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New comment by mlinhares in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

mlinhares — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:37:16 +0000

I'm sure someone somewhere though this was expected friction and wouldn't be a problem.

New comment by mlinhares in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

mlinhares — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:07:54 +0000

Its sad that people think the "future" is all about owning stuff for yourself and not what the city can provide to its population.

New comment by mlinhares in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

mlinhares — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:56:30 +0000

And the people that fawn all over every single word they say think they'll eventually have the same money as well. But in the end they'll just be dumber.

New comment by mlinhares in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

mlinhares — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:34:17 +0000

Hope that gets Europe to invest in renewables and leave oil behind.

New comment by mlinhares in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

mlinhares — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:40:11 +0000

So much bullshit. The best way to dissolve the OPEC is to stop buying oil from them. Period. A country like the US should not be burning oil or any kind of fossil fuel for its electricity, we're rich in rivers, sunlight and have tech enough to build as many nuclear power plants as we want.

This is all being done to prop up oil prices, but China is going to be the silent killer here, helping the world move to renewables and OPEC won't be a thing anymore. Its to see a country committing suicide like this.

New comment by mlinhares in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

mlinhares — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:24:48 +0000

It is a strategy, the oil producers in the US are making bank right now. They're getting exactly what they paid for by buying this presidency.

New comment by mlinhares in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

mlinhares — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:34:45 +0000

Same, I'm seeing people having a lot of difficulty working with agents and providing prompts that can have the agent go end-to-end on the work. They just can't write prose and explain a problem in a way that the agent can go out and work and come back with a solution, they can only do the "little change with claude code" workflow and that just makes you less productive.

I don't think the industry is ready or has the manpower to deliver on all the promises they're making and a lot of businesses and people will suffer because of that.

New comment by mlinhares in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

mlinhares — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:21:17 +0000

Tesla won because Elon is a great seller, the product is mediocre at best but I’ve heard many times from friends that it was the same quality as a Mercedes Benz, so the reality distortion field is very real.

And Americans in general don’t want electric cars for some reason. I’m happily driving my Buzz and charging on my solar panels instead of paying 5 bucks a gallon on diesel. The propaganda here is strong and people buy it.

New comment by mlinhares in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

mlinhares — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:21:22 +0000

There was no contract, the government wanted to have a contract where they'd be able to use the tool to violate privacy rights of its citizens and issue kill orders without a human present and the company said no.

The government shouldn't be able to coerce a business to do whatever it wants.

New comment by mlinhares in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

mlinhares — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:28:04 +0000

It’s not obvious that the government should have to power to overwrite this, the US constitution was written as a collection of negative rights exactly to rein in government dictatorial impulses.

And now that we see the government blatantly disrespecting the constitution and the rule of law the civil community must react.

AI and Brandolini's Hell Loop

mlinhares — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:19:40 +0000

Article URL: https://philcalcado.com/2026/03/06/ai_and_brandolinis_hell_loop.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298535

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mlinhares in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

mlinhares — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Its only breaking the law if you don't have enough money to pay the politicians.

New comment by mlinhares in "Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict"

mlinhares — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:38:17 +0000

Same. I also wonder why would anyone take the other side on stuff like this, this is clearly to incite insider traders, so either there's a lot of stupid people out there willing to part with their money or this is a very efficient money laundering scheme.

Or both.

New comment by mlinhares in "The whole thing was a scam"

mlinhares — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:12:46 +0000

They say they hold fascistic views publicly, they praise fascists in other countries, current or deceased, and they are enacting fascistic policies all over, why would I consider that?

New comment by mlinhares in "The whole thing was a scam"

mlinhares — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:39:42 +0000

We're still here mostly because these are the dollar store fascists. If they were really competent this would be the fourth reich already by now and all brown people would have been exterminated in concentration camps.

New comment by mlinhares in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

mlinhares — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:37:38 +0000

Pretty sure people are trying to prompt chatgpt to write Brandon Sanderson-like stories and we'll see their successful prints anytime now.

New comment by mlinhares in "Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court"

mlinhares — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:05:34 +0000

Oh come on there won't be anybody on the right calling this censorship, its one of their biggest donors.

New comment by mlinhares in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

mlinhares — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:33:40 +0000

You really believe today's billionaire class will just give up their power over the populace? A world of abundance means the billionaires are irrelevant because everyone would have access to everything and they would never let that happen.

They will hoard the resources, land, anything that is needed for people to stay alive.

New comment by mlinhares in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

mlinhares — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:34:18 +0000

Yeah, a bit late for that. But this would likely kill more at once than they've had before, so would land a new record.

New comment by mlinhares in "We mourn our craft"

mlinhares — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:19:40 +0000

1. it isn't that bad

2. the tools still need a lot of direction, i still fight claude with opus to do basic things and the best experiences are when i provide very specific prompts

3. being idealistic on a capitalist system where you have to pay your bills every month is something i could do when my parents paid my bills

These apocalyptic posts about how everything is shit really don't match my reality at all. I use these tools every day to be more productive and improve my code but they are nowhere close to doing my actual job, that is figuring out WHAT to do. How to do it is mostly irrelevant, as once i get to that point i already know what needs to be done and it doesn't matter if it is me or Opus producing the code.