<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: monk_e_boy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=monk_e_boy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:05:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=monk_e_boy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "Claude Sonnet 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an educator (UK) it's very hard to find people with experience to join us. The pay is SO crap and the workload is huge. Trying to teach complex, large systems is impossible, because we don't have them. We can't throw 1,000 files and 20,000 lines of code at a student and teach them how the system was engineered. We can show them toy systems.... which is fine if there is a work route that takes them and nutures them for 5 or so years. But without that pipeline, <i>shrug</i> not sure what we do about it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:40:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743892</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "GPT-4o"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>colleges are seeing apprentices placements drop - why train an apprentice for two years when ChatGPT will do the work for them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 07:58:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40352696</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40352696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40352696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All my students us it a lot. We use it a lot in the office - we have a lot of digital paperwork to do, ChatGPT is fine at doing it all.<p>It can write lectures, generate worksheets, come up with interesting quizzes, D&D stuff.<p>It's just a tool, some people will find it useful, some won't. A bit like a chainsaw.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:07:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36571767</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36571767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36571767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should give us educators a free license :) I'd use this in my classes if I could.<p>I'm keen to use it with c++ and rust</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391578</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>part if it is to extend my house - I have tiny rooms, in VR I am in a giant open world.<p>Same on the plane or train. I can wonder a beach or sail the ocean.</p>
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<p>Have anyone who is in charge be someone who has X number of years teaching experience.<p>Or they should own at least half a brain</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:13:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36194080</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36194080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36194080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "One million cancel broadband as living costs rise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know those people. I think averages that include London and other cities don't represent most of the country. Average salary for where I live is £10,000 less than the UK average (I just looked it up)</p>
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<p>And who is hoovering up those expensive houses? Not the middle class.<p>Rich folk are investing in housing and renting it out. It's crazy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 08:20:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985301</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "One million cancel broadband as living costs rise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Other than london and a couple of other cities, most of the country was already ranked as most deprived in Europe.<p>Throw in Brexit, cost of living and most normal people are fucked.<p>I'm a lecturer (5 yrs) and I'm struggling to pay my bills. We've been out on strike and nothing happened. NHS is struggling. Pay rises are around 0% for most people I know. Food inflation is around 16%. Foodbanks are struggling to feed families.<p>Companies are making record profits, these are distributed as dividends to shareholders (the rich) who then go on to buy more shares or other assets (e.g. houses)<p>Where I live most houses are Air B&B for a lot of the year, this has destroyed most villages by the coast. House prices have doubled or more. So a lot of those  families have moved into towns, forced to rent rather than buy. Tons of money that used to go into mortgages (investments) is now funnelled to rich people who own the housing stock.<p>There's a lot of crazy stuff going on. The UK has a shrinking middle class. The middle class used to drive the economy. The rich poor divide is breaking the country.<p>A better TAX system would fix most of the problems. But our government is not interested.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985171</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "ChatGPT has no inner monologue or meta-cognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When ChatGPT first came out I was asking it to draw pictures of goblins and wizards using Python and Turtle - it's pretty bloody good at it. You can ask it to make the goblin angry or happy or whatever.<p>There is some sort of magic in which the LLM is imagining what a goblin looks like, then converts those thoughts to turtle commands and then finally adds python. It's quite impressive.<p>For example, the eyes, head, hair, horns etc are all in the correct place.... how? Using imagination?</p>
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<p>Fish is wildlife (mostly) so the sooner we stop taking it, the better.<p>Farmers ensure they have cattle for next year. The fishing industry doesn't take that care over next years stock.<p>Stop eating fish. Please. Just move to chicken or some other meat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:46:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725651</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know how to code and how regex works (I do teach it after all) so I'm pretty ok with what it wrote.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:36:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310764</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We all (students and staff) use it a lot. It'll write lectures, help think up interesting worksheet ideas, help students code, help them think of things to write about, how to structure assignments.<p>I needed a lecture on regex, ChatGPT wrote it for my in 30 seconds. Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too.<p>It may not be relevant to you, but for some of us it is changing the way we work. That hasn't happened since the dawn of the internet, or social media, or mobile phones.<p>The next generation are using it, and using it a lot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:44:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310201</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who works in education, we education nurses, the public services (think police, fire, army etc) IT, coding, space tech, brickies, chefs, etc etc etc .... so many lecturers have an exit plan, or are already gone.<p>The very foundadtions of the country are being removed. How do you run an economy when there's no one educated enough to do it? Even if we drop 1% of the future leaders, business owners, start up founders, and whatever .... what is the UK then? I don't think we'll be fine, we're slowly sinking and everyone is banging pots for the NHS and saying 'keep calm!' and selling their houses to AirBNB lettting agents and NOT VOTING and we still have the most stupid voting system on planet earth so nothing can change.</p>
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<p>Wow - this will change education. "Teach me to code!" AI breaks it down into steps, then finds resources on each step and shows them to you</p>
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<p>They had to move space down to meet Blue Origins rocket. At least SpaceX can get to orbit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:18:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620963</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "How It Feels to Surf the World’s Biggest Wave"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I surf and kitesurf. I guess the hardest thing to describe about the sea is how violent it can be. Getting a wave on the head (a wave of decent size) is colossal. Every part of your body is attacked, board shorts ripped off, arms flung around, head whipped back, legs hit your chest or back.<p>Big waves are crazy powerful.<p>Then there's the speed, wizzing over choppy water on a board feels like driving over a very pot holed dirt road, the chops SLAM into the board over and over again. You lean on the rail to turn and the board may just drop away into a hole or get slammed up by chop.<p>And if you fall, you don't penetrate the water, you just skim over it like a flat stone (or a rag doll in the mouth of a dog, shaking it from side to side)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:01:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33559245</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33559245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33559245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "What will be the second order effects widespread AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will we become like horses did over this century. Horses did a lot of the work and millions of them were needed.<p>Now we keep horses cos they are nice and fun to have, but we don't need millions of them.<p>Why would an AI need billions of people? I wonder what society will look like in 100 years time.<p>Also, AI cures aging.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:59:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545206</link><dc:creator>monk_e_boy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monk_e_boy in "Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A different job? Go travelling for a while? Travelling is a lot of fun and makes you realize that life is short and that you should make the most of it.<p>I changed careers and found the change fun. I may go back to coding at some point, I kinda miss the that deep thinking it requires .... but I can do that in my spare time if I really need to.<p>Or, if you need the money, just phone it in for a while.</p>
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<p>Get into teaching. You'll be skint, but happy.</p>
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