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New comment by itsafarqueue in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

itsafarqueue — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:10:54 +0000

What’s that line about vegetarians? Like how do you know if someone’s a vegetarian? They’ll tell you. This, but Rust.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Leave Me Behind"

itsafarqueue — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:14:57 +0000

This ship has sailed.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Google I/O"

itsafarqueue — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:42:17 +0000

This is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

itsafarqueue — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:28:07 +0000

Herein lies the seeds of the Revolution that is being fomented by the very class of educators, speakers, and generationally privileged who exhibit casual, naive contempt for the audience they drone on their tone-deaf sermons, utterly oblivious to the toxic duplicity of the messages they shove down throats of those who bear the worst of the costs externalised by those spreading “the good word”. They can all burn.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development"

itsafarqueue — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:29:19 +0000

Hey bro I heard you like skills so I put a skill in your oh whatever

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

itsafarqueue — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:10:20 +0000

Yours is a “God of the gaps” argument. You will remain technically correct (the best kind of correct!) long after the statistical machine has subsumed your practical argument, context limit and all.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

itsafarqueue — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:06:22 +0000

> If this is true, then you'd have to conclude that AI is coming for everything.

Now you’re getting it

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

itsafarqueue — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:23:16 +0000

Perhaps more accurately they’re worth what it costs YOU in legal fees to defend them coming after you. Those are real dollars you still have to spend.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

itsafarqueue — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:20:14 +0000

You better mean “hiking” as in through the metaverse forest strapped into your corporate-sponsored VR headset, because outside time is for citizens only, friend.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:55:34 +0000

How many hours does it take AWS to clear $100M in free cash flow?

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:44:00 +0000

It’s not the whimsy. It’s that the whimsy is laced with casual disdain, a touch too much “let me buy you a stick of gum and show you how to chew it”, a frustrated tenor never stated but dog whistled “you dumb fucks”. A soft sharp stink of someone very smart shoving that fact in your face as they evangelise “the obvious truth” you’re too stupid to see.

And maybe he’s even right. But the reaction is to the flavour of chip on the shoulder delivery mixed into an otherwise fun piece.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Proof of Corn"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:16:42 +0000

Slop.

I have zero doubt Claude is going to do what AI does and plough forward. Emails will get sent, recommendations made, stuff done.

And it will be slop. Worse than what it does with code, the outcomes of which are highly correlated with the expertise of the user past a certain point.

Seth wins his point. AI can, via humans giving it permission to do things, affect the world. So can my chaos monkey random script.

Fred should have qualified: _usefully_ affect the world. Deliver a margin of Utility.

We’re miles off that high bar.

Disclosure: all in on AI

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:43:33 +0000

Two whole projects. A stampede.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

itsafarqueue — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:50:39 +0000

Vie(t)nam

New comment by itsafarqueue in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:50:42 +0000

Only after exhausting every other avenue

New comment by itsafarqueue in "AI Pullback Has Officially Started"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:26:05 +0000

AI creates the most spectacular happy path demos. It’s hard not to extrapolate to infinity when you see it.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cognitive load is what matters"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:09:17 +0000

Don’t bother with this if you want to get promoted. Others have discussed this in thread and are right. If you build beautiful, simplified abstractions, your skill will be taken for granted as these interfaces appear obvious once discovered (by virtue of their proximity to truth, incredibly difficult to create, easy to verify). If you are in even a reasonably large org, go the other way. Be an Architecture astronaut. Build complex, clever stuff that is deliberately high cognitive load. Get your bus-factor as close to one as possible. Go the other way only if your comp is directly tied to company performance.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Getting good results from Claude Code"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:23:17 +0000

The doom loop Gemini gets into is genuinely unpleasant to read.

“I’m so stupid. I should be ashamed of myself. I’m such a loser. Idiot, idiot. Oh god I suck. I’m an embarrassment.”

The torture Google must RL on this model, man.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Getting good results from Claude Code"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:18:43 +0000

Really useful comment thanks. Reminder that LLMs aren’t just for coding.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

itsafarqueue — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:16:39 +0000

This generalises to “Agents respond well to red/green feedback loops”.