Hacker News: ChrisLTD

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

ChrisLTD — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:01:45 +0000

This 100%. Maybe I have a prompting skill issue, but without my guidance Opus (and now Fable) writes some gnarly stuff with tons of small bugs, and weird design decisions.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

ChrisLTD — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:35:52 +0000

I agree with most of what you're saying, but it's also funny that front-end developers are catching strays in your conclusion. As long as human beings are interfacing with software, there's going to be a lot of judgement and nuance necessary for building good UIs. Data structures, back-end infra, can all be alien and still work. But your UI can't be alien.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

ChrisLTD — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:38:24 +0000

Even the early versions of AI autocomplete tools like Tabnine and the original Copilot could autocomplete entire functions, so I think you might be strawmanning a bit.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

ChrisLTD — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:27:26 +0000

If it’s not larger, it’d be tough to justify the massive price increase for using it.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "AI Subscriptions Are Dead"

ChrisLTD — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:01:30 +0000

I’m not sure the parent comment is talking about running the open weight models on your own hardware

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death"

ChrisLTD — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:42:08 +0000

more like 2 drinks per meal in Mad Men

New comment by ChrisLTD in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:20:37 +0000

Coding isn’t that hard to you.

Coding effectively is hard AND painful for the majority of folks. And I’d venture to guess they don’t want to be responsible for debugging LLM output either. Just like I don’t want to fix a car, or do my own plumbing.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:17:41 +0000

There’s already an abundance of software in the world. People already wrote software they gave away from their homes in their spare time.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

ChrisLTD — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:58:00 +0000

I don't think it's clear you'll fall behind. Your competitors could very well be vibe coding themselves into messes they will never recover from.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ChrisLTD — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:47:37 +0000

Yeah. Bonkers considering the brain of the application isn’t even on your device.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ChrisLTD — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:11:48 +0000

Or stop making more, and testing more, which we got the biggest countries to do, at least for a time.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

ChrisLTD — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:19:09 +0000

What's the theory of the conspiracy here?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:36:52 +0000

Yeah, that's what I think too. They aren't going to care about optimizing a process that leads to poor results.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Ernst & Young published cybersecurity report full of hallucinations"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:30:21 +0000

> the idea that Amazon would allow human bottlenecks to appear across projects and underlying infrastructure is ridiculous.

Why?

New comment by ChrisLTD in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:42:50 +0000

U.S. government funding generates a lot of scientific and medical breakthroughs outside of what people on this forum would call “tech”.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:34:42 +0000

It’s sad to watch my country commit suicide. Not only will my compatriots be poorer for it, but the rest of the world will be too.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

ChrisLTD — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:30:07 +0000

> If you use a Mac and open the Accessibility Inspector tool that’s built into the system (you really should try it), you can see a second version of the computer, hiding inside the first one. The first version is the one you look at: windows, shadows, rounded rectangles, a little bouncing icon in the Dock from Slack announcing that you are falling behind.

Now use that Accessibility Inspector tool inside Slack (an Electron App) and you'll be welcomed to a deeply nested tree of unlabelled objects.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

ChrisLTD — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:17:01 +0000

I’m know it’s better in some other countries, but in the U.S., we can’t even agree that all people with jobs should have health insurance.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "We've made the world too complicated"

ChrisLTD — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:01:08 +0000

Beginning of the end seems a tad hyperbolic. We aren’t running out of humans.

New comment by ChrisLTD in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

ChrisLTD — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:58:03 +0000

As long as it's pretend productivity, things should settle in a decent place. How long that takes, who knows.