Hacker News: manicennui

New comment by manicennui in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

manicennui — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:03:30 +0000

It's pretty disappointing that people on this site of all places have no idea what CEOs do. Many of them are certainly overpaid, and like any other profession, many are not good at their jobs, but they aren't sitting around drafting memos and coming up with deciding who to fire all day.

New comment by manicennui in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

manicennui — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:20:25 +0000

Meanwhile most of the software I use seems to become less reliable every month.

New comment by manicennui in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

manicennui — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:18:37 +0000

But think of the profits for the AI companies!

New comment by manicennui in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

manicennui — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:55:28 +0000

This is probably because the people who feel like they receive the most benefit from LLMs never actually knew much about or were just incapable of writing good software before they started using LLMs.

New comment by manicennui in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

manicennui — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:51:03 +0000

Receiving an absolute dung pile of half-broken implementation is honestly what I expect from most working software engineers. Now the step where they spend even a second thinking about what they are doing has been removed. My job as a principle engineer became doing most of the thinking for people and then providing the only worthwhile code reviews before LLMs became a thing. LLMs just made these people even less useful and my job became even more about reviewing their low quality work that I could have done in less time manually.

LLMs also don't solve the much bigger problem of most software engineers having no ability to work with others to clarify requests or offer alternatives. So now bad and/or misunderstood requests can be implemented faster.

New comment by manicennui in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

manicennui — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:43:02 +0000

This administration has already proven that they don't care about the law and see anything they do as lawful.

New comment by manicennui in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

manicennui — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:30:36 +0000

Why not ask your LLM?

New comment by manicennui in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

manicennui — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:11:44 +0000

Not trying to defend these assholes, but the author of Meditations was not exactly a good guy.

New comment by manicennui in "Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too"

manicennui — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:40:53 +0000

I was recently considering what these people would do to us if they found a valuable use for part of our bodies. The Matrix was brought up by someone in response.

New comment by manicennui in "Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too"

manicennui — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:40:11 +0000

Human beings are nothing but their economic output to Sam Altman.

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

manicennui — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:39:12 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108221

Points: 22

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New comment by manicennui in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

manicennui — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:27:57 +0000

Did they not realize that it is already a mass surveillance network?

New comment by manicennui in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

manicennui — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:17:02 +0000

The interesting thing to me about this example is that it had to be someone lower level in or near the administration with less wealth, but who knew about a military operation. Hard to imagine any of the rich people around him risking a bet for such a small sum.

New comment by manicennui in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

manicennui — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:53:28 +0000

It's really just people in the suburbs and smaller cities. Doing things alone is completely normal in a city like Chicago or NY.

New comment by manicennui in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

manicennui — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:52:25 +0000

Go to a major city. There are tons of people doing things alone, including sitting in a cafe.

New comment by manicennui in "I canceled my book deal"

manicennui — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:57:24 +0000

Are the people who are really into "AI" even buying books anymore?

New comment by manicennui in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"

manicennui — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:58:07 +0000

Surely you have realized by now that a large portion of the HN userbase is here for get rich quick schemes.

New comment by manicennui in "It’s been a very hard year"

manicennui — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:54:38 +0000

So we should cater to those with the lowest ethical standards instead?

New comment by manicennui in "All it takes is for one to work out"

manicennui — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:50:36 +0000

This is also the strategy of groups trying to pass oppressive legislation.

New comment by manicennui in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

manicennui — Wed, 07 May 2025 02:46:16 +0000

So which of OpenAI's investors are also Windsurf investors?