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Generative AI is an Engineering Disaster

mizzao — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:49:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929167

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by mizzao in "House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country"

mizzao — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:51:16 +0000

Or we can just start school later because kids no longer need to leave at 2:30 to go help on the farm.

New comment by mizzao in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"

mizzao — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:48:39 +0000

I doubt anyone in the media is paying attention to projects being rewritten in Rust...

New comment by mizzao in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

mizzao — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:40:34 +0000

Not sure if you're alluding to this but it's analogous to the same differences between startups and big tech companies.

Startups = have few resources, product has to work or company dies

Big tech = minimal cost of failure, instead minimizing risk

And yet this mechanic is also why startups are able to innovate and bring new products to market so much faster.

New comment by mizzao in "If you're a button, you have one job"

mizzao — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:07:08 +0000

Why does he call Android the "Nothing Phone"? Missing the context.

New comment by mizzao in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

mizzao — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:40:09 +0000

Is "being mocked" not also "facing the rage of many"? What do you imagine with the latter that would be so much worse?

New comment by mizzao in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

mizzao — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:33:06 +0000

McMaster-Carr has entered the chat...

New comment by mizzao in "After AI takes everything"

mizzao — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:51:01 +0000

I actually didn't smell AI at all while reading this article, because the idea density seemed high, rather than when AI just expands a few ideas into repetitive mumbo jumbo. The last portion was a bit wordy and metaphysical, but he landed the plane at the end.

New comment by mizzao in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

mizzao — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:13:31 +0000

Seems like a good reminder of https://xkcd.com/2347/

New comment by mizzao in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

mizzao — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:10:08 +0000

What is the CPU/GPU architecture of this and how could a collaboration between whoever made it and Nvidia possibly outperform Apple Silicon?

New comment by mizzao in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

mizzao — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:43:18 +0000

Good luck, and please don't be discouraged if it takes 20 launches to figure out what works! That's completely normal.

New comment by mizzao in "The real cost of owning a home"

mizzao — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:36:04 +0000

Time is money, and it's easier to negotiate with a dealer from whom you're buying a car than to coordinate many meetings with randos on Craigslist.

New comment by mizzao in "The real cost of owning a home"

mizzao — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:33:48 +0000

Don't forget the mortgage interest deduction as well, which is a huge subsidy for those who can afford to buy.

New comment by mizzao in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

mizzao — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:09:30 +0000

2 years ago AI coding agents had barely emerged yet, right? Couldn't have gotten good results even if a good engineer was forced to use it...

New comment by mizzao in "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?"

mizzao — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:43:41 +0000

This feels like the example of (world-famous violinist) Joshua Bell playing violin in the DC subway and getting just a few bucks. It's totally different than paying money to see him in a concert hall, context matters so much...

New comment by mizzao in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

mizzao — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:35:46 +0000

How do you use Claude Code to access your browser memory?

New comment by mizzao in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

mizzao — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:55:03 +0000

A skills-based personalized learning platform: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/knowledge

We started this because we were building https://www.parsnip.ai/, an app to help people learn how to cook. But then that became a bit of a yak shave because we realized we first had to figure out how to teach people different skills at different times all starting from different places, and also needed to help fund the creation of the app.

We ended up generalizing the platform to education in other domains (K-12, higher ed, workforce) as B2B2B "AI learning infrastructure" but still have our cooking app which is also starting to take advantage of this R&D finally coming to fruition!

New comment by mizzao in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

mizzao — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:43:52 +0000

Was that Matt Pittinsky?

New comment by mizzao in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

mizzao — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:42:27 +0000

The fact that one of the em dashes has spaces around it, and the other does not, makes it more likely to be handwritten.

I personally love em-dashes and hate that they're a sign of AI writing now.

New comment by mizzao in "I want to live like Costco people"

mizzao — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:04:53 +0000

No-logo clothes are actually the ultimate flex now...