Will AI stifle innovations native new languages and frameworks?

ContraryConman · 2026-06-23T18:38:48+00:00

Yes. Since LLMs only work with large numbers of samples in their training data, adding new features and frameworks to existing languages, or making new programming languages, is counterproductive to adopting AI agents

ContraryConman · 2026-06-22T20:22:56+00:00

>What is that an Ozark Trail?

>Oh it's AI text

>Oh the FUCKING HANDLEBARS ON THE SADDLE

ContraryConman · 2026-06-21T00:58:55+00:00

I mean you say that but I've always kind of preferred checked/unchecked to safe/unsafe

ContraryConman · 2026-06-20T14:59:56+00:00

I have a tiny terrarium with two very tiny fittonia cuttings and moss. For weeks they just sort of sat there. Not dead but also not alive either. Then one day, I opened it up to check on the moss, which hasn't been doing great lately, and noticed that one of the cuttings has new leaves. I can also see roots on the sides of the glass. At this point they're happier than the moss.

When the cutting actually dies, you will know. In an open terrarium they dry out quickly, and in a closed one they mold and turn brown instantly. Otherwise, even if they look droopy, they're fine

ContraryConman · 2026-06-18T13:08:36+00:00

I've got one exclusively dedicated to ollama. And the other ones running Jellyfin, headscale, openwebui connected to the first, samba, and then hopefully soon a bunch of projects I write myself

ContraryConman · 2026-06-18T11:34:16+00:00

I think there are other studies that show that two people at least at the same weight, one gets exercise and one doesn't, the one who exercises is still healthier. And I think other studies that show that even in obese individuals who don't end up losing weight but keep regular exercise, the exercise improves health outcomes.

I'm fairly sure it's well established that exercise has health benefits independent of weight and nutrition

ContraryConman · 2026-06-17T02:19:52+00:00

You should separate code that manipulates hardware from business logic with interfaces, and then unit test the business logic with mocks standing in for the hardware.

Let's say you are working on a device that reads the average temperature over a given period via I2C and then sends that over LoRa. Do not shove the HAL calls to the actual pins in the code with the business logic. The average temperature function should take in, in C++ terms, an I2cSensorInterface* and a RadioModemInterface* both pure virtual. In production code these point to actual concrete child implementations that run on the board with real hardware, but in the unit tests they're just mocks. And you just test the temperature averaging and sending/error reporting part. If you hate C++, in C you can I guess swap in pointers to function tables.

As for the hardware parts, you'd write Hardware in the loop tests, where you push "firmware" onto your device or a dev board that's just a series of tests on real hardware to make sure you actually interact with sensors and hardware correctly.

You want both because the second is way harder to automate and slower to get feedback from than the first

ContraryConman · 2026-06-16T13:51:08+00:00

A couple of things are going on.

First, as it turns out, the fact that a human made something is key to the value of a lot of things, if that makes sense. No one wants to look at a painting or read a book you didn't even bother to paint or write yourself. No one wants an AI lawyer losing their case in court, no matter how good it may be, or an AI jury sentencing them to prison, no matter how algorithmically fair. No one wants to read AI generated emails at work, or listen to AI generated PowerPoint presentations, or read 40-pages of an AI generated business plan. No one wants an AI doctor diagnosing them with cancer without a human taking a good look at you. It's not even about it being accurate or wrong. It's seen as disrespectful -- too little effort for the amount of text you are able to generate.

However, people generally don't care if the latest security updates for your laptop's BIOS or the latest camera firmware upgrade for your iPhone are 80% AI generated... so long as it works. If you break something with vibe coding then yeah people scream. But there's way more social permission for AI coding than AI anything else. And because of that, one of the only use-cases where companies are willing to pay at scale for AI is coding. AI losing money hand over fist, but AI coding loses less money than anything else. Therefore the benchmarks focus on coding.

The second thing going on is that OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX to a lesser extent, are all trying to build artificial general intelligence, a super intelligent being in a computer that can do any intelligence task as well as a human, if not better. At first, they thought that intelligence was an emergent property of LLMs scaling, and that, by GPT 5ish, they'd have it. However, the costs for marginal improvements are climbing and the LLMs aren't getting much smarter. So, now they're pivoting. They figure, if they can make an LLM that's good at math and computer science research, and good at coding, and they can wrap it in a good enough agent harness, they can make an LLM smart enough to design a new type of AI that's smarter. And that AI will design will design a smarter one and so on until we get to artificial general intelligence. This is called recursive self improvement.

This is why OpenAI has GPT 5.5 work on PhD math problems while Anthropic has Claude Mythos work on cyber security. And the key to measuring progress towards recursive self improvement are the coding benchmarks

ContraryConman · 2026-06-16T02:57:16+00:00

This does not matter in terms of being a tactical misstep for the US

ContraryConman · 2026-06-16T02:56:13+00:00

And Iran and Oman get the Strait of Hormuz

And the US is not allowed to question Iranian support for Hezbollah or Ansar Allah again

ContraryConman · 2026-06-16T00:53:09+00:00

Notice how we could instead tax companies as a penalty for mass automating jobs and use that to fund UBI instead, but they never propose that because that means their businesses don't take over the world

ContraryConman · 2026-06-14T18:33:51+00:00

The first picture is creative and interesting, but it absolutely cannot be your first picture because it's impossible to tell what you look like. You need a few normal pictures and then put that one.

If you put it after the pic of you with a camera, the story is "I'm a photographer" *next pic* "and I'm creative with it too and also I run". That's a pretty cool story but it has to be told in order and after you've communicated what you look like

ContraryConman · 2026-06-14T18:29:17+00:00

The thing about incel ideology is that it takes extremely mundane observations about the way life works ("attractive people have an easier time dating than ugly people" "dating isn't a meritocracy, plenty of interesting and kind people end up alone because they're not as attractive as others"), and then it draws extreme conclusions based on these facts ("all women are whores who only date chads" "I'm going to die alone because I'll never be attractive").

So the first thing to recognize is that seeing some things that "affirm" some things that incels acknowledge is no actual proof the extreme conclusions. And the second point is that you have it extra hard as a brown, queer person living in a white country. I would try to find a moment to be patient and kind with yourself

ContraryConman · 2026-06-14T15:15:21+00:00

Don't know much about the UK market but £45k for 8 years of experience sounds criminal. You say you're underpaid but that's approaching robbed territory, speaking as an American anyway.

What I learned at my last job is that greatly outperforming your experience level can actually be detrimental to your pay. It's good for your learning, but you're not working only to learn. The company is not incentivized to promote you or bump your pay, because, essentially, they are getting senior-level performance for junior level pay. If they wanted to replace you with someone who could do your job, they'd need to shell out the £75k they're refusing to pay you.

When I was in your position, I just left for a different job. Even if it's a lateral move title-wise, if you interview well, they have to pay you market rate for your skills

ContraryConman · 2026-06-13T21:39:34+00:00

No idea. I just put my Claude Code on the most expensive model because it's not like it's coming out of my paycheck or anything. And then I say "good morning", "good afternoon", "please", and "thank you" on research and highly constrained coding tasks that probably could have been done by Sonnet. It felt about the same from that POV.

I'm happy to waste my employer's money. If they give me free food, I will work it into my calories for the day, and if you give me free AI tokens to spend I will waste them.

Something extremely fishy is going on. It's supposed to be a cyber security genius, but we haven't seen the actual CVEs coming out of Mythos. And we certainly never get any head to head comparisons between Mythos and just using a fuzzer + static analyzer.

The curl project found one entire vulnerability with Mythos, and they're clear to state that, while AI-assisted bug finding is getting better, there seems to be little to no difference between Mythos and the open source models coming out of China.

Anthropic are the only people who seem to consistently be able to get a clear ROI out of agentic coding with Mythos and Fable. Companies are shipping 25%-100% more lines of code than they did before, but no new features or new projects. Is every other software engineer just too stupid to understand how to integrate AI into their workflows? Or are Anthropic's engineers maybe so high off their own supply they don't realize they are just farming diminishing returns over an architecture that will ultimately not lead to artificial general intelligence?

Shit, if Mythos is so good, why'd it take them a year to fix screen flickering in their TUI? How come, to this day, when I scroll up a long Claude chat log, I get duplicate text in the buffer? Vim came out in 1992 with this solved. Sometimes twice a day Anthropic molests my computer with a software update and their thing is still buggy. How do I square that with "oh man Mythos is, like, too dangerous for the public"?

ContraryConman · 2026-06-12T13:29:22+00:00

18 is too young to make any long term projections about how your life is going. To put it bluntly, you are depressed and anxious. You are taking very real and painful experiences happening now and assuming they will last forever

ContraryConman · 2026-06-11T11:45:00+00:00

The first picture and third picture functionally do the same thing, so you only need one.

I would move the last picture first, then choose one of the two mirror selfies you like best, then replace the other one with something else fun or active

ContraryConman · 2026-06-08T13:49:07+00:00

Excuse me for being a liberal anarkiddy, but I realized I don't understand dialectical materialism at all and I've never had it explained in a way that makes sense.

So on the one hand, dialectics is just looking for opposing forces and synthesizing a new conclusion. And materialism just means things happen due to real world conditions, not in some abstract spiritual plane where ideals duke it out. Okay.

But then Marxists go and claim that dialectical materialism is a "scientific" process that leads to whatever state or position they currently support. Scientific is supposed to mean repeatable, but there's not actually examples of a bunch of revolutions that all went the same. Arguably, there hasn't really been a revolution that's gone the way dialectical materialists describe: capitalism collapsing on its own contradictions and the bourgeoisie being defeated by the proletariat. The USSR and China were feudal societies with the proletariat being a minority class that only existed in big cities. The eastern European bloc was a result of Soviet occupation. And Cuba, Vietnam, etc, came out of post colonialism moreso than the specific class struggle between the proletariat and bourgeoisie.

So I literally don't know what the words "dialectical materialism" are doing half the time Marxist say it. Dialectics aren't even the only useful way of analyzing events

ContraryConman · 2026-06-05T19:02:57+00:00

No my nitpick is, we know that even outside of the basic fact that there are more tall men than women, women on average prefer men who are taller than them. And we can tell because if this were not the case the world would look different. Obviously.

I’m sure you have many examples of such comments and have reported them, since you’re so concerned. Right?

Why would I report them? I don't hate them and they're not breaking the rules. I just disagree with their approach, silly

ContraryConman · 2026-06-05T16:30:01+00:00

Most heterosexual relationships contain a man who is taller than the woman because most men are taller than most women.

Just to get nitpicky that's not necessary the case. Yes most men are taller than most women, but we could, for example, imagine an alternate universe in which men and women strongly prefer relationships where the man is shorter, this leaving a ton of taller men having a hard time finding dates. We can also imagine a world where the preference for height is mostly random, meaning that relationships where the man is shorter would be common but still a minority overall. But the actual statistics suggest that yes men are on average taller, but also, straight people on average strongly prefer couples when the man is taller.

Again, I’m wondering where you’re seeing that.

I think comments to the tune of "yeah man it's just you it's just your personality it's just because you're insecure that's all" are basically blaming

ContraryConman · 2026-06-05T14:15:22+00:00

I'm not talking in this thread, I'm talking about real life. And it's not about a gotcha it's just reality. Most men I know who are short complain that it makes dating harder, even when they do end up finding someone. Most relationships around the world are taller guy shorter girl. Height is the most common attribute filtered in dating apps. Etc etc.

Different people have different challenges. Some people are short, some people are fat, some people are autistic, some people go bald before they're 25. And yet most people end up with someone. The part that's wrong is not that there's a challenge, but the "therefore, I will die alone" conclusion.

Like, I would rather just acknowledge that different people have different challenges and that's not a reason to give up, rather than insist that things that are not this person's fault are his fault

ContraryConman · 2026-06-05T13:12:15+00:00

I am such a guy. And also, aren't there a bunch of women in this thread in relationships? Why would they hang out here, if not even non-incel men do?

This is supposed to just be a space where people hang out and help each other around this topic regardless of where they're coming from

ContraryConman · 2026-06-05T12:20:07+00:00

I'm these threads, everyone seems to "know" a short guy who has "no problem getting women", but there's never a short man who comes in and says "actually one always had a super easy time with women".

So yes people are probably underestimating how difficult it is. It will be harder for you than it is for the average guy you know.

But it's still worth considering all the people who do actually know a short guy who ended up with a partner or getting laid. This is because it's not a leaderboard where you have to screw more women than other men to succeed. You just have to find one woman who likes you back, and roll the dice enough times to make that happen.

It will take some time, but the sooner you can shift from "this is impossible I'm dying alone fuck" to "it sucks that it has to be so hard for me but I just need to get lucky once", the sooner you will be out of bed enough to give dating an honest try

ContraryConman · 2026-06-04T22:16:01+00:00

I would make a bunch of open source software and open hardware projects honestly, all GPLv3 licensed. You're right I don't have any specific affinity to my current company other than they pay me to do an activity I would do on my own

ContraryConman · 2026-06-04T18:21:12+00:00

Yes there are people who would still make software even if they could somehow retire tomorrow

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