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New comment by cudgy in "A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code"

cudgy — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:15:31 +0000

But if you verify the code generated using the Harry Potter spell using spells from other wizards and possibly even a mortal human, the risk of code incantation can be mitigated.

New comment by cudgy in "I will not be using LLMs in my coding"

cudgy — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:44:16 +0000

Don’t think it was snarky. My guess is op is just suggesting that you could automate further, but you are ratcheting toward it one step at a time while op is suggesting to allow the ai more autonomy.

New comment by cudgy in "Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding"

cudgy — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:33:11 +0000

But will we need fewer people is the question.

New comment by cudgy in "US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures"

cudgy — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:46:29 +0000

Lol. You don’t think these data centers affect market rates?

New comment by cudgy in "Net worth for people aged 30–33 in the U.S."

cudgy — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:54:16 +0000

The robots that work there will love it.

New comment by cudgy in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

cudgy — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:29:19 +0000

Retrain for what?

New comment by cudgy in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

cudgy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:43:08 +0000

How much net after all costs, driving time, fuel, tools, equipment, truck, dues, and company’s take?

New comment by cudgy in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

cudgy — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:59:07 +0000

Don’t gangs almost always run political discourse?

New comment by cudgy in "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor"

cudgy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:26:15 +0000

Seems like a good role for a drone rescue ship that targets the EPIRB location.

New comment by cudgy in "GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper"

cudgy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:51:36 +0000

Even when humans used to do the calculating?

New comment by cudgy in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

cudgy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:51:50 +0000

People that do fundamental research typically require a bachelor degree.

New comment by cudgy in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

cudgy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:31:57 +0000

Perhaps it is a perversion of logic to think that someone who has not been trained yet as a philosopher would think like a philosopher.

New comment by cudgy in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

cudgy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:51:09 +0000

Claude code includes a large system prompt with every request while tool like pi does not. This could save tokens resulting in lower costs.

New comment by cudgy in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

cudgy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:01:44 +0000

Deportations are down from my understanding. Most people think deportations are up due to the “shock and awe” ice operations. The current administration, as with prior administrations, has no intentions of actually reducing the amount of cheap labor whether they are undocumented or not.

The main impact is from fewer workers entering the country clandestinely from Mexico due to the current administration’s enforcement of the border and the general impression of immigrants being treated poorly by administration. Illegal border crossings are now at a 50 year low.

New comment by cudgy in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

cudgy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:48:34 +0000

> You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.

How many human managers actually do that, though? How many websites performed satisfactorily before AI arrived? How well has technology matched what consumers really need or want? Maybe, as a society we have underperformed and nescient AI performs well enough (or even better) in comparison.

New comment by cudgy in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

cudgy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:02:50 +0000

Most companies only need a subset of the features that these mega-platforms offer, as they operate within single industry, targeting specific customers many times in a single country with a simpler legal landscape.

I have no idea for sure, but odds are 80% of the revenue of these current saas providers is generated from 20% of the features they offer. Lightweight newcomers can just focus on that 20% and ignore the other 80%.

New comment by cudgy in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

cudgy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:46:09 +0000

3 cashiers per location and 9 developers per company is not a win/win for the 1,000s of cashiers replaced by the 9 developers.

New comment by cudgy in "OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up"

cudgy — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:42:14 +0000

Iron and fiber are durable and last for decades. Data centers (where the current flows for inference) consist of hardware that becomes obsolete within 5 to 10 years.

The question is can improvements in the hardware both in cost and performance outpace the increased demands on the LLMs and their future derivatives.

New comment by cudgy in "How vibe coding is killing open source"

cudgy — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:19:32 +0000

Well said. This also aptly describes the emergence of “script kiddies“ in the early 2000’s (now comically referred to as “engineers“). Promotion of simply combining libraries that are not understood by amateurish developers into mostly poorly implemented solutions thrust upon the end users. Corporations loved the lower salaries of web developers and the efficiency of utilizing open source libraries, thereby devaluing the skilled developers whose original intent was to share their knowledge via these oss libraries. Web development was the most affected by this trend initially, and as we see now is mostly impacted by the emergence of LLM‘s.

New comment by cudgy in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

cudgy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:09:02 +0000

True, but you must agree it’s more granular then a simple reference to 1/3 or 1/4 of the population of earth.