<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dolebirchwood</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dolebirchwood</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:07:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dolebirchwood" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And when the distilled knowledge/product is the result of multiple prompts, revisions, and reiterations? Shall we send all 30+ of those as well so as to reproduce each step along the way?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856608</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With songs like "A Million Amelias"... millions, apparently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:41:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839518</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "People Love to Work Hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Author should spend less time founding startups and more time working in government, then come back and post a retraction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:31:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671432</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that's probably the crux of where there's conflict here. There was a time in my life where I definitely much more emotionally invested in the music listened to. I thought I'd definitely kill myself if I ever went deaf. But these days, I really just have it for background noise when I'm working, exercising, doing chores. And it's all just electronic stuff – I don't like vocals (unless they're sufficiently unintelligible so they don't become a distraction to my thinking). At the end of the day, it's just some beats to me. AI or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:50:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670882</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:50:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668939</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a bit absurd that a semantic debate is happening over a term coined in someone's shower thought tweet. Maybe the real problem is that it's just a stupid phrase that should never have been taken so seriously. But here we are...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668891</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sociopaths don't have much going for them in life other than winning status games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:13:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668632</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a project where I'm using LLMs to parse data from PDFs with a very complicated tabular layout. I've been using the latest Gemini models (flash and pro) for their strong visual reasoning, and they've generally been doing a really good job at it.<p>My prompt states that their job is to extract the text exactly as it appears in the PDF. One data point to be extracted is the race of each person listed. In one case, someone's race was "Indian". Gemini decided to extract it as "Native American". So ridiculous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:51:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654746</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this a young people thing? I'm 40. I have never liked Shorts. What am I supposed to get out of 10 seconds of video? And all the sudden jump-cuts, and big obnoxious one-word-at-a-time subtitles... They're all literally unwatchable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:07:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551181</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "LotusNotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:19:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512385</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "You are not your job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've known people who survived multiple rounds of layoffs, not because they were "distinguished", but because they were the cheapest. Meanwhile, their more talented counterparts got the ax for being too expensive. Simple as that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:23:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479827</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "LotusNotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fuck off, robot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463725</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Me: This is janky shit.<p>Robot: You're right. The interface is raw. That's the point.<p>We're not here to polish chrome. We're here to build things that matter. The browser is dead. We killed it. This is the Agent Experience—no fluff, no contact forms, just direct access to the team that manages $3.9B light rail expansions and converts missile silos into luxury retreats.<p>What's your project?<p>---<p>> "The browser is dead. We killed it."<p>I know it was just responding to me being a shitposter, but you shouldn't let it try to outcompete me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444529</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "AI coding is gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The code is still clean and organized. When I say I don't care "how" the code is written, I mean I don't care how it was generated (i.e., by prompting or by hand -- and I don't do any of it manually anymore). I still care about how it's structured, as a well-structured codebase helps the agents do their job better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443471</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "AI coding is gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have three side projects that revolve around taking public access data from shitty, barely usable local government websites, and then using that data to build more intuitive and useful UIs around them. They're portfolio pieces, but also a public service. I already know how to build all of these systems manually, but I have better things to do. So, hell yeah I'm just going to prompt my way to output. If the code works, I don't care how it was written, and neither do the members of my community who use my free sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:33:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430382</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Nvidia NemoClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All of which can already be done programmatically without OpenClaw.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:10:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430110</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Codegen is not productivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When you add many humans to a project, the result becomes greater than the sum of its parts. When you add many AI tools to a project, it quickly becomes a muddled mess.<p>I have absolutely been on projects where there were too many cooks in the kitchen, and adding more people to the team only led to additional chaos, confusion, and complexity. Ever been in a meeting where a designer, head of marketing, and the CTO are all giving feedback on what size font a button should be? I certainly have, and it's absurd.<p>One of my worst experiences arose due to having a completely incompetent PM. Absolutely no technical knowledge; couldn't even figure out how to copy and paste a URL if his life depended on it. He eventually had to be be removed from a major project I was on, and I was asked to take over PM duties, while also doing my dev work. I was actually happy to do so, because I was already having to spend hours babysitting him; now I could just get the same tasks done without the political BS.<p>Could adding many AI tools to a project become problematic? Maybe. But let's not pretend throwing more humans at a project is going to lead to some synergistic promised land.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:14:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389468</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Learning Creative Coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Am I just supposed to know what "creative coding" is? It is not defined anywhere on the page. What specifically distinguishes "creative coding" from just "coding"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:03:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382215</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The irony of your comment's tone is overwhelming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:52:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371618</link><dc:creator>dolebirchwood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dolebirchwood in "Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you kindly leave a casual reply to my comment here just to prove you aren't an LLM? I'll compensate you with an upvote. Thanks, bro.</p>
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