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New comment by contagiousflow in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

contagiousflow — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:24:44 +0000

So why would Apples AI features change their minds on either of those points?

New comment by contagiousflow in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

contagiousflow — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:51:31 +0000

Why do you think "creatives" have a "seething hatred of AI"?

New comment by contagiousflow in "EFF is leaving X"

contagiousflow — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:02:49 +0000

Where are these "things" you're speaking of? Which governments are deep into leftist ideology right now?

New comment by contagiousflow in "EFF is leaving X"

contagiousflow — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:58:33 +0000

> I remember hearing the phrase "that's not an EFF issue" spoken much more frequently in the earlier part of my time at the organization.

I'm not saying that isn't a valid critique, but from 2001 to 2019 so much more of out culture, politics, and protest have shifted to online spaces (for better or worse). Do you think that the EFF just has _more_ to do now because of the shifting needs of our online spaces and the increased governance on them?

New comment by contagiousflow in "EFF is leaving X"

contagiousflow — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:24:10 +0000

I can't believe such a nonpolitical organization would do this!!! Come on, you either have to be lying or you were never paying attention.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/activists-sue-san-francis... https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-activists-demonstrate... https://www.eff.org/press/releases/media-alert-eff-argues-ag... https://www.eff.org/press/releases/law-enforcement-use-face-... https://www.eff.org/press/releases/trumps-blocking-people-hi... https://www.eff.org/press/releases/comprehensive-legal-refor...

New comment by contagiousflow in "EFF is leaving X"

contagiousflow — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:07:16 +0000

You think the EFF was not political before 2024?

New comment by contagiousflow in "Do your own writing"

contagiousflow — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:44:37 +0000

Why would they return "better" results?

New comment by contagiousflow in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

contagiousflow — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:11:11 +0000

You don't think people getting scammed is part of the economy?

New comment by contagiousflow in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

contagiousflow — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:58:54 +0000

But you can have genuinely helpful agents in your attack network. Agents that create helpful pages and get linked by other helpful pages but then later link to malicious pages. It all follows when the cost of page creation goes to zero.

New comment by contagiousflow in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

contagiousflow — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:02:58 +0000

Page rank is trivially gamed by agents. You can make some malicious and some not malicious and have them link to each other.

New comment by contagiousflow in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

contagiousflow — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:53:09 +0000

That makes sense, but maybe the UX problem runs a bit deeper. Maybe contacts apps should surface websites higher in the UI for saved businesses?

Running a small website with a calendar booking link just sounds much easier, cheaper, less error prone, and a better UX than running a voice LLM that is connected to a RAG and calendar. And I still don't think the technology around us has been built to support small websites or small businesses.

New comment by contagiousflow in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

contagiousflow — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:02:03 +0000

Why not use something like Calendly? I am very much of the opinion that text/voice is just the wrong UI for this interaction

New comment by contagiousflow in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

contagiousflow — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:32:16 +0000

Why is talking to a robot preferred? I would much rather have a voicemail with an introduction message that says "See website and send email"

New comment by contagiousflow in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

contagiousflow — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:02:14 +0000

Why can't they just vibe code a uv replacement?

New comment by contagiousflow in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

contagiousflow — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:17:45 +0000

You do understand that the above comment is talking about how the use and reliance on LLMs is what centralizes power right? It's great people can build these tools, but if the means to build these tools are controlled by three central companies where does that leave us?

New comment by contagiousflow in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

contagiousflow — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:05:42 +0000

That's a beautiful Kafkatrap you've constructed. Not much of an argument though. Maybe there's another explanation for this though. Perhaps you think you know much more about different fields than you actually do?

New comment by contagiousflow in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

contagiousflow — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:46:07 +0000

What fields rely only on jargon manipulation to produce papers?

New comment by contagiousflow in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

contagiousflow — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:43:38 +0000

If you're making apps for yourself, sure. But the purpose of a landing page is to convey information to humans. Slopping together some drivel to attempt the appearance of professionalism isn't just lazy, it's dishonest. Have some respect for the things you make and the people who may interact with them. And if you don't want to write boilerplate or copy: don't!

New comment by contagiousflow in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

contagiousflow — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:16:22 +0000

> Writing copy is painfully time consuming

I literally do not understand this sentiment. Do you not enjoy anything that takes time to do? Do you not enjoy putting time in for things that other people will look at?

> I know it'll write better copy than me

If this is the case I am desperately pleading with you to please read and write more. If you think the copy on this page is passable, let alone good, please read more.

New comment by contagiousflow in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

contagiousflow — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:32:09 +0000

And you know those tests are correct how?