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New comment by mehagar in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

mehagar — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:57:00 +0000

On iOS this popover breaks scrolling, which is required to show the Chrome URL bar, meaning I have to literally close the Chrome app and reopen it to even navigate to another page. I've taken this as a sign to stop using Reddit entirely.

New comment by mehagar in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

mehagar — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:12:44 +0000

Same. Messy code makes it harder for us to understand and thus maintain the code (which is why people often refer to code as a liability), but is that the case for AI tools as well? If not, it seems like clean code may not matter as much anymore.

New comment by mehagar in "The AI Elephant in the Room"

mehagar — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:08:57 +0000

I just hope my employer comes to the same conclusion before I get laid off.

New comment by mehagar in "Googlebook"

mehagar — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:43:56 +0000

Yeah, this is the one. Android in a desktop form-factor.

New comment by mehagar in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

mehagar — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:02:14 +0000

I've been using AI tools to brainstorm approaches and sometimes generate code, but actually doing the typing myself. That way I'm less likely to forget the mechanics and programming language over time.

New comment by mehagar in "So where are all the AI apps?"

mehagar — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:13:12 +0000

Did you read the article? The author means software in general, not just user-facing apps.

New comment by mehagar in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

mehagar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:05:12 +0000

The way I see it is - AI still makes mistakes, and I have to know how things work at some point anyway. So I'd rather spend my time actually understanding fundamentals (in my case, CSS at the moment), than trying to keep up with the frequently changing AI tools and models.

Once the tools and models stabilize more (as well as the pricing model), there's less risk in me learning something that is no longer relevant.

Except when I choose to wait on learning how to use AI tools effectively, I get told I am going to be "left behind".

New comment by mehagar in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

mehagar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:56:03 +0000

You make it seem like AI coding has already "totally changed" our jobs. This is exactly the FOMO the article talks about ("until its too late"). It hasn't. I'm still using the same workflows without AI tools, and so are most of my teammates.

New comment by mehagar in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

mehagar — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:04:03 +0000

The Nintendo Wii was like this too.

New comment by mehagar in "Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase"

mehagar — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:31:32 +0000

I agree. This is one area I'm hoping that AI tools can help with. Given a complex codebase that no one understands, the ability to have an agent review the code change is at least better than nothing at all.

New comment by mehagar in "Writing code is cheap now"

mehagar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:07:46 +0000

I would normally agree, but I think the "code is a liability" quote assumes that humans are reading and modifying the code. If AI tools are also reading and modifying their own code, is that still true?

New comment by mehagar in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

mehagar — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:16:48 +0000

There was nothing stopping everyone from using continuous delivery today, yet many companies still rely on long cycles, manual testing and handovers. The problem isn't the tooling, it's the people.

New comment by mehagar in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

mehagar — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:04:15 +0000

I don't understand this part either. At some point we're writing software for people to use, and there has to be someone who comes up with the requirements based on what people want. AI doesn't change this fact.

New comment by mehagar in "Turn Dependabot off"

mehagar — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:19:53 +0000

Is there an equivalent for the JS ecosystem? If not, having Dependabot update dependencies automatically after a cooldown still seems like a better alernative, since you are likely to never update dependencies at all if it's not automatic.

New comment by mehagar in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

mehagar — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:12:25 +0000

I use Gemini for personal stuff such as travel planning and research on how to fix something, which product to buy, etc. My company has as Pro subscription so I use that instead of ChatGPT.

New comment by mehagar in "The Future of AI Software Development"

mehagar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:59:53 +0000

It's refreshing to hear people say "We're not really sure" in public, especially from experts.

I agree that AI tools are likely to amplify the importance of quick cycles and continuous delivery.

New comment by mehagar in "Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)"

mehagar — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:48:04 +0000

If tech companies want to show they have a high percentage of LoC being generated by AI, it's likely they are going to encourage developers to use AI to further increase these numbers, at which point is does become a measure of productivity.

New comment by mehagar in "Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)"

mehagar — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:45:42 +0000

So the question is, are these AI tools primarily creating inherent complexity, or is it a significant amount of accidental complexity?

And if AI tools are writing all of the code, does it even matter anymore?

New comment by mehagar in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

mehagar — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:41:20 +0000

The book Software Engineering at Google makes a distinction between software engineering and programming. The main difference is that software engineering occurs over a longer time span than programming. In this sense, AI tools can make programming faster, but not necessarily software engineering.

New comment by mehagar in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

mehagar — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:58:56 +0000

So they can potentially work offline and deliver push notifications.