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New comment by andrekandre in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

andrekandre — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:21:31 +0000

yes, this is an issue i see too... also fixing it up takes alot of time (sometimes more if i just 'one-shotted' it myself)... idk these tools are useful, but i feel like we are going too far with 'just let the ai do everything'...

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:08:30 +0000

  > It's not that there's no downsides but it also seems silly to dismiss it altogether

definitely silly to dismiss them all together, but the issue is using it for everything where its not appropriate or unreliable; so in the context of my posting, i cant rely on it for the things i outlined, thats all

New comment by andrekandre in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"

andrekandre — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:04:05 +0000

  > more tractable like tickets completed

easy, just make tickets smaller in size (i see people doing this with prs already now to hit 'ai kpis')...

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:04:14 +0000

  > This AI rollout has been fundamentally rushed and fucked from the very beginning

fake it till you make it has been modus operandi for tech for almost as long as i've been alive... i feel like this is the apotheosis of this kind of thinking...

  > Nope, it’s just “ModelGPClaude can make mistakes! Better be careful!”

"use at your own risk" and "no guarantees warranted or expressed" is basically in every single eula from tech as well... its not a new trend sadly...

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:56:50 +0000

  > Random people cure cancer for their dog

this not a serious comment

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:28:10 +0000

  > Planning someone's agenda, preparing relevant documents, arranging and coordinating things, translations (speech or text), narration, grammar checking

the issue is, these things "lie" subtly and not so subtly (they make up issues, rename agendas, forget questions and change meanings all the time) and for me that is a deal-breaker for a business tool that i need to rely on

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:22:08 +0000

pr comments from a human that is generated by ai has got me feeling the same... like why this person even here? its totally disrespectful; i want a person to interact with not a machine with a meatsuit.

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:18:57 +0000

  > Whenever I see a blog post that starts with an obvious AI hero image, when it has the "It's not X, it's Y" framing, when it has anything that smells like AI

yes, n=1 (ok n=2 i guess) but noticing that is an immediate back button press for me but its getting harder and harder to avoid as search results become inundated with this stuff

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:15:29 +0000

  > But then I'm like "hmm actually let me try this real quick" and I prompt Claude for 3 minutes, and 30 minutes later it has one-shotted the whole "two weeks project". It then gets reviewed and merged by the "non-believers". This happens repeatedly.

this is a nice anecdote but i think the real issue is the forcing and kpi-nization of llms top-down for nearly everything

there are still code-quality issues, prompting issues for long-running tasks, some things are just faster and more deterministic with normal code generators or just find-and-replace etc

people are annoyed at the force-feeding of llms/ai into everything even when its not needed

somethings can be one-shotted and some things cant, and that is fine and perfectly normal but execs don't like that because its not the new hotness

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:06:24 +0000

  > if no-one is forced to bake it.

not to take away from the point too much, but i think the whole idea of market economies is nobody needs to be forced to do anything, no?

New comment by andrekandre in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

andrekandre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:58:05 +0000

  > It is as if you had a group of execs determining what IDEs people could use.

its worse than that; its more like determining what ide you use and also mandating how much time you spend in it, and then chewing you out at review time because you used jira and confluence too much instead of writing md files in the blessed ide of their choice

New comment by andrekandre in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

andrekandre — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:17:38 +0000

there are many democrats who would block such a thing as well.

historically there is always the one or two who (perhaps too conveniently?) block or water down legislation: joe lieberman against public option [0], two democrats block student debt relief [1], the dynamic duo of manchin and sinema blocking voting rights legislation and build back better [2] [3]...

you don't need to blame republicans for democrats sabotaging themselves over and over.

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/joe-liebermans-...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/which-democrats-voted-to-blo...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/biden-voting-rights-bill-collapse...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/manchin-says-he-no...

New comment by andrekandre in "AI Job Loss Tracker"

andrekandre — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:12:41 +0000

  > How do they differentiate AI job loss from normal layoffs that companies are pretending are due to AI to get brownie points from shareholders?

why the same way we measure productivity gains from ai: mostly vibes (aka self-reporting)

New comment by andrekandre in "Social media has become a freak show"

andrekandre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:13:52 +0000

  > What’s left is brain rot and its addicts.

and bots

New comment by andrekandre in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

andrekandre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:37:16 +0000

2008 was the big one, but i really think the ball started rolling after 9/11...

New comment by andrekandre in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

andrekandre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:35:22 +0000

  > But it seems to me the lesson from this paper is that this (isolating us in separate groups) would make the split complete enough that we would decisively start butchering each other.

of course, and historically we can see that from the past 300 years leading up to ww1 and ww2; every empire was in it for themselves and very nationalistic, mercantilism ruled the day, and lots of crazy theories such as phrenology and eugenics started to appear leading to all kinds of atrocities...

New comment by andrekandre in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

andrekandre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:24:11 +0000

  > But they flipped the game at some point.

yes, agree.

i guess my (too nuance maybe) point was: the system we live in is like water; the urge to swim with the big fish is overwhelming... it was gonna happen eventually at the level they are playing at.

New comment by andrekandre in "AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update"

andrekandre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:19:30 +0000

  > Not one thing and trying to force-fit it.

agree, but then they become glorified ide plugins and can't justify the huge valuations that a magic box that does and knows everything can justify...

New comment by andrekandre in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

andrekandre — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:26:46 +0000

  > cow milking tech

i mean, in the end, cow-milking is the name of the game isnt it?

New comment by andrekandre in "Every GPU That Mattered"

andrekandre — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:07:12 +0000

  > uses human feedback and comments to correct the output

tbf, lots of saas have a similar attitude with things like "give us feedback" on their pages; like i'm paying you money to figure this stuff out so why are you asking me if its good or not? with more and more "vibing" i feel this kind of attitude is going to infect everything at some point...