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New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?"

jryan49 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:35:25 +0000

I would think modern optimized binaries would be too complicated for current LLMs to handle. LLMs currently get overwhelmed with large code bases, imagine turning that all into binary.

New comment by jryan49 in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

jryan49 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:07:29 +0000

I mean is your place modest compared to the average place in a third world country?

New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?"

jryan49 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:11:05 +0000

If you're made of money sure and then the cases it can't fix I guess you're just stuck.

New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?"

jryan49 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:09:15 +0000

Can AI actually read binary code and change it?

New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?"

jryan49 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:12:01 +0000

What about AI changes things though? Why didn't you just ignore code quality from humans writing code too?

New comment by jryan49 in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

jryan49 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:28:36 +0000

Honestly? I don't think we really understand consciousness. So it's kind of hard to say something is or isn't conscious.

New comment by jryan49 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jryan49 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:39:58 +0000

Could anything be more ironic, the employees that work to track every person in the world are now being tracked themselves :)

New comment by jryan49 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jryan49 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:39:16 +0000

I've been thinking about it a lot. I've been looking into becoming an electrician for maybe like 6 years before I retire.

New comment by jryan49 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

jryan49 — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:06:18 +0000

Kinda buggy, but impressively nonetheless. How long did it take?

New comment by jryan49 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

jryan49 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:03:22 +0000

But it was trained on ad spam wasn't it?

New comment by jryan49 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

jryan49 — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:08:22 +0000

People are afraid for their livelihood. What do you expect?

New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: Go all in on startup idea, or stay W2"

jryan49 — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:12:52 +0000

I mean a lot depends on your life circumstances. Do you have a family to support? Do you have any money saved up? How old you are? It's tempting for me to quit and work on something I've wanted to work on for years but... The risk feels too high cause I feel like if I fail, it will be impossible to find a new job where either I made as much as I had before, or a job at all.

New comment by jryan49 in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

jryan49 — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:17:31 +0000

I mean the act of reproducing the copyrighted material is what is illegal. LLMs I've used for coding has outputted exact copyrights for code verbatim into my code before. When that happens it feels kind of fishy to be honest.

New comment by jryan49 in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

jryan49 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:54:49 +0000

I had to buy the copyrighted material before reading it... Meta apparently operates in a different legal system than me. That's my issue with it.

New comment by jryan49 in "I Forgot to Code"

jryan49 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:38:36 +0000

> I went all in on AI coding tools and became incredibly productive. Then I lost my job and could not write a for loop.

After I read that, I couldn't even bring myself to read the article.

New comment by jryan49 in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

jryan49 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:31:11 +0000

It's really good!

New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

jryan49 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:50:38 +0000

AI output is non-deterministic right? Can both of you be right? Maybe it gets it right sometimes, and doesn't other times.

New comment by jryan49 in "Ask HN: How do you offload all coding to AI?"

jryan49 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:36:20 +0000

When people say they don't write the code, they mean they don't type it, but if there are not vibe coding garbage they are still watching what the agent outputs, and redirects it when it goes wrong. Instead of fixing the code manually they prompt the LLM.

New comment by jryan49 in "Show HN: Primer – build software with AI agents one milestone at a time"

jryan49 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:26:23 +0000

Have you seen openspec, or any of the others in this space?

New comment by jryan49 in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

jryan49 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:15:38 +0000

Yes... maybe not 99%...