Hacker News: ed_elliott_asc

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:36:21 +0000

I genuinely believe this is the only revolutionary feature I’ve seen implemented in excel in the 30 years that I have been using it.

There have been obviously lots of change but nothing like this, incrementally adding functions etc but this changes the type system like nothing else I’ve seen.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?"

ed_elliott_asc — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:24:18 +0000

AI is causing everything to change, small basically trivial oss projects are no longer really needed - that doesn’t seem too bad, we can focus on the more exciting things now!

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

ed_elliott_asc — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:38:37 +0000

I’m just shocked by how “intelligent” people believe a token guessing system can be

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

ed_elliott_asc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:15:11 +0000

How are you sure it fills out the multi step form correctly?

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

ed_elliott_asc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:55 +0000

How do you know it is filling out the application forms correctly?

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

ed_elliott_asc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:56:39 +0000

“Generally” I am not anti ai in any way but I do worry people will end up in trouble by giving things like ai agents too much fredom

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

ed_elliott_asc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:53:38 +0000

At least writing scripts you know what it will and won’t do, with open claw it will probably do what you want and maybe won’t do anything you don’t want.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:33:09 +0000

Just focus on putting your phone in a draw for as long as you can, leave a stopwatch on it running so you can see how long you have left it - it will be short to start with but with practice you’ll regain the ability to live without consuming information.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "It's Not the End of Programming"

ed_elliott_asc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:56:47 +0000

Luckily the kids this time have lots of different opportunities than just tech, they have crypto, social media, and etc

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

ed_elliott_asc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:46:19 +0000

You don’t need to spend all that money to get your mojo back, make the changes that you would make I.e. leave the MacBook on your desk and see if life improves.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:38:34 +0000

I fear this is just the beginning, I’ve seen nothing to say the voting American public are any less into divisive politics than they have been for the last decade

[edit autocorrect changed divisive to decisive]

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

ed_elliott_asc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:28:00 +0000

But 7 Billion to start that process? That is an awful lot of money

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

ed_elliott_asc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:03:24 +0000

You think LLM’s will be more than a tool?

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

ed_elliott_asc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:45:27 +0000

You underestimate what people Will do to lose weight without putting in any effort or changing their lifestyle

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:19:05 +0000

For what it’s worth I’ve not heard anyone ever say anything like that about SAAS developers, it’s a scary time for us all but software dev isn’t going to stop overnight.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

ed_elliott_asc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:15:57 +0000

Can you elaborate? My personal niche was very popular on twitter until Elon bought it and everyone left, now I don’t know anyone still using twitter who was in that niche.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart"

ed_elliott_asc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:12:54 +0000

I use LLM’s to code for me all day but it does feel a little bit like we have really advanced psychic mediums “is there a James in the room, I’m getting a message from someone called Mary…” people have been guessing at the next word and making a career out of it for hundreds of years already.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

ed_elliott_asc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:29:55 +0000

It’s worse than that, false positives are possible but someone generating text should be able to get ai to change some words and formatting to break the watermarking, then ai detectors can tell them how well they did.

I don’t know what the answer but I absolutely know it isn’t this.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:20:02 +0000

And salting overnight :)

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:54:26 +0000

I quite like the ai/search thing - I like that there is a super accessible ai I can ask questions without infecting my ChatGPT history