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New comment by draxil in "I quit. The clankers won"

draxil — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:34:10 +0000

I think the fact you need tool calling to stop it doing that, shows the underlying issue with trusting it to do anything without a human

New comment by draxil in "I quit. The clankers won"

draxil — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:32:05 +0000

Useful tool, and if you're just scratching a small itch it's great.

For any serious system you still need to understand and guide the code, and unless you do some of the coding.. You won't. It's just novelty right now is skewing our reasoning.

New comment by draxil in "I quit. The clankers won"

draxil — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:29:39 +0000

This is a good parallel. In the 90s when I learned to drive I was quite good at navigating. Now google maps is on a screen in my car telling me where to go whenever I drive beyond my most common routes.

Really all the research telling us about AI skills atrophy.. We should have guessed from previous experience.

New comment by draxil in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

draxil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:17:51 +0000

Good to have more than a hammer in your toolbox!

New comment by draxil in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

draxil — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:12:54 +0000

I assume you mean open weight models? I wish we had better open source models. It would make LLMs far less icky if we had nice clean open trained models. A breakthrough on the cost of training would be nice.

New comment by draxil in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

draxil — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:59:14 +0000

I think Gemini might be wise to rename, now there's a commercial product trampling all over it's namespace.

New comment by draxil in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

draxil — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:36:50 +0000

emacs users who are hostile to you configuring things, aren't really getting the point IMO :)

New comment by draxil in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

draxil — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:36:56 +0000

how many of these stars were applied by openclaw?

New comment by draxil in "Redefining Go Functions"

draxil — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:55:27 +0000

Spirit of Perl is still alive

New comment by draxil in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

draxil — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:31:55 +0000

We've seen this process before. If you don't pay, you are the product.

New comment by draxil in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

draxil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:11:15 +0000

Well especially the lisp parts!

New comment by draxil in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

draxil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:10:45 +0000

Sort of except it seems the more the co-worker does the job it atrophies my ability to understand.. So soon we'll all be that annoyingly ignorant manager saying, "I don't know, I want the button to be bigger". Yay?

New comment by draxil in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

draxil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:05:35 +0000

This to me is the point.. LLMs can't be responsible for things. It sits with a human.

New comment by draxil in "Vibe coding kills open source"

draxil — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:14:16 +0000

I think that's an optimistic interpretation of how good LLMs are?

But I think the reality is: LLMs democratise access to coding. In a way this decreases the market for complete solutions, but massively increases the audience for building blocks.

New comment by draxil in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

draxil — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:04:59 +0000

I was just about to post that it didn't affect us (heavy AWS users, in eu-west-1). Buut, I stopped myself because that was just massively tempting fate :)

New comment by draxil in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

draxil — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:57:55 +0000

But it's pretty much a given at this point that if you use agents to code for any length of time it starts to atrophy your ability to understand what's going on. So, yeah. it's a bit of a devils chalice.

New comment by draxil in "The Q Programming Language"

draxil — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:02:58 +0000

does quickly draw attention to it's examples directory though

New comment by draxil in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

draxil — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:43:12 +0000

Of course ripgrep runs on your machine and you control it.

New comment by draxil in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

draxil — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:07:03 +0000

Yes, but then they also redefined what that means half way through.

New comment by draxil in "Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB"

draxil — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:02:38 +0000

I can't get past someone not being allowed to turn on bluetooth!