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New comment by TheSamFischer in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

TheSamFischer — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:09:49 +0000

Yay, all software will be open…Except the models.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:40:24 +0000

It’s not the ability to find jobs. It’s the ratio of pay to value delivered.

Nearly every app or website I use today is broken, slow or hostile to the user. Show me the value for the pay.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:37:30 +0000

> whose labor does not produce >= $minimum_wage worth of value

Same thing we’ve been doing for other fields like software engineers - just pay them more.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:53:23 +0000

> just as nobody wants to type opcodes, or write their own http clients

This is how you get faster software. You literally look “into” the code, see why stuff is slow, remove the extra work in the library that you do not need, and now your software has a faster server.

Abstractions make software “easy” to build. We’re not looking for done easily, we’re looking for done well.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:03:13 +0000

If you think software performance is a solved problem today, there is nothing more I have to say.

Consumer software is slower than ever. And only getting worse.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:58:01 +0000

There are plenty of people who understand the stack and ship actually fast software. This might be a skill issue that you’re choosing to frame as a “best practice”, because you do not want to put in the work.

Our end users are who should benefit. You’re the pilot in the seat who doesn’t know what the throttle is and you’re telling the passenger it’s the plane’s fault it’s slow.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:44:54 +0000

Abstractions are convenience. They’re not free, there is a cost to any work you ask the computer to do. Just staying at the surface level and never understanding what’s under the top level is why software is slow and bloated today. You’re supposed to move beyond the abstraction, understand what you need underneath and use what you really want to do the task.

No wonder we boot up entire browser engines to write simple text editors. But hey, we gotta be first to market to get that VC money, right?

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TheSamFischer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:40:02 +0000

No mention for them training on what we create (without our permission), just to sell it back to us?

New comment by TheSamFischer in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:54:59 +0000

Absolutely. tooling is very rest of the owl when it comes to building something rather than just working with debug data.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

TheSamFischer — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:51:20 +0000

I’m certain there’s enough actual game engine code in the datasets that with enough token spend, you could have a platform layer, basic renderer, entities moving around.

There would be absolutely no point in creating one over using one that exists and since there’s no learning that’ll come of it, it’s kinda wasting money.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

TheSamFischer — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:55:02 +0000

Unless you’ve written one before, it’s the natural learning curve.

You can always generate one using LLM if you don’t care about how it actually works.

New comment by TheSamFischer in "Era of Bloated Software Is Over"

TheSamFischer — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:14:32 +0000

> Because these AI companies rent a lot of GPU to render the UI

What AI company is rendering websites for me on their GPUs?

> We’ll start seeing more optimized code.

No. We'll see more AI-generated code. AI-generated code is derived from human generated code. Most human generated code is slow (see: your own title).