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New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019)"

llIIllIIllIIl — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:33:17 +0000

I liked the article. Every feature flag contributes to hockey stick growth of version variations of your software.

1 feature flag = 2 behaviors 2 feature flags = 4 behaviors

So cognitive overload is unavoidable after feature flags 5 as you have so many permutations.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

llIIllIIllIIl — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:00:04 +0000

Keeps the doctor away?

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "An Update on Heroku"

llIIllIIllIIl — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:37:07 +0000

Do you care to show prices? The true benefit of heroku for me was really predictable pricing model. Build.io website doesn’t have it on mobile site at all. I don’t want to look at demo, i want to hook up my credit card, set a monthly budget and explore

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

llIIllIIllIIl — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:15:24 +0000

Although bright ideas may be found in this post, anthropomorphisms of LLM agents turns me away from reading.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

llIIllIIllIIl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:07:12 +0000

On the contrary I enjoyed this human touch in the text.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

llIIllIIllIIl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:02:41 +0000

I guess it depends on how people interact with LLM. Cognitive debt may be acquired when people `talk` with machines, asking personal questions, like asking what to answer to the sms from a friend, etc.

It may seem different when people `command` LLMs to do particular actions. At the end, this community, most of all probably, understands that LLM is nothing else than advanced auto-complete with natural language interface instead of Bash.

> Write me an essay about birds in my area

Than later will be presented as human’s work compared to

> How does this codebase charge customers?

When a person needs to add trials to the existing billing.

The latter will result a deterministic code after (many) prompts that a person will be able to validate for correctness (another question if they will though).

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

llIIllIIllIIl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:06:54 +0000

I had very similar experience with my disabled organization on another provider. After 3 hours of my script sending commands to gemini-cli for execution i got disabled and then in 2 days my gmail was disabled. Good thing that it was disposable account, not the primary one.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "The Agentic Self: Parallels Between AI and Self-Improvement"

llIIllIIllIIl — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:22:23 +0000

Is Murat suggesting that thinking equals predicting the next token or is this just fiction to read?

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

llIIllIIllIIl — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:12:06 +0000

So if Ukrainian is not your home language why didn’t you move home where Russian is your home language?

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

llIIllIIllIIl — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:06:30 +0000

Exactly that gives ruskies propaganda talking points to invade Ukraine by saying they don’t like how Ukrainians treated russian speakers.

British King isn’t delusional enough to start war with neighboring English speaking country.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "The HTTP Query Method"

llIIllIIllIIl — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:59:30 +0000

How does one share the search results with the url to the page with this query method?

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

llIIllIIllIIl — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:12:23 +0000

This experiment smells like weed

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

llIIllIIllIIl — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:56:40 +0000

Coding agents that you are building should get the link to this post and build everything mentioned.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "URLs are state containers"

llIIllIIllIIl — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:03:52 +0000

That’s the reason i stay away and keep my customers away from SPAs. Good ole html forms do the trick for 99.95% use cases.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?"

llIIllIIllIIl — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:22:24 +0000

If junior shines they become senior.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch"

llIIllIIllIIl — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:45:52 +0000

Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy as a Ruby guy

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Sequoia backs Zed"

llIIllIIllIIl — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:36:04 +0000

Butch: Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "A Scaled Down Look at Spending, Revenue, and What's Being Cut"

llIIllIIllIIl — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:18:00 +0000

The article shows the DOGE miserable savings and gives the alternative for government to earn more by taxing stuff. Government capitalism makes socialism i guess.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "Local CI. Sign off on your own work"

llIIllIIllIIl — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:22:12 +0000

Passes on every undeclared dependency that is available locally but would render the official artifact unusable.

New comment by llIIllIIllIIl in "China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns"

llIIllIIllIIl — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:41:58 +0000

China could broaden the message to “tells anyone to o avoid U.S. travel...” and that would be right thing to do because of the far-right happening here now.