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New comment by JTbane in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

JTbane — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:08:21 +0000

No AI company is addressing the elephant in the room that you need someone experienced constantly monitoring any agentic workflows. This means that the cost savings of agents are a myth.

My company actually did an internal study of agent usage for coding and found it only improved productivity by 10-20%, basically on the same level as good code templates or an autocomplete.

New comment by JTbane in "PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs"

JTbane — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:34:20 +0000

There is nothing wrong with forking, and one man's "better" version is another's bloat. Also, making a fork rather than a PR avoids burdening maintainers.

New comment by JTbane in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

JTbane — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:53:22 +0000

Honestly the de facto standard is to blame: at my dev job, we vacuum up all the packages we need and get the software deployed to production ASAP, then later go over the SBOM and make sure nothing looks sketchy. I'd imagine this is the default most places; an intensive approval process would slow down CI/CD too much.

New comment by JTbane in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

JTbane — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:11:24 +0000

In, fire 30% of the workforce, new logo, out.

You are now a fully trained management consultant. (Alan Johnson, Peep Show)

New comment by JTbane in "AI slop is killing online communities"

JTbane — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:54:38 +0000

Reddit is more or less dead to me, as the popular subs are botfests and the niche subs are empty. I'm lucky to get a single reply on gaming subs.

New comment by JTbane in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

JTbane — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:39 +0000

This makes me paranoid to buy a new car at this point. I would have to keep every single oil filter receipt and take a video of the DIY oil change.

New comment by JTbane in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

JTbane — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:39:35 +0000

I'm starting to realize that fixed-price agent subscriptions follow the same profit model as gym memberships.

New comment by JTbane in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

JTbane — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:48:07 +0000

Well, yeah, but they do help. I had a bad case of bronchitis recently and the only way I was able to get to sleep was taking OTC ibuprofen.

New comment by JTbane in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

JTbane — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:55:58 +0000

Eh, I kind of disagree. Contributing until you hit the maximum employer match makes the most sense for quality of life.

New comment by JTbane in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

JTbane — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:28:07 +0000

>he passed it through AI before handing it over to the other department

I think you should throw him under the bus for that.

New comment by JTbane in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

JTbane — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:25:12 +0000

It seems the biggest hurdle to IPv6 adoption is legacy software and hardware. Anything new that gets built can easily be v6 only.

New comment by JTbane in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

JTbane — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:49:09 +0000

Agreed, and something will go wrong (as every junior has experienced). You cannot lay blame on the AI when git blame shows your name.

New comment by JTbane in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

JTbane — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:32:00 +0000

Why not just use the GPL? It basically covers the same stuff Creative Commons Share-alike does.

New comment by JTbane in "Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick"

JTbane — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:56:05 +0000

I mean, this is just a one-time pad and I'm sure a court could compel your friend to give up the data.

New comment by JTbane in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

JTbane — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:20:13 +0000

If a state environmental agency asks you for your location on photos that you volunteered to upload and you freak out, you might be mentally ill.

New comment by JTbane in "France pulls last gold held in US"

JTbane — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:01:38 +0000

Yeah I don't get why people don't understand this- there is not enough gold to base the entire global economy on it.

New comment by JTbane in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

JTbane — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:32:16 +0000

Agreed, pensions are obviously better but the private sector collectively decided not to have them much anymore.

New comment by JTbane in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

JTbane — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:20:28 +0000

There is a definite disconnect, I cannot think of ANY scenario in which I (as a developer and power user) would want the Start menu to search the internet.

New comment by JTbane in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

JTbane — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:12:11 +0000

Anyone else feel like bloat is usually not an algorithmic problem, but rather a library or environment issue most of the time?

New comment by JTbane in "What AI coding costs you"

JTbane — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:17:06 +0000

Wanted to chime in that, at my job, hand-writing code has been massively helpful when debugging it. My mental model of what can go wrong is much easier to form if I wrote the code. A LLM will not always be able to solve these incidents, no matter how many logs you throw at it.