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New comment by ehutch79 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

ehutch79 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:19:28 +0000

It's not the failure here or there, it's a pattern. It's not even the failing, it's the excessive hype cycle.

We keep seeing things being overhyped, with not much thought behind it. Meta is particularly bad about it. They changed their name for the hype of their VR product, when VR was still niche and had a long way to go, and still does. They couldn't even figure out legs for launch.

Now they have a 'superintellegence'? Yeah, that sounds like just the latest in a line of bullshit. Why would this be different.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

ehutch79 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:13:22 +0000

Establishing a pattern of over hyping of projects that then disappear isn't a shallow dismissal.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

ehutch79 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:35 +0000

How's the metaverse doing? It was the next big thing and how we're all going to be working inside it in... was it like 3 months ago?

Maybe they need to mine more libra coin first? or is it diem now? is that even still part of meta?

I'm sure this new AI is super intelligent and super awesome and will be writing all the code, making all the blog posts, and generating all our youtube shorts in 6 months.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

ehutch79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:23:12 +0000

Just include 'make it secure' in the prompt. Duh.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

ehutch79 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:01:09 +0000

If my high school English is worth anything, that quote has nothing to do with being careless, or the privileges accorded to wealth, but is in fact a metaphor for the external struggle of chicken farmers against predators.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

ehutch79 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:43:11 +0000

Your experience is not everyone s experience. Are you one of their colleagues. No? Then they weren’t talking about you.

New comment by ehutch79 in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

ehutch79 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:27:02 +0000

vibe coding implies a complete lack of process. The definition is basically YOLO....

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

New comment by ehutch79 in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

ehutch79 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:47:41 +0000

> I wasn't aware that migrating projects off Cobol has become cheap and it would only take a Claude subscription.

It's like you never even saw u/bumlazer42069's seminal post that 'itd only take 3 prompts and a weekend for me to port all that cobol to typescript'

New comment by ehutch79 in "AirPods Max 2"

ehutch79 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:47:15 +0000

Noise cancellation was made worse due to patent troll lawsuits.

New comment by ehutch79 in "MacBook Neo"

ehutch79 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:40:43 +0000

Right? also, where's the thunderbolt ports? and it needs about another inch? maybe half inch on the screen. And really, 16gb is the new minimum. There's a whole bunch of acceleration and co processing features in the m series missing from the a series, so they really should put an m5 in there instead...

Seriously though. Every feature someone says is missing and should have been added would be another $100 on the cost. This is already likely a low margin product meant of someone who's only using a browser and maybe a few apps.

New comment by ehutch79 in "MacBook Neo"

ehutch79 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:58:57 +0000

Depends what you're developing. You could build a pretty powerful webapp as long as you don't fall into 'i need my blog running in kubernetes' trap.

For a couple months I was on an 8gb m1 air, it was perfectly fine, even with docker containers. As long as i didn't launch teams....

New comment by ehutch79 in "Enable CORS for Your Blog"

ehutch79 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:46:04 +0000

If you know what a user agent is, let alone how to change it, CORS is not meant for you.

Its guide rails to help the tech illiterate not get hacked. It raises the bar on what gets through. It’s not going to stop a determined attacker, but will catch enough to make a dent. Defense in depth and all that.

New comment by ehutch79 in "This time is different"

ehutch79 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:58:18 +0000

Surely the point of doing mockups is to get feedback.

Are you just not doing that anymore?

New comment by ehutch79 in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

ehutch79 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:33:22 +0000

> BTW, I think a lot of people were/are greatly overestimating the value of coding to business success.

Uh, no they're not. Did you not see the recent announcement from unity. One short prompt and you get a whole AAA+ game in one shot.

New comment by ehutch79 in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

ehutch79 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:06:56 +0000

Yeah.... The code isn't the hard part. That's not where the value is.

This hard part when you're doing in house stuff is getting a good spec, ongoing support, and long term maintenance.

I've gone trough development of a module with a stakeholder, got a whole spec, confirmed it, coded it, launched it, and was then told it didn't work at all like what they needed. It was literally what they told me... I've said 'yes we can make that report, what specific fields do you need' and gotten blank stares.

Even if you're lucky and the original stakeholder and the code are on the same page, as soon as you get a coworkers 'wouldnt it be nice if...' you're going to have a bad day if it's hand coded, vibecoded, or outsourced...

This has always been the problem, it's why no-code never _really_ worked, even if the tech was perfectly functional.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month"

ehutch79 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:47:53 +0000

Isn't that the point of vibe coding? You don't even look at the code. Just trust the llm to take the wheel.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang=en

New comment by ehutch79 in "Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket"

ehutch79 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:59:22 +0000

That's the steam deck, the handheld, not the minipc like cube they announced

New comment by ehutch79 in "The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)"

ehutch79 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:13:50 +0000

If my high school English is to be believed, there isn’t a sentence that isn’t metaphor, and if you think it’s straightforward, you’re getting an F.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Believe the Checkbook"

ehutch79 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:25:44 +0000

No, not ai. Just an alternative input method.

New comment by ehutch79 in "Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep"

ehutch79 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:07:01 +0000

sell $50 keychains. done.