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New comment by monkpit in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

monkpit — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:10:11 +0000

Doesn’t that defeat the point of using an app at all? Use a computer at that point.

New comment by monkpit in "AI is making me dumb"

monkpit — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:29:30 +0000

> I think this is more a by product of the way these models are architected. “One more token” i usually much more likely than a “STOP”.

That’s not really how it works. An agent wouldn’t get halfway through _any_ implementation and just stop abruptly - it’s not as simple as rolling the dice until you land on “stop”.

It will stop when it believes, for whatever reason, the output has achieved whatever task was laid out. You’re welcome to refine what the definition of that task may be, or you can let it go off.

New comment by monkpit in "Claude Platform on AWS"

monkpit — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:52:01 +0000

This offering is purely a billing formality, not a way to run inference on your hardware.

New comment by monkpit in "People Hate AI Art"

monkpit — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:39:18 +0000

If you ask me, the rise of the term “slop” in recent years is a sign that a considerable amount of people do care.

New comment by monkpit in "People Hate AI Art"

monkpit — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:37:06 +0000

“Art wasn’t supposed to look nice, it was supposed to make you feel something.”

A weird facsimile of art that has no soul is entirely uninteresting.

New comment by monkpit in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

monkpit — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:37:32 +0000

You have built a kubernetes…

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubern...

New comment by monkpit in "Why most product tours get skipped"

monkpit — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:33:36 +0000

My kids’ school uses a web portal to add money to their lunch accounts. My only task when I open this website is to pick an amount and click submit and give them my money.

Whose idea was it to show me a “what’s new” popup of all the jira tickets they closed in the last sprint?

What’s new? Nothing is new. It works just like it used to. Just take my money and leave me alone, please.

New comment by monkpit in "Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum"

monkpit — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:14:21 +0000

That makes perfect sense! I knew I was missing something. Thanks.

New comment by monkpit in "Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum"

monkpit — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:54:07 +0000

It explains what it does, but not _why_, maybe I’m just not in the target audience.

Can anyone enlighten me? If GitHub actions are stored in the repo as yaml then they’re already tracked - what’s this thing for?

New comment by monkpit in "I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now"

monkpit — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:35:47 +0000

Because of the way training works, is this possible/feasible? Not saying it shouldn’t be done, just wondering _how_ it could be done?

New comment by monkpit in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

monkpit — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:25:45 +0000

That’s where the tooling comes in!

New comment by monkpit in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

monkpit — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:46:51 +0000

It’s hard to give up, but likely necessary. That doesn’t mean quality has to suffer, we can still gate with deterministic quality tooling where it matters. But yeah, at some scale it stops mattering how human readable the code is, as long as AI can effectively and efficiently (token-wise) make edits or add features.

New comment by monkpit in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)"

monkpit — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:30:31 +0000

3.25% is whole milk, they absolutely sell it in Canada.

New comment by monkpit in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

monkpit — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:38:49 +0000

> You can pay $20 a month and use $10k in api tokens.

Do you have a source? I would be interested to read more about any hard figures that have been posted like this.

New comment by monkpit in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

monkpit — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:20:45 +0000

I suddenly feel compelled to post about openclaw

New comment by monkpit in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

monkpit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:45 +0000

You’re very defensive in these comments - are you the author?

New comment by monkpit in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

monkpit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:40:41 +0000

Isn’t the biggest rule to have working backups with 3-2-1 strategy?

New comment by monkpit in "Website streamed live directly from a model"

monkpit — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:49:56 +0000

To be fair, I didn’t say it was a _good_ idea…

New comment by monkpit in "Website streamed live directly from a model"

monkpit — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:13:47 +0000

Ah I was thinking this created the webpage itself, which I always thought was an interesting concept. Some future where the application is crafted in realtime to fulfill the needs of the user. Has anyone made something like this?

New comment by monkpit in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

monkpit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:28:19 +0000

And, no need for OpenClaw either