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New comment by lackoftactics in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

lackoftactics — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:15:35 +0000

My thoughts too. The LLMs made me understand that the world had been working like that long before LLMs. Luck plays an enormous part in life. We gravitated toward a discipline that seemed free of all those problems, when in fact it had those downfalls better disguised.

New comment by lackoftactics in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

lackoftactics — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:34:47 +0000

rant first: oh, I recently heard about you from a friend working in a company after I mentioned that I also got into photography. Nice work on pixelpeeper.com

to the article: Yeah, it's different world out there. We need to filter ideas instead of focusing on more features, as lack of staggering revenue growth suggests it might be that more doesn't equal better. The stability of apps is getting worse lately. I couldn't pair my sony camera and it was stuck on pairing screen :(

New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"

lackoftactics — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:08:41 +0000

Not only buggier, but less usable overall. We can not blame everything on AI. For example events discovery platforms and ticket platforms were way better decade ago, you could search by popularity, friends going to the same event and there wasn’t as much fragmentation. That part you could blame on Cambridge Analytica scandal and late capitalism love of algorithmic feeds

New comment by lackoftactics in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

lackoftactics — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:52:51 +0000

also the conseqeunces of implementing it badly from scratch don't make sense if you can use battle-tested solution

New comment by lackoftactics in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

lackoftactics — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:51:11 +0000

It's one of those things you shouldn't trust LLMs to such an extent; that part should be very solid because the consequences of bad practices are getting to front page of hacker news :)

New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

lackoftactics — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:24:48 +0000

There was a recent interview with Dax Raad on the Pragmatic Programmer podcast, and they talked briefly about it. We would like a future where we do just a bit more work and are happier with legacy codebases or work on getting rid of tech debt, but that definitely won't be something our employers are interested in.

New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

lackoftactics — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:21:51 +0000

other thing could be also true, if you are great developer who spent decade honing their craft (vim, working on hobby projects, grinding when your friends party) you would hold cognitive bias against it as it flips the script. I don't think our profession is going away, but the shift is happening and it's not very comfortable one.

New comment by lackoftactics in "Deno 2.9"

lackoftactics — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:51:32 +0000

definitely hard to beat Bun at the moment, the live reload is crazy good

New comment by lackoftactics in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

lackoftactics — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:42:07 +0000

they introduced static typing (Sorbet) to avoid problems, it's completely different app and looks nowhere close to what you experience in standard Rails app

New comment by lackoftactics in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

lackoftactics — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:32:21 +0000

Why do you think that follows?

I was on team dynamic typing for about 12 years, and Ruby was a big part of that. I still think dynamic languages can be wonderful to read and write.

But after using modern statically typed languages with good inference, I changed my mind. Many of my old objections were really objections to verbose type systems, not static typing itself. With inference, you can keep a lot of the readability while gaining safer refactoring, better tooling, and earlier feedback.

That doesn’t mean dynamic languages can’t produce high-quality software. They obviously can. But I don’t think appreciating modern static typing is just evangelism.

And yes, I understand what this library is about, it's for "beautiful" easy to use interface to AI providers for Ruby apps. It's the popular play nowadays with litellm, bifrost, gomodel and vercel gateway. We have at least couple AI gateways, libraries like that every week on HN.

New comment by lackoftactics in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

lackoftactics — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:13:16 +0000

Even as rails dev, I am seeing that you might be right. It’s really hard to find specific pros nowadays that Ruby brings to the table. All that talk about conventions over configurations and vast presence of Rails in weights is fun, but if writing speed isn’t an issue anymore, then Ruby on Rails has serious problems with larger codebases

New comment by lackoftactics in "Stealing Is a Skill"

lackoftactics — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:15:27 +0000

there are only limited number of patterns for ui,ux, CTA. It sucks to be stolen from, but we build on top of each other most of the time

New comment by lackoftactics in "LiteLLM Migrates to Rust"

lackoftactics — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:21:09 +0000

Two questions.

How do you handle the competition like https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GOModel and Bifrost? They already moved to more performant languages like Go.

What is the moat of litellm currently and why such a radical move?

LiteLLM Migrates to Rust

lackoftactics — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/litellm-rust-launch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644899

Points: 6

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New comment by lackoftactics in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

lackoftactics — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:13:42 +0000

And the effort to produce valid benchmarks is tremendous. You are probably right and that’s very annoying. We already had flame wars over frameworks and this is way worse, your vibes vs. my vibes. Who would thought non-deterministic outputs would lead us here?

New comment by lackoftactics in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

lackoftactics — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:10:12 +0000

Thanks for the link! I thought I know every obscure law and I was so wrong.

New comment by lackoftactics in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

lackoftactics — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:07:50 +0000

Looked at your repo, even starred. On the surface, I like your approach a bit better. It looks like your idea sits at the space between semantic search and compressing tokens. I was into semantic search before, but mostly trying to vectorize codebase instead of tree sitter and couldn’t make the semantic search work for me. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by lackoftactics in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

lackoftactics — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:27:52 +0000

1. Are you sure no one is fooled? It’s the main thing managers are praising rtk for and using as an argument for it’s validity. If this is gamed, then it paints a very different picture. 2. No, I didn’t vet all the reports. But they paint quite convincing picture of the problems present in the library, which has a very ambitious goals of handling every popular command and making it less verbose. 3. You know this is not a valid point. Engineers tanking performance and choosing based on hype is nothing new. Github stars and usage is not a valid argument, when the tool is not very transparent and could quietly fail. If it’s only couple percents less accuracy, most wouldn’t easily recognize it with the whole stack of skills, mcps and agents.md 4. Is it something more than a feature? If the benefit is $3 on $900 as other commenter pointed out using maybe better and well researched article than mine from codepointer, why would I risk that for all the possible bugs and worse accuracy. 5. Hard to address this one. Tough problem domain to handle with endless cli commands to capture and process properly.

Congratulations on your accepted PR. I didn’t want to make you grumpy today. If you feel I am wrong, it’s very possible. I am just a guy who wrote my point of view, it doesn’t automatically make it valid. Once again sorry for making you grumpy.

New comment by lackoftactics in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

lackoftactics — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:58:09 +0000

As an author of the text, I can say you are „absolutely” not correct. I might be already spending too much time with llms and they start to shape my texts, so I am not proud of that either. But thanks for bringing very valuable insight to otherwise interesting discussion.

New comment by lackoftactics in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

lackoftactics — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:46:03 +0000

Tbh I could buy into what you are proposing more than rtk. It feels sane in comparison