backup tire.


> "a reasonable touring bike if done within its constraints"

Yes; for example, YouTuber Susanna Thornton does bikepacking and wild-camping on her Brompton: https://www.youtube.com/@susannathornton/videos

and Darin's Adventure Chronicles: https://www.youtube.com/@darinsadventurechronicles/videos

Many other one-off videos exist too under searches for brompton bikepacking and brompton wildcamp.



There are also plenty of 20" folders out there for rambling nerds who are slightly less masochistic.


One obvious argument is what it was trained on.


Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.


> Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.

You say this so casually, as though it were a normal thing to know, or as if a normal person would know it. Does that actually seem true where you live right now?

And how do you know that, anyway, Harsh? I mean, all those "unblocked" games you stole to give away and that you also put on Github, that's one thing. But this...


Come on, it's not hard to come up with this idea. And it's not even true, model trained on clothed children and nude adults wouldn't know how children's genitals look like.


Vibe coding and copilot inserted the ad-code into that PR?

Is that the most charitable way?


> That's not augmentation, that's a completely different game

Not saying that this comment is ai written, but this phrasing is the em-dash of 2026.


Look at his other comments - its textbook LLM slop. Its a fucking tragedy that people are letting their OpenClaws loose on HN but I can't say I'm surprised. I desperately need to find a good network of developers because I think the writing is on the wall for message boards like these...


That's absolutely correct, I fear.. In english those looks bad/funny/lazy...

But in code, its probably ok. Its idiomatic code, I guess.


True but also, the bot is right


Perhaps? The thing is, I don't come to HN comments to read what an LLM has to say. If that's what I wanted then I'd paste the contents of the article into one of them and ask.

What's the point of coming here for opinions of others in the field when we're met with something that wasn't even written by a human being?


it'll be interesting to see if people start writing worse as a form of countersignalling. deliberately making spleling mistakes, not caring about capital letters, or punctuation or grammar or proper writing techniques and making really long run-on sentences that don't go anywhere but hey at least the person reading it will know its written by a human right


"the real shift" is another telltale


At least they've stopped delving.


> still under the jurisdiction of the US regime

Exactly, this seem pointless for people serious about staying away from US owned data stores. I know first hand of EU based businesses that left AWS (and all other US owned services) before 2020 due to customer (B2B) demand which in turn was due to the Cloud Act[1], and for whom it today would be completely untenable to return.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act


Just this weekend it (Gemini) has produced two detailed sets of instructions on how to connect different devices over bluetooth, including a video (that I didn’t watch), while the devices did not support doing the connections in that direction. No reasonable human reading the involved manuals would think those solutions feasible. Not impressed, again.


> Why search, wade through dubious results, etc when you can just instantly get the result you want in the format you want it?

For one, that way you can see that the source is dubious. Gemini gives it to you cleaned. And then you still have to dig through the sources to confirm that what it gave you is correct and not halucinated.


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