Hacker News: edfletcher_t137

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

edfletcher_t137 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:47:57 +0000

> 7. How does gitdot make money?

> We don't.

This cannot last forever. What's the plan when it runs out?

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

edfletcher_t137 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:33:08 +0000

Agentic development. From "chat bot" to bonafide, capable developer. "Oh, shit!"

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Backpressure is all you need"

edfletcher_t137 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:33:25 +0000

yep, this has been obvious to a lot of people for awhile. especially after Cherny posted about exactly this in a massively-popular thread... four months ago: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179861115511237

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

edfletcher_t137 — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:58:21 +0000

Not just the domain: it's an agentic stack! In other words, I could use their product to create the exact type of PRs they're lamenting here.

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

edfletcher_t137 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:56:33 +0000

This is their referenced 2013 paper on the subject:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258423577_Data_Stor...

Clearly they have been working on this for over a decade.

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

edfletcher_t137 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:16:04 +0000

> Of all the ways I used AI, research had by far the highest ratio of value delivered to time spent.

Seconded!

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"

edfletcher_t137 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:55:31 +0000

Came here to comment on this line: it completely changes the tone of the article. It's fairly reasonable and neutral until we get here, upon which the antagonism is jarringly clear.

In fact I would posit this is the central crux of the post: OP does not believe those LLM evangelists were ever good programmers.

As others have already noted[1], many well-known excellent programmers - including yourself! and now even Linus! - would beg to differ.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610143

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

edfletcher_t137 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:31:50 +0000

> But for now, I want to emphasize a broader point: I’m hoping 2026 will be the year we stop caring about what people believe AI might do, and instead start reacting to its real, present capabilities.

> So, this is how I’m thinking about AI in 2026. Enough of the predictions. I’m done reacting to hypotheticals propped up by vibes. The impacts of the technologies that already exist are already more than enough to concern us for now…

SPOT ON, let us all take inspiration. "The impacts of the technologies that already exist are already more than enough to concern us for now"!

Tall Poppy Syndrome

edfletcher_t137 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:06:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.humancode.us/2026/01/02/tall-poppy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492803

Points: 3

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New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention"

edfletcher_t137 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:52:31 +0000

Working with Andrew Lee on vp.net, who maliciously imploded Freenode some years ago. Birds of a feather...

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

edfletcher_t137 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:56:37 +0000

> YouTube I believe has more viewing hours than Netflix.

Yep by a significant margin in fact https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/streaming-reaches-h...

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

edfletcher_t137 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:55:55 +0000

> Does HBO+Netflix have a 25% share of the streaming market? I've no idea, but possibly.

No, not even close. According to Nielsen from this year, Netflix has only 7.5% of total TV hours and "Warner Bros + Discovery" clocks in at 1.5% ("HBO" as an independent entity is not tracked), for a total of 9%. A whopping 16% to go before crossing that 25% threshold.

https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/streaming-reaches-h...

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

edfletcher_t137 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:35:26 +0000

Those folks who are trying these tools are going to make it through this period. If you're not yet, you won't. Period, end of story.

Those hackers you're so lamenting are gonna make it, but you aren't.

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "AI World Clocks"

edfletcher_t137 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:38:04 +0000

Lack of Claude is a glaring oversight given how popular it is as an agentic coding model...

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

edfletcher_t137 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:06:20 +0000

> If there is AI slop in your codebase it is only because you put it there.

Nailed it, came here to say this.

If anything, this entire post should just be titled "AI PEBKAC".

Don't blame the tool because you're using it wrong.

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Trumpcard (Official US Government Website)"

edfletcher_t137 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:34:50 +0000

What The Actual Fuck

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Anduril's product engineering machine"

edfletcher_t137 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:30:33 +0000

"Amusement Park" has to be one of the worst headline choices here. So these people are amused by building killing machines? They are amused that their work is directly related to death & destruction? They are monsters if so.

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "The current state of LLM-driven development"

edfletcher_t137 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:16:31 +0000

The first two points directly contradict each other, too. Learning a tool should have the outcome that one is productive with it. If getting to "productive" is non-trivial, then learning the tool is non-trivial.

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker"

edfletcher_t137 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:16:29 +0000

OP's YT is full-on "old man yelling at clouds" https://www.youtube.com/c/lukesmithxyz

New comment by edfletcher_t137 in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

edfletcher_t137 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:48:01 +0000

> The perception of privacy is just as important as the technical details that make something actually private. I try very seldom to call for anyone to be fired, but I think whoever authorized this movie ad through Wallet push notifications ought to be canned.

Spot on. Look at it this way: would SJ have allowed this to happen? Absolutely not. And if it somehow had happened while he were still there, he would've unquestionably (and quickly) fired the responsible parties.