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New comment by joduplessis in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer"

joduplessis — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:03:45 +0000

This doesn't seem to be a big issue with Codex. Claude, yes - I have from time to time said "ffs one liner please".

New comment by joduplessis in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

joduplessis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:23:19 +0000

Anthropic, the company employing "treat them mean, keep them keen" as a marketing tactic. Pass.

New comment by joduplessis in "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"

joduplessis — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:39:51 +0000

And are the agents argumentative and condescending I'm wondering.

New comment by joduplessis in "The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality"

joduplessis — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:37:14 +0000

I think, if the bubble pops, LLM assisted coding is here to stay. It's novel & useful enough to offer a real advantage, but can also be misused easily by folks who think software is now "solved" obviously. Either way - the middle ground is the sweet spot, and I think you're probably just looking at the disappearance of the bottom layer: grunt work, templates, straightforward SaaS apps, tooling, utils, etc. Job-wise though, I think juniors & interns are the ones who's caught in the storm unfortunately.

New comment by joduplessis in "Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record"

joduplessis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:06:51 +0000

Sir, why would I put on a "radio" when I've got a perfectly healthy pigeon, readied and waiting?

New comment by joduplessis in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

joduplessis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:05:49 +0000

Bro!? I did. But I said 4.6 dude.

New comment by joduplessis in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

joduplessis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:05:10 +0000

You're absolutely right. There are no other models out there for coding.

New comment by joduplessis in "Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record"

joduplessis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:00:19 +0000

This is super exciting for fast message delivery.

I'm so tired of my messages taking 2 weeks to deliver! 3000km shouldn't take that long! Personally I'm really looking forward to a world where my message can take maybe even a week to deliver to someone 2000km - 3000km away. What a time to be alive.

New comment by joduplessis in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

joduplessis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:32:04 +0000

It's an interesting conversation - because at what point do you call it an abusive relationship, right? Maybe even ancillary to anthropomorphising an inanimate object - I've cancelled my Claude sub and I've shot question after question at it now (during the cancellation period), resulting in almost every reply with me asking it to "please speak normally". I will most definitely not be renewing my sub. I have no desire to engage with a non-human somehow managing to speak down to you, without answering the question.

EDIT: my honest opinion; Anthropic is building a person, whereas everybody else (it seems) is building a tool.

New comment by joduplessis in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

joduplessis — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:25:36 +0000

Plenty for coding - Sol, K3, new DeepSeek & Qwen, GLM 5.3, Grok 4.6, etc.

New comment by joduplessis in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

joduplessis — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:32:19 +0000

Just stop using Claude. There are so many other better models right now.

New comment by joduplessis in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

joduplessis — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:41:44 +0000

I've never wanted to punch a meta physical entity in the face more, than I do Claude. I realised a lot of the AI context fatigue was from having to try and comprehend the absolute ridiculous wording. I cancelled my sub a while back (obviously).

New comment by joduplessis in "More German than many Germans"

joduplessis — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:24:23 +0000

My wife and I lived in Hamburg for a few years. Nice place and I often miss our lives there. However, I know many other foreigners do not share this experience - even I had to get used to people being hostile to someone stumbling through German. Ultimately we found happiness was being back home (SA) where things were a bit harder, but "nicer".

New comment by joduplessis in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

joduplessis — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:16:42 +0000

Surprisingly I've found some stigma attached to it - because people can get "preachy" about exercise I guess.

New comment by joduplessis in "Midjourney Medical"

joduplessis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:57:55 +0000

This looks remarkably dystopian.

New comment by joduplessis in "UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts"

joduplessis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:38:37 +0000

It is, of course, wild that people are saying "just use a VPN"... in the context of the UK.

New comment by joduplessis in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

joduplessis — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:29:08 +0000

I really wish seemingly intelligent people would stop using the abstraction analogy (like the article does). The key word is: determinism. Every level of abstraction (inc. power tools, C, etc.) added a deterministic layer you can rely on to more effectively do whatever it is that you're doing - same result, every time. LLM's use natural language to describe programming and the result is varied at the very best (hence agents, so we can brute force the result instead). I think the real moat is becoming the person who can actually still program.

New comment by joduplessis in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

joduplessis — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:18:10 +0000

Spotify DJ is terrible - just like their Apple TV app (which is perpetually buggy). However, their radio mix feature is so good that it's become the #1 reason I can't switch.

New comment by joduplessis in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

joduplessis — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:40:23 +0000

Quadruple espresso + some good deathcore solves this pretty nicely for me.

New comment by joduplessis in "Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use"

joduplessis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:02:25 +0000

A Figma competitor is a really good thing - many people are waiting to jump ship for a decent competitor. However, for the sake of longevity & lawsuits, maybe tweak the UI a little bit. Just to make it not look exactly like Figma. Well done though!