Hacker News: chipsrafferty

New comment by chipsrafferty in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

chipsrafferty — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:15:26 +0000

I thought it was, you're the pilot, copilot is your helper.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

chipsrafferty — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:10:42 +0000

0% chance this is true as I work at a F500 where I can assure you that probably every developer can write fizz buzz.

I would bet my life and everyone I care abouts' lives that much more than 70% CAN write fizz buzz.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

chipsrafferty — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:01:40 +0000

Let me guess, you used them 12 months ago?

New comment by chipsrafferty in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

chipsrafferty — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:00:46 +0000

Yes. If you're copy posting code from LLMs you're in the minority of people who are "in the past". Most people are generating most of their code in ~1-200 LOC chunks, reviewing it, adjusting as needed (usually with another prompt) and then opening a PR, which gets reviewed both my LLM and other teammates.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "India's surprise baby bust"

chipsrafferty — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:23:16 +0000

It's racist to say that people who don't believe women should have equal rights and opportunities and are equally capable as men - are neanderthals?

New comment by chipsrafferty in "India's surprise baby bust"

chipsrafferty — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:20:15 +0000

Ah yes let's "make progress" on a planet where people refuse to consume less and we have finite resources.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

chipsrafferty — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:01:15 +0000

And therefore there will be a huge knowledge gap as companies refuse to hire anyone who hasn't worked in the field for 5+ years and people who want to work in that field but haven't don't get hired.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:40:07 +0000

Doesn't work well on mobile.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:16:45 +0000

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that - at least right now - AI is only useful for 2 things:

1. Coding, with it being more useful the better you are at coding without AI

2. Any expert in their field asking questions about their field, who bother to fact check the output. E.g. "claude pls search these 1000 files and tell me if you find anywhere that they're discussing the settlement" and then the user checks the files/line numbers to make sure that it's correct - basically a turbocharged search that may have false negatives (content existed but I didn't find it) or false positives (content that I classified in a certain way but it was wrong). It takes an expert to tell the latter one in some cases.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "The Ask"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:06:42 +0000

Well, nobody said lifers. But you can't really get a management job without already having management experience. You typically have to be promoted internally, not just go look for a management job elsewhere with no experience.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:06:02 +0000

Yep, the very same scammer. Wonder if he's lying about OpenAI too? Maybe about a person blowing a metal instrument?

New comment by chipsrafferty in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:17:16 +0000

I think my company is going to cancel our subscription once it realizes we're spending more money in a week that a developer gets paid in a month.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Can we have the day off?"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:05:34 +0000

unless we can ALL join forces to draw the line somewhere, someone will choose to defect from the agreement to "just work less",

> We already did draw the line and we can redraw it. We drew the line very strongly at 40 hours, 4 days a week. That is the "official" expected hours for most salaried employees.

because doing so will make them succeed at the expense of others.

> This already happens. People making salary, 40 hours, that work 50, 60, etc. to get ahead of their coworkers in a career sense. Or people taking optional overtime to get ahead financially or people who work hourly working extra hours or people who have 2+ jobs or a side hustle.

even if everyone from one country agrees, the other competing country that defects and works 996 with agents will "win" and conquer the lazy country.

> Didn't realize Japan is imminently going to conquer the US because they work more hours.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Can we have the day off?"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:22:54 +0000

How are neither of them being driven by capitalism?

U.S. becomes more authoritarian -> you are more afraid of being targeted by an AI drone and mass surveillance -> companies that make those weapons of war for the government (prime contractors) make billions -> they use their money to influence politics and public opinion -> U.S. becomes more authoritarian -> etc.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Can we have the day off?"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:17:18 +0000

Did you just link to a rat website as if that is a good source?

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Can we have the day off?"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:15:43 +0000

If I am able to do 10x work with a tool that costs you Y, then my wages should rise by 10x - Y.

Then, let's do a 3 day work week and multiply it by 0.6.

Pretty simple math

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Can we have the day off?"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:12:31 +0000

Right. If I am producing 10x more output then I expect to be getting paid about 8x more or working 8x less.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

chipsrafferty — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:35:49 +0000

This would just hurt new users similar to how you are unable to comment on 90% of subreddits on Reddit as a new user, because you don't have enough karma points, or how on Stackoverflow your permissions are severely limited until you do certain jobs. The incentives aren't very good in systems like this. Bots can be made to easily game the system while regular users are discouraged from even participating.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

chipsrafferty — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:28:54 +0000

There are multiple reasons why statutes of limitations exist, one of them being that the further away in time, the harder it is to prove evidence. Witnesses may have died, or their memory may be more faulty.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

chipsrafferty — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:54:47 +0000

Which one is more bad?

Trump bombing hundreds of people or someone throwing a bomb at Trump because he keeps bombing hundreds of people?