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New comment by makerofthings in "ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?"

makerofthings — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:45:48 +0000

It’s the annoying thing about AI. If it works, the AI is magic. If it doesn’t work, you’re using it wrong.

New comment by makerofthings in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

makerofthings — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:21:57 +0000

This is me. Different music, same deal. Finding you’re not as alone as you thought you were is what the internet is for.

New comment by makerofthings in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

makerofthings — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:35:43 +0000

Anybody know how much ram you would need in a Mac to run the Pro model?

New comment by makerofthings in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

makerofthings — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:16:00 +0000

I respectfully disagree, I think code has always been more of an art than a science. It's an odd one, I'll grant you, as you need to do a lot of work to really appreciate it.

New comment by makerofthings in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

makerofthings — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:07:34 +0000

Code is my art and is how I express myself. I agree that nothing that AI does is art.

New comment by makerofthings in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

makerofthings — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:51:08 +0000

I don’t think that’s completely true, there is an art to code beyond it just being correct. There are a great many correct implementations of a program, but only some of them are really beautiful as well. Most people don’t see the code or appreciate this, but the difference between correct and art is clear to me when I see it.

New comment by makerofthings in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

makerofthings — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:45:49 +0000

It’s making a tiny number of people richer and a very large number of people poorer. It isn’t going to end well.

New comment by makerofthings in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

makerofthings — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:58:33 +0000

I totally see what you're saying, but to me this feels different. Compilation is a fairly mechanical and well understood process. The large language models aren't just compiling English to assembler via your chosen language, they try and guess what you want, they add extra bits you didn't ask for, they're doing some of your solution thinking for you. That feels like more than just abstraction to me.

New comment by makerofthings in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

makerofthings — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:23:45 +0000

Requiring people to use products from one of two private American companies with a bad track record of locking people out of their accounts is more than “not great”. Some things are better not done if they can’t be done well.

New comment by makerofthings in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

makerofthings — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:50:09 +0000

+1 to these, amazing resource. Really helped me.

New comment by makerofthings in "Apple Just Lost Me"

makerofthings — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:47:21 +0000

I read about the new age check nonsense just before 26.4 downloaded, fortunately. I turned off automatic updates and so I guess I have a little time to get out of the apple ecosystem. I'm thinking GrapheneOS on Pixel 10. This is absolutely not required by UK law, apple just seems to enjoy the taste of government boot.

Arm to host 'Arm Everywhere' event and webcast

makerofthings — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:38:38 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-everywhere-event

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500351

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New comment by makerofthings in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

makerofthings — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:21:39 +0000

I am required to maximise my use of AI at work and so I do. It's good enough at simple, common stuff. Throw up a web page, write some python, munge some data in C++, all great as long as the scale is small. If I'm working on anything cutting edge or niche (which I usually am) then it makes a huge mess and wastes my time. If you have a really big code base in the ~50million loc range then it makes a huge mess.

I really liked writing code, so this is all a big negative for me. I genuinely think we have built a really bad thing, that will take away jobs that people love and leave nothing but mediocrity. This thing is going to make the human race dumber and it's going to hold us back.

New comment by makerofthings in "Learning Creative Coding"

makerofthings — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:12:26 +0000

That’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.

New comment by makerofthings in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

makerofthings — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:46:29 +0000

I think it’s software, despite the picture, and I think it’s their version of openclaw. Hard to tell.

New comment by makerofthings in "We are building data breach machines and nobody cares"

makerofthings — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:00:26 +0000

I quite liked the idea of Data Breeches. USB underpants maybe. Or personal information pantaloons.

New comment by makerofthings in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

makerofthings — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:07:32 +0000

There are lots of playthroughs on YouTube, I would expect at some point you can ask it to watch them and the “generate a game like that”.

New comment by makerofthings in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

makerofthings — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:56:09 +0000

How long until this thing is good enough to clone photoshop? Or Skyrim? I think all bets are off for the software world.

New comment by makerofthings in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

makerofthings — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:50:26 +0000

I take your point, but if the re-implementation looks the same, I would say it’s a form of copying. (Which I don’t think is a problem, I don’t think you should be able to own sequences of numbers.)

New comment by makerofthings in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

makerofthings — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:40:21 +0000

If an AI can license-wash open source software like this then the licenses become meaningless. Which is fascinating. Commercial software cloning that is simple enough for an average person to drive is next and the ultimate form of piracy, see an app for $10? Don’t fancy paying? Just ask ChatGPT for a clone. Future is going to be wild.