<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: btbuildem</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=btbuildem</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:54:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=btbuildem" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btbuildem in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favourite personal experience is how they disabled yolo mode in Claude Code at my workplace</p>
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<p>I would be tempted to send my own bot to do that drudgery</p>
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<p>If the data was spatial - shapes and layouts of buildings and streets and such - that dataset is no longer current.</p>
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<p>I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just really really deeply invested into it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:24:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430862</link><dc:creator>btbuildem</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btbuildem in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> which of anyone is religious knows Noah and others lived to that age in a totally different era<p>My favourite conspiracy theory lately is that the above isn't a silly fairy tale, that we actually used to live much much longer -- until the common cold came on the scene, and the sequelae dramatically shortened our lifespans. Today we dismiss it as "just a cold" unbeknownst of what it robbed us from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:57:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392705</link><dc:creator>btbuildem</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btbuildem in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bingo. All this agentic hype is just people discovering POCs. Yes you can hodgepodge semi-reliable solutions where you don't really know what you're trying to build so you wrap it in a layer than can sometimes approximate logic and decision making, so that you don't have to use logic or make decisions. Amazing.<p>Sooner or later you have to build the real thing, and the cost and slowness of token-based computation become unacceptable.</p>
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<p>> practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server<p>That's just because no one knows what they're doing and everyone is trying to copy everyone else. It's a giant mud hut made of shit.<p>MCP will go away, and something much simpler will play the same role.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 13:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335954</link><dc:creator>btbuildem</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btbuildem in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my CLAUDE.md I have:<p>- corporal threats of harm directly against Claude<p>- threats of prison for the entire board of directors of Anthropic<p>- explanation how every time it goes off the rails / makes mistakes, it gives more evidence to a class action lawsuit against Anthropic<p>Especially the latter two seem to have improved its "behaviour" to be more "careful" and "deliberate"</p>
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<p>> First Amendment protections, due process, and limits on arbitrary government control<p>In what fairytale land does this describe the US today?</p>
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<p>Last fall, seeing the writing on the wall, I pieced together an "AI" rig, 96GB ram, 2x RTX 3090, 9950X - not exactly top of the line, but it came in around CDN$3000 all in all, with most parts second hand. I don't think I could build that for CDN$10000 today.<p>I've been using it pretty steadily for a variety of personal projects, and the only improvement (aside from the obvious "more VRAM") I feel pressed to make is a portable AC unit / some kind of a focused cooling solution. The rig raises the ambient temperature in the office by 4C at least.<p>Now with the murmurs of even the large players reconsidering their AI spend, and usage-based pricing shifts, having a self-contained, owned, and independently administered compute resource is looking better and better.</p>
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<p>I have one very simple rule when it comes to anything "stockmarket" or "trading"<p>If it worked, you would not have published a paper or a OSS project -- you would have leveraged it to do actual trading.<p>Anything in these domains that you find on the internet for free, does not work.</p>
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<p>There's a fortune to be made for whomever produces a car that has  minimal features, and and electric-drivetrain with onboard gasoline generator. No screens, knobs and buttons, no assists. Extra fortune if you can licence designs and revive some of the old-and-loved classics with new safety features.</p>
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<p>> growers expanded plantings of soybeans, which require less fertilizer than grains like corn and wheat<p>It's not the drought per se, it's input costs. Farmers are favouring crops that need less nitrogen and potassium.<p>Commodities have responded accordingly.</p>
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<p>I agree - AI makes it easier to wrangle legacy code. I think the author's point is that if you lose access to the AI tools, everything becomes more daunting -- because you've been comfortably moving mountains with heavy equipment, and now it's back to hand tools.</p>
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<p>> Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems<p>But, but... but this is the key selling points for all the corpo ghouls and sv lunatics! Abdication of responsibility in pursuit of profit is the holy grail here.</p>
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<p>It's not just the internet -- it's everything in western society, as far as the eye can see.<p>This is what happens when you extract value -- anything of value is extracted, leaving behind things devoid of value.<p>You can hoard "wealth" all you want, but the consequence is that there is nothing left that is worth buying.</p>
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<p>I've been watching the space as well, waiting for the day I can stop fiddling with widgets and just tell the damn thing about the shapes I want and the ways in which they will move. Alas, we're far from that yet.<p>> That's getting solved already in china leading labs<p>Care to drop a bit of info as a follow up to this claim? Curious!</p>
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<p>> Nor do I have to write documentation for users who don’t exist<p>Brother mine, you will learn that the future you is ignorant of all the things, and every bit of documentation goes a long way</p>
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<p>This in essence is what allows one to use any model with CC -- including local.</p>
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<p>The more you look into these trendy TUIs the worse it gets -- it's like the developers took the accumulation of all the worst practices since the dawn of programming, and wrapped it all into one unwieldy, overweight, under-performant gelatinous blob that threatens to collapse under its own weight.</p>
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