Hacker News: chipsrafferty

New comment by chipsrafferty in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

chipsrafferty — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:40:23 +0000

Throwing all your stuff away seems wasteful.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

chipsrafferty — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:28:18 +0000

The HN crowd is about as worst as it gets. The people here are really bad.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

chipsrafferty — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:26:48 +0000

I think you're a troll who should be banned from this site for wasting everyone's time.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

chipsrafferty — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:23:09 +0000

If someone is able to get around a ton of banning techniques, they will definitely notice they're shadowbanned.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

chipsrafferty — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:51:01 +0000

You are free to read whatever you want. Doesn't mean it should be part of a curated collection in a light bulb

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

chipsrafferty — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:50:24 +0000

It's almost like this could be used in countries that aren't "America"

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

chipsrafferty — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:49:42 +0000

Why do you want people to read those books so bad?

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:55:15 +0000

I want something that works in the background, checking my work as I code, running tests and making suggestions... Without being obstrusive. Like a pair programmer.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

chipsrafferty — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:38:24 +0000

I don't know about you, but my team uses React and we also have to handle validation on front end and back end, in different ways.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "AI is slowing down"

chipsrafferty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:00 +0000

I disagree, people you know are much more likely to have the same exact opinions as you on most things. It's the definition of a bubble.

New comment by chipsrafferty in "AI is slowing down"

chipsrafferty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:02:09 +0000

We previously had a backlog of 2 years of features planned. Now we have no work and are just working on tech debt and planning to get more involved in the product side because they need help getting the developers work to do.

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.