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New comment by hbcdbff in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

hbcdbff — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:25:22 +0000

> I’ve stopped caring about code readability for a few months now. […] I don’t trust it with code anyway

If you don’t trust it with code, surely you need the code to be readable so you can understand what it is writing?

New comment by hbcdbff in "Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems"

hbcdbff — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:47:08 +0000

Possibly the most interesting article on LLMs I have read in recent months

New comment by hbcdbff in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

hbcdbff — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:36:56 +0000

Why wouldn’t it?

New comment by hbcdbff in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

hbcdbff — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:35:52 +0000

How do you expect us to take your views on LLM code quality and durability seriously when a) you don’t even look at the code and b) you’ve only been doing this for two months?

New comment by hbcdbff in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

hbcdbff — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:24:40 +0000

Not enough AI slop

New comment by hbcdbff in "Saying No"

hbcdbff — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:36:09 +0000

“Wasteful desert paradise” and the author is a “bootstrapped SaaS finder”. Not exactly the greatest leap of imagination

New comment by hbcdbff in "Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]"

hbcdbff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:25:32 +0000

Honestly seems rather shockingly incompetent from them. What kind of “sandbox” allows completely unrestricted internet access?

New comment by hbcdbff in "How to Exist"

hbcdbff — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:36:29 +0000

Maybe they’re happier that way

New comment by hbcdbff in "How to Exist"

hbcdbff — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:33:17 +0000

No one ever implied, let alone said, that, but if it makes you happy to have a strawman please carry on

New comment by hbcdbff in "Google kills Earth AI generator after one day"

hbcdbff — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:14 +0000

Google is no longer a technology company, it’s a vehicle for engineers to acquire wealth via promotions

New comment by hbcdbff in "The End of an Era"

hbcdbff — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:41:11 +0000

Completely disagree, I think LLMs write horribly badly.

Documentation, marketing, prose, it’s all horrible slop writing, immediately recognisable regardless of model

New comment by hbcdbff in "Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design"

hbcdbff — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:28:56 +0000

Slop

LLMs write so badly

New comment by hbcdbff in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

hbcdbff — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:32:00 +0000

I have never seen anyone ever park and leave their windows open. Ever

New comment by hbcdbff in "Making"

hbcdbff — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:52:22 +0000

This, I’ve completely lost interest in side projects outside of work since the emergence of LLMs. It does nothing for me any more

New comment by hbcdbff in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

hbcdbff — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:08:10 +0000

Slop

New comment by hbcdbff in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

hbcdbff — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:07:39 +0000

A website isn’t a videogame

New comment by hbcdbff in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

hbcdbff — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:52:45 +0000

Interesting that you can see COVID in the graph

New comment by hbcdbff in "Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders"

hbcdbff — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:49:54 +0000

I wonder if there is a statistically significant group of people with a mild potassium deficiency, who crave bananas due to it, but then go off them again when their potassium stores are replenished.

New comment by hbcdbff in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

hbcdbff — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:12:06 +0000

It’s slop

New comment by hbcdbff in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

hbcdbff — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:11:42 +0000

“Width-bearing”, wow, Claude really loves that “bearing” suffix doesn’t he