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New comment by Lich in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

Lich — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:58:05 +0000

> Because it can also happen that CEO/customer will want shiny thing you will deliver the shiny thing and he will have no clue why did you do that, because he forgot that he wanted that - the task has rot away.

Hate this. My boss: “Hey, why is it doing that. Who did this?” You did, you clueless idiot. You asked for it.

New comment by Lich in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

Lich — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:17:23 +0000

Sometimes I seriously am flabbergasted at how many just take what CEOs say at face value. Like, the thought that CEOs need to hype and sell what they’re selling never enters their minds.

New comment by Lich in "My AI Adoption Journey"

Lich — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:45:47 +0000

Is there any reason to use Claude Code specifically over Codex or Gemini? I’ve found the both Codex and Gemini similar in results, but I never tried Claude because of I keep hearing usage runs out so fast on pro plans and there’s no free trial for the CLI.

New comment by Lich in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

Lich — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:55:15 +0000

Feeling the same. I’m guessing the folks getting good results are literally writing extremely detailed pseudocode by hand?! Like:

Write a class Person who has members (int) age, (string) first name, (string) last name…

But if you can write that detailed…don’t you know the code you want to write and how you should write it? Writing plain pseudo code feels more verbose.

New comment by Lich in "Open Social"

Lich — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:21:23 +0000

What happened to Solid Pod? Tim Berners Lee’s project? I feel like it’s another project of this type, and even predates AT, but ever since its announcement hasn’t made much waves.

New comment by Lich in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

Lich — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:12:37 +0000

> I mean, with GUI frameworks it's pretty obvious MS is placing all their chips on WinUI3, even though they are not deprecating any legacy framework.

WinUI3 is dead, lol. I tried to migrate from UWP to WinUI3, but it is literally dead. There doesn’t seem to be any team at MS actively working on it, the community calls have died, and the last build conf didn’t have any WinUI3 talks, all AI stuff. Yes, you can build apps with WinUI3, but development and support for it has stalled and I couldn’t justify moving the companies product over to WinUI3.

New comment by Lich in "Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists"

Lich — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:07:19 +0000

> I’m a bit of a leftie, but it has been really painful for the last 10 years watching my side be the one that is actively racist and proposing systematic racism & sexism with a bare face.

Examples?

> We should be mindful that inside each of us is a significant amount of value, and under the right circumstances that can be unlocked to be great- despite any political or physiological differences.

Wouldn’t that be wonderful? But in the meantime, while we wait for the racists and sexists to become enlightened, should we not have initiatives, laws, education, to protect those who have historically been underrepresented and/or discriminated against?

New comment by Lich in "Writing a good design document"

Lich — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:31:13 +0000

I don’t blame people for doing so. That’s what they have been told by recruiters to do to increase their chance of their resume not being thrown into the trash or be invisible. If there is someone to blame for this, it’s the recruiting industry.

New comment by Lich in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

Lich — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:05:31 +0000

Yeah I don’t get it. By the time I’m done writing all these prompts to get what I want, refining over and over not to mention the waiting time for the characters to appear on the screen, I could have written what I want myself. I find LLMs more useful as a quick documentation search and for the most basic refactoring and template building.

New comment by Lich in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

Lich — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:59:51 +0000

Really? I just get garbage. Both Claude and CoPilot kept insisting that it was ok to use react hooks outside of function components. There have been many other situations where it gave me some code and even after refining the prompt it just gave me wrong or non working code. I’m not expecting perfection, but at least don’t waste my time with hallucinations or just flat out stuff that doesn’t work.

New comment by Lich in "U.S. soldier charged in AT&T hack searched "can hacking be treason""

Lich — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:16:37 +0000

My understanding is that incognito mode just doesn’t save local browser history. Your ISP and google can still log what you search based on IP or login state.

New comment by Lich in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

Lich — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 01:09:09 +0000

Don’t worry guys AI will solve all the healthcare! /s

https://youtu.be/fkT4bPEQCjc?t=563&feature=shared

New comment by Lich in "Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale"

Lich — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:55:00 +0000

Lord of the Flies?

New comment by Lich in "OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs"

Lich — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:20:49 +0000

“Hi, I’m NG Resonance. What would you like to talk about?”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Fwb8OrvSw&pp=ygUMbmcgcmVzb25...

New comment by Lich in "Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs"

Lich — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:27:49 +0000

> AI doesn't need to be ready tomorrow, but its capabilities are already really good.

A majority don’t deny that it’s good. The problem is that so many think it is actually reasoning, believing the answers can be trusted.

'Delve' or certain words as a sign of ChatGPT?

Lich — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:45:04 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1bzv071/apparently_the_word_delve_is_the_biggest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984052

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Lich in "Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?"

Lich — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:29:46 +0000

Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos.

https://bluelines.app/

New comment by Lich in "Devin: AI Software Engineer"

Lich — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:54:41 +0000

> Instead, workers tend to have higher productivity, which drives higher wages.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

New comment by Lich in "Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours"

Lich — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:53:21 +0000

Was ok until they locked screen share recording behind office 365 settings. Haven’t been able to get it to work despite all the settings being correct.

New comment by Lich in "McDonald's ice cream machine hackers say they found 'smoking gun'"

Lich — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:58:02 +0000

Yeah, not a fan of Harris' videos at all. He defines journalism...differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dum0bqWfiGw