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New comment by miningape in "UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security"

miningape — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:44:36 +0000

Well, I have something to tell you about the last decade+ of EU immigration policy

New comment by miningape in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

miningape — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:57:43 +0000

This is my take too - LLMs aren't an excuse to lower our standards, they're the reason to raise them.

Put simply LLMs perform better on better code.

New comment by miningape in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

miningape — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:11:36 +0000

I think what matters more than the abstract class vs if statement dichotomy, is how well something maps the problem domain/data structures and flows.

Sure maybe its fast to write that simple if statement, but if it doesn't capture the deeper problem you'll just keep running head first into edge cases - whereas if you're modelling the problem in a good way it comes as a natural extension/interaction in the code with very little tweaking _and_ it covers all edge cases in a clean way.

New comment by miningape in "Closed Source AI = Neofeudalism"

miningape — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:16:44 +0000

Seems to have been removed, I'm getting a 404

New comment by miningape in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

miningape — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:49:17 +0000

No need to make it easier though

New comment by miningape in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

miningape — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:25:26 +0000

At that point you lose all potential gains from just using AI - it's harder and slower to read and understand a bunch of verbose slop and then clean it up

New comment by miningape in "Agents that run while I sleep"

miningape — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:40:57 +0000

Not OP but I hold myself to that standard, and the honest answer is that at best it's the same.

New comment by miningape in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

miningape — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:17:42 +0000

> and post the original along with the translation

this so many times - it's so incredibly handy to have the original message from the author, for one I may speak or understand parts of that language and so have an easier time understanding the intent of the translated text. For another I can cut and translate specific parts using whatever tools I want, again giving me more context about what is trying to be communicated.

New comment by miningape in "We might all be AI engineers now"

miningape — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:59:22 +0000

Seems strange, for decades we allowed developers to use what made them comfortable, you like notepad? go ahead and use it. Don't want an LSP? that's fine disable it.

So long as their productivity was on par with the rest of the team there was no issue.

Suddenly, everyone needs to use this new tool (which we haven't proven to actually be effective) and if you don't you don't belong in the industry.

New comment by miningape in "We might all be AI engineers now"

miningape — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:29:10 +0000

- Ones who see it generated something bad, and realise it'd be faster to just hand fix the issues than babysit an LLM

New comment by miningape in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

miningape — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:49:21 +0000

Yep willing to bet that the majority of people saying "users don't care how well the code is written" will crash out when some software they're using is slow and buggy, even more extremely if it glitches and deletes their work.

Just like how most people don't care how well a bridge is designed... until it collapses.

New comment by miningape in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

miningape — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:52:24 +0000

Same, although I actually remember enjoying this particular poem in class.

New comment by miningape in "To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps"

miningape — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:45:10 +0000

I thought this was going to be the amazing atheist banana clip, was pleasantly surprised to be reminded of this instead

New comment by miningape in "Bet on German Train Delays"

miningape — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:58:31 +0000

Kamalåso

New comment by miningape in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

miningape — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:50:14 +0000

Simple. Don't produce slop then.

If it offends you so much that people call your work as it is, you should do better work, grow some thicker skin, or stop.

New comment by miningape in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

miningape — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:34:55 +0000

South African food actually has this in abundance, biltong is like beef jerky but better in almost every conceivable way - not to mention all the other variants of it for example dry stix, droevors, etc.

Not to say we don't also have other sweet snacks, but compared to other places I've been nowhere quite has the same level of "savory" snacks

New comment by miningape in "Technical Excellence Is Not Enough"

miningape — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:06:14 +0000

Don't really have anything to add but I do want to say you're not alone - I feel very similarly about AI tooling, the level of satisfaction I get from using them (none), the need for interesting technical challenges, etc. etc.

New comment by miningape in "Ask HN: Does using LLMs kill the "Alpha" of your creativity?"

miningape — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:26:38 +0000

The raw idea is the only part of this text I found interesting.

New comment by miningape in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

miningape — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:06:09 +0000

Seems you don't like it much when the shoe is on the other foot

New comment by miningape in "Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem"

miningape — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:13:23 +0000

I propose "the whack-a-hydra" pattern