I’m a bit annoyed by the feeling that we’re kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code and Codex, but I haven’t been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write...
ON CALL Fronting up to work on Friday morning can feel like a mistake, but The Register tries to make it worthwhile by bringing you a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support...
Most AI “strategy” right now isn’t strategy at all. It’s a leadership response to panic. The suffocating, staring-at-the-ceiling-at-2am kind of panic that sets in when your board’s watching, your ROI dashboards haven’t budged,...
Public companies in America are required by law to publish one number: the ratio between what it pays its CEO and what it pays its median worker. The rule has been in force since 2017. The number sits in every proxy statement on...
There’s a version of career advice that often gets handed down: Find your passion early, specialize fast, build your personal brand. It’s tidy, and looks good on paper, but it bears almost no resemblance to how most successful...
The attempt by Australia’s Securities Exchange (ASX) to replace its core trading platform with a blockchain-based system has ended with an A$20.5 million fine ($14.2 million/£10.6 million), further humiliation after the project...
A government customer of NSO Group used the company’s Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
After the Nintendo 3DS saw various Nintendo 64-era titles like Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask ported to it, there was a lot of speculation that the GameCube/Wii title of Twilight Princess might soon make its...
Article URL: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770647 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid...
Article URL: https://cjohnson.io/history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770226 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Researchers [Charles Ye], [Jasmine Cui], and [Dylan Hadfield-Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction sources because they prioritize writing style...
