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New comment by BarryMilo in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

BarryMilo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:53:47 +0000

Other commenters laughing at you for the price... It's not about the price it's about the barrier. Even if I love a service, I won't get very many people to try it if they need to enter a credit card.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

BarryMilo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:03:47 +0000

I seem to remember that's one of the first things they tried, but the general models tended to win out. Turns out there's more to learn from all code/discussions than from just JS.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

BarryMilo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:55:59 +0000

Indeed, Python's version format is semver but it's just aesthetics, they remove stuff in most (every?) minor version. Just yesterday I wasted hours trying to figure out a bug before realizing my colleague hadn't read the patch notes.

New comment by BarryMilo in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

BarryMilo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:38:39 +0000

its*

New comment by BarryMilo in "Google Workspace CLI"

BarryMilo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:08:49 +0000

Took them this long to realize MCPs are just worse APIs.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

BarryMilo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:01:02 +0000

I'm not scared that my skills will be obsolete, I'm scared employers will think they are. The labor market was already irrational enough as it was.

New comment by BarryMilo in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

BarryMilo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:58:09 +0000

Well, I've worked as a developer in many companies and have never met a DBA. I've met tons of devops, who are just rebranded sysadmins as far as anyone can tell.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

BarryMilo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:13:14 +0000

Imagine this for a whole neighborhood! Maybe it'd be more efficient for the transport to come at regular intervals though. And while we're at it, let's pick up other people along the way, you'll need a bigger vehicle though, perhaps bus-sized...

Half-jokes aside, if you don't own it, you'll end up paying more to the robotaxi company than you would have paid to own the car. This is all but guaranteed based on all SaaS services so far.

New comment by BarryMilo in "The Writers Came at Night"

BarryMilo — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:14:00 +0000

Marvel movies is the worst example, it's a roller coaster ride, not a movie. I agree any braindead idiot or machine could write one. But they couldn't know to write The Pianist or how the subject could be approached or why it's time to write it.

AI can make slop yes, but it can't make the kind of art people don't get tired of. It's the difference between wisdom and knowledge.

New comment by BarryMilo in "The Writers Came at Night"

BarryMilo — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:50:53 +0000

> Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that AI can eventually serve to level the playing field for everything. It outputs novels, paintings, screenplays - whatever you ask it for - of such high quality that they can't be discerned from the best human-created works.

This requires the machine to understand a whole bunch of things. You're talking about AGI, at that point there will be blood in the streets and screenplays will be the least of our problems.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used"

BarryMilo — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:58:00 +0000

Truly a "why say many words" title!

New comment by BarryMilo in "Show HN: Distributing AI agent skills via NPM"

BarryMilo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:56:18 +0000

Of all the packaging systems to do this with, npm is certainly one of them.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

BarryMilo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:13:59 +0000

I recently witnessed one such potential fuckup. The AI had written functioning code, except one of the business rules was misinterpreted. It would have broken in a few months time and caused a massive outage. I imagine many such time bombs are being deployed in many companies as we speak.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)"

BarryMilo — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:12:02 +0000

So UBI + universal healthcare? Sign me up!

New comment by BarryMilo in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

BarryMilo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:55:45 +0000

As it was foretold since the beginning, IA use is breaking security wantonly.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

BarryMilo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:53:36 +0000

You might say the problem CloudFlare is causing is lesser than the ones it's solving, but you can't say they're not causing a new, separate problem.

That they're trying counts for brownie points, it's not an excuse to be satisfied with something that still bothers a lot of people. Do better, CloudFlare.

New comment by BarryMilo in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"

BarryMilo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:21:10 +0000

This is pretty interesting to me, as I do use Grafana in my current role. But none of their other products, and not their helm chart (we're on the Bitnami chart if that's a thing).

So far it's pretty good. We're at least one major version behind, but hey everything still works.

I cannot imagine other products support as many data sources (though I'm starting to think they all suck, I just dump what I can in InfluxDB).

New comment by BarryMilo in "Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus"

BarryMilo — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:38:29 +0000

The room is not doing anything of the sort.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

BarryMilo — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:27:57 +0000

Do you believe the same thing about psychiatrists? How are we to deal with mental illness?

New comment by BarryMilo in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

BarryMilo — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:33:53 +0000

Psychologists are a myth?