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New comment by acedTrex in "Someone behind the software"

acedTrex — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:30:48 +0000

The value of something is in what it doesnt do, not what it does do

New comment by acedTrex in "Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses"

acedTrex — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:06:36 +0000

I thought the "automated" part was a clear implication of the statement personally.

New comment by acedTrex in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

acedTrex — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:11:39 +0000

For real, my eyes completely glaze over, there is nothing interesting in it.

New comment by acedTrex in "Recreational Programming"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:19:07 +0000

It can't do the job properly by ANY imagination, but it can pretend to well enough in a lot of cases :(

New comment by acedTrex in "Has AI tells"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:18:24 +0000

Because I am on the internet to talk to other humans because that is what I enjoy. I am not here to interact with a non human entity.

New comment by acedTrex in "OpenCode 2.0"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:46:53 +0000

chuckling

New comment by acedTrex in "Has AI tells"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:12:53 +0000

> Do you value their output because they are human

Their output does have intrinsic value yes...

New comment by acedTrex in "Has AI tells"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:33:41 +0000

No, absolutely not. We will continue to value output that purely shows human thinking and effort.

New comment by acedTrex in "Recreational Programming"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:35:55 +0000

> and the value it attached to an activity even when I choose not to use the tool.

My exact feelings, its so unpleasant

New comment by acedTrex in "Recreational Programming"

acedTrex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:35:26 +0000

Im very depressed over all this, to me it feels like all the beauty of the world has been sucked out, or at the very least blanketed in so much noise its impossible to discern.

New comment by acedTrex in "Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues"

acedTrex — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:33:47 +0000

Thankfully programming is solved so these are non issues.

New comment by acedTrex in "Grieving the loss of details"

acedTrex — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:20:26 +0000

your message was "Good thing that programming with LLMs takes time, effort an dedication then!"

In answer to that message: taking bad pictures on an iphone is not something celebrate or recognize no.

New comment by acedTrex in "Grieving the loss of details"

acedTrex — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:05:53 +0000

not really? you have people doing it with their voice while driving..

New comment by acedTrex in "Grieving the loss of details"

acedTrex — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:01:42 +0000

> Now I'm a meat bag pressing enter on a "recommended" option Claude already figured out was the best approach.

If you are constantly thinking claudes approach is the best then perhaps you were not that good of an engineer to start with.

New comment by acedTrex in "Grieving the loss of details"

acedTrex — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:56:50 +0000

How did this come around? the young developer was just faster overall? or were they cheaper?

New comment by acedTrex in "Grieving the loss of details"

acedTrex — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:32:04 +0000

Yep, its incredibly painful. The entire world has lost its mind

New comment by acedTrex in "Programming Isn't Special"

acedTrex — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:47:45 +0000

People in this thread not reading the article and expressing their point of "the 10th api you've written for a business is not art" as if the points of mundanity are not addressed in the article is infuriating.

New comment by acedTrex in "Programming Isn't Special"

acedTrex — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:46:20 +0000

Everyone in the comments snitching on themselves for not reading.

New comment by acedTrex in "Programming Isn't Special"

acedTrex — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:45:25 +0000

There can be beauty in even the smallest of things. You can tell alot about a person by how they choose to structure even down to the loops and methods.

New comment by acedTrex in "Programming Isn't Special"

acedTrex — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:44:18 +0000

> So my question for folks who do consider programming art -- do you "read" other people's code like this? Do you exchange ideas through code? Have you ever trolled great coders of the past through your code or tried to prove them wrong?

Yes, 100% yes. I have always said that I reading someones code to me is akin to reading a personal diary or memoir. It exposes so many thing about their frame of mind and world view. I consider it beautiful and the advent of LLMs greatly muddying this signal (it has absolutely not REMOVED IT) has been incredible painful.