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New comment by 01100011 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

01100011 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:13:56 +0000

> In some cases, they suffer from insomnia, memory loss, rumination and physical illness,

So, like most middle-aged desk jockeys then?

> “There’s always a crisis and everything’s always a priority,” said Schoka. “We would burn people out faster than we could produce them.”

Sounds a lot like my job...

New comment by 01100011 in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

01100011 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:03:48 +0000

Yeah, exactly this. Once you have a toddler you realize there is an inherent desire to be alone while pooping. There is a sort of shame about this. Always Sunny made a joke about this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TFqzjdk5XPs

New comment by 01100011 in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

01100011 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:00:33 +0000

Pooping is interesting. Having a toddler reminded me how pooping is this uniquely vulnerable, sensitive time for humans. I think a lot of us use books/phones/etc to distract ourselves from a sensorily intense activity. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, just noting it.

I will say that playing my Nintendo DS on the toilet many years ago gave me hemorrhoids that still persist decades later. Don't camp on the toilet.

New comment by 01100011 in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

01100011 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:38:32 +0000

I'm getting tired of these articles telling me what AI will or won't do to my career when every day I see something different first hand. I'm about to stop arguing with people. If you think it's all BS then fine. Good luck.

New comment by 01100011 in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

01100011 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:35:47 +0000

It helps me. Case in point, I recently had a API refactoring project that was 80% busywork and only a small amount of code. It's crap work, but it has to be done and it's part of my role. I told AI to generate the initial design doc. It took it upon itself to reference the local headers on my system and found some APIs that should be included that I hadn't even considered would also need to be touched for consistency. It saved me hours typing up the doc, requirements, test plan, etc and then saved me embarrassment by preventing me from making a stupid oversight on a tedious and boring task.

New comment by 01100011 in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

01100011 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:32:12 +0000

Also AI is now drafting design docs, generating PLC work products, entering it all in Jira, characterizing and root causing bugs... It's speeding up the 86% of my job that isn't coding. The article is a bit myopic and frankly contradicts itself.

New comment by 01100011 in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

01100011 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:28:59 +0000

You read my mind. I suspect it is a transient spike while I blow through the backlog and I'll run out of things that AI can vastly accelerate in, say, 6 months. But right now? I'm spending 80-90% of my time blasting through implementing features, finding bugs, fixing old bugs, writing and improving my tools... Code was never the majority of my job. But right now the bar to doing things is so low and the sheer joy of blasting through some previously tedious, low to medium hanging fruit is thrilling.

New comment by 01100011 in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

01100011 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:59:19 +0000

Yeah, there's quite a range between an experienced dev who reviews and understands everything the LLM generates and a coder-clown who blindly trusts it.

One of the big AI companies recently presented to our company. They sent one of the clowns. "I don't even review the code because it would slow me down. Human code also has bugs, so why bother?" These people scare me, but they're also the first type of coder who will be unemployed by AI, so at least we won't have to put up with them for much longer.

Software is a big umbrella. There are people who vomit out code because they can just push another update later in the day and will keep doing that until the bug reports stop. They are often gleefully ignorant that much of software is not designed that way, and that the reason any of their code works is that it is built on software very much not designed that way.

New comment by 01100011 in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

01100011 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:03:13 +0000

This. Also I'm finding out that, after being blown away by agent mode lately, non-agent mode still kind of sucks across frontier models. Using GPT and Gemini in non-agent mode is asking for inaccurate information confidently presented as the truth. Turning on agent mode fixed a lot of that for me.

New comment by 01100011 in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

01100011 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:57:18 +0000

I don't feel like reading an article that will probably be out of date in 6 months, but from what I've seen, if agents keep improving at this rate, 80% of SWEs are going to be looking for new careers in 5 years.

New comment by 01100011 in "Claude Opus 5"

01100011 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:45:21 +0000

I had a moderately complex review in a large C/C++ codebase that Codex/GPT-5.6-sol already cleaned up so I threw it at Opus 5. 4 errors found. That seemed odd, so I handed it back to GPT. All were false. Opus doesn't seem to look at the wider context and understand which functions were called in certain contexts. I gave GPT's analysis back to Opus and it admitted its mistake. Maybe it's good for writing code, but as far as analysis it seems like it needs some work.

New comment by 01100011 in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

01100011 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:37:40 +0000

Some of both sadly, but where I've checked, accuracy.

New comment by 01100011 in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

01100011 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:37:08 +0000

At work it's paid but in my own personal queries it's free vs free and gemini seems to give erroneous answers with confidence frequently and they will completely flip flop in subsequent queries of the same text. It seems very unstable.

New comment by 01100011 in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

01100011 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:24:28 +0000

I've given up on Gemini. It sounds smart but most of what it tells me ends up being wrong or misleading. I might actually hand $20/mo to OpenAI. It's been far more helpful with the random collection of legal and health problems I've thrown at it. My recent comment history is going to make me come across like a shill for them but, holy crap, GPT has been doing amazing things for me at work as well.

I don't get it either... Google has so much talent yet they just can't seem to get it right.

New comment by 01100011 in "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing"

01100011 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:35:15 +0000

This seems like an easily testable assumption. Without the easily obtained data this comment is useless speculation at best.

New comment by 01100011 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

01100011 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:34:08 +0000

If if it were true, who cares? Most startups fail. Most are terrible ideas and/or terribly executed. I fail to see why it's a useful metric.

New comment by 01100011 in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

01100011 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:35:03 +0000

> Less federal aid means fewer students can afford our insanely expensive educational system

Are we sure about this or is federal aid one of the reasons education is so expensive?

New comment by 01100011 in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

01100011 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:27:35 +0000

Yeah I just switched to 5.6-sol I think?

New comment by 01100011 in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

01100011 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:26:48 +0000

I close out after a task is complete. I rarely want the previous context to feed into the next task.

New comment by 01100011 in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

01100011 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:25:31 +0000

Not correct. I'm assuming it's an enterprise plan. I have no idea what deal my company has worked out with OpenAI but I do not yet have a personal account (but soon will when I have the time to spin up proxmox on my compute brick that's been gathering dust since last year).