<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: drusepth</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drusepth</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:35:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drusepth" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure I agree with this. I don't really want to see someone else's stylistic "warts".<p>I just want clean, easy-to-read content and I don't care about the person who wrote it. A tool like Grammarly is the difference between readable and unreadable (or understandable and understandable) for many people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:13:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340782</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When I worked at Microsoft, it cost over $20 to have a human customer support agent pick up the phone when someone called in for help. That was greater than our product margin. Every time someone called for help, we basically lost the entire profit on that sale, and then some.<p>This doesn't seem like a bad thing when it comes to aligning incentives (assuming customers actually want a product they don't need help to use).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:12:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241118</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "WebMCP is available for early preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is it failed? Just compared to, like, the prevalence of HTML?<p>I've worked in web dev for almost 20 years. Almost every year has had some kind of work with XML.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213304</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Serious vulnerabilities in cloud-based password managers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Readers added context they thought people might want to know<p>><p>> Bitwarden volunteered for this research and already fixed the vulnerabilities a year ago</p>
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<p>No insider info but this seems like two teams combined and one of their (redundant) products got shuttered. Not a typical "shutdown" announcement for a service since it was (AFAIK) just a different interface for the same underlying feature, accessible elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052684</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard to find the signal in the noise and know what stories I should even read to get a sense of baseline quality; partially because that's just a hard problem inherent to floods of any content, but also because the recommendation system seems to lack enough data (and also might be weighting the wrong things, e.g. the rank #1 story is also the lowest-rated...).<p>A very cool idea in theory and something very hard to pull off, but I think in order to get the data you need on how readable each story is you'll need to work on presentation and recommendation so those don't distract from what you're actually testing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:17:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876658</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right now I paste screenshots of AWS/Azure/GCP into Claude and ask it questions on how to navigate around / what to do / how to set things up. This seems like a much better experience solely to not have to deal with the weird mac screenshot UX.</p>
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<p>We human writers love emdashes also ;)</p>
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<p>Why are you worried about that world? Is it because you expect science to progress too fast, or too slow?</p>
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<p>In what applications is ⌘Y Undo and not ⌘Z? Is ⌘Y just a redundant alternative?</p>
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<p>Does "as it is currently used" include what this apparently is (brainstorming, initial research, collaboration, text formatting, sharing ideas, etc)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785605</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure this is true... we heavily use Gemini for text and image generation in constrained life simulation games and even then we've seen a pretty consistent ~10-15% rejection rate, typically on innocuous stuff like characters flirting, dying, doing science (images of mixing chemicals are particularly notorious!), touching grass (presumably because of the "touching" keyword...?), etc. For the more adult stuff we technically support (violence, closed-door hookups, etc) the rejection rate may as well be 100%.<p>Would be very happy to see a source proving otherwise though; this has been a struggle to solve!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769156</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you buy a 5-year-old iPhone for the same price you can get a new Android with comparable specs though? If I'm gonna spend 2-3 hundred on a phone, I'd like it to last at least a couple more years. Regardless of OS, you're more likely to get that on a new phone vs any phone 5+ years old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759456</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Solve enough problems relying on AI writing the code as a black box, and over time your grasp of coding will worsen, and you wont be undestanding what the AI should be doing or what it is doing wrong - not even at the architectural level, except in broad strokes.<p>Using AI myself _and_ managing teams almost exclusively using AI has made this point clear: you shouldn't rely on it as a black box. You can rely on it to write the code, but (for now at least) you should still be deeply involved in the "problem solving" (that is, deciding _how_ to fix the problem).<p>A good rule of thumb that has worked well for me is to spend at least 20 min refining agent plans for every ~5 min of actual agent dev time. YMMV based on plan scope (obviously this doesn't apply to small fixes, and applies even moreso to larger scopes).</p>
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<p>"Ads are always separate and clearly labeled."<p>I've heard this before...</p>
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<p>I think the "we" that can work on these systemic problems and actually improve them are a very different "we" than those of us who just need basic health care right now and will take anything "we" can get.</p>
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<p>This isn't feasible for a huge swathe of the USA, often because of costs/insurance but sometimes literally just accessibility/availability. A few years ago it took me nearly 8 months to find a PCP in my city that was accepting new patients (and, wee, they dropped my insurance less than a year after).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535386</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"People using AI" had a meaningful change when they "joined the workforce" in 2025.<p>We may not have gotten fully-autonomous employees, but human employees using AI are doing way more than they could before, both in depth and scale.<p>Claude Code is basically a full-time "employee" on my (profitable) open source projects, but it's still a tool I use to do all the work. Claude Code is basically a full-time "employee" at my job, but it's still a tool I use to do all the work. My workload has shifted to high-level design decisions instead of writing the code, which is kind of exactly what would have happened if AI "joined the workforce" and I had a bunch of new hires under me.<p>I do recognize this article is largely targeted at non-dev workforces though, where it _largely_ holds up but most of my friends outside of the tech world have either gotten new jobs thanks to increased capability through AI or have severely integrated AI into whatever workflows they're doing at work (again, as a tool) and are excelling compared to employees who don't utilize AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506630</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "Gemini 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Generally, any expert hopes their tool/paintbrush/etc is as performant as possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:14:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974096</link><dc:creator>drusepth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drusepth in "iPhone Pocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saw this earlier today and legitimately thought it was satire, especially when I heard the price. Turns out it's real?</p>
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