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New comment by fenprace in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

fenprace — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:13:06 +0000

People programme for 2 reasons:

1. Some programme because it’s the one of 2 ways to get the things they want (another way is hiring a team to code for them). Now that they have vibe coding, they’d happily never touch a line of code again. 2. Other people programmes because they just enjoy it. Vibe coding ruins the best part for them. Like telling a foodie, "Good news! I built a robot to eat your food for you."

Most people getting paid to code are probably somewhere in the middle?

But nowadays hand-writing code at work is starting to feel kinda 'illegal'. The manager is gonna ping you just because you fall behind on the company's token waste leaderboard.

Maybe it's just another "hobby should never become job" story?

New comment by fenprace in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"

fenprace — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:22:39 +0000

Mandarin speaker here. Literally, Yes. Xiaomi means 'little rice'. But in reality when people say xiaomi, they always refer to another kind of crop, foxtail millet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtail_millet). It is a traditional food and still very common in China and other place in Asia.

New comment by fenprace in "Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s"

fenprace — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:21:10 +0000

I've been used it. I think lazy people will love it.

New comment by fenprace in "PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js."

fenprace — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:45:28 +0000

Looks good and mark it.