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New comment by jachee in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:29:55 +0000

I haven’t had that yet.

I tried again this week, and CoPilot Plan Mode read the same 5-line markdown file 18 times over the course of 5 minutes of churning on a simple request, then provided zero value over what I posed in the request itself, and hallucinated things about my terraform repo that were just flat-out wrong.

As an Infrastructure/Cloud engineer, I’m far from worried about AI coming for my job.

New comment by jachee in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:23:32 +0000

Nah… they killed WMR in it, which I need for the only reason I’m running Windows in the first place: iRacing in VR.

New comment by jachee in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:53:25 +0000

Good, Fast, Cheap.

Pick any two.

New comment by jachee in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:51:54 +0000

That sounds like a your-system issue. I hit Win+E (admittedly on an old Win10 box) and it instantly pops up an explorer window.

New comment by jachee in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:45:59 +0000

They literally can’t go full-transparency. I know a high-level insider, and the fact is that even the folks implementing things don’t actually know how it works, only that it does, and how to get it to generally behave.

New comment by jachee in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:40:03 +0000

…which is why it’s led to more than zero suicides.

New comment by jachee in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

jachee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:02:23 +0000

That is a management failure.

And a management failure should not result in unpaid (slave) labor.

New comment by jachee in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

jachee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:57:37 +0000

This is an inherently human problem.

Those are exceedingly difficult to solve via technology.

New comment by jachee in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

jachee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:55:51 +0000

No. Management will take and take and take during “crunch time” then immediately layoff large chunks of staff before they give anything back.

It’s happened scores of times. No company is as loyal to its labor as it expects labor to be to it.

New comment by jachee in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

jachee — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:07:35 +0000

Easy: No one should do unpaid labor. Period. “Crunch time” has traditionally been deployed by games management as a license to free slave labor from game developers.

Failures of management’s planning are imposed as emergencies on the devs.

New comment by jachee in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

jachee — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:18:27 +0000

Nono, parent was asking “They’re bad and inefficient at that, so why have an LLM do math? Why not just use some code and the CPU/GPU that’s already good and efficient at basic math?”

New comment by jachee in "ReactOS"

jachee — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:16:23 +0000

Heh… Wait ‘til I tell him that his beloved macOS is Unix underneath.

New comment by jachee in "ReactOS"

jachee — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:18:17 +0000

Out of pure curiosity, what do you “very much dislike” about it?

New comment by jachee in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

jachee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:35:05 +0000

You’re already looking at it, buddy.

New comment by jachee in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

jachee — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:29:20 +0000

Any method of “fingerprinting” and invading a browser’s privacy is inherently an exploit.

New comment by jachee in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

jachee — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:35:22 +0000

That “pointing out” is, itself, “not useful either.”

New comment by jachee in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

jachee — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:38:55 +0000

Incorrect. William Gibson does. And he’s definitely worth listening to.

New comment by jachee in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

jachee — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:57:29 +0000

Bluesky has a default feed that is just the posts/reposts of the people who you choose to follow, in reverse chronological order.

No need for an algorithm to decide what is worth seeing.

New comment by jachee in "The Claude Code Leak"

jachee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:37:30 +0000

Hmm… this started as an admonition for using then and than interchangeably. I see folks get it wrong unintentionally a lot… then i re-read your parenthetical and pulled up etymonline and had my mind blown a bit.[0]

Seems everything old is new again.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/than

New comment by jachee in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

jachee — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:19:31 +0000

Because it’s just fancy auto-complete.