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New comment by groestl in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

groestl — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:49:33 +0000

> It wasn't written by a human so they see no human value in it.

Which is true, in a way, the data put down as documentation can now be calculated in seconds, and documentation is just a cache.

New comment by groestl in "US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says"

groestl — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:53:11 +0000

AI is what we were missing to be fully cooked. Quite literally.

New comment by groestl in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

groestl — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:31:22 +0000

> we still have to keep them chugging along on Java 8

There's something else amiss here. Compared to other platforms, upgrading Java, even on complex codebases, has never been a nightmare for me.

New comment by groestl in "Prove you're human by winning a claw machine"

groestl — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:15:56 +0000

I can prove I'm human by losing a claw machine.

New comment by groestl in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

groestl — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:55:22 +0000

Maybe plan itself was also generated by an LLM

New comment by groestl in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

groestl — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:57:20 +0000

Maybe managers going back to coding.

New comment by groestl in "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"

groestl — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:08:20 +0000

More money right?

New comment by groestl in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

groestl — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:31:49 +0000

I guess they just close the PR.

New comment by groestl in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

groestl — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:14:09 +0000

And recruiter agents still do.

New comment by groestl in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

groestl — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:25:58 +0000

If you're able to predict, you're able to simulate.

New comment by groestl in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

groestl — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:27:46 +0000

> are so evenly matched

It's because the real value of the models is in what we (humanity) fed them, and all of them have eaten the same thing for free.

New comment by groestl in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

groestl — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:55:02 +0000

Well, my business would be paying the trips, and everybody still refuses. So it's not the money.

New comment by groestl in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

groestl — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:12:27 +0000

Let's call it a valid UUIDv0 - all bits randomized including the version bits :)

New comment by groestl in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

groestl — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:58:03 +0000

Not sarcasm. Not cynism. Just pure humor.

New comment by groestl in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

groestl — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:18:35 +0000

I don't do any moral judgement at all, and I also don't predict the future.

I respond to "You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.", because that statement is false. (Mental) work has an effect on the human metabolism.

New comment by groestl in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

groestl — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:14:01 +0000

> You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.

That's certainly not true. Asking me to think hard about something will cause me to burn more calories. Asking me to do physical work even more so.

New comment by groestl in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

groestl — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:50:17 +0000

There are projects where long term addicts are given pure medical heroin (Diamorphin) in a controlled environment, and they do considerably better than their control group who does not receive their drugs like that.

E.g. https://patrida.de/

New comment by groestl in "Trunk Based Development"

groestl — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:26:11 +0000

100%. I don't want to know how the sausage was made. It's similar to research papers, or history books, where the way we arrive at results or outcomes in the real world is often quite different from the way it's presented in the final form.

New comment by groestl in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

groestl — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:14:56 +0000

And your data.

New comment by groestl in "What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]"

groestl — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:33:32 +0000

If you're self hosting your compiler on C, you are your own user.