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New comment by jbvlkt in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

jbvlkt — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:49:06 +0000

Exactly, I stoped using all social media and I feel way better and my screen time went significantly down. It is harder to communicate with some people (have to use email or sms) but it reduced mostly meaningless small talk we can do in person.

New comment by jbvlkt in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

jbvlkt — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:00:50 +0000

Why do you think we lost free internet right now? In my opinion we lost it when all corporations switched to mass surveilance. Now we just stop pretending that social media corporations are not responsible for anything.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jbvlkt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:41:07 +0000

LLMs are getting so expensive that for many people are already unavailable (except for subsidized subscriptions). This might just accelerate general unavailability of frontiers models to general public which would happen in near future anyway. Frontier LLMs are just switching to B2B only earlier.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

jbvlkt — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:10:53 +0000

Also you can use projects like numba https://numba.pydata.org/

New comment by jbvlkt in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

jbvlkt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:44:07 +0000

Because writing huge amounts of code is easy for humans too. Agents already proved that they can do it. But are agents able to maintain it? I do not know and unless I know for sure, I am not fully committing to AI generated code.

i.e. I am able to write about 1k lines of code of "acceptable" quality per week. Which means in 1 year, there will be about 5Ok LoC. I am pretty sure, that I would have to spent like 60-80% of time to maintain 1st year code and the rest to make new features in the second year so I would have to hire more people and spent time to onboard them to maintain velocity. All of that are rough estimates, probably overoptimistic and way worse in 3rd year. Good luck doing such estimates with code agents. Even worse if you already have huge amounts of legacy code.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

jbvlkt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:10:48 +0000

Exactly my experience. I always refactor first myself then delegate boring tasks to AI. It saves me energy, time and also tokens. If code is not prepared for easy implementation agents always fail.

New comment by jbvlkt in "GitHub and the crime against software"

jbvlkt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:16:26 +0000

I use firefox reader view for websites like this.

New comment by jbvlkt in "GitHub and the crime against software"

jbvlkt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:12:51 +0000

I am self hosting forgejo on my synology NAS. It is easier than it looks. Synology provides me access from the internet so I do not need static IP address. It took me at most 20 minutes to write (copy paste) docker compose file to make it run and another hour to import repositories from github and gitlab. Only maintenance I do is update to new version once a while which takes about 5 minutes. You can set it up to sync repositories back to code forges.

If you do not have a lot of users you can easily set it up too.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

jbvlkt — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:26:30 +0000

I wanted to give money to charity and they have whole form protected by recaptcha. So I would have to allow all my personal information and amount donated sent to google (and agree with google terms for data processing). I have contacted them but they did not understand why this is problem they just wanted to protect themself against bots. IMHO unless those things are not disallowed by antitrust laws we have lost.

New comment by jbvlkt in "What we lost the last time code got cheap"

jbvlkt — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:54:18 +0000

I do not understand why this is so unpopular today? I feel like everyone now thinks that basically all of SW engineering is outdated. We are supposed to forget all lessons learned and let agents to go through this? My opinion is to not care who did the job. But we should apply the same standard to human and AI output. I do not buy "we should not look at code". If we should not look at it what we should check instead to have the same control over final product? Because not having control over final product is so stupid right now.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services"

jbvlkt — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:14:15 +0000

There are already websites creating terminal tools catalogues. I like https://terminaltrove.com/

New comment by jbvlkt in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

jbvlkt — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:08:44 +0000

Better than average phone sold today. The only problem might be lack of android upgrades otherwise it is straight upgrade for most people. This is reason why replaceable battery is important. If you leave IT bubble people happily use ancient phones and do not need upgrades if battery is ok and there is space to save new photos.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Why TUIs are back"

jbvlkt — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:31:52 +0000

What I do not like on Zed or electron GUIs is lack of customization. Older IDEs using sdks like Swing, JWT, QT, GTK etc. allowed user to design its user interface using drag and drop. ie compare older IDEs like eclipse or idea and try to create layout which fills screen with information important for you. And then try to do the same with vscode or zed. I like functionality and speed of zed but UI customization is too limited for me. It might be design choice or sdk limit I am not sure.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Why TUIs Are Back"

jbvlkt — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:21:38 +0000

I have just combined those together. I use astronvim as main editor but when I need IDE I switch to Idea. I use ideavim with configuration as close as possible to astronvim. So text editing is the same for me in both programs. Modal editors are still great and they can do a lot of work that looks like magic for AI era trained developers.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services"

jbvlkt — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:30 +0000

I use systemctl-tui for this. It looks more mature sw than this project.

https://github.com/rgwood/systemctl-tui

New comment by jbvlkt in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

jbvlkt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:06:43 +0000

This is exactly what happens with all agentic products in near future. Demand is way higher than supply right now. Also most programmers do not use agents yet so demand will grow even more. Building data centers is not easy and price of HW is skyrocketing.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

jbvlkt — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:46:32 +0000

Exactly. We do not have another artifact than code which can be deterministically converted to program. That is reason we have to still read the code. Prompt is not final product in development process.

New comment by jbvlkt in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

jbvlkt — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:09:16 +0000

I have been thinking about that lately and isn't testing and security evaluation way harder problem than designing and carefully implementing new features? I think that vibecoding automates easiest step in SW development while making more challenging/expensive steps harder. How are we suppose to debug complex problems in critical infrastructure if no one understands code? It is possible that in future agents will be able to do that but it feels to me that we are not there yet.