Hacker News: dexwiz

New comment by dexwiz in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

dexwiz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:17 +0000

Profit in video games as an industry is largely the gambling industry hiding under the another umbrella. I'm not even talking about loot boxes. Just old school gambling games like roulette and slot machines but in a digital format. Once you strip that away and loot boxes, the numbers are great for classic games.

New comment by dexwiz in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

dexwiz — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:14:36 +0000

Pandemic really ramped it up. Also screen addiction has gone mainstream. In front of a screen 12+ hours a day 20 years ago? Total nerd. Now? Standard behavior.

New comment by dexwiz in "The job ain't quite the same"

dexwiz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:46:25 +0000

It's not the same, and there is no going back. We moved another layer up in the abstraction stack, but this shift feels fundamentally different.

I wonder if the people who enjoy the purely agentic version would also enjoy management. Personally, I have said no to more money because I enjoy the ground level work. But that work is just not the same.

New comment by dexwiz in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

dexwiz — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:59:48 +0000

I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean smarter, but it always burns more tokens. Medium and low seem to be decent for day to day tasks.

New comment by dexwiz in "Delta"

dexwiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:48:23 +0000

Does anyone else hate reading AI summaries of code? Code can be pithy, but at least its terse compared to prose. When you add how verbose LLMs can be, I often end up reading a paragraph to explain a few lines. Or the opposite happens where the summary skips important edge cases or criteria. "You're right, X also does Y. I missed that in my initial analysis," is much too common of a phrase.

I like the idea of using LLMs to transform code into something more readable, and vice versa. I am not sure if meandering paragraphs and linear lists are the best targets.

New comment by dexwiz in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

dexwiz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:33:37 +0000

How can you sanely project the last 12 months forward? We have seen a huge uptick in usage. Last summer AI was a toy to most devs, now every enterprise developer I talked to uses it every day. Coding agent providers are surely going to hit market saturation in the near future.

New comment by dexwiz in "Towards a harness that can do anything"

dexwiz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:58:35 +0000

I think a better term would be bridle, but most people don't know it. But they do put harnesses on their kids and pets.

New comment by dexwiz in "Ask HN: What's your multi-agent orchestration setup, and success rate with it?"

dexwiz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:53:46 +0000

Anyone I talked to who actually built software found them to be bunk. Occasionally they work, but mostly they just burn tokens.

The only people I know still hyped on this approach were managers who were detached from actual engineering, primarily producing bespoke dashboard and tools.

New comment by dexwiz in "Zitchain: Bitcoin has structural flaws. I designed an alternative"

dexwiz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:12:05 +0000

You missed the crypto hype by a few years. Also zit is slang for a pimple or acne. Not a great name.

New comment by dexwiz in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

dexwiz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:43:52 +0000

So that puts them in the middle? For such a massive state, regression to the median sounds likely.

New comment by dexwiz in "The Ü Programming Language"

dexwiz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:46:30 +0000

Bold claims with no examples. Anyone can make a markdown chart with some pros and cons. Description by comparison is weak.

New comment by dexwiz in "Remote work, not AI, has sidelined recent college graduates, research finds"

dexwiz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:28:29 +0000

Great, more RTO mandates.

New comment by dexwiz in "Ask HN: Why would people in town be upset about a datacenter being installed?"

dexwiz — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:39:48 +0000

Because these data centers put enormous pressure on local utilities, pay 0 dollars back into the local economy, and get tax breaks. Often they are facilitated by backroom deals with local politicians. This plays both into anxieties surrounding AI and general corruption.

New comment by dexwiz in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

dexwiz — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:36:05 +0000

Files became an implementation detail.

New comment by dexwiz in "Why Most Senior Devs Plateau, and What to Do"

dexwiz — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Because we value leadership over craftsmanship. Ever since people like Ford showed that it was not individual skills but optimized systems that make the biggest corporate machines with the most potential for profit, we have prioritized one over the other.

New comment by dexwiz in "I did everything but my app doesn't attract anyone"

dexwiz — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:58:55 +0000

Does it do anything novel? Looks the same as any other basic stock ticker app. Most of the popular ones are made by companies with massive marketing budgets.

New comment by dexwiz in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

dexwiz — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:36:48 +0000

We had a private network on campus circa 2010. Streaming was up and coming but not huge. Gnutella was great on the gigabit intranet. You could download entire HD movies in minutes where conventional torrents may be hours.

New comment by dexwiz in "Show HN: Faction Fiasco – single-player card battler, 100 unhinged characters"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:41:02 +0000

I would rather see MS Paint art like Slay the Spire than ai slop art. I think you could have done ai art for a demo but it's so obviously ai, it immediately turned me off. And may turn others off too.

New comment by dexwiz in "Show HN: Faction Fiasco – single-player card battler, 100 unhinged characters"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:11:19 +0000

Bleh AI card art. One of the best part of card games is the ability to showcase high quality illustrators.

New comment by dexwiz in "Most Developers Have Never Built Anything Real – The Numbers Are Embarrassing"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:21:55 +0000

Hosting and public are different. This measure is like saying unless you are painting public murals you haven't made real art. The take is just so wrong it's hard to know where to start.