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New comment by discreteevent in "I refused to train the AI that could replace me"

discreteevent — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:35:50 +0000

> they can do something else with their lives.

Let them eat cake.

New comment by discreteevent in "AI-written code is still your code"

discreteevent — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:40:59 +0000

> there is no replacement for humans immersed in their world yet, so we need developers with with good understanding of the domain

It's not enough. The software model that you produce ends up becoming part of the domain. You need to understand the system. You are the only one who has the potential do that if you have the ability and are willing to work at it.

New comment by discreteevent in "AI-written code is still your code"

discreteevent — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:36:39 +0000

> I think a lot of shops are going to have to go through a couple years of Github-style "why the fuck is our service always down?" before they put 2 and 2 together.

I think it will be like the outsourcing wave in the early 2000s. A lot of places ended up pulling development back in house when it became unsustainable.

New comment by discreteevent in "Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI"

discreteevent — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:02:24 +0000

> I've never seen a company that was a., successful and b., prioritizing tech debt/upkeep at the same time.

Maybe you have only worked in start ups? I have certainly seen products fail or partially fail because of tech debt. One product was extremely unproductive to work on because of a patched together architecture. To the extent that bugs were introduced easily but took so long to turn around that customers left the product and told us that was the reason.

New comment by discreteevent in "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations"

discreteevent — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:26:37 +0000

Imagine my backend server thinking "I am not alone" the first time my front end sends it a request.

New comment by discreteevent in "You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It"

discreteevent — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:01:27 +0000

You're lying.

New comment by discreteevent in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

discreteevent — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:05:47 +0000

> I would rather have my fingernails ripped out than deal with years of government bureaucracy.

These are just words. What matters are your actions. Your action is that you will cause other people to suffer pollution in order to enrich yourself. Why can't you stand up like a man and just say that that is what you want to do?

And if you say "I am doing this to benefit humanity who need even more AI so badly" - Well those are also just words.

New comment by discreteevent in "That's a Lot of YAML"

discreteevent — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:21:23 +0000

- "something broke" is way better than stack traces with line numbers

That sums it up. Its the same since the days of XML. Someone decides to make something configurable externally and then everything gets put in there for convenience. Now we are programming in XML/YAML without even a stack trace (or a debugger, or call hierarchy, or type checking or ... )

New comment by discreteevent in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

discreteevent — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:14:34 +0000

How do you even know that it's consistently 40 hours in 3? What kind of developer ever had that kind of estimation accuracy (unless it's really repetitive) or even focuses on productivity rather than the problem like that? This sounds more like factory work than design or development. I really don't get it.

New comment by discreteevent in "Stop Making TUIs"

discreteevent — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:59:33 +0000

Use Qt or Flutter

New comment by discreteevent in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

discreteevent — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:57:58 +0000

What about a Jacquard loom? Is it conscious? There is a vast gap in complexity and abilities between that and a bicycle.

New comment by discreteevent in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

discreteevent — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:48:47 +0000

Would you want evidence that your your bicycle is not conscious? It can sense your inputs. It responds to the environment. The gears do multiplication (reasoning!).

New comment by discreteevent in "Bun 1.4"

discreteevent — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:54:50 +0000

> There is no non-AI coding anymore.

The JVM and GCC have forbidden AI generated code. The world is bigger than you think.

New comment by discreteevent in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

discreteevent — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:44:29 +0000

Yes, AI is a perfect accompaniment to a post-truth world. I'm hoping there will be a backlash soon and that those politicians, tech CEOs and AI will be rudely ousted from their perch and shunned thereafter.

New comment by discreteevent in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

discreteevent — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:59:20 +0000

It's a bigger watch than the f-91w. But when the f-91w came out it was a standard size for a mans watch. Cars were a lot smaller then too.

New comment by discreteevent in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

discreteevent — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:54:16 +0000

You could look at these two which are the original f-91 with minimal faceplate. I have the second one and I like it a lot.

https://www.casio.com/europe/watches/casio/product.F-91WB-1A...

https://www.casio.com/europe/watches/casio/product.F-91WB-8A...

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

discreteevent — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:45 +0000

> software engineering is more or less solved

But the example you give is of a terminal for which there are copius examples in open source code. How hard is it really for a pattern matching machine to do that?

If I was doing it I would start by forking an existing repo and I might even say then that "software engineering is more or less solved since the open source revolution"

But I don't work on things like that.

New comment by discreteevent in "Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with"

discreteevent — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:12:05 +0000

In fact professional endurance athletes have to train at low intensity because they put out so many watts at higher intensities that they can't get enough fuel in to sustain it for the number of hours they train. If they do then they end up with chronic fatigue etc. Once an amatuer is under a certain number of hours a week (10?) and relatively low wattage it doesn't make sense for them to train at low intensity. (You could be a really fast amateur and still be putting out relatively low watts compared to a pro).

New comment by discreteevent in "On AI regulation and messaging"

discreteevent — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:12:57 +0000

See also this article by a genomics PhD about how intelligence is not the bottleneck in medical research.

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the...

New comment by discreteevent in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

discreteevent — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:20:12 +0000

Then they would have to deal with copyright. AI is the washing machine that leaves everything spotless.