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The AI hype is a mass psychosis echo chamber of incompetent individuals

farmerbb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:22:13 +0000

Article URL: https://aob2f.substack.com/p/the-ai-hype-is-a-mass-psychosis-echo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981857

Points: 39

# Comments: 10

New comment by farmerbb in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

farmerbb — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:58:07 +0000

Feels like a mobile website that was never optimized for desktop usage.

Ibid

farmerbb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:21:40 +0000

Article URL: https://meatfighter.com/ibid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911753

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by farmerbb in "When 2+2=5"

farmerbb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:54:00 +0000

Hail to the Thief is a goated album. The live album of HTTT performances that Radiohead released last year is a pretty great listen as well, band sounds like they're on fire.

New comment by farmerbb in "Rebuilding the Computer Room"

farmerbb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:47:17 +0000

> The smartphone tooked this further

Normally I'd laugh when I see a silly typo like that, but nowadays it's refreshing to see a thoughtfully human-written article with little imperfections here and there.

New comment by farmerbb in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

farmerbb — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:28:49 +0000

> I haven't managed to really figure out what's the best way, but my latest thinking is really having boil down tasks to almost unit operations "add UI button, wire to Api call. End".

And at that point you might as well just code the thing yourself.

New comment by farmerbb in "F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel"

farmerbb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:39:05 +0000

Just finished reading the README, it was refreshing to read something that wasn't generated by an LLM for a change.

New comment by farmerbb in "Windows NT for GameCube/Wii"

farmerbb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:32:22 +0000

That's correct, same person.

New comment by farmerbb in "Zenzizenzizenzic"

farmerbb — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:24:20 +0000

I understood that reference.

New comment by farmerbb in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

farmerbb — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:34:50 +0000

Yeah I'm surprised they didn't mention Fire TV or even Alexa in addition to Kindle.

New comment by farmerbb in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

farmerbb — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:37:19 +0000

Not to mention, the typo in the word "equivalent".

New comment by farmerbb in "--dangerously-skip-reading-code"

farmerbb — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:03:21 +0000

I legit can't tell if this article is satire, or not.

New comment by farmerbb in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

farmerbb — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:54:09 +0000

I think it's a FreeBSD variant, if I remember correctly.

New comment by farmerbb in "Programming Still Sucks"

farmerbb — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:10:40 +0000

Thank you for writing this piece, resonated a lot with me. Looking forward to reading more from you in the future.

New comment by farmerbb in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

farmerbb — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:05:04 +0000

The project's readme states "Proudly written without AI." Love seeing this.

I Will Never Respect a Website

farmerbb — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788135

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

I'm a 30-year veteran SWE, and my industry is currently overrun with addicts

farmerbb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:40:46 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1sg5ygf/im_a_30year_veteran_swe_and_my_industry_is/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699697

Points: 17

# Comments: 8

New comment by farmerbb in "Lunar Flyby"

farmerbb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:56:23 +0000

It looks like changing the `~large` in the image filename to `~orig` gets you the full size versions.

What do coders do after AI?

farmerbb — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577861

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Everyone is building a software factory

farmerbb — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/bones-of-the-software-factory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551339

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Hacker News: farmerbb

The AI hype is a mass psychosis echo chamber of incompetent individuals

New comment by farmerbb in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

Ibid

New comment by farmerbb in "When 2+2=5"

New comment by farmerbb in "Rebuilding the Computer Room"

New comment by farmerbb in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

New comment by farmerbb in "F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel"

New comment by farmerbb in "Windows NT for GameCube/Wii"

New comment by farmerbb in "Zenzizenzizenzic"

New comment by farmerbb in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

New comment by farmerbb in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

New comment by farmerbb in "-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code"

New comment by farmerbb in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

New comment by farmerbb in "Programming Still Sucks"

New comment by farmerbb in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

I Will Never Respect a Website

I'm a 30-year veteran SWE, and my industry is currently overrun with addicts

New comment by farmerbb in "Lunar Flyby"

What do coders do after AI?

Everyone is building a software factory

New comment by farmerbb in "--dangerously-skip-reading-code"