Hacker News: Madmallard

New comment by Madmallard in "Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent"

Madmallard — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:30:35 +0000

when society gets too big, sociopathy and opportunism win out

New comment by Madmallard in "Programming Still Sucks"

Madmallard — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:42:54 +0000

"Juniors are still hired in the 100's thousands every year."

CITATION NEEDED

From my perspective it seems like they're just not hired basically at all anymore

New comment by Madmallard in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

Madmallard — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:24:11 +0000

no programming it's still just tool use for CRUD applications with react and tailwind

complex systems programming is just so unreliable and foolish to use LLMs to do anything important

companies adopting it for more safety critical systems are just already seeing the problems pile on and we're seeing news about it almost every day on Hacker News

If the tool can make something look smart but isn't necessarily correct, lazy employed humans will just defer to it, especially when their lazy greedy bosses tell them to, and everybody loses over time (except the stakeholders that just jump companies anyway after they made their money)

It's just sad to see these really unwise and inexperienced sentiments repeated ad nauseam

New comment by Madmallard in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

Madmallard — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:47:24 +0000

I mean we just need technological advancements so we can get this hosted locally for people

New comment by Madmallard in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

Madmallard — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:23:35 +0000

Yeah that's true.

I think it's all bad and counter-productive toward a stable society though. I think economic sacrifices likely have to be made to ensure long-term viability. What we're doing now is accelerating the demise of everything. The entire planet even.

New comment by Madmallard in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

Madmallard — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:21:25 +0000

What's your evidence that they could do that?

New comment by Madmallard in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

Madmallard — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:04:37 +0000

Pretty sure cheap foreign labor is more prevalent now than ever at every major tech company.

They really, really do not want to spend money. Especially not on Americans and their health insurance.

It's really strange how we're just letting them get away with this. They're on a fast trajectory toward putting Americans completely out of work and without aid, even though they're American companies first and foremost.

New comment by Madmallard in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

Madmallard — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:42:49 +0000

Let's not ignore the entirety of reality and what has been going on for the last few years to defend a pestilence on mankind you probably have stock invested in. I'm not going to acknowledge how insane of an argument that is you're making. It's like you heard of zero leaks, zero law suits, zero open source complaints. Zero anything. Just either intentionally or unintentionally astroturfing.

Thanks.

New comment by Madmallard in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

Madmallard — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:28:40 +0000

What in the mental gymnastics?

They just stole everyone's hard work over decades to make this or it wouldn't have been useful at all.

New comment by Madmallard in "Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you"

Madmallard — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:53:57 +0000

People need to be outside in the middle of the day and moving. That's what's natural.

New comment by Madmallard in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

Madmallard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:57:04 +0000

Sounds like a fast track to sinking their company into the ground

New comment by Madmallard in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

Madmallard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:56:42 +0000

I mean speak up to management in a way where they know it's stupid and they're stupid for pushing it

New comment by Madmallard in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

Madmallard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:58:26 +0000

Sounds like people need to speak up to management

New comment by Madmallard in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

Madmallard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:46:09 +0000

Doesn't sound accurate. Please list some sources here that are credible that explain your point. Just sounds like dismissive bias.

New comment by Madmallard in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

Madmallard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:07:25 +0000

Why are we letting tech companies in the USA do this?

New comment by Madmallard in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

Madmallard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:06:45 +0000

Money money money money

New comment by Madmallard in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

Madmallard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:32:21 +0000

So is the slopaclypse gonna destroy HN too? 2nd from the top AI written non-proofread article

New comment by Madmallard in "Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything"

Madmallard — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:12:07 +0000

This isn't really a thing. You can't create an accurate 4K image from a low res JPG. Owners and managers who don't touch code don't know shit and have to go to the developers to learn about important decisions made in the application and how they work in detail.

New comment by Madmallard in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

Madmallard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:55:42 +0000

The difference people are neglecting to point out is the experiences we have versus the experiences the AI has.

We have at least 5 senses, our thoughts, feelings, hormonal fluctuations, sleep and continuous analog exposure to all of these things 24/7. It's vastly different from how inputs are fed into an LLM.

On top of that we have millions of years of evolution toward processing this vast array of analog inputs.

New comment by Madmallard in "White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit"

Madmallard — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:22:32 +0000

They won't ever give agents the ability to actually do things for customers that can impact the company in some kind of negative fashion. At least not willingly.

That's sort of the whole point of talking to customer service though. Getting something done that you want that involves them having to do work for you. AKA you taking value from the company.

So yeah they're basically always going to be useless garbage if put together according to business requirements.

Other services should just be automated already.