I’ve been a full-stack web programmer at five different companies over the last fifteen years, big and small, e-commerce and B2B, junior to senior to staff, and that has never fully described my responsibilities.

“Google Gemini” is the No 2 ranked app in the Apple App Store (behind ChatGTP) and has been for some time

I'm also curious what results we would get if SWE came up with a new set of 500 problems to run all these models against, to guard against overfitting.

How about detaining US citizens without warrants for days at a time and then releasing with no charges? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/george-...

So while it may be possible for life to exist without water, any alternatives should be reasonably expected to be even more rare than water-based life

But I agree with you that it gets those things correct most of the time and it also seems to be improving over time.

But it’s very very good.

US median individual income in 2022 was $48k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

> The “average person” doesn’t make enough money to pay rent or afford groceries

<1% of the US population is homeless, and ~10% receive food stamps. The average person makes enough money to pay rent and buy groceries.

I understand YMMV, but I have yet to find a use case where this takes me less time than writing the code myself.

Thanks for the search though:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30397201

This one from 3 yrs ago had some interesting comments

> off topic, but they have a very suspect pricing page: https://www.builder.ai/studio-store

> "Delivery: 12 weeks"

> is Builder.ai just a CRUD app for indian sweatshops to build the apps?

> > It would not have spawned an entire industry and no code websites every other week or so if it was ‘just a CRUD app’.

- indiscriminately fire people who have been in long term positions but recently got promoted and so were considered “probationary”

- dismantle the CPFB which was a net gain for revenue

- dismantle 18F which has a track record of improving government efficiency

- fire people who were involved in managing nuclear weapons and bird flu and then try to bring them back

- share spreadsheets on Twitter about really old people in the social security system making people think there’s tons of fraud without learning about the 2023 OIG report that already existed that explained this data

- make a bunch of noise about cutting a bunch of contracts including a third of which were already fully spent and will save nothing

Does this give you confidence that they are genuinely focused on reducing inefficiency and waste? It seems to me like they are rushing in, not bothering to learn what has already been done, arrogantly making assumptions, randomly breaking things and causing chaos, and all for what… a few billion in real savings which is not even a fraction of the proposed increase in spending by the current budget resolutions being worked on by the Republicans in the house?

Why should we have ever thought that an operation literally named after a dog meme was serious about anything?

https://xcancel.com/ThatsMauvelous/status/189135619250239902...

It’s always good to respond to odd things with curiosity rather than cynicism.

It also seems clear that the vast majority of these old records are not collecting benefits, and even the few that are may have valid reasons (ex living younger spouses)

https://xcancel.com/ThatsMauvelous/status/189135619250239902...