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New comment by deadbabe in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:38:50 +0000

If an “artist” comes up with ideas for some artwork then just prompts it out with an LLM I am similarly not impressed, and never will be, even if the image looks cool. It’s a cool image, not an impressive effort. That’s all these code projects are. Shiny objects.

New comment by deadbabe in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:26:06 +0000

Exactly. But the damage is done. I find nothing anyone does in tech impresses or interests me anymore. The only things that interest me are things I’d like to also do myself. I imagine it’s probably the same for a lot of other people.

Like OK someone vibecoded an FPS in COBOL or Pokémon emerald in a web browser with web assembly? Ok good for them, piss off karma farmer.

New comment by deadbabe in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:22:31 +0000

Do internet comments count as reading?

New comment by deadbabe in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:18:02 +0000

They did it to make more money as you waste more time burning tokens with bad responses.

New comment by deadbabe in "Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:37:32 +0000

Cognitive debt

New comment by deadbabe in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:03:19 +0000

We must gatekeep now, the industry needs regulation.

New comment by deadbabe in "πFS"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:00:27 +0000

A not so distant calendar also has the day you will pass away.

New comment by deadbabe in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

deadbabe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:40:52 +0000

Shit like this makes me think it’s time we start regulating the software engineering discipline into formal certifications and licensing and then we ONLY take seriously any code developed by someone with such qualifications, and they must be very strict qualifications none of this self-taught bootcamp BS.

There is no other solution to agentic onslaught.

New comment by deadbabe in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

deadbabe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:59:07 +0000

In the end you will just be doing stuff with a robot anyway.

New comment by deadbabe in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

deadbabe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:42:33 +0000

On the contrary, I think software hackathons could really hit a golden age where we see how far people can push the limits of what we ever thought possible within 24 hours or a weekend through the use of AI. Less “pretty UI with mock data” and more fully working products ready for the consumer market.

New comment by deadbabe in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

deadbabe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:40:21 +0000

Ok so even less demand for software engineers? All the software engineers that the industry will ever need again have already been created?

New comment by deadbabe in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

deadbabe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:16:25 +0000

The need for seniors isn’t going to “shoot through the roof” if they are using AI.

If senior engineers are even 2x more productive with AI, then it’s like there are 2x as many senior engineers.

Most likely, seniors will be 10x more productive in 5 years using AI. This outpaces the retirement rate.

All the software engineers we need for the next 20-30 years are already in the current workforce.

Only way juniors can rise to the level of seniors will be through independent projects, long unpaid internships/apprenticeships, etc.

The industry will now have heavy gatekeeping built in.

New comment by deadbabe in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

deadbabe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:20 +0000

More than that, a ban on all general purpose computing.

You can only use specific applications downloaded from walled gardens. You cannot write and execute arbitrary code.

If you are an engineer, all code must be generated via LLM and it passes through some verification through a centralized security and compliance authority on the way to you. You must be fully licensed.

This will be, the end of malware.

New comment by deadbabe in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

deadbabe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:42:02 +0000

What are you looking for in the pixels?

New comment by deadbabe in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

deadbabe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:16:48 +0000

I want a foldable to make the device smaller in my pocket. Like an iPhone Air that could fold in half like a fliphone.

New comment by deadbabe in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

deadbabe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:36:15 +0000

Are “AI agents” the next “frameworks” in the AI age?

New comment by deadbabe in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

deadbabe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:33:45 +0000

Yea only a matter of time before it’s really really good at PCB routing

New comment by deadbabe in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

deadbabe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:28:56 +0000

Has anyone used AI to manufacture entire physical gadgets of some sort?

New comment by deadbabe in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

deadbabe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:34:55 +0000

You’re always someone’s exit liquidity.

New comment by deadbabe in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

deadbabe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:57:54 +0000

It will trigger a race to the bottom. The sweeter the juice the better the squeeze.