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New comment by geetee in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

geetee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:08:46 +0000

I was waiting for the steam machine and grew impatient. I instead built a PC to go behind our family room TV. I gave bazzite a chance before committing to a copy of Windows. I'm glad I did. It runs perfectly. Zero hassle, no chasing down drivers. The only thing to be aware of is that a handful of games are not compatible, generally due to their anti-cheat software (e.g. marathon won't run, but arc raiders does.)

New comment by geetee in "Age verification now required for DNS resolution"

geetee — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:16:13 +0000

lmao almost got me. scary times...

New comment by geetee in "Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?"

geetee — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:12:36 +0000

dead internet theory is really taking grip

New comment by geetee in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

geetee — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:45:59 +0000

I can't tell if this is real or a joke.

New comment by geetee in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

geetee — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:14:35 +0000

I always got the impression these ultra rich are workaholics that barely see their family.

New comment by geetee in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

geetee — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:00:51 +0000

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New comment by geetee in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

geetee — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:41:59 +0000

Sam might be 7 beers deep, or maybe he's available. In my org, oncall is just who gets the 2am phone call. They can try to contact anyone else if needed.

Claude is there as long as you're paying,and I hope he doesn't hallucinate an answer.

New comment by geetee in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

geetee — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:40:38 +0000

Yeah it happens, and it's not ideal, and now instead of a risk, it's a guarantee.

New comment by geetee in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

geetee — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:34:34 +0000

"hey coworker, I know your team wrote this, can you help?" Except there is no coworker, just Claude

New comment by geetee in "Code has _always_ been the easy part"

geetee — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:10:34 +0000

But the code is the easy part. Solving the right problem is the hard part.

New comment by geetee in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

geetee — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:13:10 +0000

I miss human writing. I miss the different voices.

New comment by geetee in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

geetee — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:16:37 +0000

The difference is a real engineer will say "hey I need more information to give you decent output." And when the AI does do that, congrats, the time you spend identifying and explaining the complexity _is_ the hard time consuming work. The code is trivial once you figure out the rest. The time savings are fake.

New comment by geetee in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

geetee — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:13:28 +0000

Engineers that have the audacity to think they can context switch between a dozen different lines of work deserve every ounce of burnout they feel. You're the tech equivalent of wanting to be a Kardashian and you're complicit in the damage being caused to society. No, this isn't hyperbole.

New comment by geetee in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

geetee — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:53:43 +0000

Who knew managing a team of ten occasionally brilliant but generally unreliable engineers would be so draining.

New comment by geetee in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

geetee — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:30:19 +0000

All this disruption to every facet of society. For what? So you can roleplay as the next billionaire startup founder with your weekend project? All while the actual tech billionaires have a giant dick measuring contest.

New comment by geetee in "You Are Here"

geetee — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:47:01 +0000

I appreciate the author making that the first sentence.

New comment by geetee in "We mourn our craft"

geetee — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:37:08 +0000

It's not that our identity is grounded in being competent, it's that we're tired of cleaning up messes left by people taking shortcuts.

New comment by geetee in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

geetee — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:18:41 +0000

Writing the code is where I discover the complexity I missed while planning. I don't truly understand my creation until I've gone through a few iterations of this. Maybe I'm just bad at planning.

New comment by geetee in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

geetee — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:16:17 +0000

My tinfoil guess is archive.today is compromised by a state actor. Simply shutting it down would cause too much drama. Instead turn it into villain, and then take it down.

New comment by geetee in "How I estimate work"

geetee — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:40:34 +0000

Most businesses like to pretend change orders don't apply to software.