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New comment by martin82 in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

martin82 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:06:48 +0000

The usecase of letting it find/replace and other repetitive stuff was 100% solved about 2 years ago.

New comment by martin82 in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

martin82 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:02:17 +0000

Coding by hand, sure! But let the LLM at least auto-complete your thoughts. They are still your thoughts, but it's just 100x faster than coding by hand.

New comment by martin82 in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

martin82 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 03:58:59 +0000

Holy mother of credentialism. This will not end well. Let's look at the country again in 5 years.

New comment by martin82 in "Patrick Stewart has died"

martin82 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:40:04 +0000

Another huge piece of my childhood dies. Very sad, indeed. :(

I think all of us growing up in the 80s and 90s just don't realize that we probably lived in the most awesome time period in human history. Everything was just peak. Vibes, music, film, art, travel.

Now the OGs all die... and I look around and see nothing and no one to step into their humongous foot steps...

New comment by martin82 in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

martin82 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:36:11 +0000

I have used SO daily, for over a decade, almost every single day. I never saw anything hostile there. I guess this is something that you only see when you are trying to write answers or replies.

For someone who just wants to quickly scroll to the green checkmark and get shit done, that site was absolute god-tier.

New comment by martin82 in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

martin82 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:38:42 +0000

I assume some state actors have projects for exactly this ever since HTTPS was invented...

New comment by martin82 in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

martin82 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:29:20 +0000

"we have tests"

spoiler alert: any test that was written by an LLM as part of the same task that created the feature is less than worthless.

especially if no human reads AND fully understands the tests.

New comment by martin82 in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

martin82 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:25:20 +0000

I for one am very glad that Meta is actively "engineering" it's own destruction.

You are doing humanity a great service! Please continue and press ACCEPT! More! Faster! Accelerate!

New comment by martin82 in "Kobo can run apps now"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:43:38 +0000

Does Kobo still crash regularly? Mine crashed several times daily on my Kobo reader and I gave up on the app and the device and moved on to Supernote and just reading PDFs on it.

New comment by martin82 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:31:56 +0000

I think the damage that Meta has done not only to children, but to all human beings alive and online today, cannot be put into monetary terms.

Meta should be destroyed and forced to stop all operations immediately. I think it would be quite an interesting wake-up call when we would then realize that... nothing of value was lost and the world will just go on - just a little bit saner and happier.

New comment by martin82 in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

martin82 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:23:14 +0000

And Microsoft doesn't use Github to feed their own monsters? And why wouldn't Elon just use GitHub to feed Grok?

Is Elon maybe just living rent free in your head?

New comment by martin82 in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

martin82 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:46:59 +0000

Voting has never worked to bring competence into the government. Exhibit A: All governments of the world, right now.

New comment by martin82 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

martin82 — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:23:53 +0000

All these emails are written by AI nowadays and therefore they all sound he same. This is not a grand achievement or a sign of a great CEO.

New comment by martin82 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

martin82 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:24:45 +0000

I basically have to hit the edit function in Signal and correct typos in Every. Single. Thread. Every. Single. Day. It is infuriating.

This has been going on for years, so I guess when this guy claims this started at iOS 17, it seems to make sense.

The iOS keyboard really really is utterly broken. I'm glad it's not just me. I was already wondering if I should schedule an appointment with a doctor and check if I have early onset dementia or something.

New comment by martin82 in "Facebook is cooked"

martin82 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:08:25 +0000

I have scrubbed my account completely clean years ago and never use it for anything. When I log in once a quarter or so, just to check if someone sent me a message via the Messenger, all I see is soft-porn on my timeline.

New comment by martin82 in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

martin82 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:03:30 +0000

German here. Root beer does INDEED taste like toothpaste. Disguting. :)

We Germans drink Malzbier, which is equally unhealthy, but at least it tastes somewhat OK.

New comment by martin82 in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

martin82 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:10:13 +0000

I have updated as soon as possible and I if you asked me, I couldn't tell you what is different now. Everything I do on a daily basis still works exactly the same. If there are some weird more rounded corners somewhere now, I don't consciously notice them. The glassy effects look cool but after a week you don't even think about them any more.

New comment by martin82 in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

martin82 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:28:41 +0000

Why should ads be a moat???

People hate ads. I have changed from ChatGPT to Grok and have felt absolutely no difference in my usage patterns, just getting better answers.

Every competitor has cloned ChatGPTs UI/UX and API, so hopping between competitors is a no-brainer. There is no moat.

New comment by martin82 in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:17:13 +0000

Keychat or Whitenoise.

New comment by martin82 in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:12:56 +0000

That is not the case any more. The "users" show up in the shape and form of malicious AI crawling bots that don't honor your robots.txt nor apply any kind of self-throttling.