It is telling that people need to create throwaway accounts to criticize simonw's behavior in this website.

it is more an example of gaming (the HN system) than meme.

For me it is like if crypto bros were allowed to shill their DAOs and tokens during the crypto/NFT phase.

He is the only person not getting rate-limited for shilling AI all the time.

Pointing out how much the models still suck at drawing pelicans is a funny way to shill them.

Tbf the first line of your first comment is:

  > Pelican for Fable 5 on default settings is a clear improvement on Opus 4.8

And doesn't contain any actual criticism within the comment (your blog post might, but just referring to what was posted on HN, which is a bit booster-y on its own).

The entire pelican benchmark is a joke. The joke is that, for all of the billions of dollars poured into these things and the claims of PhD level intelligence, they still draw pelicans not-much-better than a five year-old would.

I don't spell that joke out in every comment I post here because that wouldn't be very funny.

I think that might not even happen depending on how SpaceX IPO goes.

When claude code removes React from its own code I'll believe that.

Which is funny because people have been using LISP for that since 1960.

Which is what makes putting an LLM inside a lisp so much fun

There is a Google way to develop software and all engineers have to follow it, willing or not. There is no space for creativity and joy.

That is not what the news is about. The shocking revelation is that even Google engineers gave up on the AI race.

They didn’t give up, the average Google engineer was never on board and hasn’t even tried agenetic programming beyond what they were required to do not to get reprimanded.

At no point has Google engineering culture actually embraced this at the ground level. This isn’t a change, this is the existing disconnect between the workers and the managers.

No they didnt. You made up that scenario in your head

It is quite weird that the work isn't yours but all your submissions are from the design engineer you like.

for JS there is also Squint which is a light-weight ClojureScript dialect without the Google Closure Compiler

indeed, light-weight means you just add a <script> and you're off to the races.

There's also nbb if you're targeting node https://github.com/babashka/nbb