alt Hacker NewsI Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]
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Pretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908
Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn't know improvement if it landed on their lap and started twerking, and AI cannot do a job without strong human intervention into what the goals and guardrails actually are.
I'm kind of reminded of when Microsoft claimed it took a team of Ph.D.s to write a terminal application that updated at 60fps, and then Casey Muratori did it over a weekend. And this was before AI was writing code in earnest; when LLM-induced brainrot really sets in, civilization is in for a world of fresh hurt: lots more generated code, almost all of it garbage. And the promised AI crossover point where it becomes AGI, or indistinguishable from for software design purposes, recedes into the infinite future.
It goes beyond lying. It's kind of war, and they're the aggressor.
Everyone else needs to start treating them that way, or you're going to regret it once you realize what's actually happening.
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We've reached peak stupidity when a supposedly reasoned case about "AI bad" has to be proffered .. in video.
If you want my attention tonight, surely then "put more effort in" applies here too?
I was a low bar target: I already think AI coding is a mistake. But I want to read about it. Not listen to it with megabits of associated video I don't want to watch either.
Tag as "rage bait" and move on I did not like, I did not subscribe.
I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy.
A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.