Noah Sussman

“I can prove that the machine is thinking”

My brother in christ, you cannot even prove YOU are thinking.

rules for addition using emojis

This is not Conway’s Game Of Life.

But it is a cellular automaton.

A computer cannot tell what is good and what is bad. It can write working code but it can’t know whether it wrote good code or bad code.

That’s why AI can never fully replace programmers. In general it’s the reason you can never fully remove the “human in the loop.”

Is something wrong with the test or is something wrong with the system is an undecidable question because it contains the halting problem

Oh yes.

A Metcalfe wheel is the complete connectivity within which a hypercube projection can be inscribed.“​​​​​​​​​​

if you can visualize your communication system as a Metcalf wheel, then there is another way to visualize it: as a multidimensional structure that information traverses

Is something wrong with the test or is something wrong with the system is an undecidable question because it contains the halting problem

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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As I was saying about this being a weird time to be an SDET

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time This paper compiles two previously published posts.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (no paywall)

infinite-undo.medium.com/falsehoods-p...

A computer cannot tell what is good and what is bad. It can write working code but it can’t know whether it wrote good code or bad code.

That’s why AI can never fully replace programmers. In general it’s the reason you can never fully remove the “human in the loop.”

Didn’t people complain about that though?

“You don’t need to be able to sing anymore because of autotune.”

Which even at the time was laughably false but many were upset nonetheless.

"It'll democratize singing!"

I mean this is one of the things it's genuinely good for, but it's like if people had first tried to sell autotune as the coming Rapture before everyone started hating on it

LLMs are autotune for text and we are freaking out about it just like we did when autotune came out.

Have you used an LLM to fix a flaky test? Yes and it worked! 27% Yes and it didn't work. 27%

Why do you think LLMs have a problem solving flaky tests in real-world work situations?

Google Scholar and Arxiv are bristling with papers on how to succeed fixing flaky tests with LLMs. So what do you think is the delta?

Why isn’t the academic success crossing over into the enterprise?

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time This paper compiles two previously published posts.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time REMASTERED

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Both posts collected in a single link. Downloadable PDF with a DOI number you can cite.

Non-paywall link:

infinite-undo.medium.com/falsehoods-p...

I said what I said.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Vibe coding is not going to lead to a generation of software creators who can’t program. Vibe coding is not going to lead to a generation of software creators who do not know how to code.

Vibe coding will not lead to programmers being replaced by non-coding software creators.

infinite-undo.medium.com/vibe-coding-...

In 80s hang-out terms this site is the gifted and talented class (derogatory) and the other site is the dumpster behind 7-11 (derogatory).

You checked the news: -10 HP

I have never seen a single post generate so much buzz. #Vibium

Your post got 129 impressions and 7h drove 3 profile viewers and 1 • •• follower. View your analytics. "All outputs are hallucinations i.e. fabricated and ungrounded. Man... 4 reactions Your post got 2,082 impressions and drove 22 profile viewers and 5 followers. View your analytics. What is the deal with #vibium? ••• 11 reactions • 2 comments

Normal information-dense post: 100 views.

No context #Vibium post: 2000 views.

That’s the zeitgeist right now 🤯

YouTube video by Jason Huggins yc f25 - vibium - founder video

vibium - yc f25 - founder video

my reply to yc's spring 2025 request for startups for browser automation

y... not, amirite?

youtu.be/d-YNQqRnVao

whether deliberate or unintentional, the people who want you to treat AI systems as human-like fully autonomous "agents" are simply laundering responsibility and accountability away from those who choose to monetize these systems onto the artifacts that can’t know responsibility or accountability

and totally not because of any kind of curse that’s not even a thing

Irredeemable behavior. 😡

Pictoplasma in Kyiv!
#CharacterMatters exhibition in the Ukraine

rules for addition using emojis

This is not Conway’s Game Of Life.

But it is a cellular automaton.