Hacker News: kusokurae

New comment by kusokurae in "It used to be hard"

kusokurae — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:41:17 +0000

I think there should be honesty about what "Doing" some of these things means. Outsourcing is "doing" IFF you regard the end product as the sole meaningful or significant part of a given goal or process.

"Have your digital slave do it for you" is not really doing it if doing something and difficulty refers to your own action, and there's a gradient between that extreme and manually grinding rocks to make silicone wafers. I did not just refactor a bit of code, something did it for me. I cannot take ownership for something I didn't actually sodding do, no amount of semantic dishonesty changes this.

Ultimately I am not going to listen to someone who has """""done""""'" a hiphop cover of their history test if they put it into some software that automated 80+% of it from lyric to beat, and their decision-making amounts to 'fuck it that will do'. I'll absolutely listen to someone who has given it a real crack through means convenient and not, if it seems like they give a crap.

New comment by kusokurae in "Applying Brevity and Language Efficiency in Prompt Engineering"

kusokurae — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:26:41 +0000

It still makes me laugh when i see "prompt engineering". I open articles posted on here that contain many diagrams and novel jargon, all for it to amount to using a fucking markdown file with some text in it.

New comment by kusokurae in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

kusokurae — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:22:22 +0000

The problem is my friend you're right but people who tend to browse this website are no longer engineers who would also understand this; it's mostly HR, Managerial staff, and jaded engineers who never enjoyed implementation details, and who are presently trying to convince everyone else implementation details are no longer of relevance.

New comment by kusokurae in "The bottleneck was never the code"

kusokurae — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:08:04 +0000

Ah yes, the (please copy & paste this message into an LLM to get it to generate a novel response in these parentheses)

New comment by kusokurae in "The bottleneck was never the code"

kusokurae — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:27:22 +0000

The community portion that unironically think AI is good enough now, are mostly managers and non/semi-technical people, and engineers who do not engage in critical or complex problems. HN has always been too much of the velocity-alignment-synergy class of professional talkers; it's just so much more obvious now that they feel emboldened in false confidence.

New comment by kusokurae in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

kusokurae — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:28 +0000

It's just cope. I'm so close to just never coming back to HN because the quality of thought has just gone through the floor. Anything whatsoever to hedge one's way to fellating a phallusless chatbot

New comment by kusokurae in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

kusokurae — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:34:22 +0000

Incredibly impressive how, the moment AI becomes the topic of conversation, trivial things such as speaking in relative terms become incredibly difficult for the more addled of the prompting users.

New comment by kusokurae in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"

kusokurae — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:35:15 +0000

Why must so much gumflapping involve the spew of any words but those which encourage not using the clear problem tool more.

"the question becomes how teams will manage cognitive debt" the question is why it is allowed to occur when it is avoidable. Farcical nonsense. Write the code yourself or be silent.

New comment by kusokurae in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

kusokurae — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:02:33 +0000

Really anything can (and must) be written to justify delegated thought. See: replies to this thread.

New comment by kusokurae in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

kusokurae — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:54:00 +0000

Why is it always so consistently a comparison to a technology of a fundamentally different order? Perhaps what has been lost is the ability to recognise distinct and incommensurable categories.

New comment by kusokurae in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

kusokurae — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:52:42 +0000

You aren't thinking myopically; it's a fundamental contradiction the root of which is in how human brains take in and understand new information. No amount of pontification or bollocks hedging as this and all other "thinkpieces" on this issue do, will change that. It is beyond preference and perspective. There is only doing the very task that produces skills pertaining to that task. Prompting alone or even in dominant is too far from this task. They can only write the code.

New comment by kusokurae in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

kusokurae — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:18 +0000

Without getting even more eyes on me, these company boards are inadequately scared for their personal safety.

New comment by kusokurae in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

kusokurae — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:15:13 +0000

Why not just not vibecode? Safer methods of injecting recreational narcotics, such madness.

New comment by kusokurae in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

kusokurae — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:24:24 +0000

On a creative level, I remember McCarthy describing scalped heads as like wet polyps blue in the moonlight. The more generic ways of describing something like that would never give me such a visceral reaction to the violence he was trying to tell me something about.

I already lose interest reading books where the phrases are recycled and the max sentencelength for the whole book grazes 40.

If people communicate to me without personality through prompt wastrelry I'll discount theirs and wait till they're willing to actually have an opinion. In this specific context style and substance tend to come in a pair or not at all. If you can't beat 'em you can at least filter 'em out.

New comment by kusokurae in "The AI Marketing BS Index"

kusokurae — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:56:55 +0000

I submit that doing (4) earns 40 points, rather than 20.

New comment by kusokurae in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

kusokurae — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:08:12 +0000

Be very careful who sources your pacemaker.

New comment by kusokurae in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

kusokurae — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:07:32 +0000

Greptile literally spams PRs with overwhelming verbiage slop and often actively dangerous recommendations. I am tired of sales/propaganda masquerading as insight from vested interests.

New comment by kusokurae in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

kusokurae — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:30:31 +0000

I'm wrong for that. But whenever I suggest solutions for that, police officers visit me!

New comment by kusokurae in "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)"

kusokurae — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:29:39 +0000

Reminded of that episode of House where the lady with dormant syphillis had something like this.

I wonder are there any ways I can contract this without breaking marital vows

New comment by kusokurae in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

kusokurae — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:44:45 +0000

My impression is that people who think that LLMs will completely release reviewing or writing code have never really worked on anything safety critical. I'm not looking forward to the next wave of pacemaker glitches.