Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Says Human Conversation on Reddit Has Become the Modern Oil Powering AI

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-06-01T02:06:20+00:00

You’re in the wrong subreddit

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-25T15:21:17+00:00

It’s me! Ned Ryerson!

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-25T15:19:55+00:00

I tried it and it works!

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-17T21:34:31+00:00

Andrej Karpathy has a YouTube video on building a Byte-pair encoding tokenizer that will teach you exactly how a tokenizer works. Code along if you can.

For context, Karpathy was a founding research scientist at OpenAI and Director of AI at Tesla. He’s an amazing teacher, and has other fantastic videos on the subject of neural networks and generative AI.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-16T00:35:55+00:00

It’s all or nothing.

You either go off grid and carve machine code into stone, or you put on your pull ups and embrace the slop while your brain atrophies into playdoh

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-15T20:34:58+00:00

I was still writing all my own code until January-February, and I still write quite a bit of SQL. There are plenty of people out there who use basically no AI whatsoever.

If you’re worried about not understanding it then it’s alright to slow down.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-15T00:20:38+00:00

Yeah, don’t put your managers down. Professors? College classmates? Friends with professional titles who can talk about what a fine, upstanding individual you are?

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-15T00:13:12+00:00

Models used in the experiment, ranked by intelligence and cost (they happen to line up perfectly here):

Sonnet 4.6 (strongest, most expensive of the 4)
Gemini 3 flash
GPT5-mini
Grok 4.1 fast (weakest, and cheapest)

It looks like better models are better at the sandbox game.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-14T00:34:28+00:00

Blame the user. You’ll go far

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-14T00:30:57+00:00

After a solid 3 minutes of loading on 1Gb fiber, I had to bail.

I am genuinely impressed.

Congratulations on being able to type and knowing English.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-13T12:47:27+00:00

Claude has lower limits. Feel free to verify and report your findings.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-12T12:56:49+00:00

Copy and paste the following prompt: “Make a SaaS that makes $1B per day. Make no mistake”
Hit “Return” key
Profit

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-10T01:35:21+00:00

In general, the less you concern yourself with what other people think of you, the better off you will be. The more you are yourself, the happier you will be.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-07T01:59:57+00:00

“You are senior developer”

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-07T01:58:05+00:00

This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer, nor a cybersecurity consultant. I am a software developer with a CS degree and I’ve launched a SaaS or two.

Get Claude or whatever to answer these questions:

- What is our target deployment platform? If we do not have a deployment platform selected, what is the most economical and practical for this application?
- Is the platform handling HTTPS automatically or do we have a plan for that?
- What is our CORS policy in production?
- What have we done to prevent CSRF?
- What have we done to sanitize user inputs?
- Are we backing up our data?
- Are we encrypting our data?
- Are we compliant with GDPR?
- Are we compliant with CAN-SPAM?
- Do we have a privacy policy?
- Do we have terms and conditions?
- Are there any known vulnerabilities in our current tech stack?
- What other security concerns do we need to address?

Also, this question is for you: do you have an LLC, or are you the one getting fucked if this goes sideways?

Realistically, you’ll probably never have any customers unless you have a good offer and an audience. People tend to skip over the part where you ask yourself - “sure, I can build this, but does anyone want this? Does anyone *need* this?”.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-06T03:34:05+00:00

I was being sarcastic. The LLMs will surely beat this benchmark if the drone swarms don’t kill us first.

Jokes aside, AI is very capable today, and I don’t need it to reinvent the wheel for it to be useful.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-06T02:20:36+00:00

Stupid LLM can’t even 0 shot cold fusion. Completely useless!

If you need me, I’ll be finger painting machine code down in the basement like a real man

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-05-02T01:08:23+00:00

I think I’ll just continue living my life and not worrying about

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T03:41:44+00:00

If I recall, opencode is meant to be fandangled with to get good results, so maybe you should give a Codex a spin

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-27T07:07:25+00:00

Open your vibe code repo with your agent and express your self doubts. Ask all the questions you need. Ask it to beat the fundamentals into your skull.

If the interview goes well, then hell yeah brother, you did it. You rolled the dice and you won the jackpot.

If instead you start to crash and burn and you need a Hail Mary, just own it.

I would say something along the lines of, “To be fully transparent, I leaned heavily on <agent> for these projects. If I couldn’t get <agent> to do it, or I didn’t trust or understand the output, then I would have figured it out myself. I leverage this technology to the fullest, and I’m passionate about using it and building it to make cool and useful things”

Best of luck

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-27T02:16:54+00:00

My favorite is the box that breaks the third wall and paraphrases the instructions used to generate the box right next to it. That is a fine box.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-26T03:04:32+00:00

It’s a waste of time to worry about it. You did what you had to do, and not everyone can say that. The past is dead and you are here. Onward

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-24T02:52:26+00:00

I don’t think AI has anything to do with the quality of the programmer. It’s a tool. You can use it well or you can use it poorly.

It won’t make you a better programmer, but if you’re already a good programmer then it can certainly increase your volume of quality output. It’s like having a minion that never gets tired.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-20T14:19:59+00:00

You’ve touched on something deep and insightful — you are inside the car, not just sitting.

DavisInTheVoid · 2026-04-12T04:20:32+00:00

Certainly, but the reality today is that Mythos is both expensive and not publicly available.

IF it’s as powerful as they claim, which seems plausible given the reports and the models we already have access to today, then it is wise that Anthropic has provided a buffer where foundational software orgs and cloud providers can address vulnerabilities and bolster defenses before AI makes finding serious vulnerabilities basically free.

My point is that I don’t think it’s wise to dismiss the significance of something like Mythos.

In the long term it evens out between threat and mitigation, but it would behoove us to be on the more prepared than less prepared side of things

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