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New comment by eplatzek in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

eplatzek — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:52:59 +0000

I fully disagree. This felt human.

New comment by eplatzek in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

eplatzek — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:52:02 +0000

I recently ready through the Tiffany Aching set and adored her.

New comment by eplatzek in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

eplatzek — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:50:20 +0000

This felt like a human wrote it to me. It was weird and private. It didn't feel like slop. It felt too niche to be slop.

Is there slop by the author or the site?

New comment by eplatzek in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

eplatzek — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:21:11 +0000

What about the situation where a bunch of flower sellers end up on the same area of town?

Hotelling's Law (also known as the Principle of Minimum Differentiation or Hotelling’s Spatial Competition).

New comment by eplatzek in "The death of partying in the USA"

eplatzek — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:58:44 +0000

With COVID partying meant that someone could kill you with an illness. That's a pretty hard lesson to unlearn. They carries a lot of momentum.

Like with World Wars there's been a generational impact that changed how people relate to one another. The tribal momentum, of one monkey teaching the next, gets lost.

New comment by eplatzek in "Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming"

eplatzek — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:52:37 +0000

I've had the opposite experience. Now I can give an LLM my requirements, ask it to create a plan, I'll review the plan, then I have it implement the plan. I have it add test cases before doing a refractor to make sure everything is still covered. I get to be an architect, a product owner. In this way I get to create and not have to worry about implementation too much. I'll just make tweaks with a review. It's been a joy to describe my end state and watch it get built.

New comment by eplatzek in "Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?"

eplatzek — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:29:23 +0000

Honestly that feels a like a human.

After hitting my head against a wall with a problem I need to stop.

I need to stop and clear my context. Go a walk. Talk with friends. Switch to another task.

New comment by eplatzek in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

eplatzek — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:46:14 +0000

How so?

New comment by eplatzek in "I quit Google to work for myself (2018)"

eplatzek — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 04:20:56 +0000

would you be willing to share how much more you made and what you had been making?

New comment by eplatzek in "Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech"

eplatzek — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:24:11 +0000

I did some spot checks and the cadence and intonation of their speech feels so natural. The sentences flow. It's the best I've ever heard. Thanks for doing this.