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New comment by crabsand in "Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left"

crabsand — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:09:10 +0000

The only real moat is care. It was, it is, it will be.

New comment by crabsand in "The Lobster Programming Language"

crabsand — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:15:45 +0000

I see implementation inheritance there and I don't like it. Otherwise cool language.

New comment by crabsand in "Microslop Manifesto"

crabsand — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:03:22 +0000

That exact stance (+scribes' financial interests) prevented printing press to be used in the Ottoman Empire widely for more than 200 years

New comment by crabsand in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

crabsand — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:47:03 +0000

+1. Was using screen with this and now tmux for the last 15 years maybe.

New comment by crabsand in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

crabsand — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:40:52 +0000

I built an RSS to Bluesky poster an hour ago.

In the long run, writing a gui for https://github.com/iesahin/xvc and Git.

New comment by crabsand in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

crabsand — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:56:50 +0000

a qr code for your home page may be another option

New comment by crabsand in "Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?"

crabsand — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:46:30 +0000

I'll help AI to replace developers (or lawyers or doctors or managers...) in better ways

New comment by crabsand in "The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)"

crabsand — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:40:32 +0000

No one here understands 'sikisinca' as 'sikişince', because as you can see the final vowel is different. There are cases for these to be mixed though, sikildim May be "I'm fscked" but it's usually understood as "sıkıldım", "I'm bored."

New comment by crabsand in "Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists"

crabsand — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:42 +0000

What I have in mind as an analogy is house cleaning or laundry. In the past these would consume so much time and when washing machines appeared, they probably didn't wash as the "best washer" but they let a large percentage of population to spend less time with laundry and people began to see having clean clothes as a standard.

As you said the current state of LLMs is not dependable but we'll learn how to deal with their poor quality and come up with solutions. The overall secondary effect may be increased standards for the knowledge work everywhere. No one would bother to read TOS for a SaaS, now you can ask for a summary from LLM, or ask it to write a privacy notice to your blog.

New comment by crabsand in "Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists"

crabsand — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:11:11 +0000

I believe LLMs will create more jobs than it eliminated by raising standards in various fields, including software development.

We will have to get to 100% test coverage and document everything and add more bells and whistles to UI etc. The day to day activity may change but there will always be developers.

New comment by crabsand in "Burn Your Title"

crabsand — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:01:51 +0000

I deleted "Senior ML/MLOps Engineer" from LinkedIn bio and wrote "Data Carpenter, Software Plumber, Container Architect, Model Trainer, Robot Guide" yesterday :))

Xvc: Track binary files next to your code in Git repos

crabsand — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:55:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/iesahin/xvc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503838

Points: 1

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New comment by crabsand in "You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work (2019)"

crabsand — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:36:31 +0000

... but we don't know which 5%

New comment by crabsand in "How much are LLMs boosting real-world programmer productivity?"

crabsand — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:35:30 +0000

Recently I tried to translate a few 100-200 line scripts from zsh to nushell with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it sucked. This is now my go to experiment for new LLMs, translating code between two programming languages must be easier than translating natural language to a programming language, yet we don't see any such results, even for popular languages.

New comment by crabsand in "Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)"

crabsand — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:11:45 +0000

This is my experience as well. I wrote Telegram bots in Python and Go for myself, they had weird bugs difficult to debug. Then I wrote it in Rust and it works. I don't have to go back every three weeks to reset the server. Would I write it in C++? No way.

New comment by crabsand in "Rewrite It in Rails"

crabsand — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:37:53 +0000

"I couldn't horseshoe a hard systems language to replace a web framework for a CRUD app written with soft language, so I had to go back"

Rails is very good until you need to go off rails. Even in that case rewrites must be partial and not to aim to fully replace the original. Most of the time rewrites are a waste of time. This article could be true if you s/Rust/Ruby and tell the story in the opposite direction.

New comment by crabsand in "What's your favorite RSS feed reader?"

crabsand — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:08:38 +0000

You can also use FeedMe Android app with Miniflux.

New comment by crabsand in "Investors are suddenly getting concerned that AI isn't making any serious money"

crabsand — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:45:17 +0000

If you're working with text and you have some regularities in your workflow, you can gain some productivity points from current technology. In time most industries will have these regularities, similar to workflow improvements after the introduction of computer.

But I also doubt if it will have that much effect. In general we have diminishing returns from these kind of technology, telegraph's effect on the world was larger than the computer, computers were more valuable than WWW and search engines have smaller effect than WWW. AI may be big, but could it be bigger than search or e-commerce? I doubt it.

New comment by crabsand in "Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls"

crabsand — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:29:00 +0000

The same I feel, so I didn't bother to print human readable dates in my open source mlops project. xvc file list[0] prints times in the same format even if it changed a minute or a year ago.

[0]: https://docs.xvc.dev/ref/xvc-file-list

New comment by crabsand in "Creator of Zig asked "how to open a file in C++" in SO 15 years ago"

crabsand — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:37:38 +0000

... and he didn't like the answer and went ahead to create Zig. :)

I know it's misleading but you can learn anything in 10-15 years anyway. Why is this a thing, I don't know :)