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New comment by draftsman in "Please Use AI"

draftsman — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:14:34 +0000

You’ve either willfully ignored the point, or completely missed it as it flew over your head. AI wants to replace “your friend” completely.

New comment by draftsman in "Please Use AI"

draftsman — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:08:23 +0000

I find very little joy in trying to wrangle the blackboxes that are LLMs. The undeterministic nature of them frustrates me, and feels nothing like the software engineering I know and love. However, I know I’m in the minority here, as almost everyone else in the industry I’ve talked to seems to love using them.

New comment by draftsman in "The Art of Money Getting"

draftsman — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:16:09 +0000

Do you find joy in using LLMs to write software? I tried using Claude/Cursor/CodeX/etc. for personal projects and experimentation, and I found no joy in it. I learned nothing, and when my MVPs were complete, I only had a shallow understanding of how the code that powered them worked.

New comment by draftsman in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

draftsman — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:58:20 +0000

And there’s good reason for that. Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, and so on have aggressively marketed LLMs as better than humans at working. It’s no surprise when we find out something is build using an LLM, we expect it to match the marketing.

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

draftsman — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:14:02 +0000

Do you have a source for your “millions” claim? Every source I can find says there are somewhere between 60 and 70 thousand immigrants currently in detention centers, based on internal ICE data. That’s still a fuck-ton of people to cage up, there’s no need to hyperbolize.

New comment by draftsman in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

draftsman — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:03:27 +0000

> More productivity means fewer people are required.

Required for what? If your goal is growth, and AI really is improving productivity of every employees that uses it, then why would you fire anyone?

New comment by draftsman in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

draftsman — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:56:52 +0000

Unfortunately I think we’ll see more and more of this as companies continue to encourage their employees to use LLMs everywhere and for everything. Eventually they will have to come to terms with the cost of such mandates, and it’s either ask your employees to “use AI less,” or it’s let some percentage go and continue to let the rest burn tokens.

New comment by draftsman in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

draftsman — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:19:00 +0000

Your comment reminded me that this still happens in the NBA. At 43 years old, Udonis Haslem seldom played minutes towards the end of his 20 year career with the Heat. But they kept him on as a “player-coach,” in that he was a mentor to the younger players and assisted in their coaching. Kyle Lowry is another current example of this “player-coach” role, currently on the Sixers.

New comment by draftsman in "I quit drinking for a year"

draftsman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:48:27 +0000

Conversely, I started after Calude Code.

1. The thought of slop everywhere is too much 2. I no longer need to be sober to build software

New comment by draftsman in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

draftsman — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:08:12 +0000

And more importantly, think of the funding we’ll get

New comment by draftsman in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

draftsman — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:21:20 +0000

LLMs have lowered the bar for the unskilled person to create shit software. I have used Opus 4.6 on a number of projects, and it still spits out buggy, and sometimes, flat out broken code. I was actually surprised when it completely hallucinated the names of query params for an HTTP request in my code, when in the prompt I had explicitly given it the exact names it needed to use. I thought these frontier models were supposed to be game changing.

New comment by draftsman in "AirPods Max 2"

draftsman — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:08:22 +0000

I hope that commenter was being hyperbolic. I have heard of headphones making visible impressions or “dents” in the soft tissue and msucle after long periods of use (Google Tyler1 headphone dent if you don’t believe me), but such a dent would disappear within minutes or hours. An actual deformation of the skull due to headphone-wearing would definitely be strange.

New comment by draftsman in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

draftsman — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:12:12 +0000

RuneScape private servers used to bring in tons of money. I helped manage one when I was in my early teens, and I can confirm the owner (who was only a few years older than I) was bringing in mid six-figures annually.

Then of course there was the rampant gambling. The founders of online casino Stake and streaming platform Kick both started their “careers” in RuneScape gambling. IIRC they invented “staking” which was a method of gambling gold against other players, before they were banned. But the gambling economy in RuneScape used to IRL mint millionaires for sure.

New comment by draftsman in "Levels of Agentic Engineering"

draftsman — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:17:09 +0000

Example?

New comment by draftsman in "Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records"

draftsman — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:12:06 +0000

I think it’s critically important to mention that the VA provided all this data to Ancestry.com years ago. According to the newletter op linked, Ancestry.com charges $300/year for access to this data. This unfairness is what prompted the lawsuit and ultimate release of data.