Hacker News: blharr

New comment by blharr in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

blharr — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:36:54 +0000

I mean, I didn't read it as a joke. Taking a rest can lead to a clearer ability to think... thereby being more productive, not less.

New comment by blharr in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

blharr — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:20:53 +0000

I was surprised because the writing _seemed_ focused and It at least credits what they copied from "nohello.com" ... but when you compare the 2 sites it becomes obvious that the AI was definitely prompted something like "make a copy of nohello.com but for people posting AI slop" and that's all the actual human thought that went into this. The structure is the same as the source and has just been LLM-ified so it kept some of the same source tone.

New comment by blharr in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

blharr — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:06:34 +0000

A free tier will almost always exist. Mostly for the reasons you already describe. That's a training ground for their small models as well as a way to get full access to new training data (and advertisements). As well as funnel new paying users. Why would you ever give that up?

New comment by blharr in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

blharr — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:45:17 +0000

I've never had a problem with direct translation... but the 3 paragraph choppy structure with subheadings full of AI-isms is not ESL users using it faithfully

New comment by blharr in "The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program"

blharr — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:59:04 +0000

Such a person can just make a new account and go back at it

New comment by blharr in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

blharr — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:09:15 +0000

You joke, but in a way this is the natural trajectory technology has been heading. AI has just increased the magnitude of it

New comment by blharr in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

blharr — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:06:36 +0000

Player-coaches are a real thing, but noticeable because of how rare and unusual they are. The problem is that the analogy doesn't even hold up in the source its referring to.

Sure, there are good player-coaches, but there are also great pure leaders. There are also very bad player-coaches. A coach who is trying too hard and too deep to be a player when they are less "fit" (or skilled) has historically led to many problems in many cases

New comment by blharr in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

blharr — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:47:37 +0000

Many major markets outside the US have much stronger work-life balance. Isn't that the takeaway?

New comment by blharr in "A desktop made for one"

blharr — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:07:57 +0000

But the exploits can use AI custom tools too. "Script Kiddie" is just now "Prompt Kiddie"

Although everyone might use their own flavor of "database" or "REST API", I can't imagine every layout to be unique enough to not have similar exploit classes entirely. AI isn't known for being super original after all...

New comment by blharr in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

blharr — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:19:31 +0000

Unfortunately that's when they started recording the data

New comment by blharr in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

blharr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:27:07 +0000

The 3-year old anecdote is a bit pointless. It literally could have been a bad day. I've burnt myself out on a problem the night before and absolutely bombed simple interview questions, too. Or it just happened to be the least competent engineer at Meta. It doesn't give much information on their average employee, though

New comment by blharr in "Why I Write (1946)"

blharr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:16:39 +0000

It's something that's really been worrying me these days. With AI creating literally floods of information, it's getting noisier and noisier.

New comment by blharr in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

blharr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:49:12 +0000

Any fallout or monetary changes you could sue for, a company like Meta can probably pay for and still turn their huge profits. It seems like these companies do little to hide their shady actions at all.

New comment by blharr in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

blharr — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:49:03 +0000

The comment above is completely wrong, and Im not sure how they got that misconception unless it's an AI fabrication (although it doesnt read like AI)...

Turtle WoW had nothing rougelike about it at all. It was the normal classic WoW experience with added content. I suppose you could say it did a lot different from other roguelikes... because it wasn't one at all

New comment by blharr in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

blharr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:41:01 +0000

While that answers their direct question, they do bring up a good point -- how often are you handing out less than 25% scores on exams? Id imagine any professor to do that to get some severe criticism that would make even a cheater pretty livid

New comment by blharr in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

blharr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:22:05 +0000

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New comment by blharr in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

blharr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:09:27 +0000

Sure but is LinkedIn even a good place for that networking? Email feels way more productive (and personal) for that

New comment by blharr in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

blharr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:06:52 +0000

They're boiling the frog pretty quickly, honestly. The token usage has clearly been an issue since using Claude code from the beginning. It just blows through tokens

New comment by blharr in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

blharr — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:42:32 +0000

Most social media is actively against that, feeding you recommendations to keep you on the platform.

New comment by blharr in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

blharr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:53:09 +0000

And it will affect good engineers and turn them into worse engineers too

AI benefits rely on these good engineers having 5, 10, 20 years of experience pre-AI designing (and fully, thoroughly understanding) these systems. What's going to happen to that engineering skill after 15 years of AI use?