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New comment by jere in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

jere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:20:52 +0000

Now that's what I call a joke.

New comment by jere in "Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark"

jere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:47:16 +0000

It just kills me how there is this meme that minecraft is just walking around on a bunch of grass and dirt voxels and if you have that, you have minecraft. It was way, way more complicated than that even 15 years ago.

New comment by jere in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

jere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:44:40 +0000

I tried to word my comment carefully to avoid pedantry, but alas.

I don't think everyone agree with your notion that the language and tools of mathematics aren't human inventions.

New comment by jere in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

jere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:06:20 +0000

Math, like any other human endeavor, doesn't exist until someone is motivated to invent it. The laws of the universe aren't understood until someone is motivated to discover them. So it might be worthwhile to not completely ignore discussion about incentives.

New comment by jere in "How I feel about AI"

jere — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:21:06 +0000

Did y'all reach any consensus on that?

New comment by jere in "Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark"

jere — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:49:37 +0000

But they're not recreating Minecraft. They're recreating one of the most common tutorials on the internet that shows a simple voxel overworld and nothing else. That's not Minecraft.

New comment by jere in "How I feel about AI"

jere — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:44:08 +0000

My experience online is if you don't show full throated rejection of all things related to AI, you're labeled an AI bro. None of the antis care how you feel.

I had my decade old game completely cloned on steam (clearly done using AI as it was almost fully reimplemented in another engine). And I had several people gleefully tell me I deserve this because I've used AI.

I have complex emotions here (overall dread and especially hate for slop, since it's not just bad quality but also endless lies), but no one cares about that nuance.

New comment by jere in "The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall"

jere — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:06:46 +0000

> During those first two years the loan performed beautifully: the borrower paid, the servicer collected, and the bond paid its coupon. Nothing looked wrong because the whole complex - housing, mortgages, securitization - was sitting inside the teaser period... Every ARM reset was known, dated, and contractually inevitable from the moment of origination.

This is clearly slop. Heavy use of dashes. Rules of three throughout. Pangram says 100% of what I checked was AI.

New comment by jere in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

jere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:15:46 +0000

And how could you possibly distinguish those scenarios without wasting all your time?

New comment by jere in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

jere — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:30:12 +0000

> I imagine people hundred years in the future will think of our current society rightfully as dumbfucks. But should we be surprised? 50 years ago women didn't have voting rights

Good news: the readers of your post don't have to wait 100 years to have that thought.

New comment by jere in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

jere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:36:29 +0000

monkey's paw curls

New comment by jere in "Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem"

jere — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:41:31 +0000

If you wrote this, apologies. Blame Pangram in having high confidence that most of this is AI, my spidey sense going off because it sounded strongly like AI to me before I checked Pangram, and most importantly my lack of imagination in what people finding interesting.

New comment by jere in "Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem"

jere — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:14:00 +0000

> I like that it begins as Asteroids, turns into a countdown race, borrows ideas from Nintendo, Bomb Jack and Pang, and then actually ends after sixteen waves that can be learnt by heart

The thing about using AI to write articles for you is, because it's tuned to be enthusiastic about everything, it doesn't know what's boring and uninteresting. Shameful.

New comment by jere in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

jere — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:39:06 +0000

> A taxi driver who works 60 hours a week will have very little time left over for drinking

That's plenty of time to be a full blown alcoholic.

New comment by jere in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

jere — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:37:48 +0000

Yea "rarely" is pretty misleading. It makes it seem like it almost never happens when it's just a slightly lower chance (if that's even true).

New comment by jere in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

jere — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:25:22 +0000

HN is obsessed with anything done in niche programming languages, is my guess.

New comment by jere in "AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest"

jere — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:32:00 +0000

They look much better. I don't know if it's just my exposure to AI images but the first place one looks so obviously like AI slop.

New comment by jere in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

jere — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:32:31 +0000

I'm tired of this "X was never the hard part" meme when in fact X (this time: prototyping) was in fact difficult.

New comment by jere in "Codex Security"

jere — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:58:45 +0000

I think his point was AI is really good at introducing vulnerabilities?

New comment by jere in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

jere — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:40:29 +0000

Why?