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New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:52:52 +0000

I think the term vibe coded is unclear. I use agents to do most of my coding work now. Some might call it vibe coded. I use spec driven development of my own design. While the applications are relatively simple, they are reasonably well architected and maintainable.

Some would say I a, vibe coding since I don’t really write the code. I say I’m not because I’m thinking through the features more than vibe coders.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

gadflyinyoureye — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:28:12 +0000

Is aberration for the ground you claim? My understanding is that in the west up until recently prisons were uncommon due to cost. The courts either fined you or they killed you. You might’ve been part of a Work gang, but the goal was to kill you.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

gadflyinyoureye — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:39:54 +0000

The average Georgian plumber has higher purchasing power than the average German doctor. In order for the United States to balance its medical books, doctors will have to be paid dramatically less than they are at present. Perhaps there’s a deal to be made where doctors take the hit, but all of their debt is paid off by the state. Going forward medical school is free, but like in Germany you have to qualify, I mean really qualify to even get your foot in the college door. That’s an expectation change for the United States population on all fronts. We don’t do well with expectation changes.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

gadflyinyoureye — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:25:37 +0000

I think it’s because Americans been taught that were democracy, not a federal system, but that’s exactly where we expect to do these kinds of reforms. The federal government could reasonably set certain regulatory requirements. The states would need to make sure that any provider within it conforms to the federal levels, you know like auto manufacturing and exhaust emissions. Seems doable. Unfortunately we’re gonna have to wait for the boomers to die because they’re the ones that have gotten theirs and they’ve screw everyone else. Also, unfortunately, the millennials are gonna have to take it on the chin like we have for so much else and realize there is going to be some lost jobs.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Don't classify, hallucinate!"

gadflyinyoureye — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:22:24 +0000

Try using Digital Ocean. Minutes spent on inference.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:58:07 +0000

I think you and the author are arguing the same point. The middle class offer developer that’s unskilled is going to be on the chopping block. Let’s say that there’s a robot that can now be a sous chef. If you have a good sous chef, you might keep that person. If the sous chef poorly executed her role, the new robot sous chef is probably looking pretty good. Fundamentally this is an hollowing out of the middle class. Arguably these people should not have had a job, but they provided just enough benefit that they weren’t fired.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:42:45 +0000

There are approximately 250,000 to 300,000 H-1B workers in software development in the United States at any given year. No the general idea behind the program is that these hundreds of thousands of individuals are so highly skilled that there are no Americans able to fulfill the role. While I fully agree with you on all the topics about financing and interest rates, here’s my question: would there be as slow of a market for software development if those hundreds of thousands of individuals were not here? There was a court case that showed the H1B visas reduced salaries by about 30%. The court ruled that 30% is not a large enough number to say that it has a negative impact on the market. Others disagreed.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

gadflyinyoureye — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:32:56 +0000

I don't fall in the ring category, but I will be voting Democrat for the first time. That's how bad this is getting for me. I have real reasons to hate the Democrats as a party, but I'm scared of them less than the modern Republicans .

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

gadflyinyoureye — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:29:19 +0000

What does winning them over look like? Are the Taiwanese supposed to come to the CCP with open arms?

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

gadflyinyoureye — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:21:42 +0000

Go was never simple in action. The fact that you'd panic a nil map but not a nil slice is a foot gun. It's a pretty big foot gun. It's just one of the many foot guns.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

gadflyinyoureye — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:59:53 +0000

I presume that was a Stargate reference.

Zero Point Module, often abbreviated ZPM, is a power source, created by the Ancients, capable of supplying tremendous amounts of energy. It is one of the most formidable power sources known to exist, having been developed by the Ancients several million years ago during their reign of the Milky Way galaxy

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Zero_Point_Module

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "The Economic Benefit of Refactoring"

gadflyinyoureye — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:33:48 +0000

You might be surprised. I've had an AI start spitting out none functioning python code. I've rewritten it with Go. The requirements are that every change has to pass compilation, linting and tests. Same requirements as Python. Go keeps the AI on the rails better. The compilation failing provides quick and probably better feedback than a whole dictionary of tests.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:34:48 +0000

Eventually. I'm a bit concerned about it right now. I think SpaceX showed that the AI story is weaker than promoted. This will make people wonder about all the money going into it. If the bubble pops, the blow back on that particular index will be huge. Maybe dotcom bursting huge. But after 15 years QQQ move positive.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:15:37 +0000

Part of the market issues this week are Korea imploding and Japan about to implode. Japan's bond rate moving up could mean the end of the carry trade. Korea apparently has many stock tickers but only two distinct companies behind them. This caused their market and their overly leveraged retail investors a lot of pain.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:39:21 +0000

I'm all for that. Start to add tools as the brain can work.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

gadflyinyoureye — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:35:49 +0000

Maybe it would help remove useless and harmful tech from schools. Books don't need batteries.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

gadflyinyoureye — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:29:36 +0000

I'm. Lt sure why this is down voted. ICE showed up at a woman's door trying to force her to take down a benign social media post.

What is stopping similar authoritarians from cracking down using these kind of features and registrations?

https://newrepublic.com/post/212340/ice-poll-worker-election...

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

gadflyinyoureye — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:36:12 +0000

That is the power of AI.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

gadflyinyoureye — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:56:15 +0000

Did we just start adding this chemical in the ast five years? I can think of any other widespread roll out of a new technology in the same period.

New comment by gadflyinyoureye in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

gadflyinyoureye — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:04:51 +0000

I thought the world was agentic vibe coding. No idea needed. If this world materialized, then there would be no need for an IDE.