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New comment by acuteaura in "Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again"

acuteaura — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:04:21 +0000

revolutionary. you can do this with 2 lines of shell code.

i do this: https://github.com/acuteaura/universe/blob/main/overlays/cla...

New comment by acuteaura in "The OpenAI Bubble"

acuteaura — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:50:47 +0000

This is like blaming nicotine addiction on the user and not the nicotine for the purpose of defending nicotine use.

How people use AI is a structural problem. Just because you have an easy time using it to learn (good for you, genuinely) doesn't mean that such a product existing in a free market capitalist society isn't going to end in disaster where people will at best fall victim to the dunning-kruger effect constantly and stop valuing their peers' time and at worst roast their brains by unlearning how to acquire actual skills.

And it's not like the AI labs don't know this is happening. Their research arms regularly publish papers confirming dependence and deskilling are not uncommon in very carefully worded language. And still Anthropic is happily extending your Fable trial!

Yes sure, my coworkers are the tip of the iceberg here, but that doesn't mean AI is value-neutral. And we're not even discussing the ethics axis (because honestly, tiring; capitalism doesn't value ecology or any ethics when inconvenient and AI isn't special there)

New comment by acuteaura in "The OpenAI Bubble"

acuteaura — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:46:45 +0000

I'm not convinced the result will not be "good enough". It looks like one might get away with shipping half-baked shit, just like before, but the speed difference incentivizes it a lot more now. Output quality is not really the issue I'm looking at. More what this has done to my own an my coworkers capability to care and mental health.

New comment by acuteaura in "The OpenAI Bubble"

acuteaura — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:44:30 +0000

i consider it intrinsic to the technology. i don't think most people can resist the temptation of feeling a lot more productive than they reasonably can be at the cost of understanding what they're doing (and the fundamental skill of caring about their own work; turbo alienation).

and those that don't fall into this trap will be dragged in sooner or later by peer pressure and bullshit KPIs.

New comment by acuteaura in "The OpenAI Bubble"

acuteaura — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:41:53 +0000

access to knowledge isn't the problem. if you use models to learn, good for you.

people around me use models to replace their critical thinking though, and i consider this a structural issue - with how incentives are laid out at my workplace but also as a cognitive trap where you think you get more done, but you're actually unlearning fundamental skills instead of supplementing your existing ones.

this is a good summary: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02686-z

New comment by acuteaura in "The OpenAI Bubble"

acuteaura — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:34:11 +0000

AI has a corrosive effect on everything it touches. I go to work and notice that everyone else is on a path to mentally checking out. Nobody values anyone's time anymore, nobody seems to weigh the cost of maintenance or conceptual work given creation is seemingly free. People get used to taking shortcuts, both for their work and also in their thinking.

I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone else has stopped giving a shit, pretending to get work done at insane velocity on borrowed time.

It's no longer "can AI be useful" to me, it's "how do we avoid people frying their fucking brains".

New comment by acuteaura in "CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows"

acuteaura — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:25:03 +0000

As the reporting party of the much less severe (and much less interesting) TS-2022-003[1] I can confirm that vendor interaction is also swift when not responding would not light the company on fire. In fact there were several other vendors that were affected that have yet to mitigate it.

[1]: https://notes.acuteaura.net/posts/github-enterprise-security...