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New comment by chamomeal in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

chamomeal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:24:16 +0000

I guess I just don’t understand contracts and laws. Your employment agreement can include stuff like “if you say anything bad about us, even to your family in your own home, you owe us $50,000”.

What in the world?? I guess NDA’s are like that, and used everywhere. Still it just seems wild

New comment by chamomeal in "Cursor 3"

chamomeal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:12:36 +0000

I mean claude carpenter sounds pretty sick

New comment by chamomeal in "Goodbye to Sora"

chamomeal — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:19:41 +0000

I feel like people do sometimes have a warped sense of reality from consuming too much media, ie porn

New comment by chamomeal in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

chamomeal — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:29:43 +0000

I know a few of them. Anything than can be done by an LLM, will done by an LLM. They practically worship Claude

New comment by chamomeal in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

chamomeal — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:53:47 +0000

I have friends (well, friends of friends) who still play the NFT lottery. People love gambling lol

New comment by chamomeal in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

chamomeal — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:43:18 +0000

At work we’ve had like 10 hours of “AI training”. Like training us to use AI. I obviously learned nothing

New comment by chamomeal in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

chamomeal — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:05:11 +0000

Not totally related to your point BUT I’d like to tack on that lisps and generally repl-friendly languages are in an interesting spot in the LLM-enabled world.

The calva-backseat-driver vscode extension runs an MCP that lets LLMs manipulate and eval clojure expressions in a REPL. It provides a tighter feedback loop and lets LLMs do much more complicated stuff with much more confidence. They can test functions as they go, read docs, check query outputs, write and eval tests. It’s actually crazy what Claude opus can do with REPL access.

It might be insanity to let an LLM modify your emacs on the fly, but I’m sure people will have some crazy and interesting ideas in that vein!

New comment by chamomeal in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

chamomeal — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:29:55 +0000

> intellectual elitism

I was trying to say the opposite!! Googling errors for hours is NOT in intellectually demanding task. It’s tedious.

New comment by chamomeal in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

chamomeal — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:31:32 +0000

I’m not a hi-fi guy but my dad is going to freak out!! He’s going to absolutely love this

New comment by chamomeal in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

chamomeal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:11:37 +0000

I’m kinda in both camps. I can make multiple times more proof-of-concepts than ever before, which is awesome. Especially for internal work tools. But then I rely on it too much, and I don’t really know how the thing works, and it makes it hard to get excited about adding to it

New comment by chamomeal in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

chamomeal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:52:58 +0000

I’m kinda getting off topic here but anecdotally: I’ve tried to get so many of my friends to learn programming. I love it, and I think a lot of em would love it too. But they hit a hard wall with the patience needed to self learn.

Like the moment something doesn’t happen like the tutorial said (error message saying “idk what python is, you mean python3?”), they just give up completely instead of googling it. I really feel like the venn diagram of “people who can code” and “people who can google errors they don’t understand for a couple hours” is nearly a perfect circle.

LLMs can smooth out those little tediums, so maybe more people really will be able to learn programming now. But then again if you don’t have the patience to trudge through the annoying parts, will you have the patience to be confused and struggle, instead of letting Claude do the hard stuff for you? I’ll be interested to see what future self-taught devs look like!

New comment by chamomeal in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

chamomeal — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:06:44 +0000

I use it constantly in helix too. The vscode one is meh. I think I saw a discussion in github once about switching to tree-sitter, which would improve AST-related actions. I don't think it went anywhere though.

I love AST aware editing. I think it's one reason it's always been so nice to edit lisps. Stuff that is complicated to describe in javascript (and doesn't have LSP support) p much requires a whole AST parser, but in lisp it's just a simple list operation. When I go back typescript after a weekend of clojure, I reeaally miss slurp! and other paredit commands

New comment by chamomeal in "We Will Not Be Divided"

chamomeal — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:03:53 +0000

Aaaaaand it’s gone

New comment by chamomeal in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

chamomeal — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:00:14 +0000

Your comment reminded me that a blog post. It’s by the same guy that wrote “programming sucks”. I’ve been sharing it a lot recently lol

https://www.stilldrinking.org/stop-talking-to-technology-exe...

New comment by chamomeal in "What is a database transaction?"

chamomeal — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:29:49 +0000

never used planetscale but I’ve always liked their blog, and other content. One of the founders interviewed on the software engineering daily podcast and it was super interesting

New comment by chamomeal in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

chamomeal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:56:37 +0000

I think I sense a strange Battle Royale type game…

New comment by chamomeal in "Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs"

chamomeal — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:13:42 +0000

SO excited for this release!! Babashka is the best addition to my toolkit in years. Making small tools and scripts for work is just a blast. Throwing a TUI on top is going to be turning some coworker heads.

I was actually recently wanting a TUI solution, and was messing around with escape sequences and the lanterna pod, but it was too low level for me to really commit to figuring it out. The charm port looks fantastic, and I am no longer envious of go developers hahaha

New comment by chamomeal in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chamomeal — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:51:23 +0000

Delivering a product is one thing. Continuing to upgrade it and maintain it indefinitely is another. Good quality code makes it easier to make improvements and changes as time goes on. Doesn’t matter if you’re a human or an LLM.

Also, has anybody looked through the Openclaw source? Maybe it’s not so bad

New comment by chamomeal in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

chamomeal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:41:28 +0000

Last year I finally caved and tried to sign up for instagram. It's tragic but it's almost like a second internet. So many small business and bands only have instagram. So many lil communities post their events only on instagram. I always have to ask friends with instagram to tell me when a brewery is open, when a show starts, etc.

So I tried to sign up (and I already HAVE an active facebook account from high school, with hundreds of friends) and it wanted me to scan my face. I did it, which I regret, only to be told five days later that I am too suspicious. So here I am, still locked out of all this information lmao

New comment by chamomeal in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

chamomeal — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:10:19 +0000

There’s a whole new genre of blog posts that are just “finally thanks to AI everyone will know how smart I am. Watch in awe as I tell something to do stuff for me”