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New comment by Krssst in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

Krssst — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:10:42 +0000

There will still be jobs. Manual jobs, the kind that break our backs and have us breath various stuff we shouldn't (dust, fumes). Robots are difficult and maybe not so economically viable when everyone is desperate for any job at any cost.

New comment by Krssst in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

Krssst — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:24:30 +0000

You don't choose to use Windows. You have to. Because it's the only OS that supports whatever tool you need for your work. Windows is mandatory in many situations, which is why it can afford being obnoxious.

New comment by Krssst in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

Krssst — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:01:37 +0000

This was probably a joke about a lot of developers delegating coding to LLMs which are usually non-deterministic (which I personally think is less of an issue than LLMs not having specified behavior like programming languages do).

New comment by Krssst in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

Krssst — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:15:26 +0000

Non-determinism is not as much of a problem as the lack of spec. C++ has the C++ norm, Python has its manual. One can refer to it to predict reliably how the program will behave without thinking of the generated assembly. LLMs have no spec.

New comment by Krssst in "GPT-5.5"

Krssst — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:47:15 +0000

Determinism is a smaller point than existence of a spec IMHO. A library has a specification one can rely on to understand what it does and how it will behave.

An LLM does not.

New comment by Krssst in "Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?"

Krssst — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:20:42 +0000

Robots require material resources and are quite difficult to produce. I wouldn't be surprised if we go through a period of time were intellectual work is outdated and most people are back to exhausting manual work. Basically, no middle class anymore, just some elites and many manual workers doing what the AI asks. I guess, to those future elites, humans would just be self-reproducing robots. (well robots like those we have now would definitely see use, but I am not sure about the timeline for general-purpose robots that can do many things including assemble themselves).

I don't have a strong belief this will happen however, and I hope it does not.

New comment by Krssst in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Krssst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:05:20 +0000

That's absolutely not my idea of good governance, playing with oil prices is extremely dangerous considering that economy is strongly tied to them. Starting a useless war is crazy in the first place.

But it is more money in America (for the government / oil producers to misuse) which is a benefit from the standpoint of the government. Not sure it exceeds the losses though.

New comment by Krssst in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Krssst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:50:03 +0000

We should be glad he did.

New comment by Krssst in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Krssst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:42:23 +0000

Less oil on the market meaning higher fuel prices with the US being a net exporter.

Not sure that was the plan but it looks like a benefit.

New comment by Krssst in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Krssst — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:02:25 +0000

The French are on their way to put a far-right government in power next year, don't count on them.

New comment by Krssst in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Krssst — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:28:44 +0000

The end state of genAI could as well be a few billionaires being their enterprise and everybody else being unemployed or working at the factory. Robots are not there yet (far from it) and someone needs to build and maintain the thing as well as food for everyone. High unemployment could drive salaries down and make lots of thing unavailable to the common people while making humans cheaper than automation for boring manual work.

That's an extreme scenario but today's politicians are not very keen into redistribution of wealth or prevention of excessive accumulation of economic power leading to exceeding the power of the state itself. I see nothing preventing that scenario from happening.

New comment by Krssst in "German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months"

Krssst — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:35:09 +0000

Yes you are: the article says that the permission must be granted in general by authorities (I guess no war and not active military) and no penalties for breaching it.

New comment by Krssst in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

Krssst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:08:36 +0000

As someone mostly outside of the vibe coding stuff, I can see the benefit in having both the model and the author information.

Model information for traceability and possibly future analysis/statistics, and author to know who is taking responsibility for the changes (and, thus, has deeply reviewed and understood them).

As long as those two information are present in the commit, I guess which commit field should hold which information is for the project to standardise. (but it should be normalised within a project, otherwise the "traceability/statistics" part cannot be applied reliably).

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

Krssst — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:52:06 +0000

People that don't want to use Apple products are not forced to do so. They can use Android (which has alternative stores, at least for the time being). Though I guess almost everyone logs in anyaway. Generally both major OS have good support from application developers, while on PC almost every one ends up being forced to use Windows at some point (to use Office, to play games).

And phones have been little spying machines from the start, people are more used to their phone spying on them than to their PC doing the same. I don't think macbooks require an Apple account for example.

New comment by Krssst in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

Krssst — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:39:13 +0000

Once you get NREs set up you don't need a constant uninterrupted supply of replacements as fossil fuels do (we burn them after all).

We'd need replacements as old infrastructure ages out but it seems much easier to wait out a supply disruption compared to oil since this just means using old equipment while the supply is cut; sure some might break after a while but electricity production wouldn't fall immediately.

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

Krssst — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:03:38 +0000

As far as I remember it was working well in 7 and 8 (deterministic and shows programs that you expect it to show). From 10 it started behaving erratically (same time it got binged but maybe unrelated).

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

Krssst — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:01:02 +0000

LTSC cannot be bought as a regular customer unfortunately. Legally, regular customers are only allowed to use the enshittified version.

New comment by Krssst in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

Krssst — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:00:10 +0000

French person here: there absolutely is a difference, at least in the "heard on TV" accent.

Could you be talking about the southern accent where maybe those sound similar?

A pet theory of mine is that people confusing "est" (sounds like "è", means "[he/she/it] is") and "et" (sounds like "é", means "and") while writing grew up with an accent that does not make the distinction between those sounds. (I don't criticize the mistake or the accent but have always been curious about this precise kind of writing mistake because those two words sound so different to me)

New comment by Krssst in "How to attract AI bots to your open source project"

Krssst — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:29:38 +0000

I dream of having a Firefox extension / feature that can check locally for LLM-generated text and highlight it automatically. Would likely have an immense resource usage, but worth it.

New comment by Krssst in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

Krssst — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:23:09 +0000

> Refreshing to read something that doesn't seem written by AI too (would be ironic given the contents).

As much as I dislike the idea of not writing/checking code I am responsible for, it was a surprise to me seeing a few "anti/limited AI in coding" articles that don't pass an LLM detector. (I know those are not perfect but not much else one can do).