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New comment by jdlyga in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

jdlyga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:27:56 +0000

This reminds me of when Microsoft announced Bing Chat (which became Copilot) as a thin wrapper around ChatGPT. It turned out their value added wasn't integration, but tanking the quality and usefulness of it.

New comment by jdlyga in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

jdlyga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:24:01 +0000

A silver lining to this is new parents are very aware of the dangers of screen time. In my little community, I haven't seen parents of kids under the age of 3 give their kid any type of screen especially when they're out. It's a real generational divide, since I used to see kids with tablets in restaurants everywhere back 5 or 6 years ago. The new thing is screen free electronics, like a device kids can stick cards in and it repeats words in English or Spanish.

New comment by jdlyga in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

jdlyga — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:23:26 +0000

The trouble with hiring juniors now is it's much more difficult to get them up to speed so they can be productive. Before covid, you'd sit next to them, get asked questions every so often, do some pair programming, and discuss ideas over lunch. You can, on paper, do the same exact things over Slack and Zoom. But there's much more friction. And a junior that's struggling is a lot less visible than it used to be. So what ends up happening is seniors become more heads down, getting things done, and juniors struggle to get time with more experienced coworkers.

New comment by jdlyga in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

jdlyga — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:08:23 +0000

GIMP should take a lesson from Blender. Blender used to be the most clunky, unintuitive pieces of open source software. But after a decade and a half of UI development, it's one of the smoothest interfaces you'll ever use.

New comment by jdlyga in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

jdlyga — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:49:05 +0000

It's a bit odd that they're not comparing it against Sonnet

New comment by jdlyga in "Academics Need to Wake Up on AI"

jdlyga — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:48:13 +0000

CS Academia tends to lag behind industry practices. The research frontier can be very cutting edge, but course curriculum, assignments, and institutional norms are slower and more conservative. That’s usually manageable when the shift is something like cloud adoption, new tooling, or a new dominant programming language. But this particular industry trend, use of AI in software development, is massive and fast moving (especially the agentic workflow growth over the last 6 months). And we're just now understanding where everything fits in and its limitations.

New comment by jdlyga in "Incident with Actions"

jdlyga — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:20:44 +0000

https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/

New comment by jdlyga in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

jdlyga — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:28:03 +0000

My brain stores all my passwords in memory in clear text too

New comment by jdlyga in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

jdlyga — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:11:48 +0000

Could've just called it MacPad++ or something

New comment by jdlyga in "Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud"

jdlyga — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:56:38 +0000

Broccoli has been around since the 6th century BC

New comment by jdlyga in "Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers"

jdlyga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:03:15 +0000

This is just geopolitics. You should've seen what the US and Europe did during the Cold War.

New comment by jdlyga in "What is agentic engineering?"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:41:44 +0000

Sure, you could argue it's like writing code that gets optimized by the compiler for whatever CPU architecture you're using. But the main difference between layers of abstraction and agentic development is the "fuzzyness" of it. It's not deterministic. It's a lot more like managing a person.

New comment by jdlyga in "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:39:58 +0000

Excel is so embedded into our world that we renamed part of the human genome to prevent excel from incorrectly reading them as dates

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

New comment by jdlyga in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:38:40 +0000

The endgame is clear. Mass surveillance combined with AI agents. Would almost be like having a personal government spy watching each individual person.

New comment by jdlyga in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

jdlyga — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:58:53 +0000

Just give it 2 years and this will exist for real.

New comment by jdlyga in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

jdlyga — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:15:41 +0000

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New comment by jdlyga in "Put the zip code first"

jdlyga — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:03:38 +0000

Zip codes do not have a one to one relationship to cities in the US. It's a common misconception. It's true about 90% of the time, but there are a lot of outliers. I used to work with GIS data and there are a ton of exceptions.

New comment by jdlyga in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

jdlyga — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:31:51 +0000

Rookie move. Why is Claude Code able to run terraform?

New comment by jdlyga in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

jdlyga — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:08:26 +0000

I'll do you one better, imagine a CPU that runs entirely in an LLM.

You’re absolutely right! I made an arithmetic mistake there — 3 * 3 is 9, not 8. Let’s correct that: Before: EAX = 3 After imul eax, eax: EAX = 9 Thanks for catching that — the correct return value is 9.

New comment by jdlyga in "MacBook Neo"

jdlyga — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:59:18 +0000

Even if apple is losing money on these devices, they shouldn't care. Low cost laptops are the main reason why people buy Windows laptops instead of Macs. They need to get people into the Mac ecosystem.