Hacker News: SrslyJosh

New comment by SrslyJosh in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

SrslyJosh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:00:20 +0000

So, using artificial intelligence requires more expertise than not using it?

New comment by SrslyJosh in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

SrslyJosh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:59:02 +0000

> The writing was fine, and each individual paragraph was fine, but the whole thing together was meandering and dare I say pointless. It was so many words and yet so little seems to have been said.

I bet that I know why!

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

SrslyJosh — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:58:07 +0000

> "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

Can't wait for ya'll to come full circle and invent programming from first principles.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

SrslyJosh — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:56:40 +0000

I can't tell if this is satire or not. Well done!

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

SrslyJosh — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:09:15 +0000

Rules for thee but not for me.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

SrslyJosh — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:30:34 +0000

Yes, no credit if I have to ask someone to turn it off for me. It could obviously be a toggle here in the US.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

SrslyJosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:52:56 +0000

> "coding the old way"

You mean the way that the majority of code is still written by professionals?

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store"

SrslyJosh — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:47:57 +0000

> A lot of people got into crypto because they want to manage their own money

uncontrollable laughter

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store"

SrslyJosh — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:47:14 +0000

Not "investing" in cryptocurrency would be a good start. =)

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Robots eat cars"

SrslyJosh — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:27:00 +0000

> The Fremont factory lines that built those cars are converting to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots: one million units per year at $20,000 each, with public sales beginning in 2027.

Sure, why not? Seems just as likely as Tesla having 1 million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2026. =)

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner"

SrslyJosh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:14:04 +0000

This is where I stopped reading:

> Scotty was built with the help of AI

So it sounds like my heuristic worked. =)

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]"

SrslyJosh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:12:30 +0000

I can't think of a less useful avenue of research in cryptography right now.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

SrslyJosh — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:07:16 +0000

I think that the ideas of AI boosters and other tech maximalists will pretty much always "struggle to land" with normal people. (See also: the ring ad.)

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

SrslyJosh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:32:53 +0000

That's not a search box.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

SrslyJosh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:24:07 +0000

> the AI did respond graciously and appears to have learned from it

I have a bridge for sale, if you're interested.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Microservices should form a polytree"

SrslyJosh — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:26:54 +0000

Because it's simpler, duh.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

SrslyJosh — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:55:03 +0000

> The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains.

More like the last 50 years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...

"For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades"

The TL;DR is that in 1964 the average hourly wage was $20.27. As of 2018, average hourly wage was $22.65.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "LLM Output Drift in Financial Workflows: Validation and Mitigation (arXiv)"

SrslyJosh — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:25:47 +0000

Using an LLM for a "financial workflow" makes as much sense as integrating one with Excel. But who needs correct results when you're just working with money, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Show HN: VoxConvo – "X but it's only voice messages""

SrslyJosh — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:59:04 +0000

Detecting "human speech" means shutting out people who cannot speak and rely on TTS for verbal communication.

New comment by SrslyJosh in "Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres"

SrslyJosh — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:22:11 +0000

Durable execution paired with an unpredictable text generator? Sign me up! /s