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New comment by hank9 in "Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions"

hank9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:52:08 +0000

Figma isn't much better these days

New comment by hank9 in "I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code?"

hank9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:42:34 +0000

Totally fair. I just want more weird one-off websites from non technically people that aren't terrible squarespace/webflow/whatever clones

New comment by hank9 in "I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code?"

hank9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:39:54 +0000

Gatekeeping is probably the wrong word here. But like, letting someone create a script that uses regex to parse some annoying forms they have to deal with in my totally made up hypothetical is a good thing.

While there's gratification in leaning how it all works, I don't think that should be a requirement to use a computer to do a task. And the smaller that wall the better IMHO.

New comment by hank9 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

hank9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:00:01 +0000

I don't remember who said it first but "software teams always ship their org chart" has always stuck with me. How a team is organized has such an outsized hand it what they build.

New comment by hank9 in "I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code?"

hank9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:48:39 +0000

Yeah for all of the criticism (rightly so), that AI gets. Breaking down any gatekeeping behind creating stuff on the internet has to be a net good.

New comment by hank9 in "NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era"

hank9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:29:41 +0000

ty!