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New comment by ikidd in "Ask HN: Vibe Coding over Easter?"

ikidd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:45:58 +0000

>AI slop cleanup businesses soon

Oh, that's been a thing for a couple years now. Going in and fixing vibecoded projects, especially shit produced in the early goldrush, seems to be a burgeoning industry. Funny thing is, the fixer is probably vibe coding, just with better models. Which might be perfectly cromulent depending on how good they are at whipping that mule team.

New comment by ikidd in "Unverified: What Practitioners Post About OCR, Agents, and Tables"

ikidd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:42:21 +0000

Funny enough I was processing some handwritten tables into excel with Sonnet. It did way better than I thought it would, I'd say like 95%.

I did have it put confidence indexes next to the output per line, and that was pretty useless, they were either really high or really low, and the confidence didn't match the mistakes at all.

New comment by ikidd in "Unverified: What Practitioners Post About OCR, Agents, and Tables"

ikidd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:38:53 +0000

This reads less like LLM output than it does someone just transcribing their brief notes as they did their research. Lot of missing subject nouns, which is not something I'd expect to see from AI output.

New comment by ikidd in "Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address"

ikidd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:06:40 +0000

Now I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.

New comment by ikidd in "Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address"

ikidd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:04:21 +0000

Sounds about right. Yes, I've been doing it for decades now and besides telling you who's selling email lists, it makes filtering much easier. Filtering by To: is pretty low effort compared to Bayesian spam filters etc. They get tossed in a Sieve filter as soon as they become a problem, and I'll send a bitch letter to the leaker with another random email address to see how dedicated they are to screwing me.

New comment by ikidd in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

ikidd — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:06:58 +0000

It's encouraging future investment on a false pretext. I'd say that's fraud.

New comment by ikidd in "Cursor 3"

ikidd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:06:53 +0000

It's still horrendous.

New comment by ikidd in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

ikidd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:12:09 +0000

Exactly my experience. I remember thinking to myself that if this is what people get exposed to when they try to use a coding agent, no wonder there's so much bad-mouthing going on about LLMs. You use CC and you get usable output without much hassle, and in the end it costs way less because you aren't fighting with a substandard model.

Frankly, Gemini seems like Codex was two years ago. Lots of back and forth and nothing of value in the end.

New comment by ikidd in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

ikidd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:06:16 +0000

... LTSC

New comment by ikidd in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

ikidd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:02:23 +0000

What's wrong with Cursor? I get as much use out of Cursor using Auto with some Opus for $20 as I do out of CC for $140.

New comment by ikidd in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

ikidd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:57:54 +0000

IDK how anyone makes anything of Copilot 365. My wife knows I use models all the time to build things, so she asked me to help her use this "Copilot" thing. I flailed around on her work laptop for a few hours and I'll be damned if I came up with anything more useful than things I could already do with some hotkeys. I'd ask it to do things like I would a coding model and it would just come back with instructions on how to do it myself or find things in the application menus.

I have no clue what to do with that, I can't see any value in it at all, so I'm guessing I just couldn't wrap my head around the gestalt it uses. There has to be something there, right, or why would all the muckity-mucks be so excited about it?

New comment by ikidd in "Marketplace for bots? Who needs that?"

ikidd — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:23:55 +0000

Looks sketchy af.

I imagine it'll be a runaway success, and I'm not even kidding.

New comment by ikidd in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

ikidd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:43:48 +0000

That doesn't bode well for GRR Martin getting the last book done.

New comment by ikidd in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

ikidd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:35:42 +0000

Last time I used Gemini I watched it burn tokens at three times the rate of any other models arguing with itself and it rarely produced a result. This was around Christmas or shortly after.

Has that BS stopped?

New comment by ikidd in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

ikidd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:51:28 +0000

There are circumstances and soil types that encourage tillage, usually dealing with water. Organic farming trades spray for diesel fuel. And farmers don't like change, but no-till is so ubiquitous that it's hard to find farms that till unless it's unavoidable, such as fixing problems from harvest time.

New comment by ikidd in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

ikidd — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:17:26 +0000

Good lord, don't hire a plumber to fix the pipes, you'd better do it yourself then. Maybe you like plumbing; then plumb. But most people will just pay for the person that does a good enough job that they can take a shower in the morning. Personally I think I do a better job so I do it myself, but my wife sure as hell wouldn't, and shouldn't.

The sheer selective blindness is mind boggling. I get so sick of seeing this virtue signalling.

New comment by ikidd in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

ikidd — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:11:10 +0000

The last probably doesn't apply to many here. We're all jonesing for the next cool tech thing.

New comment by ikidd in "Don't Wait for Claude"

ikidd — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:03:47 +0000

They should vibecode their account management into the 21st century and let users change their email address without deleting their account.

New comment by ikidd in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

ikidd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:31:45 +0000

You can mess around or go buy a $10 gbit USB dongle that you know works like a tplink.

New comment by ikidd in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

ikidd — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:40:23 +0000

No-till feeds the world. The amount of no-till in current full-scale agriculture is by far the biggest proportion in North America and Europe.