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New comment by lukebitts in "Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`"

lukebitts — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:23:05 +0000

This was a very interesting read. Makes me want to try learning Haskell again after failing miserably a few years ago

New comment by lukebitts in "City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2"

lukebitts — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:59:12 +0000

Do you usually interpret “nothing out of the ordinary” as “super computers only” or is that just for me?

New comment by lukebitts in "City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2"

lukebitts — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:27:50 +0000

You are correct but what the article is asking for is nothing out of the ordinary, in fact mods already do what the author is asking for, just not in an automatic way

New comment by lukebitts in "Browsers situationship: When browsers agree but the spec doesn't"

lukebitts — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:32:15 +0000

The only reason I clicked on the link was to read a list of examples, but for some reason the author seems to really want to define what a situationship is instead, disappointing

New comment by lukebitts in "AI usage patterns in software teams"

lukebitts — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:46:55 +0000

To be fair, I do have to remind the AI to follow the codebase's conventions regularly and it is the #1 rule in our team's claude.md. And when I generate plans I ask that every new implementation follow a reference implementation. In your F# projects would something like that help or would it make no difference?

New comment by lukebitts in "AI usage patterns in software teams"

lukebitts — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:23:01 +0000

This is a weird framing, but the user is the "intent". If you can produce "great code" by yourself (whatever that is), then you can get your agent to produce it for you. If you are talking about vibe-coding then yeah, it is going to be trash

New comment by lukebitts in "AI usage patterns in software teams"

lukebitts — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:16:02 +0000

That has been my experience as well. Having the agent have full access to what it is building feels like a cheat code. A recent example: Godot (the game engine) has a feature where GPUParticles can spawn another particle system when they collide with something. Today (as in, download the engine right now and see it for yourself) this is broken, particles spawn beneath the collision box and the faster the particle is the worse it is.

So I asked Claude to first figure out a way to instrument GPU particle code so it could itself check his solutions. After that I left the agent running for 3 hours and it came back with a solution (continuous collision detection) and a bug fix (particles get their velocity applied an extra frame after colliding). I'm sure someone would find something to complain about the code (which is why I haven't upstreamed it) but it looks visually perfect and I had plan to fork the engine for my project anyway

New comment by lukebitts in "AI usage patterns in software teams"

lukebitts — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:08:06 +0000

I read these kinds of comments and wonder what makes reality so different for us. I personally have found AI has the easiest time in the world following existing patterns. At my workplace, our frontend code is so well organized most of the time all the AI has to do is copy and paste an implementation from somewhere else and change the names, and it gets right pretty much 100% of the time

New comment by lukebitts in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

lukebitts — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:47:47 +0000

If it’s so necessary make sure to use your real account next time

New comment by lukebitts in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

lukebitts — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:17:52 +0000

The quick answer is that even in the workflow described by the author these tools don’t do the same thing AI does. And a good programmer/agent will be using these tools as well

New comment by lukebitts in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

lukebitts — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:25:37 +0000

Having read this whole conversation (much like one feels the need to stare at a car accident), you sound truly insane. I hope that’s you were aiming for, otherwise you really need help

New comment by lukebitts in "Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)"

lukebitts — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:32:37 +0000

I wonder what’s the difference between countries that drives that. It’s not like Brazil doesn’t have its own FDA, which is much more strict than the US one, from what I know. Maybe some kind of lobbying? Or are animal rights group that much stronger?

New comment by lukebitts in "Are arrays functions?"

lukebitts — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:32:54 +0000

Some people really do look at a painting and see only brush strokes huh

New comment by lukebitts in "Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler"

lukebitts — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:37:18 +0000

Any moment now…

New comment by lukebitts in "LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell"

lukebitts — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:50:55 +0000

Unfortunately most users on reddit are bots instead

New comment by lukebitts in "Observations from people-watching"

lukebitts — Sun, 11 May 2025 05:25:16 +0000

I disagree. The difference here is that she is not advocating for acting on her assumptions, like an interviewer does. Maturity is not letting your assumptions cloud your judgement.

New comment by lukebitts in "Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M"

lukebitts — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:45:49 +0000

I could open my copy of the game right now and find a bug in 5 minutes. That has been a constant for me since the game released and until at least 3 months ago when I last played

New comment by lukebitts in "Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code"

lukebitts — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:36:52 +0000

Funny that this gets downvoted when the original post is also AI generated

New comment by lukebitts in "Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year"

lukebitts — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:13:23 +0000

Incredibly well done! Showcases a lot of Blender’s systems as well

New comment by lukebitts in "Upcoming changes to Rust's borrow checker"

lukebitts — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:38:48 +0000

I feel like we've been hearing about Polonius for years, the authors must be glad its finally here!