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New comment by jaapbadlands in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

jaapbadlands — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:46:09 +0000

The baseline, out-of-the-box basic tool level will lift, but so will the more obscure esoteric high-level tools that the better programmers will learn to control, further separating themselves in ability from the people who wait for the lowest common denominator to do their job for them.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

jaapbadlands — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:37:12 +0000

Alright, let's see the proof.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

jaapbadlands — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:19:31 +0000

Feel free to waste your time sifting through a dozen wrong answers. Meanwhile the rest of us can get the answers, absorb the right information quickly then move on to solving more problems.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

jaapbadlands — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:44:45 +0000

Testing rockets that fail is still progress. Deadlines that get pushed isn't an argument against deadlines.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"

jaapbadlands — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:56:00 +0000

That's not what they said.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

jaapbadlands — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:40:28 +0000

That explains nothing.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code"

jaapbadlands — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:25:46 +0000

There's a balance to be calculated each time you're presented with the option. It's difficult to predict how much iteration the agent is going to require, how frustrating it might end up being, all the while you lose grip on the code being your own and your head-model of it, vs just going in and doing it and knowing exactly what's going on and simply asking it questions if any unknowns arise. Sometimes it's easier to just not even make the decision, so you disregard firing up the agent in a blink.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "The Future of MCPs"

jaapbadlands — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:21:33 +0000

The first use case I found relevant and useful was the Supabase MCP server, allowing Cursor's agent to query my Supabase project. It meant no longer describing my database to Cursor, it could simply go and get the information it needed, as needed.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM"

jaapbadlands — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:18:58 +0000

> not a lot of lines > small python file

They mean the same thing, chief.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting"

jaapbadlands — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:28:30 +0000

Building immunity via vaccines rather than naturally deprives the living virus a potential host to evolve in. It also means you don't have to contract the virus in order to build immunity, meaning the first time you get the virus, a vaccinated person's body would be more prepared, which means more people could more contract the disease at once, without collapsing the health system - allowing it to be safer at the community level to free up movement. I just think you misunderstood the reasoning, you weren't being "lied to".

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'"

jaapbadlands — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:11:33 +0000

Good lord, take a walk outside man.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

jaapbadlands — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:52:18 +0000

I never once heard Harris say 'the economy is doing great'.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison"

jaapbadlands — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:14:24 +0000

I agree about one person or organisation too much power, and fear the potential for abuse, but the problem in the Iran example are the theocratic laws, not really the tools that help enforce them. Good behaviour is already defined by each nation's legislation.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

jaapbadlands — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:24:30 +0000

Yes, his decision making is sound, and comes with a huge weight of experience and understanding of how the world works. His ability to communicate effectively has diminished, but not his ability to assess facts and make effective determinations.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership"

jaapbadlands — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:34:11 +0000

They don't have to be perfect to be useful, and death isn't the price of being wrong.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

jaapbadlands — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:23:00 +0000

We are thinking critically, about how asinine that comment is.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

jaapbadlands — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:16:08 +0000

Weird flex

New comment by jaapbadlands in "HTML First"

jaapbadlands — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:43:37 +0000

I'll enjoy that a hell of a lot more than I'll enjoy doing the same thing on bullshit vanilla code I scratched together myself under the pressure of a deadline, lol.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "HTML First"

jaapbadlands — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:38:58 +0000

No one is afraid of writing code, we're afraid of maintaining code, and solving tedious and repetitive problems that already have solutions. Frameworks abstract complexity, which in practical terms decreases the complexity I personally have to deal with, and shifts the complexity to the minds of a team of open-source developers who support the framework or library in parallel. Abstraction is exactly how we push the industry forward, not by building less, more basic, and shittier applications in a some faux-noble quest to use inline event handlers.

New comment by jaapbadlands in "Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)"

jaapbadlands — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:27:06 +0000

You do