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The Human in the Loop

https://adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/the-human-in-the-loop/
15•artur-gawlik•3d ago

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chrisjj•3d ago
> When I fix a security vulnerability, I'm not just checking if the tests pass. I'm asking: does this actually close the attack vector?

If you have to ask, then you'd be better putting that effort into fixing the test coverage.

mpalmer•1h ago
Why would I want to take advice about keeping humans in the loop from someone who let an LLM write 90% of their blog post?
actionfromafar•1h ago
The human pressed the red button. :)
yohguy•1h ago
I don't like reading AI text because I feel each word matters a lot less, however the message the author is conveying can be preserved. I read an article like this for the quality of the message not the craftsmen of the medium.
mpalmer•20m ago
If the author didn't have the good taste and decency to edit the painfully obvious generated text, I just assume the message is low quality.
scandox•15m ago
On what basis did you make this judgement? I found the article to be reasonable and not excessively padded.
yohguy•1h ago
There will always be a human in the loop, at what level is the question. It was a very short while ago, in the last couple of months in my case where it went from having to to go at a function level to what the posts describe (still not to the level the Death of SWE article is). It is hard for me to imagine that LLMs can go 1 level higher anytime soon. Progress is not guaranteed. Regardless on whether it improves or not I think it is best to assume that it won't and build using that assumption. The shortcomings of the current (NEW) system and their failings are what end up creating the new patterns for work and the industry. I think that is the more interesting conversation, not how quickly can we ship code but what that means for organizations what skills become the most valuable and what actually rises to the top.
kilroy123•13m ago
> LLMs can go 1 level higher anytime soon. Progress is not guaranteed.

I tend to agree, but I do think we'll get there in the next 5-10 years.

movedx01•49m ago
AI derived piece arguing with another AI derived piece about AI. It's slop all the way down.

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
15•speckx•10m ago•1 comments

Design Thinking Books You Must Read

https://www.designorate.com/design-thinking-books/
78•rrm1977•2h ago•33 comments

We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

https://curl.se/.well-known/security.txt
444•latexr•3h ago•258 comments

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete

https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
401•williamzeng0•14h ago•69 comments

In Praise of APL (1977)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm
49•tosh•5h ago•33 comments

Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/brazilian-city-uses-tilapia-fish-skin-treat-burn-victims
160•kaycebasques•8h ago•56 comments

ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss

https://pdfa.org/want-to-make-your-pdfs-20-smaller-for-free/
22•whizzx•3h ago•5 comments

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
332•misswaterfairy•15h ago•231 comments

30 Years of ReactOS

https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/
46•Mark_Jansen•5h ago•9 comments

Flowtel (YC W25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowtel/jobs/LaddaEz-founding-engineer-staff-senior
1•eylonmiz•2h ago

Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/
207•vinnyglennon•13h ago•186 comments

A Year of 3D Printing

https://brookehatton.com/blog/making/a-year-of-3d-printing/
24•nindalf•4d ago•16 comments

Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/unikernels-intro-93976514
78•valyala•5d ago•25 comments

Gathering Linux Syscall Numbers in a C Table

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-01-17-gathering-linux-syscall-numbers
68•phi-system•4d ago•27 comments

eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/
187•bdcravens•16h ago•209 comments

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
364•josephwegner•20h ago•208 comments

Claude's new constitution

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
484•meetpateltech•21h ago•550 comments

From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown

https://www.kentik.com/blog/from-stealth-blackout-to-whitelisting-inside-the-iranian-shutdown/
134•oavioklein•14h ago•98 comments

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
623•huntergemmer•23h ago•186 comments

Skip is now free and open source

https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
446•dayanruben•22h ago•203 comments

Binary fuse filters: Fast and smaller than xor filters (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01174
116•redbell•4d ago•9 comments

Lix – universal version control system for binary files

https://lix.dev/blog/introducing-lix/
88•onecommit•14h ago•34 comments

The Human in the Loop

https://adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/the-human-in-the-loop/
15•artur-gawlik•3d ago•10 comments

The first commercial space station, Haven-1, now undergoing assembly for launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/the-first-commercial-space-station-haven-1-is-now-undergoin...
17•rbanffy•1h ago•3 comments

TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/adguard-vpn-protocol-goes-open-source-meet-trusttunnel.html
161•kumrayu•20h ago•56 comments

JPEG XL Test Page

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/
217•roywashere•21h ago•143 comments

Show HN: Rails UI

https://railsui.com/
186•justalever•19h ago•95 comments

Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance
212•toomuchtodo•12h ago•269 comments

Letting Claude play text adventures

https://borretti.me/article/letting-claude-play-text-adventures
135•varjag•5d ago•57 comments

The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly

https://github.com/soegaard/webracket
139•mfru•4d ago•37 comments