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New comment by CagedCoder in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

CagedCoder — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:11:46 +0000

This sounds like some variation of correlation // causation. The people that already like working with (or are addicted to) LLMs would look to try the frontier models on their own time.

I'm not anti-AI, but I have QUALLMS

CagedCoder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:11:14 +0000

Article URL: https://cholling.com/posts/quallms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249037

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by CagedCoder in "Rebuilding the Computer Room"

CagedCoder — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:56:20 +0000

> For me this would create more clutter and require more of my attention to ensure the devices work the way I want them to and that I have them on hand. Yes my MP3 player doesn't show notifications but its another device I need to keep with me and keep charged. Buying a device for the sake of it unless I have a real need just feels like consumerism.

I was skeptical until I kidnapped my wife's kindle and started reading on that instead of my phone. I recently added an mp3 player too and there really is something about the intentionality of a dedicated device that make it more enjoyable and more focused than using my phone for everything.

But to your point, there is definitely a lot of performative/consumerism basis - if you visit the Emulator subreddit for example there's an increasingly common joke that nobody ever uses their device, just buys the new one to collect it/post it online for internet points.

New comment by CagedCoder in "Steam Machine launches today"

CagedCoder — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:44:51 +0000

For some reason I never considered this route, despite following the PS5 Linux developments... is there a specific reason that the XSX is harder to homebrew than the PS5?

It would be incredible to convert my dusty XSX to a linux box

New comment by CagedCoder in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

CagedCoder — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:34:09 +0000

If the corporate mandates weren't the reason for the number being so high, I would expect the outside of work data to be more aligned.

New comment by CagedCoder in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

CagedCoder — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:45:43 +0000

I feel like these 2 sentences answer what the author is looking for:

> I do not want an LLM-generated novel with chapters, bullet points and emojis, just a simple description of the problem in your own voice.

> If I don't see proof of human involvement, then I'm not interested

New comment by CagedCoder in "Stop Ruining It"

CagedCoder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:31:29 +0000

I was really excited when I saw tabs were coming to the file explorer, but I can't tell now if I don't like tabs in file explorer or if I don't like all the other things that made file explorer worse when tabs got added

New comment by CagedCoder in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

CagedCoder — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:18:29 +0000

> If art is worth doing it's worth doing with good tools.

Yeah, that's why we should keep LLMs out of it.

New comment by CagedCoder in "Putting the "You" in CPU (2023)"

CagedCoder — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:23:53 +0000

> The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline.

God bless

New comment by CagedCoder in "The AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI"

CagedCoder — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:46:46 +0000

Why should I trust someone that's making money from AI to tell me that AI isn't a bubble?

Especially when the entire argument seems to hinge on the author's dislike for the word Bubble. The bubble that pops isn't the actual thing, it's the money that was propping the thing up...

New comment by CagedCoder in "What if A.I. doesn't get better than this?"

CagedCoder — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:32:07 +0000

And how much further have we gotten past the moon since then?

This isn't an OTOH, it's just another example of looking at the exponential part of the S-curve.

New comment by CagedCoder in "Jacob's Phone Simulator"

CagedCoder — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:35:01 +0000

Not sure what you mean - the text is #443c27 and the background is #f1f1f1, so it passes AAA compliance with 9.68 contrast?

New comment by CagedCoder in "Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?"

CagedCoder — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:08:07 +0000

Try Pico-8 - The low pixel approach makes it so that those of us with lower artistic abilities don't have to focus on the art since everything is pixelated as the baseline. (Not to say that people aren't doing insane art with it anyways, but the baseline is much lower quality than something like Unreal).