<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dbetteridge</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dbetteridge</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:52:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dbetteridge" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbetteridge in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Art is subjective, entirely so.<p>People pay more for works by famous artists or specific artists despite  there being artists who can replicate their style exactly.<p>So having someone discount AI art or what they think is AI art isn't a new phenomenon, just an extension of the existing norms</p>
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<p>I appreciate the measured discussion on what can be a thorny subject.<p>So extended clarification on the "belief shaping morality" point.<p>I hold no issue with it, until one person's belief driven morality impinges on another persons own autonomy, you're free to act on your own life and person based on your beliefs but using that belief system as a weapon to cause others harm or reduce their autonomy as a person is where I draw the line.</p>
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<p>To answer your first question (apologies should have done so in the first reply)<p>It isn't worse, objectively the end result is favourable even if the "driver" for it is not (to me).<p>I accept your counter point that at a macro level society requires a set of checks and reinforcement to bias individuals towards social good behaviour, community enforcement is obviously one and religion can be another.<p>But I would argue that while the state legal framework is secular it encodes some moral principles that society has agreed on such as murder, theft, harming other physically or otherwise etc.<p>I also hold no issue with others holding beliefs that shape their morality, I just reject the argument that people without a god cannot have innate morality or a secular morality (a common refrain).</p>
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<p>But those aren't the only options?<p>There's 4 at least<p>Seeing eye believer feeds the needy<p>Non believer feeds the needy<p>Non believer doesn't feed the needy<p>Believer doesn't feed the needy for some reason or another<p>That said I never said it was worse, I asked how it was better than "the state" acting as an all seeing eye for the masses.</p>
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<p>Morality is a social construct.<p>We created it for ourselves and at its core is our social nature and the ability to feel Empathy for other humans/creatures.<p>Now I lead with that because there are historical cases for both religious and non religious people committing horrific acts, both groups having whatever form of "morals" and still those acts happened.<p>Morals based on the idea of an all seeing eye are also questionable at the root, if you only do the "right" thing because you fear consequences then how is that better than the government, police etc acting as a your personal moral compass except to extend the potential punishment beyond the current perceived lifetime.</p>
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<p>Writing code by LLM feels like management, or tech leading a project.<p>It's tiring in a different way, but without the flow state or "high" of solving a particular problem in a clever or intuitive way.<p>Some days I enjoy shipping a change that would never have been greenlit for the sprint points it would have required, other days it's like herding cats and I'm tired with nothing to show for it.</p>
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<p>So Silicon Valley's big-head is based on an actual stereotype?</p>
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<p>In a perfect free market, like a spherical chicken in a vacuum. Maybe.<p>Problem is there's no such thing, monopoly powers, government subsidies, inter-company issues, contracts.<p>All these things can mean that a less functional, more wasteful and less productive organisation performs (in the sense of the metric that companies care about , line go up) better than a 4 day week startup.</p>
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<p>Seems like a great way to end up knowing no real information and with no ability to analyse literature or think for yourself?<p>Not to mention the hallucinations</p>
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<p>To paraphrase Mean Girls<p>Stop trying to make browser llms happen, they're not going to happen.</p>
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<p>The point is the main branch reflects the "units" of change, not the individual commits to get there.<p>One merged pr is a unit of change, at the end of the day the steps you took to produce it aren't relevant to others.<p>My opinion of course, I'm open to understanding why preserving individual commits is beneficial</p>
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<p>Planting trees, digging holes and generally trying to get as much landscaping done as possible before the start of winter halts my progress.<p>Blockers: gravelly clay is a pita to dig with a shovel</p>
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<p>Yeah that's the thing making my head spin, tack a 30% profit margin on that and it's 550usd per day?
Probably going to be more than that for rocketship growth and investor expectations.<p>Is that the game? Lock in companies to this "new reality" with cheap tokens then once they fire all their devs, bait and switch to 2X the cost.</p>
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<p>Ah a fellow Aussie, hi! Sorry to hear about the redundancy (Atlassian?).<p>I did implicitly assume USD but yeah still crazy cash, that'd pay for 2 junior-mid level devs in aus D=</p>
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<p>$700 a day of tokens can't possibly be sustainable right?<p>That's 2X the salary of a lot of the world's software developers</p>
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<p>Alpha Centauri yes, the edge of the universe no :D<p>Edge of observable universe is something like 46 billion light-years away, even at 0.9c thats 50 billion years of travel (22 billion years experienced by the traveller)<p>But yes, you <i>can</i> travel places by constant acceleration but unfortunately it still dwarfs in comparison to those places out of our reach.<p>Unfortunately also, the universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light so you actually cant ever reach the edge</p>
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<p>That would be an accurate summary of almost all software.<p>Either it's quickly produced and thrown out the door as it's a startup trying to iterate and find market fit asap or because it's a bigcorp who's metrics are all not related to software.</p>
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<p>No, the majority of people use something a lot of Americans struggle with "Public transport".<p>The MRT and bus system in Singapore is great for getting around to the point that you don't <i>need</i> a car, but if you <i>Want</i> one it must be new and you have to pay for a license as road space and parking space are physically limited.</p>
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<p>Nah, only if you're not willing to self host.<p>I run a 6 person server on an Intel NUC, without major issue.</p>
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<p>Premium economy is a thing, but debatable on the sardine thing.<p>Basically closer to "old economy", where you have leg room and real utensils</p>
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