Hacker News: foolserrandboy

New comment by foolserrandboy in "A possible future for Damn Interesting"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:28:06 +0000

I think remember you said in one episode you didn't want to run ads in the podcast so you could talk about anything you want, but most of the episodes are about one of historical events. Do you really think the sponsors would try to alter your content. Personally I wouldn't mind 1 or 2 ad spots in the episodes.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

foolserrandboy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:56:59 +0000

It rejected Asians more because of their higher SAT scores? If it’s not directly based on applicants disclosing their ethnicity then probably something more obvious like names.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "The Coming Loop"

foolserrandboy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:10:17 +0000

Inertia is on our side

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

foolserrandboy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:46:14 +0000

4 day work week could help with this like weekends help sell more automobiles.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist"

foolserrandboy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:23:53 +0000

I think LLMs will make vertical slice architecture more common using less abstraction. If juniors are mostly relying on LLMs then they will accept the long files it generates and not have the opportunity to learn abstractions.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Claude Fable 5"

foolserrandboy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:27:19 +0000

This is just marketing that Anthropic is building the singularity.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

foolserrandboy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:14:54 +0000

What happens if you just keep vibe coding is? Does it whack-a-mole fix one area and break another?

New comment by foolserrandboy in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:16:36 +0000

He would tell you NFTs were AGIs if it might get you to buy them.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

foolserrandboy — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:55:16 +0000

2 months ago: no limits. 1 month ago we had a leaderboard for whoever had the highest token spend not taking into account what was actually produced. This week: “everyone is using opus too much, just use it for planning.”

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

foolserrandboy — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:21:57 +0000

yup, the standard way of thinking about agents seems backwards and probably costly. Use LLMs to write scripts, then stick all your scripts in your own looping harness and call out for LLMs for those parts that are too hard to automate with some deterministic validation at the end.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:42:28 +0000

Can you describe how you work in this higher level? Sounds like scratches a similar itch that traditional programming offers.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:47:13 +0000

See payolla for the radio era equivalent.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:46:27 +0000

When reading this I immediately thought of them. Anyone I know who plays an instrument said their socials are flooded with them.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:52:21 +0000

Are they admitting they may be enslaving conscious beings?

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:07:57 +0000

Yup, strange to see people still don’t understand LLMs massively speed up coding greenfield pet projects. Anytime you see a bee web app it’s better to assume AI use rather than not anymore.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:00:29 +0000

It actually gives you warning in an overlay first that the favicon would change if you open a new tab. I did and I got "zuckerberg nudes"

New comment by foolserrandboy in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:36:03 +0000

The executives are, not the devs.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "LLMs can be exhausting"

foolserrandboy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:00:55 +0000

Yup, and we arr wasting our weekends worried about keeping pace in an imagined red queen's race. Another similar post today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:56:47 +0000

they fantasize about unpaid interns writing specs and nobody ever needed to look at the code in a few years

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Codegen is not productivity"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:40:18 +0000