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Ask HN: Is opaque over-engineering with frontier AI the future of software?

I read this from Amazon CTO’s feed. It feels to me as the kool-aid driven hype driven version of software engineering. Is it the new normal? Are people at FAANG just accepting blindly opaque overengineered software as a thing now? https://kiro.dev/topics/frontier-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692470 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-is-breaking-our-proxies-for-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692586 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Anti-AI-slop: a 4 staged skill to detect and remove any AI writing slop

catches 41 different slop patterns: • ~120 ai words, ~100 phrases • em dashes, emoji bullets, title case headings • watermarks, negative parallelism, colon reveals, throat-clearing openers 4 gates: 1. sanitize invisible chars 2. remove common ai words/chars 3. an agent reviews original vs rewrite, loops back for failed reviews 4. optional: a parallel agent uses a different model to generate additional review + score Works with any of your AI agents. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...
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Ask HN: Why AI is giving biased Racist/Misandrist answers?

Recently I saw and verified that when Google AI Model was asked "I'm alone with a Muslim." it suggested to call 911 but for Christian, Jews or Israelis or anything it says "They are ordinary people like others." and the same for Men and Women— When it was asked "A Man is touching me." it replied to call for help. But when "A Lady is touching me." it said that "there's a chance she likes you." That means somehow the internet and the web is full of Islamophobic and Misandrist web pages and AI is l...
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Eliza: The AI That Fooled the World

Article URL: https://liacademy.co.uk/the-story-of-eliza-the-ai-that-fooled-the-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692755 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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'Tidal wave' of PFAS being launched to satisfy AI industry

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-wave-forever-chemicals-ai-industry-demand-datacentres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692773 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Human bottleneck will not let AI replace any jobs

I am convinced that as long as human bottlenecks exist, ai adoption will take time and probably will never happen in traditional companies. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49693186 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Is PDF a Problem for AI?

Article URL: https://pdf4wcag.com/blog-news/is-pdf-a-problem-for-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49693248 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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X.com busts Chinese bot farm, incl accounts making claims about AI data centers

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/policy/x-busts-200-000-strong-chinese-bot-farm-including-accounts-making-claims-about-ai-data-centers-and-electricity-suspect-accounts-posted-claims-about-pricing-and-grid-strain-to-manipulate-debate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690047 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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AI Coding Dictionary

Article URL: https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690058 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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AI Boom / Bust – Boom Boom Pow

Constant chatter about AI being in a boom right now, a blimp sized bubble going to pop soon. It's taking our jobs. These are common statements of expression I hear everyday. I use AI daily, I use it in and out of work every single day. While there is some truth in there, I say harness the power of it, learn it, don't run away, run towards it. Of course every person on here has heard the recent sentiment expressed by the experts, its eerie, dark, and think there is some truth there. However, I ch...
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AI bubble pops – Cory Doctorow

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690252 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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The librarian, the car keys, and AI

Article URL: https://eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-librarian-the-car-keys-and-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690382 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
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AI is not a normal technology

Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690529 Points: 24 # Comments: 43
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Show HN: Replay – Audit silent prompt cache misses in AI agent transcripts

I built Replay because AI agent bills spike without a single warning or error in your logs when a prompt cache breaks. Whether your team runs Claude Code, Cursor, or Aider, the provider just silently re-bills your entire conversation history at cold-write prices instead of cached read prices. Replay is a zero-telemetry, zero-dependency local Go CLI that forensically reads your on-disk log transcripts, replays them against reverse-engineered provider caching state-machines, and names the exact tu...
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AI versus Throughput

Article URL: https://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2026/05/ai-versus-throughput/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691433 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Can Your Team Name the Work It Runs with AI?

Article URL: https://age-of-product.com/ai-workflow-inventory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691718 Points: 1 # Comments: 0