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New comment by meowface in "I've sold out"

meowface — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:24:05 +0000

Can you elaborate? I want a maximalist setup. I like that CC and Codex are maximalist. If I install Pi, I am going to end up using oh-my-pi and installing a trillion plugins to get a Claude Code-like experience (or better/more feature-heavy). Is there any point in me even trying Pi, or should I just stick with Claude Code?

New comment by meowface in "Mario and Earendil"

meowface — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:21:51 +0000

He's not, he made Flask/Click/Jinja/lots of other open source projects.

(That said, he possibly is the first person to break this pattern, yes...)

https://x.com/mitsuhiko/status/2041855748481695774

New comment by meowface in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

meowface — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:09:51 +0000

I feel like this might turn out either really stupid or really amazing

Certainly worthy of experimenting with. Hope it goes well

New comment by meowface in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

meowface — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:29:16 +0000

>The silicon valley pronatalist stance is because they want to be patriarchs in full control of their family.

I am not sure what % of pro-natalists that applies to, exactly, but keep in mind most people in Silicon Valley voted for Clinton/Biden/Harris in 2016, 2020, and 2024 and most are not weird traditionalist cultural conservatives. There are many progressive left-liberal pro-natalists who just 1) don't want humanity to go extinct and 2) know that population decline in a country can lead to various issues, including economic problems. Immigration can help with some of that, but reproduction rate is declining or low in basically every single country and so immigration will eventually also not be a sustainable solution.

I think the majority of vocal pro-natalists are probably right-wing/racist/misogynistic, but the core pro-natalist stance in itself (as opposed to a stance of "whites are being out-reproduced", or something) is, in general, still a completely reasonable and I'd argue moral position.

New comment by meowface in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

meowface — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:06:56 +0000

Unfortunately there are like a billion competitors to this right now (including Playwright MCP, Playwright CLI, the new baked-in Playwright feature in Codex /experimental, Claude Code for Chrome...) and I can never quite decide if or when I should try to switch. I'm still just using the ordinary Playwright MCP server in both Codex and Claude Code, for the time being.

New comment by meowface in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

meowface — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:18:46 +0000

It's insufferable, yes. Even though I'm a left-liberal, it feels foreign to me. Twitter is worse at the limit (endless neo-Nazis and Maoists) but at least I feel some diversity while I'm there. Bluesky is so uniform in the annoyingness of its community.

New comment by meowface in "GPT-5.4"

meowface — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:50:13 +0000

I used to feel like you do, but I don't agree. I would just say it is not consistent. For a given codebase and given goal, sometimes Claude will be the more sensible, creative, thoughtful planner and sometimes Codex will be, sometimes Claude will make a serious oversight that Codex catches and sometimes the opposite. But the trend for me and seemingly a lot of people is that Claude is a more "human-like/human-smart" planner than Codex (in a positive way) but is more likely to make mistakes or forget details when implementing major codebase changes.

New comment by meowface in "GPT-5.4"

meowface — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:26:38 +0000

Correct, this is the way. A year or two ago lots of people were saying to do the opposite, but at least now and probably also even then, this is better. Claude is a more sensible and holistic designer, planner, debater, and idea generator. Codex is better at actually correctly implementing any large codebase change in a single pass.

New comment by meowface in "GPT-5.4"

meowface — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:47:54 +0000

Why through tmux?

New comment by meowface in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

meowface — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:57:31 +0000

This applies to basically every military and company in every country in all of human history. Nearly every single other country tries to spy on every single other country, including on the US. That's just how these things go.

New comment by meowface in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

meowface — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:27:36 +0000

How does it compare to Nano Banana Pro?

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:02:11 +0000

Giving up one's privacy and anonymity will solve nothing. Bots will buy stolen IDs and use those anyway, as well.

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:54:28 +0000

I don't understand how such a thing could be possible. Privacy is inherently gone, even if the third party doesn't learn your real name.

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:22:10 +0000

That's true. It's probably at least 50% the latter. And I don't really blame them.

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:21:46 +0000

Adults are nearly as susceptible to such addiction. If this is the goal then the actual legislation should be to prohibit social media companies from doing it to anyone. (I think this would be government overreach and a possible first amendment violation, though. I say this as a center-left person who deeply hates what Musk has done to Twitter. I would even describe myself as an anti-free speech person; I just respect the nation's laws and the principle that the state should not be able to imprison you just for speech.)

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:26:08 +0000

It's very odd. I see it everywhere I go.

I think a lot of the younger generation supports it, actually. They didn't really grow up with a culture of internet anonymity and some degree of privacy.

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:19:04 +0000

Crippling debt from unwise impulsive gambling by a teenager is probably worse than whatever occurs from a teenager scrolling Twitter all day.

The latter may not be great, but eating potato chips all day also probably isn't, and I don't think the government should outlaw minors eating potato chips. Plus it's variable: some get positive, educational, pro-social, productive outcomes from social media and some don't. Gambling is always bad in the limit.

A simple rule could probably be that if a website can make you lose over $200 of real money, it should probably require age verification. I don't see why other things should.

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:14:26 +0000

We need to destroy privacy and anonymity online for the noble goal of the government banning teenagers from looking at Twitter and Instagram?

If it's a concern, parents can prevent or limit their children's use. If all this were being done to prevent consistent successful terrorist attacks in the US with tens of thousands of annual casualties, I'd say okay maybe there is an unavoidable trade-off that must be made here, but this is so absurd.

New comment by meowface in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

meowface — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:12:33 +0000

What problem? I don't think internet websites and apps actually need to know the face, age, or name of their users if their users don't want to provide that information. With exceptions for things like gambling websites.

New comment by meowface in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

meowface — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:17:40 +0000

Except Bondi was wrong and I am right, and also letting the economy collapse actually would be really, really bad and saying things like that is something only children and economically illiterate people do.

Also, most of the things I listed in my previous post had absolutely nothing to do with the economy. It's just that it's unethical and tyrannical for the government to dictate people's behavior in this way. "How is it unhealthy for the government to ban alcohol?" These statements would apply whether in a socialistic or fully neoliberal country.