Hacker News: lordkrandel

New comment by lordkrandel in "Job Is to Give a Shit"

lordkrandel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:48:50 +0000

No, it's not care, in my opinion the key to understand, is the lack of pain, as both a motivator and a refrain. Pain is what would make LLM afraid of lying or dying. They can fake care, they can fake tears, but they cannot fake pain. They drag you in a spiral of concoacted synthetical sentences, with no shame or guilt about what they are saying, as cold as a fridge. Why? Because they have no compassion, no passion, which means, no pain.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

lordkrandel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:06:38 +0000

You you you you. A rant article

New comment by lordkrandel in "I'm tired about hearing about AI startups"

lordkrandel — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:48:54 +0000

Yes, there are, but you're in the home of Silicon Valley investments, so I don't know what you expect to see here. "Look, we're optimizing turbines since the 90's, we need a tech lead for a replacement"?

New comment by lordkrandel in "Show HN: I built a Bitcoin signing device where the private key is physical"

lordkrandel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:47:39 +0000

Well, if the physical object doesn't change, the encryptor won't matter. You can build another one that reads the key and stores it, and voila, a digital duplicate. I don't understand how this will protect stuff beyond your neighboor level attack. Given that your neighboor can steal you both the key and the reader.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Denmark desperately needs more inequality"

lordkrandel — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:26:14 +0000

I won't even bother read this time.

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

lordkrandel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:56:24 +0000

Yeah, I guess that for small projects, you can prototype and generate well and good. 20k loc is not much. A seasoned engineer can put code generation to good use. Yet, the cost of maintaining 4x the code grows exponentially, especially when you have to communicate your specs to humans, or have stakeholders discuss how they want the product to be. Firmware is also a nice ground. Sensors also behave mechanically, which is good for AIs who can pattern match more effectively than with actual humans. I won't say AI is useless. I see the incremental gains. I don't see the exponential gains for everyone that is going to kill the world - yet. And the fact that it takes 50+ comments to actually get someone who can explain real gains tells me much about how overhyped the whole domain is.

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

lordkrandel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:46:04 +0000

Have fun then. I don't need to convince you, I asked reasons to be convinced. And this thread is offering me none at all! :D

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:23:30 +0000

Oh, finally someone who speaks the truth :D yeah, security su*ks everywhere. True. But when you grow a product with time, you fill the holes one by one when you start losing water. With AI, you will have so many holes in your 15 days made battleship, that... good luck putting it at sea, you can tank in the first minute. As Moltbook has shown. I don't have to find proofs (which I dont actually find). I just need a counter example and... first big vibe product I've seen, first gigantic security failure. Plain to see.

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:19:41 +0000

I definitely can use a hammer, trust me xD you're just bar chatter trying to belittle me, maybe, but do you actually know me, brah

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:17:28 +0000

Most startups fail because of no market or money issues, not because of product issues. You can build a wonderful cathedral and pray an empty god in a wonderful desert. Then someone cuts oil supply and the cathedral is not aor conditioned anymore. So go ahead, build 50 products, hope that 1 succeeds. My bet is that 50 will fail and 1 person in 1000 will succeed. But everyone will spend so much money on Nvidia and Anthropic that they will eradicate whatever else is in the world.

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:12:52 +0000

Blah blah blah

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:11:53 +0000

> can give it a list of fields with validation rules and query patterns and it'll build me CRUD pages in a fraction of the time it'd take me to do so.

Ah, is this what you do for a job? I actually have to accord accounting rules between countries, evaluate different conflicting laws, understand what the government wants in a report, check that everything sums up... But if my job was CRUD apps and thats it, yes I would fear for my job.

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:07:47 +0000

If it worked, I would agree. AI just helped me finding bugs in some hashing function today, ok, nice. But only after 3 hours I got any result out of it, with 13 years of experience. My feeling is that newbies are creating todo lists with react , just like it has been copied from someone's tutorial they didnt bother to read before, and now they feel powerful. But hey, let them do our taxes then! And they get screwed in 0 seconds.

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

lordkrandel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:04:23 +0000

The thing is, AI is playing "tech chess" wonderful the first two moves, and then starts turning pieces around without much care, letting the queen die for no reason, but well, what a wonderful opening.

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

lordkrandel — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:40:28 +0000

Why do people keep ralking about AI as it actually worked? I still don't see ANY proof that it doesn't generate a total unmaintainable unsecure mess, that since you didn't develop, you don't know how to fix. Like running a F1 Ferrari on a countryside road: useless and dangerous

New comment by lordkrandel in "Unix philosophy is dead Long live something else?"

lordkrandel — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:06:20 +0000

I'm a nerd, and I have plenty of reasons to disagree

New comment by lordkrandel in "Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs"

lordkrandel — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:33:19 +0000

If you name a scale "corporate bullshit" you kinda want some kinda outcome

New comment by lordkrandel in "Doomporn"

lordkrandel — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:19:32 +0000

Embrace it. Make your life worse and get less productive now. Wow. Is that how you're going to put down my throat another useless AI tool that makes too much code and doesn't understand what product, user experience and security mean? I really hoped the article dealt with Doom and porn somehow

New comment by lordkrandel in "Amazon is regretting AI [video]"

lordkrandel — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:57:54 +0000

Aaaand 100% yes. Correct. I don't know why people can be so drunk to put billions after this feature that serves nothing but top notch translation, and text interaction to a mindless machine. Like, speaking love to a parrot, and since the parrot replies back, marrying him.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Firefox removes the support for Windows 7 users"

lordkrandel — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:03:50 +0000

What is Windows 7 thing