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New comment by gitaarik in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

gitaarik — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:35:23 +0000

Parent says it's washing it away with water

New comment by gitaarik in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:15:39 +0000

Well I didn't say exactly "banning" either.

I have the feeling a lot of people are advocating to at least (try to) boycott AI, and downplay it, make people feel guilty about it's usage. It's vaccines vs no vaccines all over again. So binary.

Maybe we should maybe some kind of license, like driving license, but for AI. So only people qualified to use it safely and sanely can legally use it.

New comment by gitaarik in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:12:18 +0000

I don't really understand; the author first describes a personal planning / management issue, and then blames a particular technology for it. Apparently the author seems to think that the technology is the cause for the personal planning failure. But to be honest, I think the technology just exposes it. The underlying problem was there all along, just because of AI this problem is becoming very clear.

New comment by gitaarik in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:07:27 +0000

You mean like how bikes are like crack to people that are always out and about to do useless errands?

Yeah I think we should protect these people from accessing these technologies, because they clearly can't handle it!

New comment by gitaarik in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:03:24 +0000

As developers, we often hack our own tools to make then behave in the way we want. But it does take some effort to look up documentation and to think of creative solutions. That's what makes a good developer.

New comment by gitaarik in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:54:54 +0000

Yeah so therefore I think a positive attitude is all the more needed, where you see the potentials, see solutions instead of problems. But I feel most anti-AI people are just negative people seeing only problems and don't have any solutions to offer.

New comment by gitaarik in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:50:16 +0000

Or it gets better; every industrial revolution has made life for everyone better, not only the rich ones.

Coding skills will decline indeed, like math skills of bookkeepers declined when they started using computers. But other skills come in their place too.

New comment by gitaarik in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:06:28 +0000

Haven't seen much, but the things I've seen from Altman directly give me uncomfortable feelings, and the things I've seen of Amodei seem reasonable, even interesting at times.

New comment by gitaarik in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:03:24 +0000

From what I understand, the Pro and Max subscriptions are kind of "subsidized"; you get way more tokens than they would normally cost. But I think Anthropic wants people to use that for Claude Code only, not for things like OpenClaw. You're still free to use OpenClaw through their API subscriptions.

New comment by gitaarik in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:45:36 +0000

I think it's about whether you trust someone or not. I don't really find Altman trustable. No one should have sole control over AI, but we need to have some trust in the people that are operating it.

New comment by gitaarik in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

gitaarik — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:31:43 +0000

I've noticed that Claude has made less mistakes than in the past. I feel it checks it's own work more rigorously now, and understands it's own claims better and knows how to confirm them.

It rarely happens to me that Claude comes with clearly wrong modifications. Only with quite complicated problems with unclear variable names for example. But usually Claude asks me when something is unclear.

No experience with Codex though

New comment by gitaarik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:51:22 +0000

you could also run a local LLM to browse your endless manpages efficiently ;)

New comment by gitaarik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:38:05 +0000

That's an interesting point, and maybe that actually also explains the difference of people that believe that AI is making them more productive and people that believe it doesn't; if you never think about the architecture, then it becomes more slop over time, and it becomes harder to do anything. If you do think about architecture, development becomes easier and faster all the time. AI just accelerates both processes.

New comment by gitaarik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:08:00 +0000

Fair enough; I'm talking about relatively "small" snippets, that with reasoning algorithms, can quickly give you a better result than you would get if you let a mediocre or even senior developer would give an hour.

Managing a complete codebase, making architectural decisions, designing business logic; that is not something you should let your agent do.

But I see that as a different task from "coding".

New comment by gitaarik in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:20:16 +0000

How big is your office?

New comment by gitaarik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:35:20 +0000

Yeah I also always think people looking up stuff on Google are so lazy, just go to the library, jeez!

New comment by gitaarik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:34:08 +0000

This feels like a comment from 2 years ago; by now the most modern models write much better code than humans can in much shorter time.

But if you're not used to code reviewing, it can certainly help to still write yourself.

New comment by gitaarik in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitaarik — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:13:39 +0000

What do you do when your search engine goes down?

New comment by gitaarik in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

gitaarik — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:11:42 +0000

Your agent doesn't know how to use grep?

New comment by gitaarik in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

gitaarik — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:10:27 +0000

Waiting longer for tests / builds doesn't have effect on token usage..

Rust's compile time is longer because the compiler does much more. And therefore the binaries are often smaller, start and run faster than Go