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New comment by devin in "The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes"

devin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 05:04:45 +0000

Do you mean bearish?

Maybe. Nobody can see the future, so I agree it's kind of arbitrary to call this the sell-off, but plotting it against these other events over the coming months may be interesting, and you have to start somewhere.

New comment by devin in "Show HN: Did prediction markets do any predicting this midterms?"

devin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 04:57:41 +0000

Neat idea, thanks. Why show the cursors on here? I found them somewhat distracting and am not sure what purpose they're serving.

New comment by devin in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

devin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 04:47:39 +0000

This is exactly what I'm seeing all over the place. I'd like to say it's not true for me, but I'd probably be lying a little bit to say so. It is causing some atrophy in my skillset. One could argue that I'm gaining something different through LLM usage like "getting good at asking the model questions" or something, but it doesn't frankly feel like a skill which is all that useful on a going forward basis.

New comment by devin in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

devin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:11:16 +0000

If the underlying energy is coming from a renewable source, then it wouldn't matter all that much, would it?

New comment by devin in "I wish tech companies knew more about me"

devin — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:15:07 +0000

We used to have a running joke in the office that all pandora stations eventually converge on Maroon 5. You could pick a death metal station and eventually it would somehow work its way to a paid 2 play popular band track. It was still pretty good though.

New comment by devin in "AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt"

devin — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:16:42 +0000

No, most software is this way.

https://www.galois.com/articles/specifications-dont-exist

New comment by devin in "Notice How Old websites look better than new websites"

devin — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:42:55 +0000

Clicking the back button and having it work as expected was nice, also.

New comment by devin in "The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence""

devin — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:40:33 +0000

It’s a clear spoonerism.

New comment by devin in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

devin — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:28:56 +0000

Can, or should?

New comment by devin in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

devin — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:17:56 +0000

Ha! I can relate. I have cash set aside for just such an occasion. It's that second part that's the tricky bit, eh?

New comment by devin in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

devin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:52:01 +0000

My hope for such an event is mostly to bring tech leadership types back down to planet earth and to get them to shut up for a few minutes. There are a lot of AI charlatans who need to be humbled by the markets so the serious folks among us can get back to doing real work.

ETA: I also guess I sort of hope for it because this whole cycle has felt so incredibly irrational that I desire a small return to sanity, even if it comes at the cost of some of my retirement.

New comment by devin in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"

devin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:21:04 +0000

ApoB is no doubt responsve to medication, but my understanding is that diet and exercise can't get anywhere close to achieving that 85% number.

New comment by devin in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"

devin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:17:59 +0000

Behavioral changes can only do so much to lower ApoB. It is a meaningful marker and may trigger additional workup. It may also signal that you should at least consider a statin.

ApoA is completely out of your control and will not change with behavioral modification.

So, no, you're incorrect that these tests are superfluous and all you need to say is "diet and exercise". Besides, even if that was always the answer to these results, you should still have a baseline to see if behavioral modification is doing anything.

New comment by devin in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"

devin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:16:18 +0000

Sources? That 1% number is in my understanding wildly incorrect for statins, if that's what you're referring to. Are you comparing use of statins for people who already are low risk for heart attack over the next 10 years?

New comment by devin in "Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?"

devin — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:33:28 +0000

I don't think pairing, nor TDD come anywhere close to the abdication of responsibility that agentic programming does.

New comment by devin in "Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?"

devin — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:26:55 +0000

The good devs I know avoid dependencies like the plague.

New comment by devin in "Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers"

devin — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:26:12 +0000

I had a similar take, but I was wrong.

New comment by devin in "A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis"

devin — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:03:32 +0000

It's going to be funny/sad to watch people who have deeply misapplied LLM tech discover "oh gee, this is pretty expensive. I guess I can just use ML?"

New comment by devin in "What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us"

devin — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:24:09 +0000

Their lot (VP-level certainly) rotates in and out, often with 3-4 layers of middle management between them and the crews executing, which makes direct assignment of blame exceedingly difficult. Every 3-4 years you get a near-complete rotation of leadership in an area of †he business, and any memory of what anyone was trying to achieve before is forgotten, either intentionally or unintentionally, and then you do it all over again.

New comment by devin in "Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz"

devin — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:05:51 +0000

It's different to me from text written by another person, because it is awful in a way that even a bad human writer can't replicate without first performing a lobotomy on themself.