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New comment by Deukhoofd in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

Deukhoofd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:21:22 +0000

Let's be real, a lot of organizations never actually finish that R&D phase, and just continue iterating on their prototypes, and try to untangle the spaghetti for years.

I recently had to rewrite a part of such a prototype that had 15 years of development on it, which was a massive headache. One of the most useful things I used LLMs for was asking it to compare the rewritten functionality with the old one, and find potential differences. While I was busy refactoring and redesigning the underlying architecture, I then sometimes was pinged by the LLM to investigate a potential difference. It sometimes included false positives, but it did help me spot small details that otherwise would have taken quite a while of debugging.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:37:22 +0000

So basically they want to retain everyone's full codebases?

> The data used in this program may be shared with GitHub affiliates, which are companies in our corporate family including Microsoft

So every Microsoft owned company will have access to all data Copilot wants to store?

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:14:48 +0000

Well, this is at least an update from earlier this month with a clear roadmap of how they're going to get there. There's hope!

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:15:58 +0000

Thankfully they are actively working towards upgrading, Unity 6.8 (they're currently on 6.4) is supposed to move fully towards CoreCLR, and removing Mono. We'll then finally be able to move to C# 14 (from C# 9, which came out in 2020), as well as use newer .NET functionality.

https://discussions.unity.com/t/coreclr-scripting-and-ecs-st...

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:31:20 +0000

For .NET only the old legacy .NET Framework, SqlClient was moved to a separate package with the rewrite (from System.Data.SqlClient to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient). They realized that it was a rather bad idea to have that baked in to your main runtime, as it complicates your updates.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM"

Deukhoofd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:29:29 +0000

Don't tools like Claude Code sometimes do something like this already? I've seen it start sub-agents for reading files that just return a summarized answer to a question the main agent asked.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:47:44 +0000

That's massively out of scope for a browser, that sounds like something for an extension.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:50:33 +0000

Might want to consider Adyen, which should support IRIS, the Greek instant payment system.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:54:17 +0000

Apps that are focused on human connection sound to me like they're the absolute worst target for going 'AI-first'

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:51:52 +0000

The text rendering is quite impressive, but is it just me or do all these generated 'realistic' images have a distinctly uncanny feel to it. I can't quite put my finger on it what it is, but they just feel off to me.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs"

Deukhoofd — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:42:02 +0000

> may make provision for the provider of a relevant VPN service to apply to any person seeking to access its service in or from the UK age assurance which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that person is a child

"The law we made is like super duper good!!"

> Children may also turn to VPNs, which would then undermine the child safety gains of the Online Safety Act

"The law we made is easily circumvented :("

New comment by Deukhoofd in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

Deukhoofd — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:29:16 +0000

You get too many events, but there aren't actually that many different events written, so you repeat the same ones over and over again. Eventually it just turns into the player clicking on the 'optimal' choice without actually reading the event.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

Deukhoofd — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:36:22 +0000

Crusader Kings is a franchise I really could see LLMs shine. One of the current main criticisms on the game is that there's a lack of events, and that they often don't really feel relevant to your character.

An LLM could potentially make events far more aimed at your character, and could actually respond to things happening in the world far more than what the game currently does. It could really create some cool emerging gameplay.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:05:19 +0000

Personally I just use /resume to switch back to other states when I need to.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The rise of industrial software"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:26:52 +0000

The industrial revolution was constrained by access to the means of production, leaving only those with capital able to actually produce, which lead to new economic situations.

What are the constraints with LLMs? Will an Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc, constrain how much we can consume? What is the value of any piece of software if anyone can produce everything? The same applies to everything we're suddenly able to produce. What is the value of a book if anyone can generate one? What is the value of a piece of art, if it requires zero skill to generate it?

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

Deukhoofd — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:28:39 +0000

I'm fairly certain it was before that, as someone living in The Netherlands we'd always get warned to make sure there was at least 30-60 minute transit time between each stop in Germany when travelling international, as the expectation was that the train would be (extremely) late.

This was already the case around 2015.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]"

Deukhoofd — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:51:14 +0000

The description of the video states it is in fact AI:

> A synthesized text-to-video voiceover was used in the narration for this story.

New comment by Deukhoofd in ".NET 10"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:51:51 +0000

Is it? We've switched over to System.Text.Json entirely.

New comment by Deukhoofd in ".NET 10"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:49:41 +0000

I switched over entirely to Rider as well, in my experience it's far more performant, has a far smoother UX, has a lot more functionality for power users, and includes Resharper by default, giving you access to a bunch more powerful inspections and refactoring.

New comment by Deukhoofd in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:20:55 +0000

In my experience with Tauri, it's pretty good on Windows, but not so much on other platforms, especially Linux. The decision to target different browser engines on each operating system means you still have to deal with a bunch of different OS-specific bugs.

For Windows you're dealing with Edge (so Chromium), on macOS you have Safari, and on Linux you have WebKitGTK. WebKitGTK has honestly abysmal performance, and you're missing a lot of modern standards.

The Tauri devs are looking at bundling a Chromium browser with it to deal with that, but that's still some time off, and leads to the same issue Electron has, where you have large bloated applications.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064