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New comment by awepofiwaop in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

awepofiwaop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:59:07 +0000

I wasn't really interested in asking Claude myself, because I wasn't really able to verify the claims being made so it's just noise. I'd hoped that the person who had written the code and put it up for review would be able to.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

awepofiwaop — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:17:00 +0000

I'm seeing plenty of internal work where I ask someone about their code, they ask Claude, and reply with "Claude says...".

That's substantively different than going from assembly to C.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "The return-to-the-office trend backfires"

awepofiwaop — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:45:00 +0000

Really? Genuine question - I'd like to move there.

Keep in mind "year round perfect weather" does include summers that aren't preposterously hot.

I've found that everywhere else, certainly in the midwest, where I live, either gets too hot in summer or too cold in winter (or is extremely remote, i.e. Hawaii).

New comment by awepofiwaop in "The MacBook Neo"

awepofiwaop — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:41:22 +0000

> Now we could have some kind of system whereby excess icons get dumped into a … menu, but that defeats the entire purpose since they’re no longer on the screen all the time!

This is just not true. The purpose is not necessarily to have the icon on the screen all the time. If the menu doesn't exist, the buttons don't exist either, and plenty of applications are built assuming that you have access to their bar icons while they're running.

If the icon is missing there is _literally_ no other way to use the relevant functionality. If the icon is hidden in a menu, you can use the functionality, it's just an extra click.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "Writing code is cheap now"

awepofiwaop — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:01:14 +0000

This is almost a willful misinterpretation of what I said. I didn't say it should be regulated or illegal. I just expressed a thought that perhaps we shouldn't reorient everything around making things easy for the laziest among us.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

awepofiwaop — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:52:00 +0000

The amount of lost revenue due to the implication of cut corners needs to be higher than the cost of hiring an artist by enough of a margin that the managers who make the decision start to care, and enough that they're willing to put the effort into hiring an artist.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "Writing code is cheap now"

awepofiwaop — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:47:22 +0000

I'm not sure that making the computers easier to use for "most people" has had a net positive effect on society. If an ability requires effort and discipline to attain, perhaps fewer people would take it for granted and care more about its quality.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "Writing code is cheap now"

awepofiwaop — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:12:16 +0000

The clear intent is to stop allowing regular people to be able to compute...anything. Instead, you'll be given a screen that only connects to $LLM_SERVER and the only interface will be voice/text in which you ask it to do things. It then does those things non-deterministically, and slower than they would be done right now. But at least you won't have control over how it works!

New comment by awepofiwaop in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

awepofiwaop — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:20:12 +0000

I'm not saying zero actual people care, I'm saying that not enough people care to actually differentiate. Is Windows getting better now that you switched? Then it doesn't matter you left.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

awepofiwaop — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:51:43 +0000

Judging by the state of most software I use, customers genuinely could not care less about bugs. Software quality is basically never a product differentiator at this point.

New comment by awepofiwaop in "AI made coding more enjoyable"

awepofiwaop — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:41:23 +0000

Are you not concerned that this world is deeply tied to you having an internet connection to one of a couple companies' servers? They can jack up the price, cut you off, etc.