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New comment by jaredcwhite in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

jaredcwhite — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:17:05 +0000

RIP Mozilla. I can't even with this nonsense…truly a shame considering I once admired this organization and the principles it stood for.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents"

jaredcwhite — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:02:45 +0000

So a sloppified Django spit out by Claude? Good luck with that.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jaredcwhite — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:14:56 +0000

The water stuff isn't fake though. It's just easier to lie about.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Autonomy Is Real Now"

jaredcwhite — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:53:46 +0000

The future isn't more autonomous cars driving on city streets. It's fewer cars on streets.

I truly believe massive gains in transit & micromobility especially when related to the green energy boom is the real game-changing story of our time.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

jaredcwhite — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:44:27 +0000

You don't seem to be engaging seriously with respected experts in this field who have been reporting for years at this point that merely scaling LLMs and so-called "agentic systems" doesn't get us anywhere close to true AGI.

Also computers in the 1980s could perform many tasks that previously would have "required human intelligence". So? Are you saying computers in the 1980s were somehow intelligent?

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

jaredcwhite — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:05:47 +0000

Oh? And what extensive knowledge and experience makes YOU qualified to determine what "the vast majority of people on this planet" are doing for work and if those tasks are creative or uncreative?

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

jaredcwhite — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:03:38 +0000

AI, the way you are describing it, has not been invented yet. It is a fiction.

What is called "AI" today is an extremely vague marketing term being applied to various software technologies which are only dangerous because humans are dangerous. Nuclear & chemical weapons are also "very scary" but only because the humans who might decide to use them in fits of insanity are scary.

I'm not in the slightest bit uneasy about "AI" itself right now, because as I said, the AI of Sci-Fi has not yet been invented…and seems unlikely to in any of our lifetimes. (Not throwing shade on clever researchers. We also don't have working FTL travel, though plenty of scientists speculate on how such an engine might be built.)

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch"

jaredcwhite — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:53:44 +0000

Oh we are way-ay-ay past this line of argumentation. The AI skeptic community has been far more right than wrong over several years now, whereas the hype-all-the-AI-things crowd has been proven laughably wrong on a fairly regular basis.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch"

jaredcwhite — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:51:52 +0000

Exactly. If I had a nickel for every mention of "just wait 'til the next release!!" as some sort of justification for whatever's going on right now, I'd be a rich man.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

jaredcwhite — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:03:08 +0000

"Asbestos has good and bad things" "Assault rifles in the hands of ordinary citizens has good and bad things" "Everyday chemicals in the food supply has good and bad things"

Look, some issues require nuance. Others don't. It's gaslighting to tell activists who consider Big AI to be a net negative for society (by an order of magnitude!) that their position isn't "real-world reflective".

New comment by jaredcwhite in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

jaredcwhite — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:56:34 +0000

Sheer nonsense. Handcoding is thriving and will easily survive long into the future, especially after the bubble bursts (which is already happening).

New comment by jaredcwhite in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

jaredcwhite — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:37:08 +0000

No thanks, I hate it.

(To be clear, I'm no fan of WordPress either, and its security hassles are a real issue. But some sloppified MegaCorp vibecoded fever dream will never be a suitable replacement, of that I guarantee.)

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?"

jaredcwhite — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:14:47 +0000

Yes, I lost a client last year because they wanted to start all new feature work by reaching for Claude first, and I refused to participate so our relationship had to end. Very unfortunate, but I'm feeling pretty confident that the AI bubble is already bursting, and this sort of low-cost YOLO slop phenomenon will end shortly. In fact, I've gotten new work from people whose values are aligned with mine. I'm counting on that trend to accelerate.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

jaredcwhite — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:10:33 +0000

Good code will win? What kind of delusion is that? The web has been overrun by low effort React & Tailwind monstrosities, and agenetic services have only accelerated that trend. I don't have any confidence that market forces will somehow corral development into a place where "good code" wins.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Prediction: The Shopify CEO's Pull Request Will Never Be Merged nor Closed"

jaredcwhite — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:02:25 +0000

Liquid (Ruby) has been a bit of a backwater repo for a long, long time now. I lost confidence in building any of my own websites using it, having forked Jekyll to create Bridgetown which afforded me the opportunity to switch to other template engines (including one I wrote which is a superset of ERB with Liquid-like features called Serbea).

Turning a questionable project into a vibe-coded slop fest doesn't surprise me tbh. Folks, unless you neeeeeeed to use Liquid, uh, don't. (Unless you're using another language port of Liquid, in which case maybe it's still fine.)

New comment by jaredcwhite in "So where are all the AI apps?"

jaredcwhite — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:54:51 +0000

> That has strongly disincentivized legitimate contributions from people.

Citation needed. I'm seeing the opposite effect: that embracing AI slop in OSS is turning off human contributors who are aghast at projects not standing firm against the incursion of LLMs…even going so far as to fork projects prior to the introduction of slop. (I'm already using slop-free forked software, and I suspect this trend will grow which is sad but necessary.)

New comment by jaredcwhite in "So where are all the AI apps?"

jaredcwhite — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:52:26 +0000

Current, a brand-new handcoded RSS reader for i(Pad)OS/macOS is one of the best apps I've ever used. Seriously. I gladly purchased it and use it every day now (with Feedbin as the backend).

New comment by jaredcwhite in "So where are all the AI apps?"

jaredcwhite — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:50:21 +0000

Not only that, many of the apps & services I'm gravitating to are genuinely AI-skeptic either in how they're built or in how they market themselves to the general public. Slop-free is becoming hot stuff, and if you sound silly & AI-pilled you take on a significant amount of heat as you should.

New comment by jaredcwhite in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

jaredcwhite — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:19:35 +0000

and your stance is not your own if you got the LLM to stand for you. ;-P

human prompting != human production

New comment by jaredcwhite in "It's time to move your docs in the repo"

jaredcwhite — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:43:34 +0000

"because of AI" is not a valid reason to change anything about how developer communities & projects are managed.