Hacker News: estetlinus

New comment by estetlinus in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

estetlinus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:43:23 +0000

rm -rf is the least of your concerns.

New comment by estetlinus in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

estetlinus — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:58:00 +0000

The real flex is delivering it in one-tenth of the time. Mentioning lines of code is mostly noise.

I’ve worked with 20-year-old codebases and products that grew organically over decades and still sit well below a million lines of code. Using LOC as some kind of health or success metric makes me more suspicious than impressed.

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

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:14:18 +0000

What is STOA? Do you mean SOTA?

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

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:10:48 +0000

CI/CD?

My non-techie friends send me screenshots of ChatGPT. I guess that’s a modern micro aggression?

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

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:07:48 +0000

100% yes.

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

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:05:19 +0000

We had a notorious (traditional) ML course at uni, with a very high fail rate. I got an assignment full with “complete the proof”-type derivations and Python stubs. ChatGPT had just received PDF support so wth, in goes the complete assignment, and out comes a report in Latex. The TA even gave me a little star. This was the golden era, before AI-slop had made it to the vocabulary.

Unethical? Yes. In line with course goals? Also yes.

New comment by estetlinus in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:49:36 +0000

I have never been involved in a project where people make good commits. Having a convention at least forces people to make thoughtful one-liners.

New comment by estetlinus in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:41:32 +0000

Lol.

> “I definitely feel out of place sometimes,” said Emma, who told reporters she will never forget the blank stares she once received upon mentioning Petula Clark. “It’d be nice to know what everyone’s talking about for a change.”

I can picture the dad lurking in the shadows.

New comment by estetlinus in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

estetlinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:43:41 +0000

I remember my dad trying to make me fall in love with The Beatles. He loved The Beatles. I sat there quietly on the sofa while he got to relive his adolescence. The experience felt less like discovering something together and more like being a prop in someone else’s nostalgia.

I can’t help getting the same feeling from this blog post. “Look at this amazing CD player!” Cool, Dad. I’m genuinely happy for you. Meanwhile, Katie just got an iPhone 17 in her Easter egg. I'm a dad myself, and I dread the moment my daughters find out about TikTok...

New comment by estetlinus in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

estetlinus — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:40:15 +0000

I did a course of parallell computing 6 years ago. I still dont understand anything about it. Probably would if I had used an LLM, since I would have used it as a private tutor.

New comment by estetlinus in "Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16"

estetlinus — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:40:53 +0000

Personally I would prioritize banning things like smoking, alcohol and meat.

But then again, it’s kinda a free world. You can’t just ban everything. I think an age ban is a good middle road.

New comment by estetlinus in "MCP is dead?"

estetlinus — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:04:20 +0000

Who in their right mind writes an MCP server by hand? Of course you vibe code them.

New comment by estetlinus in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

estetlinus — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:48:06 +0000

> the ruination of the web and/or the destruction of entire career paths

The web is only about 30 years old and has never existed in some fixed, ideal state. Sure, it’s noisier and increasingly full of AI-generated slop, but are we already at the “everything was better in the old days” stage?

As for the destruction of career paths, technological change has been doing that for centuries. Digitization alone transformed or eliminated countless professions. I’d be curious what the authors’ moral stance is on those disruptions. Is the concern specifically about AI, or about technological progress more generally?

I put this blog under the old grumpy man file for now.

New comment by estetlinus in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

estetlinus — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:02:56 +0000

Actually, one hour of overtime should cost twice as much, if not more. When I worked on movie sets, hour 1-8 was ordinary pay. Hour 8-12 was 1/5 of the daily pay an hour, hour 12-15 1/3 of daily pay an hour and so on. This forced production companies to front load effort on planning.

New comment by estetlinus in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

estetlinus — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:51 +0000

> Just like artisans and craftsmen that were replaced by assembly line workers more than a century ago

Do you really need to go that far back for a comparison? We no longer need human computers to perform tedious calculations, or typists to draft and distribute correspondence.

The simplification of frontend development was never a final state. It has always been continuously evolving through abstraction and automation.

New comment by estetlinus in "Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix"

estetlinus — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:16:23 +0000

Try ctrl + v

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10099#dis...

New comment by estetlinus in "The worst job interview I ever had"

estetlinus — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:01:23 +0000

Trauma baiting was a new term for me. Must’ve felt awful. Your story made me think of this old Far Side comic, where the psychotherapist just writes “he’s nuts” in his notebook[1].

[1] https://pin.it/7S4LVwrr6

New comment by estetlinus in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

estetlinus — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:57:47 +0000

I’ve also done it, without finding polyps or anything. Obviously it’s normal to run through the entire Bristol Stool Chart in one sitting.

New comment by estetlinus in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

estetlinus — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:12:18 +0000

Quite the opposite. It’ll most likely “outgrow” us.

New comment by estetlinus in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

estetlinus — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:36:09 +0000

AI graphics division: Putting in 100s of engineering hours to build and internal AI tool to produce AI-slopified marketing in order to save ~2h a month of human work.