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New comment by bodge5000 in "So where are all the AI apps?"

bodge5000 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:07:46 +0000

This is addressed, though not quantified (I suppose because theres no central repository for that), in the introduction. To use your analogy, the author heard EV sales were through the roof, couldnt find any evidence that more EV's were actually on the road, so looked at tire sales to see if the answer was in there.

New comment by bodge5000 in "Boomloom: Think with your hands"

bodge5000 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:19:35 +0000

Is that specific to looming? I already do a bit of miniature painting which feels like it'd be similar but that takes too much focus to be running background processes, but maybe I'm just not good enough at it yet

New comment by bodge5000 in "Boomloom: Think with your hands"

bodge5000 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:48:52 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the title, does looming help you think or something? I don't really have much inherent interest in looming, but I would have a lot of interest in that

New comment by bodge5000 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

bodge5000 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:41:43 +0000

> If no one self-writes code anymore anyway, at least use a language that isn't a clusterfuck of bad design decisions

I can get behind the idea that LLM's probably don't need a language designed for humans if humans arent writing it, but the rest of this is just daft. Pythons popularity isn't just pure luck, in fact its only been in recent years that the tooling has caught up to the point where its as easy to setup as it is to write, which should really tell you something if people persevered with it anyway.

I'm sorry your favourite language doesnt have the recognition it so rightfully deserves, but reducing python to just "stupid language for stupid people" is, well, stupid

New comment by bodge5000 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

bodge5000 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:54:34 +0000

> If you contact Anthropic's sales team and set up monthly invoicing, there's evidently no fixed spending limit.

I don't think thats a smoking gun either, for a start we don't know if the pricing would be the same as you'd get credit-funded, but also a monthly invoicing agreement is closer to their fixed plans (you spend X per month, regardless of usage) than pay-per-use API credits, which may not be profitable.

Not that thats a smoking gun either, I can see it both ways

New comment by bodge5000 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

bodge5000 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:48:53 +0000

Nor Dario's frankly, I was supposed to be out of a job by now according to his predictions over the years. I can totally buy that inference is possible, but not because they said it is

New comment by bodge5000 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

bodge5000 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:56:47 +0000

> A huge number of people are convinced that OpenAI and Anthropic are selling inference tokens at a loss despite the fact that there's no evidence this is true

Theres quite a lot of evidence, no proof I'd agree, but then there's no absolute proof I'm aware to the contrary either, so I don't know where you're getting this from.

The two pieces of evidence I'm aware of is that 1) Anthropic doesn't want their subsidised plans being used outside of CC, which would imply that the money their making off it isn't enough, and 2) last time I checked, API spending is capped at $5000 a month

Like I say, neither of these are proof, you can come up with reasonable arguments against them, but once again the same could be said for evidence on the contrary

New comment by bodge5000 in "Keep Android Open"

bodge5000 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:05:28 +0000

If there were truly no other choice, CCP without a doubt. At least they claim to have good intentions, whether that's true or not

New comment by bodge5000 in "Using an engineering notebook"

bodge5000 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:09:20 +0000

Absolutely agree, I do use notebooks but like you say I dont think I need to at all, for some reason I just have some natural drive to write things down (plus I like notebooks). But I've often had experiences of reading through old notebooks and finding that the things I care about in there I instantly remembered without having to read the page, and the things I'd forgotten about I didn't care about anymore.

New comment by bodge5000 in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

bodge5000 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:48:36 +0000

Its the classic interrogation technique; "we're not here to debate whether your guilty or innocent, we have all the evidence we need to prove your guilt, we just want to know why". Not sure if it makes it any different though that the interrogator knows they are lying

New comment by bodge5000 in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

bodge5000 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:19:06 +0000

I haven't worked at FAANG so maybe I'm out the loop, but flyers on bathroom stalls seems bizarre, like almost less of a corporate action and more of a personal one (like you might get for unionisation), but with all the messaging of corporate, like something you'd see in a company memo.

Like I say, maybe everyone else is accustomed to this idea, but if you have any pictures of them I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing it, unless I'm misunderstand what it is

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:49:15 +0000

That just seems like a completely different argument, Reddit only came into a part of this in relation to Moltbook

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:28:32 +0000

> Reddit runs bot detection, rate limits, fingerprinting, shadow restrictions, and abuse heuristics you don’t even see, and you don’t know which ones, because that knowledge is their moat.

> Reddit says “run a ranking algorithm refined over years, with vote fuzzing, decay, abuse detection, and intentional lies in the UI.” As the number you see is not the number stored.

> etc...

The question is; is moltbook doing this? That was the original point, it took a week to build a basic reddit clone, as you call it the silhouette, with AI, that should surely be the point of comparison to what a human could do in that time

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:20:05 +0000

That only counts if its something you care about. If you throw maintenance out the window (eg you dont close off your db) it gets a lot easier

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:47:21 +0000

I mean as has already been pointed out the fact that its a clone is a big reason why, but then I also think I could probably churn out a simple clone of reddit in less than a week. We've been through this before with twitter, the value isnt the tech (which is relatively straightforward), its the userbase. Of course Reddit has some more advanced features which would be more difficult, but I think the public db probably tells you that wasn't much of a concern to Moltbook either, so yeh, I reckon I could do that.

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:37:31 +0000

On the face of it, this or at least acting as a code reviewer from an experienced point of view seems like the solution, the problem is that we all naturally get lazy and complacent. I actually think AI was at its best for coding a year or so ago, when it could kind of do part of the work but theres no way you could ever ship it. Code that works today but breaks in 6 months is far more insidious.

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:19:28 +0000

I get its necessary for investment, but I'd be a lot happier with these tools if we didn't keep making these wild claims, because I'm certainly not seeing 10x the output. When I ask for examples, 90% its claude code (not a beacon of good software anyway but if nearly everyone is pointing to one example it tells you thats the best you can probably expect) and 10% weekend projects, which are cool, but not 10x cool. Opus 4.5 was released in Dec 2025, by this point people should be churning out year long projects in a month, and I certainly haven't seen that.

I've used them a few times, and they're pretty cool. If it was just sold as that (again, couldn't be, see: trillion dollar investments) I wouldn't have nearly as much of a leg to stand on

New comment by bodge5000 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

bodge5000 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:13:45 +0000

> Good time to be in business if you can see through the bs and understand how these systems actually function

You missed out the most crucial and least likely requirement (assuming you're not self employed); management also need to be able to see through the bs.

New comment by bodge5000 in "I miss thinking hard"

bodge5000 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:21:34 +0000

"The muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Start alone."

That has actually been a major problem for me in the past where my core idea is too simple, and I don't give "the muse" enough time to visit because it doesn't take me long enough to build it. Anytime I have given the muse time to visit, they always have.

New comment by bodge5000 in "A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev"

bodge5000 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:17:21 +0000

> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build!

Absolutely agree with this, the ratio of talk to output is insane, especially when the talk is all about how much better output is. So far the only example I've seen is Claude Code which is mired in its own technical problems and is literally built by an AI company.

> Write your own code without assistance on whatever interval makes sense to you, otherwise you'll atrophy those muscles

This is the one thing that concerns me, for the same reason as "AI writes the code, humans review it" does. The fact of the matter is, most people will get lazy and complacent pretty quickly, and the depth of which they review the code/ the frequency they "go it alone" will get less and less until eventually it just stops happening. We all (most of us anyway) do it, its just part of being human, for the same reason that thousands of people start going to the gym in January and stop by March.

Arguably, AI coding was at its best when it was pretty bad, because you HAD to review it frequently and there were immediate incentives to just take the keyboard and do it yourself sometimes. Now, we still have some serious faults, they're just not as immediate, which will lead to complacency for a lot of people.

Maybe one day AI will be able to reliably write the 100% of the code without review. The worry is that we stop paying attention first, which all in all looks quite likely