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New comment by discreteevent in "AI is slowing down"

discreteevent — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:58:39 +0000

> that Open AI can't match.

Open AI can match it but at what price?

New comment by discreteevent in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

discreteevent — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:13:24 +0000

This anonymous article is likely more FUD from the AI industry. "Just give up,you can't beat the machine. Please go quietly, we want to take your place and it's easier for everybody if you don't resist because you believe it's pointless"

'Maybe I should consider woodworking' - Fuck off.

New comment by discreteevent in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

discreteevent — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:11:09 +0000

No, it's bots. When it comes to AI the HN community is now the mark.

New comment by discreteevent in "KDE at 30"

discreteevent — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:26:24 +0000

Quick, clean and easy to use. I've only been using it for a year but I'm definitely not going back.

New comment by discreteevent in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

discreteevent — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:28:33 +0000

You pay tech debt with compounding interest at exorbitant rates.

Another way to look at it is to say that like any analogy applied to software development it is weak. It is not like normal debt at all because you must start paying back immediately one way or another. So you can't just pile hack on hack and wait for a year to pay back. You will start having to pay back for the hacks within a couple of months because of the bugs you have to fix and how hard it is to work with the messy codebase. In some cases you may even grind to a halt before you get anything substantial out to the customer. This doesn't mean that you should never hack stuff in. But in general it's cheaper to pay off the debt quickly instead of paying for the debt.

New comment by discreteevent in "Ferrari Luce"

discreteevent — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:19:50 +0000

The back of the car is ugly.

New comment by discreteevent in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

discreteevent — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:02:15 +0000

I was programming desktop applications when the web came along. I don't remember anyone ever saying they had been mandated to program for it.

The web took off all by itself because it had a clear value proposition for some use cases.

New comment by discreteevent in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

discreteevent — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:37:42 +0000

> Some devs in my org have fully embraced AI; some would not even use AI

So if the people who embrace AI areore successful then the others will follow. Just like every other new tech. Why does AI have to be forced? What's the hurry? Especially when there's no clear example of a company jumping ahead because of their use of it.

It's idiots being driven by FUD. That's the reason.

New comment by discreteevent in "The Eternal Sloptember"

discreteevent — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:45:16 +0000

Eternal LLMber?

New comment by discreteevent in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

discreteevent — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:17:44 +0000

I think your comment is the disingenuous one. We have no time left and "Fix the power source" is happening way too slowly in the real non-theoretical world. But what can happen in zero time is to not build another data center for something that nobody really needs.

New comment by discreteevent in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

discreteevent — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:56:35 +0000

There was an article in the FT a while ago about how confused and frustrated Trump was about the strait of Hormuz. The conclusion was that not everyone has a price but that concept was outside of the scope of his narrow mind.

New comment by discreteevent in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

discreteevent — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:40:24 +0000

"Refuse to use them" is a strawman. Of course the graduates will use them. They will do whatever it takes to make a living. What they hate is that either they won't make a living or they will make a worse living because of AI.

New comment by discreteevent in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

discreteevent — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:41:15 +0000

I've been here since 2008 and I'll say it. Vividfrier is a bot. The people behind the likes of vividfrier are vandals, shitting all over the commons just to get even more than the massive amount they have already been given.

HN was a tremendous resource built by its members and the moderators. In the last year or so a lot of that has been destroyed by people who have no sense of decency. They see deception as a virtue. They call it hustle or whatever. WTF?

New comment by discreteevent in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

discreteevent — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:04:30 +0000

This argument comes up a lot. The point is that with unreviewed AI nobody understood the code at any time (including the AI). This is completely different to a C compiler wherein the writers and maintainers deeply understand the code. This means that even though I don't understand it, I can use it with some confidence.

Your point about AI being another abstraction similar to the "mostly deterministic" C compiler also comes up often but there are many arguments against it. If you think the determinism of a compiler and an AI are similar then I'm not sure whether you know anything about how either of them work or have even compared examples of what they produce.

New comment by discreteevent in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

discreteevent — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:29:27 +0000

And at the same time they talk about "competent developer"s

New comment by discreteevent in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

discreteevent — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:45:09 +0000

This is even more true when there are so many blurry photos. It's as if Nugs acolytes keep putting up photos and making claims but not a single photo clearly shows his three heads or single pogo stick leg. The more photos there are, the more likely it is that at least one of them should clearly display Nug.

New comment by discreteevent in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

discreteevent — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:33:17 +0000

I have never used an LLM to write. Writing forces me to think (and I edited the comment a couple of times when writing it which helped me clear up my thinking). "It's a viable way to live and sometimes it's the only way to live" is a personal realization that has taken me some time to understand. You can go back through my comment history to the time before LLMs to check if my style was different then.

New comment by discreteevent in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

discreteevent — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:56:43 +0000

I don't think it's the complete fanbase. However, there are lots of people in the world who live their whole life by vibing. It's a viable way to live and sometimes it's the only way to live. But they have a very loose relationship with truth and reason. Programming was a domain that filtered out those people because they found it hard to succeed at it. LLM's have changed that and it's a huge problem. It's hard to know if LLMs will end up being a net win for the industry. They may speed up the good programmers a little, but those people were able to program anyway without LLMs. They will speed up the bad programmers a lot and that's where the balance sheet goes into the red.

New comment by discreteevent in "Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig"

discreteevent — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:34:59 +0000

> look at the era of software that garbage collectors have ushered in. Programs are bloated, slow, and wasteful compared to the literal super-computers that are running them.

I don't think this even qualifies as correlation.

New comment by discreteevent in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

discreteevent — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:03:32 +0000

> Defense contracting is as good or bad as the policies of the government which is going to change over time.

This is true sometimes. But many times the companies and the government get together to kill people for money (The dead people's money or the taxpayers money - they don't mind which, money is money)