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New comment by TheRoque in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

TheRoque — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:19 +0000

I cringe every time I read this "punch card" narrative. We are not at this stage at all. You are comparing deterministic stuff and LLMs which are not deterministic and may or may not give you what you want. In fact I personally barely use autonomous Agents in my brownfield codebase because they generate so much unmaintainable slop.

New comment by TheRoque in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

TheRoque — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:40:37 +0000

True However a french chess streamer I follow had an interesting take: since Lichess is all free, all the content is computer generated, or low quality. Apparently, some content even was just stolen content from other paid platforms. His take is basically that Chess.com gives out money to many chess actors (teachers, coaches, book writers) while lichess is not helping the whole ecosystem make money. Anyways competition is good.

New comment by TheRoque in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

TheRoque — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:44:01 +0000

Huge respect to Lichess. Open source, no ads, super clean interface and super functional website. Chess.com is a pain to use compared to it.

All their finances are also public: https://lichess.org/costs

New comment by TheRoque in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

TheRoque — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:32:23 +0000

With this I could in theory do all my work from my Android phone.

New comment by TheRoque in "Cursor 3"

TheRoque — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:38:41 +0000

But the endgame is not here and will likely never be, because unlike ASM, LLMs are not deterministic. So what happens when you need to find the bug in the 100,000k LoC you generated in a few weeks that you've never read, and the agent can't help you ? And it happens a lot. I am not doing this myself so I can't comment, but I've heard many vibe coders commenting that a lot of the commits they do is about fixing the slop they outputted a week prior.

Personally, I keep trying OpenCode + Opus 4.6 and I don't find it that good. I mean it does an OK job, but the code is definitely less quality and at the moment I care too much about my codebase to let it grow into slop.

New comment by TheRoque in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

TheRoque — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:07:45 +0000

Youtube is also pretty boring though. I mean, there are ton of interesting content and quality content too, but the stuff that gets recommended, the "hype stuff" is full of false information, clickbait, tweaked reality to conform some narrative...

New comment by TheRoque in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

TheRoque — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:17:09 +0000

Your logic is flawed, comparing them doesn't mean anything about their absolute valuation, they could be both overvalued or both undervalued too

New comment by TheRoque in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

TheRoque — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:04:01 +0000

Sure, but which copilot ? The one in my code editor ? The one in my OS ? The one in my sheets editor ?

New comment by TheRoque in "Neovim 0.12.0"

TheRoque — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:35:38 +0000

How do you achieve this behavior ? Sorry I haven't done researchs on it because so the answer might be super easy, but I'm curious what's your solution

New comment by TheRoque in "Neovim 0.12.0"

TheRoque — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:24:54 +0000

Edit the agents slop

New comment by TheRoque in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

TheRoque — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:04:02 +0000

13 inch screen though.. it's really small

And with 8GB of RAM you are quite limited in the business sector as you say

New comment by TheRoque in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

TheRoque — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:29:17 +0000

The risk of copper shortage is a very well know fact https://press.spglobal.com/2026-01-08-Substantial-Shortfall-... You're into renewables, yet you can't grasp the fact that resources are limited on this planet ? That's peculiar.

And I don't even understand your other points to be honest. What do you mean "consumer vehicles" ? Are you taking about individual's cars ? I'm not taking about that, these don't matter that much. I'm taking about trucks, boats, planes, the stuff actually shipping you your lifestyle.

New comment by TheRoque in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

TheRoque — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:10:56 +0000

So that's what "software engineering" has become nowadays ? Some cargo cult basically. Seriously all of this gives red flag. No statements here are provable. It's just like langhchain that was praised and then everyone realized it's absolute dog water. Just like MCP too. The job in 2026 is really sad.

New comment by TheRoque in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

TheRoque — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:10:25 +0000

Renewables provide electricity only, but planes, boats, trucks, basically all the supply chain, works with oil only for the moment. The ease of use of oil has not been replaced yet. Do you realize how easy it is to handle oil ? You can just put it in a barrel and ship it anywhere in that barrel. No need for wires or complex batteries like for electricity, nor complex pipelines like for gas.

And even if we figured out how to electrify everything (which we didn't as I just said), we would still run into resources shortages for batteries, wires (copper etc.), nuclear fuel (uranium)...

New comment by TheRoque in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

TheRoque — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:54:12 +0000

We are on borrowed time, most of the world is running on oil and this resource is not unlimited at all. A lot of countries have gone past their production peak, meaning it's only downhill from here. Everything is gonna be more costly, more expensive, our lavish "democracies" lifestyles are only possible because we have (had) this amazing freely available resource, but without it it's gonna change. Even at a geopolitical scale you can see this pretty obviously, countries that talked about free market, free exchange are now starting to close the doors and play individually. Anyways, my point is, we are in for decades, if not a century of slow decline.

New comment by TheRoque in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

TheRoque — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:15:14 +0000

Would it be possible that they become less generous with unreal engine and its free tier ? Right now it's 5% beyond 1 million revenue, free before.

New comment by TheRoque in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

TheRoque — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:30:00 +0000

Both links are the same, SWC in this context is probably Speedy Web Compiler. It transpiles really fast but doesn't do any type checks.

New comment by TheRoque in "You are not your job"

TheRoque — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:00:04 +0000

Meh, I feel the opposite. Even though I come from a culture that values separation of work and free time a lot (France), I still feel like it's copium. The fact is, if you spend most of your valuable brain time on a task, your brain starts to get shaped for such task, therefore I don't see why you can't identify yourself as your job. The stuff the author talks about, empathy, ability to joke etc. is also heavily influenced by your day-to-day activity, your job. Heck, there are even some people who claim they became aphantasic and lost all capacity for dreams and creativity after working too much with computers.

Anyways, I get the point of the post, capitalism sucks and makes most of our existence as worth as cattle, that is, if we don't value the stuff outside work.

New comment by TheRoque in "DoorDash Tasks"

TheRoque — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:33:32 +0000

To me it's a typical symptom of a bad economy. If you go to any third world country you'll see such jobs easily. People just gathering scraps to make ends meet because getting money is hard. If it were really "their own terms" they wouldn't do that kind of job at all.

New comment by TheRoque in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

TheRoque — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:38:41 +0000

Exactly, I find that type of article too dismissive. Like, we know we don't have to write the full syntax of a loop when we write the spec "find the object in the list", and we might even not write this spec because that part is obvious to any human (hence to an LLM too)