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New comment by allknowingfrog in "Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:01:04 +0000

I really appreciate the "it's okay to be weird" sentiment. It has never been easier to try out a crazy idea. We may as well embrace it and try to learn something.

New comment by allknowingfrog in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

allknowingfrog — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:43:40 +0000

Sure, just like AI enthusiasts seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of local maxima...

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Travel locally, where you are"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:05:39 +0000

I've hiked in the mountains and I've swam in the ocean, and I'm perfectly content to live amongst the hills and streams of the Midwest. I suppose it's relative. I live on the east end of the state, and I find the west end pretty flat and boring. :)

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:56:39 +0000

If you're reviewing the code yourself, then I don't think this article is about you.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "The Permanent Upper Crow"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:27:20 +0000

I feel like I'm missing something here. Was this supposed to be a game? I just kept clicking and reading and clicking and reading. I finally gave up. If the goal is to tell a non-interactive story, I'd rather just scroll...

New comment by allknowingfrog in "The Ask"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:11:07 +0000

It's awfully literary. It reads like James Joyce attempting to convey advice about effective leadership for technical teams. In my opinion, it's an obnoxious, pretentious approach to writing about practical subjects, but I may be in the minority.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "The Ask"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:59:27 +0000

I think "because they are helpful" is OP's point of contention. Tobacco isn't helpful, but it's a product that people spend money on.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:09:57 +0000

SO has always had a pretty strong stance against opinion-based questions, but this is maybe the niche they should be exploring now. Humans still have a lot to say about the "best" solution to a given problem. The whole idea of an "accepted" answer could be removed, for example, since that's what AI will already generate.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:08:29 +0000

Claude is just a tool. My team members are each free to choose the text editor or IDE that they are happiest with. In the near future, I hope to be able to say the same for coding agents. I really like Claude, but I don't track Claude resources in our repos. If something better comes along, I'm betting it will be perfectly happy to parse the markdown of my existing memory files, and nothing in the repo itself will force anyone else to know that I switched.

It kind of blows my mind that the majority of Claude users have just accepted that CLAUDE.md is a tracked file that the whole team has to standardize on and share. Coding agents are the ultimate API. They conform to however you prefer to interact. Is anyone really expecting to enforce standard operating procedures with this non-deterministic black box of magic?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:26:36 +0000

Yeah, this was yesterday in the web version. I only did the one run, and only for a couple of levels, so I don't think I can give you any help reproducing it.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:10:13 +0000

I did a quick run on the web version. I was able to sneak attack everything on the first two levels, which felt like a bug, but I'm honestly not sure.

When I found a spear, I kind of expected to be able to throw it, but I didn't find a throw option anywhere. I think that makes the short sword better in every case, but maybe I missed something.

Overall, I love the execution. Quality retro fun with a really nice interface.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:58:49 +0000

Because the goal isn't "keep this exact version of the app alive and running". The prototype is never the whole application. If your only metric is incidents, then yeah, don't ever touch the code again.

You can get a few feet closer to the moon by building a treehouse, but you still can't turn it into a spaceship.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:52:06 +0000

This problem definitely predates AI coding agents, though it may be exacerbated by them. The article essentially concludes with the ancient advice of "plan to throw one away". Well sure, I also read Mythical Man Month, but how do I convince the decision-makers?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Why TUIs are back"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:41:47 +0000

I got excited about TUIs when I was exposed to the Bubble Tea framework for Go. I'm sure that Claude has accelerated the trend, but interesting things were already happening years ago.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:35:38 +0000

Isn't it all just information? The lock code and the location of the safe are both just data. I think it's possible that all security is obscurity.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:48:43 +0000

I think both can be true. Ideally, we should do more to address the social issues that cause people to drink and drive, but revoking licenses is still a good short-term move. We could outlaw AI policing while we work on deeper issues with law enforcement.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "A New Chapter for Ruby Central"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:17:01 +0000

Does anyone know how this fits into the larger picture of recent Ruby drama?

A New Chapter for Ruby Central

allknowingfrog — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://rubycentral.org/news/a-new-chapter-for-ruby-central/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880274

Points: 2

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New comment by allknowingfrog in "Do you even need a database?"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:49:42 +0000

I've used foreign keys and unique indexes to enforce validity on even the smallest, most disposable toy applications I've ever written. These benchmarks are really interesting, but the idea that performance is the only consideration is kind of silly.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:48:11 +0000

I think this is too soon to call. No one questions whether AI can build things. We question whether they can build stable things that work as expected and stay online in the long run.