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New comment by falloutx in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

falloutx — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:47:49 +0000

by devs you mean those two guys on twitter who brag about vibe coding with 100 agents running simultaneously. While Claude Code still can't display images. I wonder what they are doing with those 100 agents

New comment by falloutx in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

falloutx — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:08:46 +0000

They'll hire one guy to vibe code like ai.com thing

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:44:40 +0000

I was literally creating a 2nd account on github today for this purpose.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:59:02 +0000

Yes, my point is that it was possible to build it before AI and in much less effort than people imagine. People in college build an interpreter in the less than couple weeks anyway and that probably has more utility.

Consider two scenarios:

1) I try to build an interpreter. I go and read some books, understand the process, build it in 2 weeks. Results: I have a toy interpreter. I understand said toy interpreter. I learnt how to do it, Learnt ideas in the field, applied my knowledge practically.

2) I try to build an interpreter. I go and ask claude to do it. It spits out something which works: Result: I have black box interpreter. I dont understand said interpreter. I didnt build any skills in building it. Took me less than an hour.

Toy interpreter is useless in both scenarios but Scenario one pay for the 2 week effort, while Scenario 2 is a vanity project.

New comment by falloutx in "Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:50:44 +0000

Grindr is next Google. Sometimes when I need to search something, I dont even open google or chatGPT, i just type into the DMs of someone and they refuse to answer.

New comment by falloutx in "Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:48:29 +0000

This is actually a genius level move from Grindr. Anthropic/OpenAI can only dream of the stable userbase like this. Few years ago I even suggested they should add actual brainstorming and prototyping features like Framer for bros to discuss their business ideas. Dopamine rush of grindr notification into my AI chats would literally be insane levels of productivity.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:40:56 +0000

This is a cope. Managers are not magicians who will finally understand who is good and who is just vibe coding demos. In fact now its gonna become even harder to understand differences for the managers. In fact its more likely that the managers are at the same risk because without a clique of software engineers, they would have nothing to manage.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:32:55 +0000

Just a regular senior SDE at one of the Mag7. I can tell you everyone at these companies is replaceable within a day. Even within an hour. Even the head of depts have no power above them, they can be fired on short notice.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:25:40 +0000

I get this comment everytime I say this but there are levels to this. What you think is bad today could be considered artisan when things become worse than today.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:09:51 +0000

100% disagree. CNC is a precision machine while AI is the literal opposite of precision.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:07:46 +0000

I am becoming more and more convinced that AI cant be used to make something better than what could have built before AI.

You never needed 1000s of engineers to build software anyway, Winamp & VLC were build by less than four people. You only needed 1000s of people because the executive vision is always to add more useless junk into each product. And now with AI that might be even harder to avoid. This would mean there would be 1000s of do-everything websites in the future in the best case, or billions of doing one-thing terribly apps in the worst case.

percentage of good, well planned, consistent and coherent software is going to approach zero in both cases.

New comment by falloutx in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:59:17 +0000

> And the initial gut reaction is to resist by organizing labor.

Yeah like tech workers have similar rights to union workers. We literally have 0 power compared to any previous group of workers. Organizing of labour cant even happen in tech as tech has large percentage of immigrant labour who have even less rights than citizens.

Also there is no shared pain like union workers had, we all have been given different incentives, working under different corporations so without shared pain its impossible to organize. AI is the first shared pain we had, and even this caused no resistance from tech workers. Resistance has come from the users, which is the first good sign. Consumers have shown more ethics than workers and we have to applaud that. Any resistance to buying chatbot subscriptions has to be celebrated.

New comment by falloutx in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

falloutx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:28 +0000

> It may not be 100x as was told to me but it's definitely putting the strain on the entire org.

But thats not even the top 5 strain on github, their main issue is the forced adoption of Azure. I can guarantee you that about 99% of repos are still cold, as in very few pulls and no pushes and that hasn't changed in 3 months. Storage itself doesn't add that much strain on the system if the data is accessed rarely.

New comment by falloutx in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

falloutx — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:49:24 +0000

No its not. 121M repos added on github in 2025, and overall they have 630 million now. There is probably at best 2x increased in output (mostly trash output), but no where near 100x

https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...

New comment by falloutx in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

falloutx — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:47:49 +0000

Lmao not even close. Github themselves have released the numbers and it was 121M new repos with 2025 ending up with 630M

https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...

New comment by falloutx in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

falloutx — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:08:42 +0000

We can all chill for couple weeks, Github guys take your time. Infact, don't even worry about it.

New comment by falloutx in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

falloutx — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:56:08 +0000

Wow an issue going on for 6 months without any input from Anthropic again, not even surprised

New comment by falloutx in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

falloutx — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:39:28 +0000

If you look at his github you can see he is in the first week of giving into the vibes. The first week always leads to the person making absurd claims about productivity.

New comment by falloutx in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

falloutx — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:18:02 +0000

By recently, you mean since 2007

New comment by falloutx in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

falloutx — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:16:57 +0000

Exactly I have seen these know it all comments on my own repos and also tldraw's issues when adding issues. They add nothing to the conversation, they just paste the conversation into some coding tool and spit out the info.