Hacker News: buggy6257

New comment by buggy6257 in "Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'"

buggy6257 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:09:49 +0000

My favorite response to this was a fellow dev who immediately replied “you let your printer near a GUN?!”

New comment by buggy6257 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

buggy6257 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:45:33 +0000

Now I’m wondering if “still” is meant to be short for “distill”…

New comment by buggy6257 in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

buggy6257 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:26:24 +0000

Two of those YouTube links are to Patrick Boyle who is a very respectable and knowledgeable ex hedge fund manager who dives DEEP into the topic while remaining entertaining. It’s a hilariously outdated take to say that YouTube content guarantees a lack of value or authority.

New comment by buggy6257 in "What Is a Dickover?"

buggy6257 — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:55:22 +0000

FYI it took me 3 clicks of “next” to hit a page with a cookie dickover. Might need to tweak the filter.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion: The great skeptic gets taken in"

buggy6257 — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:09:48 +0000

Boy are you in for a surprise.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

buggy6257 — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:46:04 +0000

Especially since it’s “a competitor to Harvey”

New comment by buggy6257 in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

buggy6257 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:48:44 +0000

> Tonnes of frameworks around this concept, so I won't repeat what others have done decently already. Jobs To Be Done, Outcome Driven Innovation, and in the UX camp, empathy mapping.

Totally understand, but I would love if the author included links to these other things for articles/etc they thought did a good enough job not to repeat them!

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?"

buggy6257 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:33:48 +0000

You should take a look at CODEOWNERS file specs

New comment by buggy6257 in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

buggy6257 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:37:49 +0000

My 5 year old Subaru has been able to lane keep and auto follow to the point that a 2h drive on the freeway is me tapping the wheel every ten seconds to keep it enabled while I watch for idiots. It has been able to do this since I bought it, and I haven’t paid a dime extra. Car cost 30k.

New comment by buggy6257 in "AI Usage Policy"

buggy6257 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:15:47 +0000

Your boss sounds hilarious naive to how the world works.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

buggy6257 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:41:12 +0000

Don’t compare LLMs to calculators. Only one of those is deterministic.

New comment by buggy6257 in "OpenAI will start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers"

buggy6257 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:30:13 +0000

My dude adding ads to a free product after locking people into using it for free is LITERALLY the example used by Doctorow in his original article[1] that COINED the term “enshittification”. It couldn’t be more accurate if you tried.

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai

New comment by buggy6257 in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

buggy6257 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Literally happened at work. Breathless thread of people saying how insane it was and then we got to link this and it immediately 180-ed and everyone was like “holy shit that’s messed up”

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?"

buggy6257 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:34:31 +0000

A) no they can’t

B) if they can, how’s that working out for you?

C) you’re saying if I make myself suffer for several months I can have the privilege to work at one of the single worst companies on the face of this earth? _sign me the fuck up_

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?"

buggy6257 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:41:59 +0000

Good lord based on these comments I am so glad to not live in the same bubble y’all seem to be in.

13 years as a dev, many jobs, countless interviews, and I have never once solved, been asked to solve, or even attempted to solve a leetcode problem.

Reading people talking about what they do here it sounds like voluntary torture. I would quit being a dev if that’s what it took.

OP: I’m saying maybe you don’t have to join them. Get out of the mindset. Find jobs that value your time.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

buggy6257 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:40:13 +0000

I work at a company doing full-stack Elixir with most of our devs all heavily using AI as they please to augment their workflow, and our CTO was genuinely concerned that our main competitor, a Python shop, had a leg-up on us for this exact reason.

He spent time running benchmarks for 0-1 apps and all kinds of other metrics and found basically no appreciable difference in the speed or accuracy of AI at generating Elixir vs. Python. Maybe some difference, but honestly it just doesn't exist enough to matter.

New comment by buggy6257 in "My first impressions of Gleam"

buggy6257 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:48:13 +0000

See you in 9 months then to check back.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

buggy6257 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:30:36 +0000

well now i finally have a good blog name for the blog i'll never start.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?"

buggy6257 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:41:20 +0000

I would take Spacey's character from Baby Driver.

New comment by buggy6257 in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

buggy6257 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:04:15 +0000

This is what I’ve been forced to do for years and I’m sick of it lol