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New comment by frevib in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"

frevib — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:02:41 +0000

> Whst is this bit of code doing?

This only applies to bad code. A formal programmic language beats an informal language anytime. Why on earth would you translate an unambiguous formal language to English?

> Is there a risk of data leaking here?

> Are permissions enforced downstream of this function?

If you trust AI to give you that answer, you are going to run into serious issues.

New comment by frevib in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

frevib — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:36:45 +0000

Currently the bad quality of architecture and holistic view of models is probably explained by the fact that the models just cannot do it. Free markets and China will make sure of that, kind of. In reality Claude and Codex are better and provide much better tooling, so not much competition from free markets and self-hosted models from China, I think.

Then when competition really settles to monoploy or duopoly, like it always does in bigtech, it is really difficult to prove Anthropic and OpenAI enshittify their models. Same with Opus 4.6, that suddenly was worse when 4.7 came out.

New comment by frevib in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

frevib — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:33:53 +0000

> I don't think this clear lack of ability is some conspiracy.

Maybe currently not. But we will never be able to know, as models are undeterministic and benchmarks are kind of scams. When you cannot prove that something gets worse, rest assured companies will to it.

New comment by frevib in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

frevib — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:40:19 +0000

No surprise, LLM companies optimize for waste. More tokens, and more prompts means more revenue. Reminds of Google’s Prabhakar Raghavan story: deliberately making search worse [1]

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-r...

New comment by frevib in "Organic Maps"

frevib — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:42:58 +0000

Any recommendations for an OSS maps app that provides tracks like Strava,l and Komoot?

New comment by frevib in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

frevib — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:19:10 +0000

You shouldn’t use ORM entities as domain models. The domain should not depend on anything from the integration layer (db entities, REST request/ response, etc).

Ideally models are generated from SQL schemas, which you map to domain models.

New comment by frevib in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

frevib — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:02:33 +0000

Scaleway and OVH. Upcloud close second.

New comment by frevib in "Claude Fable 5"

frevib — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:20:17 +0000

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill.

From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, till 90% completion, if you guide it correctly. And you need a little luck. For serious production code I need to understand what I’m doing so it helps a bit, sometimes.

New comment by frevib in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

frevib — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:35:37 +0000

This guy dubbed it “get Komooted”, as they pulled the same trick for used-to-be-great cycling app Komoot: https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

The app quality almost immediately went down the drain after the acquisition by Bending Spoons.

New comment by frevib in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

frevib — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:38:39 +0000

“the reality of AI right now is that it only works for coding.”

Kind of…

New comment by frevib in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

frevib — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:06:16 +0000

I think saying no is more important now with AI, as features can be built so quickly now. But there are a lot more costs after the feature has been built. Mostly with AI the code isn’t understood that well, wich incurs a cognitive debt. Then there are extra maintentance and documentation costs. And the costs of carrying around features that add no value.

I can imagine that if you’re a startup and want to try new features quickly, it makes sense to say yes more. But the senior mentioned in the article will also be able to understand that.

New comment by frevib in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

frevib — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:27:06 +0000

Code is a liability. Saying no is because the engineer wants to reduce complexity, not because she/ he is so subjectively “obsessed” with code quality. The term “quality” is nowadays misunderstood by management. It means the right amount of effort to build the product as fast and for as low as cost possible, taking into account a team of engineers that can easily add and modify code.

This description is the better one: https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-e...

New comment by frevib in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

frevib — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:52:59 +0000

CLOUD Act and FISA §702

New comment by frevib in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

frevib — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:36:39 +0000

They’re not doing too great atm: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/kyndryl-s-stock-is...

New comment by frevib in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

frevib — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:34:41 +0000

> AFAIK Solvinity can't access the data.

Solvinity is the hoster. It can fully access the stack.

New comment by frevib in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

frevib — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:30:08 +0000

Scaleway has introduced Edge services recently: https://www.scaleway.com/en/edge-services/

No ddos protection yet.

New comment by frevib in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"

frevib — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:04:29 +0000

To the user: friendly message with uuid.

In the logs: detailed technical message with uuid.

New comment by frevib in "Googlebook"

frevib — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:02:27 +0000

> without a solid privacy guarantee.

That’s a promise, no technical guarantee. Then there’s Cloud Act and FISA.

> Google is likely very happy to give up on the privacy violations

“likely”, exactly. This can change any time. We’ll just have to trust them. Scrolling through this thread it seems about zero trust in a US ad company who’s specialty is feeding off people’s privacy.

We should by now demanding technical guarantees. Open source, end-to-end encrypted with e.g. an overseer board checking the company. Companies like Proton are doing this.

New comment by frevib in "Googlebook"

frevib — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:56:31 +0000

Same here. They’re subsidized by taking kids’ privacy.

New comment by frevib in "Googlebook"

frevib — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:28:20 +0000

Please not the schools. We don’t need privacy-invading closed systems with built-in slot machines. We need deterministic open systems where kids’ privacy is protected.

Please not schools…