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New comment by dtj1123 in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

dtj1123 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:10:38 +0000

This is not accurate. I've seen CEOs under 6ft wearing platform shoes do a perfectly good job of walking about looking important.

New comment by dtj1123 in "I'm Done Coding with AI"

dtj1123 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:34:34 +0000

Case 3: nothing changes, the people who are currently getting good at directing LLMs get pretty good at directing LLMs, the people choosing to do things the old way get or remain good at that, the job market adjusts salary expectations for each group according to how useful they turn out to be in the new normal

Case 4: LLMs continue to improve incrementally, the people who are currently getting good at directing LLMs get pretty good at directing LLMs, the people choosing to do things the old way get or remain good at that, the job market adjusts salary expectations for each group according to how useful they are likely to become in the new normal

Case 5: any number of things that you and I haven't foreseen because the future has a habit of completely bucking expectations

And what does LLMs going bust even mean? These are programs that we run, they aren't going anywhere, even when the current AI investment bubble completely implodes. The models, and their impact on programming culture, are here to stay.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Using an old Android phone as a music player"

dtj1123 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:09:25 +0000

Indeed, why is this on the front page of HN?

New comment by dtj1123 in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

dtj1123 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:08:09 +0000

Name checks out.

The Lewis Chessmen

dtj1123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291321

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dtj1123 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

dtj1123 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:30:27 +0000

Completely agree. My first semester of university was straight up hazing, which at the time felt like crap.

The consequence though, was that every single person who stayed on the course actually cared about being there. Staying motivated for the next three and a half years was made so much easier because the first six months were so difficult.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

dtj1123 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:47:30 +0000

Would it be so hard to ad a VM with configurable directory mounting to claude code? This is my setup and it's been great.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space"

dtj1123 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:18:24 +0000

Presumably you could decode the chain of thought from the latent representation though.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space"

dtj1123 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:20:38 +0000

I really appreciate all the honesty here.

New comment by dtj1123 in "AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot"

dtj1123 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:34:18 +0000

This tracks with my observation that upper management types in essentially every domain are pampered assholes who haven't interacted with the real world in decades, if ever.

Hell yes a chatbot is going to have better judgment.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

dtj1123 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:30:22 +0000

Neither can I, if I'm being honest.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

dtj1123 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:29:13 +0000

No, both of these things can happen in parallel.

The suggestion is that a 1T model could be made to run on cheap consumer hardware of the future.

Cyberscript

dtj1123 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:58:30 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberscript.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142130

Points: 68

# Comments: 61

New comment by dtj1123 in "How to Do Great Work (2023)"

dtj1123 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:54:55 +0000

Genuine question, what work has Paul Graham done that can be classified as 'great'?

New comment by dtj1123 in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

dtj1123 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:53:26 +0000

This begs the question of what the fundamentals really are. There are a bajillion bootcamps and learn-x-in-a-weekend books out there, most of which seem to focus on getting you familiar with basic syntax rather than teaching the how and why.

If memorising syntax and a standard library are no longer differentiators, then what exactly are you supposed to learn?

New comment by dtj1123 in "[dead]"

dtj1123 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:55:16 +0000

It's an open issue from 3 years ago, that has potentially serious implications and an easy fix.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Superlogical"

dtj1123 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:15:26 +0000

Cheers, you just changed my life.

New comment by dtj1123 in "KOReader"

dtj1123 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:29:18 +0000

It really does rock.

New comment by dtj1123 in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

dtj1123 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:52:55 +0000

I hate weird bash tricks with a passion.

The extent to which the script author gets to feel smart and efficient is exactly the extent to which the future reader of the script gets to feel like an idiot.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

dtj1123 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:06:29 +0000

Yep, on rereading my comment I totally failed to make this clear. Cheers.