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New comment by ianbutler in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

ianbutler — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:52:59 +0000

Interestingly, the smartest people I know have the widest range of media consumption and understanding. To assume that because someone uses a marvel reference they might not have a deeper cultural education is rather...limited thinking.

New comment by ianbutler in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

ianbutler — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:56:04 +0000

That they relate to the common person and aren't overly snobby?

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

ianbutler — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617883

Points: 11

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New comment by ianbutler in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

ianbutler — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:56:51 +0000

Yeah I started programming in 2006 as a kid and then entered professional work in 2016 I guess as still a kid depending on your perspective :P

This is really the first meteoric rise in tech I've seen / am experiencing first hand.

New comment by ianbutler in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"

ianbutler — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:21:31 +0000

Thanks for the in depth explanation. I was definitely not up on my tech history here. :)

New comment by ianbutler in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"

ianbutler — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:02:08 +0000

Ah got it. I wasn’t drawing that connection. Thanks

New comment by ianbutler in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

ianbutler — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:37:58 +0000

Without me trying to be snarky why do you feel spreadsheet software launching is comparable to this scenario?

New comment by ianbutler in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

ianbutler — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:00:25 +0000

I don't think Reddit is a great place to determine social consensus for well adjusted people or representative of the average adult view. I never see people on Reddit have opinions of any the people I consider reasonable in real life and I don't mean politics I wouldn't know, I don't frequent political subreddits.

It seems fairly consistently miserable in any of the common high traffic subs and you have to get down to really niche communities to see what I consider reasonable behavior that matches the behavior of people I know in real life.

New comment by ianbutler in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

ianbutler — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:53:20 +0000

Maybe not to devs, but I've had VCs ask about them because of popularity so there you go it's a signal to someone.

Whatever reaction you have to this know that my internal reaction and yours were probably close.

New comment by ianbutler in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

ianbutler — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:06:24 +0000

That's what they always do it always comes down to a sense of perpetual entitlement over the work of others, work they themselves would never do.

I've had the same discussion for years now on HN. It is not unethical to decide to stop supporting something especially if you played by all the rules the entire time.

No one is owed perpetual labor and they completely disregard localstack has been oss for something like 10 years at this point just celebrate it had a good run, fork and maintain yourself if you need it that badly.

It is incredibly weird to think something that was maintained oss for 10 years is a rugpull that's just called life, circumstances change.

New comment by ianbutler in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

ianbutler — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:09:33 +0000

Patently the idea that it is a passion for using LLMs is crank, what does that even mean? People don't have passion for screwdrivers. I've developed for 20 years now. I wrote my first line of code when I was 10. My passion is for realizing my ideas in general. I liked making the fire ball move. Code was a convenient means to do that, there are increasingly more convenient means now.

The latest stack overflow survey puts AI dev usage at 84% of their respondents, increasingly your position is the faith based one.

New comment by ianbutler in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

ianbutler — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:41:06 +0000

I think game designers who work with a developer would be surprised to learn their skill in game design doesn't factor into the end product even though they don't code the game.

New comment by ianbutler in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

ianbutler — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:29:37 +0000

Nothing you've written here disproves my point. If you drop the barrier to entry, which this does, of course you see more crap. It won't change the fact someone with taste and skill will make a good game with this tech. People with those qualities will make a good game with whatever tools are available. They're just tools.

New comment by ianbutler in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

ianbutler — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:09:06 +0000

The majority of all code written is highly mediocre. Acting like most people made good and enjoyable games when it was handcoded is just not right.

The same people who were going to make something good will still make something good, the code imo has very little to do with it.

Passion is necessary but insufficient by itself to make good things

New comment by ianbutler in "Shall I implement it? No"

ianbutler — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:22:02 +0000

cmd-shift-p (at least in vscode)

New comment by ianbutler in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

ianbutler — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:49:48 +0000

> Attempting to move to a system that is more difficult will be very difficult for them.

That doesn't make it wrong, it just might make the last 20 years a mistake.

New comment by ianbutler in "Tech people keep falling for the same scam"

ianbutler — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:00:32 +0000

Tech is pretty split here actually, just depends who you’re talking to and their incentives.

New comment by ianbutler in "Layoffs at Block"

ianbutler — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:17:12 +0000

They're just saying the job market is hot in the location of the S (San) F (Francisco) B (Bay) A (Area) it's not cryptic, I'll assume you had a brain fart here it happens.

Unless I'm getting whooshed now lol, but yeah the market here is just super hot because all the AI money sloshing around.

New comment by ianbutler in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

ianbutler — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:57:56 +0000

I’m not those people you’ll not find a disagreement from me

New comment by ianbutler in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

ianbutler — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:59:15 +0000

You're providing much too much credit to China's government, the dynamic is simpler:

China just hasn't calcified yet after workers press for better standards of safety and quality of life and maybe they won't because that's where being authoritarian comes into play. They will crush that in a way we have moved away from.

We used to build great things in the US and then we decided the blood price of 30 lives for the Brooklyn bridge or 100 for the hoover dam wasn't worth it. It's really not hard to build anything when you ignore any second order questions of impact. Why do you think certain people here want deregulation and for the EPA to go away.

A quick google shows China prioritizes speed over safety something we've decided here in the US is not acceptable.