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New comment by aselimov3 in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

aselimov3 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:17:32 +0000

This is so sick. I'm almost convincing myself to get it but I feel like I would really miss my 36% keyboard with multiple layers too much. Still tho...

New comment by aselimov3 in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"

aselimov3 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:41:26 +0000

Whether data-centers and AI are actually beneficial is still somewhat of an open question with large groups on both sides. So unclear how beneficial data centers are to the general public.

New comment by aselimov3 in "Mario Meets Pareto"

aselimov3 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:35:28 +0000

This was going to be my reply. Can't let them get ahead of you too quick.

New comment by aselimov3 in ""AI" will never become conscious"

aselimov3 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:59:37 +0000

Do you actually believe this? This is pretty similar to people that think free will is fake. For example:

>In fact, I strongly suspect that i am merely a statistical machine picking words from a learned distribution.

This is a completely incoherent statement (which maybe supports your point). How can you suspect that you are a statistical machine? The fact that there is a "you" suspecting disproves the premise.

Musings on success from someone seeking (The War of Art review)

aselimov3 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:16:23 +0000

Article URL: https://alexselimov.com/posts/war_of_art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182459

Points: 2

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New comment by aselimov3 in "Yann LeCun's Bet That Intelligence Starts in the World"

aselimov3 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:44:58 +0000

Yea after a couple of paragraphs I had to stop

New comment by aselimov3 in "AI makes us more of who we are"

aselimov3 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:25:17 +0000

I disagree. A good developer that heavily uses AI just becomes average without realizing it. To remain a good programmer you have to keep actually programming.

New comment by aselimov3 in "Show HN: Fish anything – a chill game using small models"

aselimov3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:22:33 +0000

Has an issue where the last fishes fight shows up during the wait for the current fishes fight. More importantly how can you afford this? Seems like every call goes to an LLM? Seems like it would be pretty expensive for a free game.

New comment by aselimov3 in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

aselimov3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:06:18 +0000

I definitely support maintainers defending themselves but this seemed just like a petty slap at LLM users. From my understanding, any user who used this testing library was vulnerable to the prompt injection.

Overall LLMs are certainly a net negative on humanity, but I don’t think being mad about it or their users is the best response. I really respect Andrew Kelly in this regard. He doesn’t accept LLM input into Zig and is generally anti-LLM but his approach is positive. “LLMs aren’t that good and it’s boring to use them. Check out how cool/fun/high quality real coding is”

New comment by aselimov3 in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

aselimov3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:59:57 +0000

Yea good explanation of what I meant. I understand the moral/ethical arguments against LLMs and they are compelling but the actions of the maintainer above seemed just like a petty swing at LLMs just for the sake of it. Not very rational in my opinion.

I’m trying to minimize my use of LLMs because I think they are harmful personally but I don’t get mad at people that use them (unless they are just spamming slop but then I just ignore it)

New comment by aselimov3 in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

aselimov3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:03:14 +0000

I don’t think so but maybe? I do use them in daily work so I might be compromised. But I also generally dislike their impact on humanity and try to limit my use where feasible for my own brain’s sake.

Personally I think Andrew Kelly’s take is the best. Basically not interested in LLMs but if someone uses them to do something cool then cool I guess?

New comment by aselimov3 in "What's Going on with the Web?"

aselimov3 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:59:57 +0000

I can’t remember where I read or watched this, but the argument was that the main problem with a lot of software is simply code base size. Once your code base is large enough , it can no longer really be understood as a whole which leads to performance issues/bugs/vulnerabilties. I think that’s just an unavoidable part of large software.

Agentic engineering is probably not helping since it tends to accelerate growth of LOC. I also personally think quality is an issue as well but it could be a skill issue on my end idk.

New comment by aselimov3 in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

aselimov3 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:22:32 +0000

I definitely see where he is coming from, but his response was pretty bad. Seems like he has anti-ai psychosis that went way too far.

This gives similar energy to that guys npm package that deleted Russian users computers. Overall not a great look and any difficulty with job searching/conferences is probably well deserved.

New comment by aselimov3 in "What's Going on with the Web?"

aselimov3 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:03:22 +0000

Easy answer is large unmaintainable code bases + “agentic engineering”

New comment by aselimov3 in "Huh. Apparently we can just end smoking"

aselimov3 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:46:55 +0000

Man this is pretty draconian. I suppose it’s not surprising coming from Britain with their significant anti freedom efforts

New comment by aselimov3 in "Tyler Cowen: AI Isn't Conscious. Neither Are We"

aselimov3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:38:01 +0000

I’ve always thought that this is the argument people that say AI is conscious are making without realizing.

It’s also utter hogwash. Writing an article to argue against your own consciousness/free will is such an incoherent action that it doesn’t deserve engagement.

The most offensive part is that the author doesn’t live as though he doesn’t have free will because no one actually believes that.

New comment by aselimov3 in "Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals"

aselimov3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:33:02 +0000

Very curious to see how efficient this will be in practice

New comment by aselimov3 in "Zig by Example"

aselimov3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:44:48 +0000

Is this much different than ziglings?

New comment by aselimov3 in "Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?"

aselimov3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:50:44 +0000

> People stop creating music, stop writing blogs, stop doing experiments or any other cool stuffs and share it on the internet because LLM companies can just pirate the shit out of it without paying anything back.

This isn’t necessarily true. I still write my own blog by hand and write code by hand. Sure it gets fed into the LLM meat grinder but I think a lot of people are going to fight against the LLM slop and consume real human content

New comment by aselimov3 in "Some concerns about Ladybird's bylaws"

aselimov3 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:16:11 +0000

Even if it was forever is run by community really that great? The code is open source so a fork can happen at any time if it goes down the wrong path. Once you get a wide community involved I feel like decision making slows down. And the product gets worse.

I’m a big open source fan but I’m starting to lean to projects that limit contributions/have a strong leader since they tend to be higher quality in my experience.