<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: epicureanideal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epicureanideal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 01:02:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=epicureanideal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epicureanideal in "Local AI needs to be the norm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also wonder about JS only, Python only, etc models.<p>Maybe the future is a selection of local, specific stack trained models?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 04:20:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091019</link><dc:creator>epicureanideal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epicureanideal in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this possibly demonstrate the limits of usefulness of using LLMs to explore new ideas or predict things?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:15:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944421</link><dc:creator>epicureanideal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epicureanideal in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If that’s the ideal you compare your own life to, you will be unhappy.<p>Most people in this conversation on HN seem to just be talking about a regular house and a lifestyle that would’ve been normal for a manual laborer 60-70 years ago.</p>
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<p>Thanks for sharing!  Seems to show that both are doing poorly relative to earlier generations, and it doesn’t seem Gen Z is greatly (or much at all) outpacing millennials.</p>
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<p>And to steel man your position, when the Russian revolution happened the bolsheviks promised peace, an end to the war.</p>
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<p>Source for the latter occurrence?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741786</link><dc:creator>epicureanideal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epicureanideal in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And for a lot of AI transformation tasks, for a long time I've been using even clever regex search/replace, and with a few minutes of small adjustment afterward I have a 100% deterministic (or 95% deterministic and 5% manually human reviewed and edited) process for transforming code.  Although of course I haven't tried that cross-language, etc.<p>And of course, we didn't see a massive layoff after the introduction of say, StackOverflow, or DreamWeaver, or jQuery vs raw JS, Twitter Bootstrap, etc.</p>
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<p>Unless you're desperate to feed and house your family and anything that shortens your search by a day might keep a roof over your head?</p>
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<p>In case someone at Anthropic reads this.. if you find some way to make software developer salaries go up as a result of using your tools, or find some way to fast forward society to that stage of the effect of AI, you’ll have a lot of fans, and even faster adoption.<p>It would be great if there was some internal “make this benefit Main Street and knowledge workers” department, helping find ways for workers or creators to capture the value of some of the increased productivity.</p>
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<p>Although I tend to think we overwork the working class such that they have no energy to keep up their health, so this would basically be taxing them because they're poor in many cases.</p>
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<p>Maybe so, but personally it seemed to be referred to as a "specification" or "spec" for a long time, and then suddenly around maybe 5 years ago I started to hear people use "PRD".  I'm not sure what caused the change.</p>
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<p>Absolutely. Imagine being able to look at 100 years of street view history, or several hundred, at some point in the future.</p>
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<p>> Yeah, it is over for several roles, especially frontend web development<p>Only if the front end was super simple in the first place, IMO.  And also only for the v1, which is still useful, whereas for ongoing development I think AI leads people down a path of tools that cost more to maintain and build on.<p>It may be that AI leads to framework and architecture choices best suited to AI, with great results up front, and then all the same challenges and costs of quick and dirty development by a human.  Except 10x faster so, by the time anyone in management realizes the mess they’re in, and the cost/benefit ratio tilts negative even in the short run as opposed to the obvious to engineers long term, there’s going to be so much more code in that bad style that it’s 10x more expensive for expert humans to fix it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:08:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972649</link><dc:creator>epicureanideal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epicureanideal in "We mourn our craft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Success will be determined by personal brand, social media presence, social connections.<p>Always has been. (Meme)</p>
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<p>Could this lead to more software products, more competition, and more software engineers employed at more companies?</p>
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<p>Great idea!<p>And if needed, to actually swap defective landing gear parts to whatever extent possible.  Maybe difficult or impossible with current aircraft designs, but maybe future ones could be designed with this backup option.  Maybe a secondary landing gear insertion point or something.</p>
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<p>Claude and other LLMs can be used through JetBrains, and the IDE provides a significantly better experience than VS Code in my opinion.</p>
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<p>This has been my experience as well.  So far, whenever I’ve been initially satisfied with the one shotted tests, when I had to go back to them I realized they needed to be reworked.</p>
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<p>Get your domain names now!  AI Slop Abatement, the major growth industry of the 2030s.</p>
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<p>I agree, I’m just saying the extent is influenced heavily by the increasing availability of workers at the lower end of the automation distribution.</p>
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