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New comment by Sammi in "Grok Bot"

Sammi — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:35:03 +0000

Yeah I disallow git write in my agents.md for exactly this reason. Agents have fucked up the working tree and lost code too many times for me.

I have this in agents.md now:

  # Git operations policy

  Git is read-only for coding agents unless running in a cloud environment where git writes are explicitly allowed.

  - Never run git commands that write state, change history, change the index/staging area, change branches, or modify working tree files.
  - Never run destructive git commands.
  - The human user owns git write operations.

  Allowed read-only examples: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log`, `git show`, `git branch --show-current`, `git rev-parse`, `git blame`.

  Disallowed examples: `git add`, `git rm`, `git mv`, `git restore`, `git checkout`, `git switch`, `git commit`, `git merge`, `git rebase`, `git cherry-pick`, `git revert`, `git reset`, `git stash`, `git clean`, `git fetch`, `git pull`, `git push`, `git tag`, and `git worktree`.

New comment by Sammi in "My server is a phone now"

Sammi — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:24:31 +0000

At that point why not just one one of those android tv boxes that are basically android phones without the battery and screen?

New comment by Sammi in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

Sammi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:36:34 +0000

So Luna is more awful but it's OK because it's cheaper?

New comment by Sammi in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

Sammi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:35:21 +0000

That's what the reasoning slider is for!

New comment by Sammi in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

Sammi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:30:54 +0000

The software is not the product.

You can't get a software person to understand this unless they learn the domain they are working in properly.

New comment by Sammi in "Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America"

Sammi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:08:16 +0000

Better quality data comes from Steam with the qualifier that it only applies to Steam users.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

It's also showing Linux usage exploding in English speaking regions.

New comment by Sammi in "The End of an Era"

Sammi — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:50:47 +0000

I hate being a counterpoint poster on hn but here goes: derivative country and other boring music was already always popular before generative ai. The broad population listens to boring derivative music and don't give a shit. Never have, never will. It's the same with all art.

EDIT: before someone interjects saying "not all country is bad" I ask you to please notice that I did not imply that. Only the bad country music is bad mmkay.

New comment by Sammi in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

Sammi — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:33:43 +0000

Or that just selectively wipes only stuff you have marked for deletion. That way the profile stays up to date and believable.

New comment by Sammi in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

Sammi — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:09:05 +0000

Kubernetes is a system/infrastructure orchestration tool. I completely fail to see how it is comparable to open weight neural nets. In either application or function.

I'm sorry to do that hn comment thing where we all just race to contradict or talk in opposition of whatever was said before. I'm aware. But really guys, was this article really not just a miss?

New comment by Sammi in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

Sammi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:02:51 +0000

It's a large plot point in one of the Bobiverse books.

New comment by Sammi in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

Sammi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:58:34 +0000

I was missing both the effects for the sleep deprived and the elderly in the article. Particularly those with dementia.

New comment by Sammi in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

Sammi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:56:19 +0000

It clears my brainfog. But I'm burned out because of 3 years in crunch mode doing a one man startup and chronically sleep deprived because of small children. So I'm definitely in the stressed category.

New comment by Sammi in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

Sammi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:52:46 +0000

You would have to start and stop several times before you could even start making anything out of that. Any one time correlation can very well just be chance.

New comment by Sammi in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

Sammi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:46:40 +0000

Feeling like you can confidently take one more rep does feel like being stronger. Sure you're not stronger in the sense that you can lift more weight per rep, but being able to do more heavy reps is also a valid way to define feeling stronger.

New comment by Sammi in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Sammi — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:13:16 +0000

LLMs as tech support is truly the singular new reason causing Linux usage to jump atm. All the other reasons are just slowly accumulative.

LLMs as tech support is the feather breaking the back of the Windows stranglehold.

New comment by Sammi in "Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding"

Sammi — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:32:34 +0000

You need to listen to what Bryan Cantrill said about his experience at Oracle, before you go there.

> What you think of Oracle is even truer than what you think it is: "Shit mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s

> You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

New comment by Sammi in "The lost joy of music piracy"

Sammi — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:12:32 +0000

I got access to the original closed demonoid and I could find anything I was looking for there. But I was never able to download anything as they required you to upload before you could download. I had nothing of value to share, so I was just stuck. How did people solve this?

New comment by Sammi in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

Sammi — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:47:12 +0000

I've seen that, but that's clearly a skewed dataset, right? People using openrouter will be those seeking other models. They are not the same kind of people who mostly just use gpt or claude.

New comment by Sammi in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

Sammi — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:39:14 +0000

"Normal users" haven't even heard of Bun and are still on Node.

New comment by Sammi in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

Sammi — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:38:05 +0000

Just use md files for working memory. No need for large context. LLMs get dumber as you put more in context, as it stretches their attention. Keeping context small is better for quality.