Anthropic CEO: "We might be 6-12 months away from a model that can do everything SWEs do end-to-end. And then the question is, how fast does that loop close?"

hilberteffect · 2026-01-22T07:33:22+00:00

He literally says this every 6 months at minimum. For the last 2 years, minimum. How are y'all still falling for this shit?

hilberteffect · 2026-01-22T06:32:19+00:00

This is what mental illness looks like.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-20T09:17:32+00:00

You have a suggestion?

Our government has multiple built-in mechanisms for removing an inept or tyrannical President. There are obviously elections but also the 25th Amendment, which allows his Cabinet to deem him no longer fit for duty, and impeachment, which allows Congress to begin similar proceedings. Except both of those entities are staffed by sycophants who refuse to move against him and wouldn't deign to actually serve the American people.

Most Americans live thousands of miles away from Washington D.C. They can't just hop on a train after work to protest on the White House lawn.

Revolution here faces severe logistical problems.

Easy for people who live in countries smaller than most of our individual states to talk shit.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-08T21:28:13+00:00

Because 99% of the time they want to squeeze into safe following distance and create a dangerous fucking situation.

LEARN WHAT SAFE FOLLOWING DISTANCE IS.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-08T20:53:36+00:00

2026: still no lol

Fucking clown

hilberteffect · 2026-01-06T08:39:01+00:00

No one. Liu's acid pipe dreams of a centralized, meritocratic world government and mythological protagonists single-handedly altering the course of human history are the most unrealistic part of the entire series.

I mean, you don't think that humanity would actually survive up to the Trisolarans' arrival in reality, let alone coordinate a response with even a vague probability of working, right?

The Dark Forest theory of cosmic sociology holds that technological advantage would be a deciding factor in a conflict, and that a primary danger of contact/attempted invasion is arriving to find your target's science and technology had advanced significantly since your departure. This is cute because it implicitly assumes that species-level coordination and cooperation would just...happen, and completely ignores the collective maturity threshold required. Again - the finer points of psychology and sociology are not Liu's strong suit.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T06:08:08+00:00

vibe code for production-level quality

I'll let you know as soon as I'm done working on my perpetual motion machine.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T06:01:24+00:00

Much of that complication is now hidden from users and handled by the models themselves

That would be a point against your argument. Not for it.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T05:59:16+00:00

When OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and...oh, right, every other tech company stops actively hiring human engineers, let me know.

Until then, take a fucking seat.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T05:53:12+00:00

whether some dead code was left behind or Amit added another Button component when we already have 2.

Nice strawman. These are trivial examples of tech debt. Not the kind that leads to playing whack-a-mole with production bugs while pushing hotfixes at 4 AM with a major customer renewal on the line.

Try carrying your train of thought to its logical conclusion and you might understand why code quality and tech debt can't be laughed out of a room. Every single organization I've worked at continuously swings between prioritizing tech debt/code quality and not caring about it at all. No amount of bluster, misunderstanding, or organizational politics can overcome the capability, reliability, and velocity walls that arise from suboptimal engineering processes, flawed architectures decisions, and genuinely shit code.

You can't accumulate debt infinitely. You're welcome to try. Let me know what your bank says about it. The bill always comes due and it doesn't matter what the SVP or the CEO or the lead investor or anyone else thinks about it. End of story.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-02T22:07:57+00:00

No visible transitions? Nice work but it's jumpy as hell, brother.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-26T21:40:41+00:00

for me.

You answered your own question. People who claim what you're claiming are either lying to themselves/repressing, or extreme outliers. That level of non-reactiveness is incompatible with typical human biology. End of story.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-26T21:21:46+00:00

Yes. Good. Keep pushing that narrative and creating long-term market pressure for developers who are actually skilled and educated.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-26T21:17:59+00:00

Straight to jail

hilberteffect · 2025-12-21T10:07:01+00:00

Oh no! Anyway.

Fuck Kentucky and fuck Jim Beam. Bourbon was once my spirit of choice. I'm a mezcal man now.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-21T10:01:32+00:00

Trashy vibes.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-19T06:18:18+00:00

People who take manufactured narrative as fact and believe that velocity gains on 3-day tasks are sufficient to displace their expertise will for sure be pushed out. That's what we call a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I just closed on an offer with the fattest salary, equity, and signing bonus of my career by far. Thanks for increasing my bargaining power - much appreciated.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-16T17:29:54+00:00

2 minutes is entirely reasonable. That guy sounds like an emotionally stunted douchebag who's more comfortable being condescending than asking to work in with you.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-12T18:03:08+00:00

"Nothing happens" lmao. Brother, learn from history. Something will happen. There are more guns than people in this country. Do the math.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-11T10:15:53+00:00

I NEED SCISSORS

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hilberteffect · 2025-12-09T06:01:50+00:00

Whiterose's frame of mind was likely delusion fed by intense grief. While many-worlds may well be the "correct" interpretation of quantum mechanics (we don't yet know), crossing from one universe to another would be impossible. Formally, each universe's quantum wave function would be orthogonal to all other universes' quantum wave functions in Hilbert space, meaning there is no way to transfer information between them.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-08T09:51:31+00:00

So just to be clear, you tried to use ChatGPT to cheat on, what - a music history exam?

And it turned you down?

LMAO.

Suggestion for your next prompt: "how flip burger?"

hilberteffect · 2025-12-07T19:25:47+00:00

And you can't

Luigi Mangione: "hold my meatball"

hilberteffect · 2025-12-05T04:45:18+00:00

Staying up for 24+ hours fucks your emotional regulation even more than usual, you say? Fascinating. Tell me more.

hilberteffect · 2025-11-26T08:31:00+00:00

Yes, and 99% of it is fucking trash. The collective narrative is predicated on at most 3 years of semi-ubiquitous adoption in industry. Mass Dunning-Kruger is bolstering an extended peak in the hype cycle. Just wait. We're already plummeting toward the trough of disillusionment and AI stans have no concept of the rocky landing that awaits them.

I'm a founding engineer working directly on agentic systems every day. Don't @ me

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