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The Vibe Tax

allisdust — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:31:02 +0000

Article URL: https://insufferable.dev/posts/vibe-tax/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411199

Points: 164

# Comments: 140

New comment by allisdust in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

allisdust — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:24:37 +0000

LLMs are no more than pen and paper at this point. Especially for those who aren't trying to create slop. We all would want our pens to accurately reflect the strokes (well in this case thoughts) rather than adding tiny watermarks to identify that it is generated by a particular pen or a user.

Watermarking per model is just the start. The method is cheap enough to distinguish individual users.

New comment by allisdust in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

allisdust — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:12:48 +0000

I would call this a slide show not powerpoint mostly because making it work with the satanic office formats is a path to hell.

Hopefully simpler formats like this will become the norm and the old ones can die.

New comment by allisdust in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

allisdust — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:48:40 +0000

This super interesting link showing things that were impossible even a couple of years back, sitting below the day old news about Kagi's me too browser tells everything about HN audiences. West will fall behind in robotics and mostly because of the wrong priorities of its VCs and developers.

New comment by allisdust in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

allisdust — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:35:30 +0000

I cannot provide the session ids but I have tried the above flag and can confirm this makes a huge amount of difference. You should treat this as bug and make this as the default behavior. Clearly the adaptive thinking is making the model plain stupid and useless. It is time you guys take this seriously and stop messing with the performance with every damn release.

New comment by allisdust in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

allisdust — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:25:33 +0000

Normal codex it self is sub par compared to opus. This might be even worse

New comment by allisdust in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

allisdust — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:58:23 +0000

In case its not clear, the vehicle might be the agent/bot but the whole thing is heavily drafted by its owner.

This is a well known behavior by OpenClown's owners where they project themselves through their agents and hide behind their masks.

More than half the posts on moltbook are just their owners ghost writing for their agents.

This is the new cult of owners hurting real humans hiding behind their agentic masks. The account behind this bot should be blocked across github.

New comment by allisdust in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

allisdust — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:42:55 +0000

Laugh all you want but this is the future

I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

New comment by allisdust in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

allisdust — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:43:26 +0000

You need to perturb the token distribution by overlaying multiple passes. Any strategy that does this would work.

New comment by allisdust in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

allisdust — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:56:45 +0000

Another anecdote/datapoint. Same experience. It seem to mask a lot of bad model issues by not talking much and overthinking stuff. The experience turns sour the more one works with it.

And yes +1 for opus. Anthropic delivered a winner after fucking up the previous opus 4.1 release.

New comment by allisdust in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

allisdust — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:21:20 +0000

Please consider donating this to the Linux Foundation so they can drive this inspiring innovation forward.

New comment by allisdust in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

allisdust — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:03:37 +0000

This seem to woosh right over everyone's heads :)

New comment by allisdust in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

allisdust — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:01:32 +0000

I guess most of the articles it generated are snarky first and prediction next. Like google cancelling gemini cloud, Tailscale for space, Nia W36 being very similar to recent launch etc.

New comment by allisdust in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

allisdust — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:28:56 +0000

For every negative comment, there are 100s of positive comments that never get made.

I have spent close to 2 hours on your extremely info dense article and loved every bit of it.

Looking forward for the next one.

New comment by allisdust in "Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets"

allisdust — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:12:00 +0000

You mean Vista. Windows 7 was perfect. Till it was ruined by what shall not be named.

New comment by allisdust in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

allisdust — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:55:08 +0000

Casually throw 1.5 billion Indians under the bus. Along with antisemitism and conspiracies

HN does need a flag comment button

New comment by allisdust in "Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React"

allisdust — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:46:15 +0000

There was barely any hostility and all the comments even remotely critical are downvoted to oblivion

What is the point of posting here if anything critical is just a downvoted down

I thought these posts are for feedback

New comment by allisdust in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

allisdust — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:31:46 +0000

Sadly most people don't agree with this

I have been seeing hatred on this forum towards Rust since long time. Initially it didn't make any kind of sense. Only after actually trying to learn it did I understand the backlash.

It actually is so difficult, that most people might never be able to be proficient in it. Even if they tried. Especially coming from the world of memory managed languages. This creates push back against any and every use, promotion of Rust. The unknown fear seem to be that they will be left behind if it takes off.

I completed my battles with Rust. I don't even use it anymore (because of lack of opportunities). But I love Rust. It is here to stay and expand. Thanks to the LLMs and the demand for verifiability.

New comment by allisdust in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

allisdust — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:11:06 +0000

It is a double blind study. what else do you want for confirmation ?

New comment by allisdust in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

allisdust — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:26:06 +0000

This sounds very interesting and fair. How does it address the needs of the people who create value. For example some one who might invent a transistor equivalent ? or even someone who wants to work on something that might eventually produce a social good like a new antibiotic. And how do we evaluate the resources going into that vs lets say build a Eiffel tower