Hacker News: jadar

New comment by jadar in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

jadar — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:02:49 +0000

democracy dies in the darkness of paywalls, I guess.

New comment by jadar in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:02:57 +0000

I will have to try it out. I haven't tried it yet mostly because it seemed like it costed extra or would put me on API pricing. I have tried a workflow with Android Studio with Claude Code, but whenever I opened a worktree it took 5 minutes for Gradle to sync.

New comment by jadar in "Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:41:21 +0000

I was 8 with an eMac, running OS X Tiger. I had whatever software came on disks or bundled with the OS, and was interested with playing around with whatever I could on the machine. I didn't really have anything specific, but I just wanted to get it to "work".

New comment by jadar in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:38:34 +0000

Sorry, I meant "on mobile apps." I'm still using a laptop. :)

New comment by jadar in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:37:41 +0000

Yeah, one limit for me is I need to use the subscriptions, so I'm tied to the Claude Code and Codex harnesses. The best solution IMO is a "bring-your-own-harness" one, where you can drop in whatever harness works the best for you and your development environment can be driven by it.

New comment by jadar in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:36:07 +0000

The CLIs have been doing this for a long time, too. :)

New comment by jadar in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:40:21 +0000

I still haven’t found an IDE that I feel really helps me develop with AI better than the command line. I have built bespoke tools that work the way I want. But a really good integrated solution would blow my current workflow out of the water. No one seems to have built an IDE with deep support for worktrees, parallel session, walking me thru diffs, and optionally handing control back to me to write the occasional hand-written code myself. Plus most of my work is done on mobile, so Jetbrains has an amazing opportunity…but they seem to be chasing the competition instead of focusing on their moat.

New comment by jadar in "Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing"

jadar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:47:42 +0000

This is awesome! I remember trying to figure out how this worked as a kid, and never made headway. Today my dream was realized. ;)

New comment by jadar in "Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models"

jadar — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:59:27 +0000

With the amount of talk about "inventing god", I'm surprised too.

New comment by jadar in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

jadar — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:11:53 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jadar in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

jadar — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:55:57 +0000

Which economic system are you critiquing? I would tend to agree, since I think wealth taxes amount to a breaking of the 8th and 10th commandments. But I also think some would argue that the consumerism (envy) that often drives capitalism is a form of covetousness. I think the counter argument is that capitalism does not require consumerism, and that consumerism (envy) can appear in any economic system.

New comment by jadar in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

jadar — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:44:06 +0000

> [C]ritics estimate the lost revenue would have to be made up by roughly doubling the state sales tax

It is possible to just ... stop spending ...

New comment by jadar in "State of Engineering Is Horribleium"

jadar — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:16:38 +0000

I imagine this is worst at "AI native" companies that started and never had a basis of understanding in their code bases. I suspect that over time, any basis we had will erode more and more. I already feel that in my code base. I feel like the only way to actually fix that is either accept that you will never have full understanding anymore, and hope the models will get good enough to keep the lights on, or to use models to get understanding and then make or suggest changes that are informed from that understanding. I don't know how to do that yet, though.

New comment by jadar in "The Great Unbundling of the LLM"

jadar — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:38:33 +0000

I can’t read this. I tend to still think that things are human written, but it feels like everything is too long these days. I find myself skimming everything. It’s the lemon problem but for literature.

New comment by jadar in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

jadar — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:15:07 +0000

I don't think that's quite the problem the OP is pointing out. A corollary of "meat proxy" is "cognitive surrender." [1] In both cases, blindly pasting AI output and being an "Enter key presser", you have surrendered your cognition. In the latter case, you're in the loop but there's not a lot of reason for you to be.

Your underlying supposition is right, though. If you are truly thinking and in the loop, you are by definition not a meat proxy. I think those are the people who are successful with AI coding tools, but it takes discipline and it's still hard to find the joy and reward when you're not the one solving the problems.

[1] https://swiftrocks.com/using-ai-without-losing-critical-thin...

New comment by jadar in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

jadar — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:51:38 +0000

I think this is the dissonance that has been making me feel insecure / depressed around the state of AI coding. On the one hand I am way more productive. But on the other hand it is almost requiring more of my brain than before, because I am having to determine what is good output and what is slop. But that's not the part of my brain that I particularly like engaging — I like understanding something deeply. But in this case, that is just not possible. I like to think that as the human-in-the-loop, I am supplying the requisite _taste_ to the design and overall structure of the program. But at what point does my taste get taken over by the LLM as models improve?

Another problem is that when something breaks then I am very limited in my ability to reason through the breakage. It's necessary to go back to the LLM and ask it why it broke. At which point, I'm able to follow the reasoning — but not in any durable manner where I'll be able to remember it. To me, it's sort of like the difference between memorizing a passage and having a ready reference at hand at all time. We had this same problem with information before — now it's come for our reasoning.

New comment by jadar in "I hate you Microsoft"

jadar — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:01:59 +0000

Perhaps Google would be bigger? They don't even have desktop app offerings and the consumer versions are subsidized with your advertising data. They certainly weren't the first to introduce the pattern. I feel like Adobe was one of the first big providers to move from lifetime licenses to subscriptions.

New comment by jadar in "I hate you Microsoft"

jadar — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:58:13 +0000

First, doesn't Microsoft give away M365 for free to educational institutions? (Perhaps that's only US institutions, though.) Second, isn't this how they bill their accounts — Business Basic doesn't get desktop apps and you need to pay more to use desktop apps? Third, did the OP try to open their document in LibreOffice? I think there's a legitimate criticism of the move from one-time lifetime purchases to the SaaS economy, but Microsoft isn't the only one who deserves criticism for this.

New comment by jadar in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

jadar — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:41:31 +0000

I haven't pushed an update since June, but this has not been my recent experience...

New comment by jadar in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

jadar — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:57:30 +0000

Guessing this is poking fun of Dario. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510