Hacker News: SimonLarsen

New comment by SimonLarsen in "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models"

SimonLarsen — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:31:16 +0000

Do you also treat your microwave as a person? Otherwise you could risk treating other people as a microwave some day.

New comment by SimonLarsen in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

SimonLarsen — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:10:11 +0000

> To me, it just shift ups the level of understanding rather than replaces it.

This just sounds like convoluted way of saying you understanding much less than you would otherwise.

New comment by SimonLarsen in "Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework"

SimonLarsen — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:29:24 +0000

Two answers I can think of:

1. Believe it or not: some people are still not using AI.

2. AI generated websites tend to look very similar. Having a clean starting point and then tweaking the style to your liking avoids the obvious AI-stink.

New comment by SimonLarsen in "RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine"

SimonLarsen — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:12:21 +0000

80 % of the people on this site have been so permanently ruined by LLM usage, that they can't even imagine how other people might be able to do impressive things just simply by being good at their craft.

New comment by SimonLarsen in "Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam"

SimonLarsen — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:32:56 +0000

Minecraft doesn't need money to be finished, it needs time. Hiring completely different developers to work on a different game will not affect the development time of Minecraft so I don't see how that is unethical.

The security holes is definitely an issue but that doesn't make Notch's criticism any less valid.