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New comment by brobdingnagians in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

brobdingnagians — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:58:48 +0000

And makes it more expensive. There is the seen benefit and then the unseen cost. Every game released will have to account for the possibility of it, and will create issues for people who really didn't want those issues. After awhile people will forget there are associated issues and costs, but they will still be there.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Claude for Small Business"

brobdingnagians — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:10:38 +0000

I'm a victim of this. Very bad taste of AI generated gibberish that was obviously not read through before being sent.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Claude for Small Business"

brobdingnagians — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:09:44 +0000

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". I'm more impressed by a pithy sentence than 100 pages of statistical fluff.

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

brobdingnagians — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:49:50 +0000

What about the third group who mostly don't use ai for programming because the results don't seem to be worth it, like to understand their system, and can craft a more compact, succinct, and well organized system by themselves which they enjoy maintaining? If most of your system is boilerplate that can be generated by Claude, then maybe you're doing it wrong? I'd rather read a short story written by a great writer than a trilogy of novels by AI

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

brobdingnagians — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:11:42 +0000

YouTrack's search is one of the main reasons I use it. Nice query language to filter down on any fields, including custom fields, never had an issue finding things. It's great. With the number of useless search functions in so many products, I'm happy that at least my issue tracking does it right.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

brobdingnagians — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:45:17 +0000

If he's not one to defer to Comms or legal, maybe this one is so bad that he's acting differently then he normally would

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

brobdingnagians — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:10:23 +0000

It seems like geopolitical statements and international announcements happen a lot on Twitter/X these days.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

brobdingnagians — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:06:13 +0000

Strangely enough (or maybe to be expected), I'd say that at least on the Christian and Jewish sides, it's led by people who have no sincere belief in the respective religions, but hijack it for their personal power. Reminds me of Germany in WWII where Christian symbolism with "Positive Christianity" was used until it was no longer useful then they went full pagan (gottgläubig and other movements) because the sincere Christians opposed them. This administration is as likely to quote Jesus with "love thy enemy" as Germany was in 1942.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "What being ripped off taught me"

brobdingnagians — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:07:08 +0000

So true. And I'll add, no matter how trustworthy you believe the other party to be based on reptutation, relationships, or otherwise-- they should understand requiring assurances. The worst backstabs are from the people you know and who should know better. And a lot of people will justify it to themselves if they get in trouble. They will continue telling themselves that they are fundamentally good people and it just didn't work out as they rip you off for a lot of money. If they say the equivalent of "why don't you trust me?" that's a red flag.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

brobdingnagians — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:38:22 +0000

The open letter to Americans from Iran:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/full-text-of-...

Vs Trump's speech:

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-transcript-address-i...

New comment by brobdingnagians in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

brobdingnagians — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:21:24 +0000

I watched an interview with a retired British military guy who said that the radar destruction does complicate things, but the US still has the other AWACs, so there is still early warning and visibility, just complicates things and reduced range/more risk.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

brobdingnagians — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:54:41 +0000

Especially since kids these days aren't even very good at using computers:

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

It seems to me that if someone can read and think critically-- they can RTFM and get much better much quicker at computers and AI than people who spent all their time tapping an ipad to watch the next video.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Stop Sloppypasta"

brobdingnagians — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:21:30 +0000

I have a very similar situation. Except it isn't even a ticket, just an export of a very long "conversation" with ChatGPT with a vague indication that this is what needs to be implemented. When questioned about it, the person insists they completely understood it before but just forgot after a few days. Sometimes the prompts are removed. Lots of contradictory material in it, some doesn't make sense even in context. Very difficult to figure out what is wanted.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Agents that run while I sleep"

brobdingnagians — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:09:27 +0000

I would encourage my competitors to use AI agents on their codebase as much as possible. Make sure every new feature has it, lots of velocity! Run those suckers day and night. Don't review it, just make sure the feature is there! Then when the music stops, the AI companies hit the economic realities, go insolvent, and they are left with no one who understands a sprawling tangled web of code that is 80% AI generated, then we'll see who laughs last.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

brobdingnagians — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:59:12 +0000

AI made writing blog posts easier. It made critical thinking harder.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

brobdingnagians — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:39:30 +0000

Slightly tangential but recently I've gotten into the Ilwinter Game Design games Dominions 6 and Conquest of Elysium 5. I was surprised how similar but how different they are to Europa Universalis and Civilization respectively. Very interesting studies in horizontal game design where every faction has dramatically different gameplay strategies.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Fossil versus Git"

brobdingnagians — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:53:07 +0000

Git is only better in the same sense that Windows is better than Linux. I really need the tools I use that only run on Windows. I prefer Linux for a lot of things, including daily web development, but the experience of developing Unreal Engine on Linux is lacking. I love fossil and the many features it provides in itself and would use it for everything, except that it doesn't have (working) Intellij plugin for integration, a good GitHub alternative, etc.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

brobdingnagians — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:00:52 +0000

I use Udemy courses all the time; great for compliance, game engine training, and insightful training of soft skills. Good instructors have insight and comprehensive coverage that questioning LLMs do not have.

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Cloudflare was down"

brobdingnagians — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:06:53 +0000

Two's a coincidence, three's a pattern; I guess we will have to wait until next month to see if it becomes a pattern. Was there a particular aspect of the React Server Components that made it easy to have this problem appear? would it have been caught or avoided in another framework or language?

New comment by brobdingnagians in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

brobdingnagians — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:33:25 +0000

Thank you