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news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 378 | 47327921 | dzuc | red / green / refactor is a reasonable way through this problem | 2026-03-10T19:44:29 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 379 | 47333549 | adamddev1 | Tests cannot show the absence of bugs.These are fundamentals of CS that we are forgetting as we dismantle all truth and keep rocketing forward into LLM psychosis.> I care about this. I don't want to push slop, and I had no real answer.The answer is to write and understand code. You can't not want to push slop, and also... | 2026-03-11T09:47:52 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 380 | 47330061 | keyle | It's amazing the length at which people who want to write code go, to not write code.Don't get me wrong, I use agentic coding often, when I feel it's going to type it faster than me (e.g. a lot of scaffolding and filler code).Otherwise, what's the point?I feel the whole industry is having its "Look ma! no hands!" momen... | 2026-03-10T23:24:30 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 381 | 47331304 | mandeepj | Now, Someone has to review tests! Just shifting ownership! Claude has just released 'Code Review'. But I don't think you can leave either one on autopilot.Code Review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313787 | 2026-03-11T03:00:46 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 382 | 47329440 | emirhan_demir | A short story: A developer let ClaudeCode manage his AWS infrastructure.
The agent ran a Terraform destroy command...
Gone: 2 websites, production database,
all backups and 2.5 years of data
The agent didn't make a mistake. It did exactly what it was allowed to do.
That's the problem dude | 2026-03-10T22:13:11 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 383 | 47329658 | apsdsm | Do you really, honestly, have to be doing this stuff even when you sleep? To the point it hits you “wait is this even any good? Gee I don’t want to push out slop.”If you don’t trust the agent to do it right in the first place why do you trust them to implement your tests properly? Nothing but turtles here. | 2026-03-10T22:39:57 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47327559 | 384 | 47333640 | divan | I'm (re)writing a big project with the following approach:1. Write tons of documentation first. I.e. NASA style, every singe known piece of information that is important to implementation. As it's a rewrite of legacy project, I know pretty much everything I need, so there is very little ideas validation/discovery in th... | 2026-03-11T10:00:28 | 47327559 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 0 | 47353019 | beepbooptheory | Related: https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... (https://archive.ph/yS8xb) | 2026-03-12T16:12:04 | forum | |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 1 | 47356483 | klueinc | Appaled at the lack of empathy for labellers from other comments here. | 2026-03-12T20:20:43 | 47353019 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 2 | 47356559 | Beestie | I read the 404 article and its nauseating - the story of the young man from Africa is very unpleasant. We all know the pr0n industry is a thing but this is off the rails. | 2026-03-12T20:26:22 | 47356483 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 3 | 47356738 | guitarlimeo | Yeah same. Anything seems to go if it means the next version of $HOT_LLM_MODEL is improved. | 2026-03-12T20:38:46 | 47356483 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 4 | 47357172 | fluoridation | Good, good. Very virtuous of you.What exactly are you asking for? Just some commiserative platitudes? I don't think anyone is under the false impression that these are awesome jobs, but the fact is, they are jobs. The people doing them are getting paid to do them. Why would data labellers be more deserving of sympathy ... | 2026-03-12T21:11:40 | 47356483 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 5 | 47357541 | klueinc | Calling traumatizing data work a 'normal office job' is a lazy reach that confuses a paycheck with an excuse to ignore what it actually does to people. | 2026-03-12T21:39:46 | 47357172 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 6 | 47358098 | fluoridation | No one in this thread has used the word "normal" besides you, so you're responding to something no one said. I called it an office job. Are you contending that it's not one?Setting that aside, maybe this type of job in particular is traumatizing. And? What do you want done about it? | 2026-03-12T22:23:08 | 47357541 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 7 | 47367847 | whattheheckheck | Seems to be a whole class of people that when they come across a story that should be gut wrenching have to come up with a reason why its not and get angry with whoever brought it up. "How dare you make me feel bad? Its obviously not bad!" | 2026-03-13T18:26:55 | 47358098 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 8 | 47356573 | d0able | Would have liked to see a clearer call for action other than "regulation" - what exactly would the author want to regulate and what are the downstream effects? | 2026-03-12T20:27:22 | 47353019 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 9 | 47355757 | mbrumlow | > he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex botsThis makes no sense. AI sex bots don’t need humans texting and role playing.I don’t think whoever wrote this article understands what AI is.Note the fist job of describing what was in the video seems like somebody building a AI dataset. | 2026-03-12T19:19:23 | 47353019 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 10 | 47355892 | kristopolous | Jason certainly does [1]. The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human.It's very much an ensemble method. That's why people pay for it over just downloading an abliterated model from hf with system prompt hacking. Go and try it, the SOTA of role-playing models still have a lot to be desire... | 2026-03-12T19:30:47 | 47355757 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 11 | 47356324 | Ukv | > The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human. It's very much an ensemble method.This seems unlikely to me, given it'd increase costs and the response times would make it obvious.The messages presented in the original source appear to be people expecting to be talking to a real person, li... | 2026-03-12T20:06:21 | 47355892 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 12 | 47356397 | 3rodents | “Actually Indians” is a meme for a reasonhttps://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--wa... The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in Indiahttps://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shophttps:... | 2026-03-12T20:13:45 | 47355757 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 13 | 47355992 | dang | (We've since changed the URL from https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... to the essay it references, which was written by Michael Geoffrey Asia himself and goes much deeper into the topic. I've put a reference to the profile article in the toptext.) | 2026-03-12T19:39:38 | 47355757 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47353019 | 14 | 47356041 | renewiltord | Phone sex line guy upset he had to do phone sex. What. | 2026-03-12T19:43:07 | 47353019 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 0 | 47362684 | fredley | AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately | 2026-03-13T10:44:06 | forum | |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 1 | 47364433 | jjj123 | I heard a podcast ad for an AI toy once that said “your child and [the toy] will be having conversations you could never imagine”.Truly baffling marketing, but I guess there are some parents that don’t realize the unpredictability of AI is what makes it so dangerous as a toy. | 2026-03-13T13:48:57 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 2 | 47362912 | woodenbrain | Yeah, let's give our kids a toy that will tell them they can fly. and we thought drugs were a risk. | 2026-03-13T11:19:21 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 3 | 47363435 | olivierestsage | You gotta be out of your damn mind to give your kid an AI toy | 2026-03-13T12:19:01 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 4 | 47364130 | simmerup | Just give them an tablet with your preferred tech giants content algorithm instead | 2026-03-13T13:23:54 | 47363435 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 5 | 47363662 | a96 | So, basically a market that's 80% of the new parents. | 2026-03-13T12:37:32 | 47363435 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 6 | 47363582 | dabbledash | 'When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."'I'll take this over "I love you too!" What kind of person is giving an AI toy to a toddler? | 2026-03-13T12:31:03 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 7 | 47364801 | manwe150 | We got gifted a toy dog that could sing the alphabet, which was annoying, but acceptable. Its other stock phrase was ‘I love you’. We got rid of it pretty quickly. | 2026-03-13T14:16:57 | 47363582 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 8 | 47366685 | bitwize | I gotta hand it to the toy, it was prepping the kid for today's social world.> What kind of person is giving an AI toy to a toddler?Grimes. When I read she's involved, I thought "that tracks". She's... a character. Think Björk, only not as smart, and a real pick-me girl for the techbro set. Anyway I don't think she ent... | 2026-03-13T16:42:18 | 47363582 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 9 | 47369849 | slater- | Grimes is to Bjork as Scott Stapp is to Bruce Springsteen. | 2026-03-13T21:01:50 | 47366685 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 10 | 47364595 | avgDev | As a parent, most parents are trash. I don't know why, maybe it's capitalism, laziness, low iq, poor education, poor role models, trying to make kids happy and allowing whatever they want? Idk.The amount of terrible parenting I have witnessed in 5 years of my child's life....is...terrifying. I could write a book about.... | 2026-03-13T14:01:09 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 11 | 47365860 | jsbisviewtiful | > I could write a book about.You should - Perhaps it can gain notoriety and start waking people up to their bad habits. I've witnessed so much terrible parenting both in public from strangers and from people I know. It's unfortunate how easy it is for anyone to have a kid, qualified or not. | 2026-03-13T15:35:22 | 47364595 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 12 | 47363363 | the_snooze | AI powered toys are little more than techbros rushing to build Tom Riddle's diary. | 2026-03-13T12:10:34 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 13 | 47363376 | tehjoker | Seems like an intervention aimed mainly at ensuring younger generations are accepting of AI products more than any real benefit to them | 2026-03-13T12:11:59 | 47362684 | forum |
news.ycombinator.com | front | 47362684 | 14 | 47365581 | josefritzishere | AI has been consistently bad at most of it's supplosed appliations. I for one welcome the AI crash. It's genuinely good at a few narrow functions. May sanity prevail in it's ashes. | 2026-03-13T15:13:55 | 47362684 | forum |
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