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New comment by barbazoo in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

barbazoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:52:39 +0000

From outside it seems that Ukraine is not really given a choice right now but to defend itself. I wish for a soon end to the war so your beautiful country can prosper again and your people can start healing.

New comment by barbazoo in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

barbazoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:27:57 +0000

Username checks out and thank you for writing out my own feelings better than I ever could have, even with AI.

New comment by barbazoo in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

barbazoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:19:01 +0000

Totally, I can't quite imagine an AI automating my use of AI tough, how it would infer what prompt I would use at any given time, the problem space is infinite. Am I adding another *arr app to my stack, are we building a SPA, a home automation plugin, whatever. These are things that I want to do and AI helps with that.

In the corporate setting I think though it won't take a lot of time to reduce the layers and number of people that are required to run a software company. Either one becomes a more general work manager or obsolete I guess.

New comment by barbazoo in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

barbazoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:14:40 +0000

> People who hated coding, technology, problem solving and only were in it for the money love managing a bunch of agents.

Why do they have to hate coding, technology and problem solving, that makes no sense. They just use coding agents to write the code for them to use technology and solve problem.

New comment by barbazoo in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

barbazoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:11:33 +0000

Let's be honest though, maybe "in the same way it's no longer feasible for tailors to spin their own yarn and weave their own cloth".

New comment by barbazoo in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

barbazoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:06:16 +0000

> Everyone in SWE is experiencing this.

Obviously this is not true for every SWE. A lot of people feel liberated now that the burden of actually writing the code is being replaced by molding it through the interaction with AI. I see people that struggle because they've identified with the writing code part a lot and that's gone now that the machine is doing it, I bet that's hard.

New comment by barbazoo in "How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?"

barbazoo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:06:04 +0000

Would thee agent do it in a way that's hard to trace back to the individual too maybe. That'd be helpful.

New comment by barbazoo in "British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled"

barbazoo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:53:27 +0000

Or heaven forbid even communicating with the other human directly.

New comment by barbazoo in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

barbazoo — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:58:22 +0000

I don't see this kind of behavior myself, I wonder if it's me not pushing the boundaries enough or me explicitly or implicitly framing the prompt in a way that makes it less likely for the agent to intervene.

New comment by barbazoo in "Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study"

barbazoo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:12:28 +0000

The behavior you're describing has already brought us close to the planetary boundaries of our own existence in the last century or two. Plenty of second order effects to our actions.

New comment by barbazoo in "Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study"

barbazoo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:09:57 +0000

"killing all", can't imagine anything going wrong here at all, nope.

New comment by barbazoo in "Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study"

barbazoo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:08:44 +0000

I wish us humans adapted quicker to the realization that our food systems aren't sustainable for the planet.

New comment by barbazoo in "The evolution of effective altruism"

barbazoo — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:55:53 +0000

Maybe if you consider the wealth of the in group vs out group. It makes more sense to me that way. Scary how few people it might need to keep the world from moving forward.

New comment by barbazoo in "ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]"

barbazoo — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:13:46 +0000

I see a lot of myself in this.

New comment by barbazoo in "ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]"

barbazoo — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:10:49 +0000

What about before? When and why did we stop caring I wonder.

New comment by barbazoo in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

barbazoo — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:06:36 +0000

I'm assuming they still use AI to find vulnerabilities, just not fix them?

New comment by barbazoo in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

barbazoo — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:41:18 +0000

Could this be a feedback loop problem? I gave mine a script to render the object from all sides and it makes it more likely for it to avoid attacking of mistake.

New comment by barbazoo in "Ask HN: Do you procrastinate less when coding with AI?"

barbazoo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:30:13 +0000

The empty page problem is almost gone for me. Now I can chat casually about something and get eased into solving the actual problem.

Now I often feel burned out from constantly getting everything instantly.

New comment by barbazoo in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

barbazoo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:08:42 +0000

Are you afraid to use the word "genocide"? Just curious.

New comment by barbazoo in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

barbazoo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:51:02 +0000

I think this is temporary and related to crop failures when a lot of BC berries froze. AFAIK they grow their own grapes otherwise. Who knows for how much longer and if the climate will allow growing grapes sustainably at all in those places.