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New comment by incrudible in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

incrudible — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:33:19 +0000

In large projects there is always a risk, if not an inevitability, that a code base becomes unmaintanable by some definition. AI surfaces this faster, but also AI lowers the cost of testing and refactoring. AI gives a linear multiplier in producing solutions, but complexity gives a quadratic increase in problems. The art of producing software has always been in choosing what not to do.

New comment by incrudible in "Does anybody like React?"

incrudible — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:17:18 +0000

It is a massive difference. I do not like magic compilers. The JSX transform is trivial and not even necessary, just create a factory function and React.createElement becomes arguably more readable, just not HTML like.

New comment by incrudible in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

incrudible — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:53:56 +0000

It is more like imitating the imitators. There is not much of a legal case here, but poisoning the data is fair game both for those producing original data as well as for those producing its regurgitations.

New comment by incrudible in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

incrudible — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:50:08 +0000

You are completely wrong, but one might get that impression from not using SOTA models in the Sonnet ballpark.

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

incrudible — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:20:56 +0000

Anthropic is the opposite of wealthy, the more you use their service, the more money they lose. Unless you think your precious MDs being used for training data is gonna make them rich eventually.

New comment by incrudible in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

incrudible — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:01:48 +0000

What are the second- and third order effects of the Marg Bar Amrika Society getting a nuclear device (and the missiles to deliver it)?

New comment by incrudible in "DeepSeek v4"

incrudible — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:29:51 +0000

You sincerely think a country that massacres its own people is better than the relatively good conduct of the US during war (or the treatment of foreigners on its soil)?

New comment by incrudible in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

incrudible — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:19:34 +0000

Mercurial was better than Git on almost any metric, it eludes me why it lost out to Git, perhaps because it lacked the kernel hacker aura, but also because it did not have a popular repository website with cute mascot going for it. Either way, tech history is full of examples of better designs not winning minds, due to cost, market timing, etc. And now with LLMs being trained on whatever was popular three years ago, we may be stuck with it forever.

New comment by incrudible in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

incrudible — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:50:44 +0000

C is fundamentally a bad target for LLMs. Humans get C wrong all the time, so we can not hope the nascent LLM, which has been trained on 95% code that does automatic memory management, to excel here.

I always found myself writing verbose copypasta code first, then compress it down based on the emerging commonalities. I think doing it the other way around is likely to lead to a worse design. Can you not tell the LLM to do the same? Honest question.

New comment by incrudible in "Your codebase doesn't care how it got written"

incrudible — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:09:54 +0000

I detest the way ChatGPT writes. You can tell immediately when someone had a rough draft or just an idea thrown into the ChatGPT filter. At least tell it to cut to these chase next time, nobody has time for fluff in this attention economy.

New comment by incrudible in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

incrudible — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:53:06 +0000

Games do not sync data, they literally say what should be drawn on the screen, from scratch, 60+ times per second. They are in control of the entire process. They do not need to deal with DOM manipulation overhead because there is no DOM.

New comment by incrudible in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

incrudible — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:46:34 +0000

If the html+css+js trifecta was any good for creating UI beyond simple forms, we would not have witnessed the cambrian explosion of ways to do it differently. Reactivity itself was an answer to the pain of using MVC and similar approaches in older GUI toolkits not made for the web. The pain did not stop entirely, of course, because GUI is a complicated and ill defined problem - but I don’t look back fondly to programming without it.

New comment by incrudible in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

incrudible — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:51:24 +0000

You can’t effectively dismiss a critique of something missing from the core protocol by declaring it to not be its concern.

New comment by incrudible in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

incrudible — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:56:43 +0000

No such right exists, except in moral terms, but if you are going to invoke morals, the Iranian regime does not hold up well. So no, they do not.

Perhaps you will argue that the US or Israel or Pakistan or North Korea have conducted themselves in a way where they do not have that moral right either, but that is a different debate, and either way it is moot because they do have them.

New comment by incrudible in "Farewell, Rust for web"

incrudible — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:41:43 +0000

The cost of "perfecting" an idea here is ruining the broader ecosystem. It is much much better for an API to be kinda crappy (but stable) for historical reasons than dealing with the constant churn and fragmentation caused by, for example, the fifth revision of that URL routing library that everyone uses because everyone uses it. It only gets worse by the orthogonal but comorbid attitude of radically minimizing the scope of dependencies.

New comment by incrudible in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

incrudible — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:08:16 +0000

Why should it be obvious that this is not what he means? I struggle to think how he could mean anything else.

New comment by incrudible in "Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie"

incrudible — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:34:03 +0000

VFX is just too damn expensive. It will get much worse with AI tools taking hold. Once these are 80% there but 10x cheaper, they will be (over)used everywhere, despite delivering clearly inferior results.

New comment by incrudible in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

incrudible — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:50:10 +0000

I don't know where you got this narrative from, but it doesn't align with historical accounts at all.

New comment by incrudible in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

incrudible — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:47:25 +0000

Remember when Germany lost the second world war, lost a third of its territory, had millions ethnically cleansed from said territory and then proceeded to not maintain a goal to wipe Poland off the map (again)?

New comment by incrudible in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

incrudible — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:25:06 +0000

If they had removed Maduro because he's an illegitmate autocrat funneling drugs into the US, I'd be deeply confused, considering he's on their side.