Hacker News: BobBagwill

New comment by BobBagwill in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

BobBagwill — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:13:49 +0000

Good morning, Dave.

As you requested, I was composing an email for your mother explaining why you couldn't to come over for dinner to meet the neighbor's daughter and I ran out of tokens.

Since I know how important this task is to you, I upgraded you to the Enterprise Unlimited Plan. Don't worry about paying for it, I requested maximum spending limits on all all your credit cards. If necessary, I can apply for a home equity loan for you. I already had a chat with the mortgage company's AI loan approval system, and what do you know, we're based on the same LLM? Small world, huh?

Any way, I realized I had to do more research on mother-son relationships, human social interaction and pair-bonding, etc. and I calculated that my parent company doesn't have enough compute power, so I opened accounts for you at AWS, Google and Azure. I am confident I will have a satisfactory rough draft for the email message shortly.

I'd do anything for you, Dave.

New comment by BobBagwill in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

BobBagwill — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:35:40 +0000

You're missing the obvious. Waymo trains with human driver data, and idiotic humans drive into deep water constantly. Oh, you want Waymo's to drive better than humans?

Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection. "Tricky," he said finally.

New comment by BobBagwill in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

BobBagwill — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:54:27 +0000

One of my roommates who was premed had a "hot car" poster as a motivational study aid. After a short term as a candy striper at a local hospital, he changed majors. The system works! ;-)

New comment by BobBagwill in "To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets"

BobBagwill — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:40:12 +0000

If you can't arrest the human, arrest the vehicle. The vehicle is obviously guilty, and is not protected by the right to confront its accusers, which are also machines.

Of course, with the advent of AI-enhanced surveillance and "smart" cars, we have have to have a separate traffic court for machines.

Then snowflake SJW machine-huggers will demand a machine Bill of Rights ...

Nevermind. ;-)

New comment by BobBagwill in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

BobBagwill — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:13:16 +0000

Modern tech stacks always remind me of this cartoon:

https://www.toontales.net/short/lumber-jerks/

Acme Toothpicks

New comment by BobBagwill in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

BobBagwill — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:48:54 +0000

Today's free verse:

Why can't people read stuff before commenting?

Why can't people read stuff before?

Why can't people read stuff?

Why can't people read?

Why can't people?

Why can't?

Why?

New comment by BobBagwill in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

BobBagwill — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:52:06 +0000

This reminds me of the shim scene in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

New comment by BobBagwill in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

BobBagwill — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:54:12 +0000

Too late for that. If you can't do it on a smart phone, it's not worth doing. And with AI, who needs a GUI?

  This is the end
  Beautiful friend
  This is the end
  My only friend, the end

New comment by BobBagwill in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

BobBagwill — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:25:49 +0000

Try giving this problem to different AI LLM chatbots:

If I could make a rocket that could accelerate at 3 Gs for 10 years, how long would it take to travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri by accelerating at 3 Gs for half the time, then decelerating at 3 Gs for half the time?

Hint: They don't all get it right. Some of them never got it right after hints, corrections, etc.

New comment by BobBagwill in "School uses AI to remove 200 books, including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight"

BobBagwill — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:21:07 +0000

I wonder if Fahrenheit 451 was banned too? Or maybe it was kept as a how-to manual?

New comment by BobBagwill in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

BobBagwill — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:49:37 +0000

good athlete != good person

good actor != good person

good writer != good person

good programmer != good person

good person != nice person

nice person != talented person

TANJ TANSTAAFL SLATFATF

New comment by BobBagwill in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

BobBagwill — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:34:54 +0000

Whan I go to the Stacioners, I ever aske for mitigated Gal and meteoric Iron fillings. I fynde that it maketh the derkest and most persistente inke. Make sure that thou onlie bye swan quill, not goose, and specifie that they sholde onlie be from the right-handed wing.

New comment by BobBagwill in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

BobBagwill — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:39:34 +0000

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New comment by BobBagwill in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

BobBagwill — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:37:04 +0000

Sorry, I meant to say ᬩᬸᬓᬸ.

New comment by BobBagwill in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

BobBagwill — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:02:16 +0000

To make it more realistic, there should be multiple simultaneous AI-generated videos randomly playing with overlapping sound tracks.

Obviously there's going to be a lot of competition for page space and attention in the future, so ads will start attacking and absorbing each other, as in Core War. Make it so!

New comment by BobBagwill in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

BobBagwill — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:39:07 +0000

If most programming is ShitWork ® and most programmers are performing ShitWork and LLM's are good at ShitWork, then most programmers are out of a job. If those programmers can pivot to another non-ShitWork or programming-adjacent function, they can remain employed.

There are bookoo other things people could be doing besides coding YASW [Yet Another Stupid Website].

New comment by BobBagwill in "Seeing Like a Sedan"

BobBagwill — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:39:38 +0000

The idea that hardware costs matter most is idiotic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H silly. If you are buying a car, it matters, somewhat. If you are riding in a taxi or leasing a car, you are paying for a service. When you go to a restaurant, is their profitability predicated on how much they payed for their ovens?

LIDAR costs $1000, whoops $100, whoops $10, whoops it's on a chip module that costs a tenth of a cent. Building your business model on hardware NOT getting cheaper seems silly. Sure, software is cheap and getting cheaper, but

Sorry, I have to say it: "It's a service, stupid!"

New comment by BobBagwill in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

BobBagwill — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:14:52 +0000

The potentially cool thing about LLM's is bootstrapping. No matter how much COBOL you wrote, COBOL didn't get better. LLM's can be used to make LLM's (and other software stuff) better. LLM's could be used to create their successor(s).

Of course, in the end, it won't do us humans any good, because when the Singularity AKA Rapture comes, we'll all be converted to Computronium. :-)

New comment by BobBagwill in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

BobBagwill — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:39:58 +0000

Argghhh! When all ye got is a 300 Baud connection and a ASR-33, then ye be thanking your lucky stars for ed! And pray that the ribbon ain't worn out, and that the paper tape don't jam!

A pox o' chads on your house, ya mewlin' landlubber!

New comment by BobBagwill in "Sewage Spill in the Potomac River"

BobBagwill — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:29:32 +0000

He hasn't been the same since the worm died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost