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New comment by moorebob in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

moorebob — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:07:18 +0000

more like, Europeans have a habit of making "Orange Man Bad" criticisms to deflect from criticism of the EU. But yeah you're on the right lines.

New comment by moorebob in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

moorebob — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:05:15 +0000

Interesting you blame Farage for the bad legislation passed by the Tories and Labour? Why is that? I thought he was one of the most vocal contrarians to Tory and Labour policy?

New comment by moorebob in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

moorebob — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:56:25 +0000

Deepfakes have been around long before X (and other chatbots) allowed undressing of real people.

The difference is that the entire political Left hate and fear Elon and are desperately trying to destroy him.

New comment by moorebob in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

moorebob — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:04:17 +0000

Who's going to provide their payment details and then generate kiddie porn?

This is a pretty pragmatic move by Musk.

It's basically a honey trap, the likes of which authorities legitimately use to catch criminals.

New comment by moorebob in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

moorebob — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:57:25 +0000

But how would we bring down our political boogieman Elon Musk if we take that approach?

Everything I read from X's competitors in the media tells me to hate X, and hate Elon.

If we prosecute people not tools, how are we going to stop X from hurting the commercial interests of our favourite establishment politicians and legacy media?

New comment by moorebob in "I miss thinking hard"

moorebob — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:53:13 +0000

My mindset last year: I am now a mentor to a junior developer

My mindset this year: I am an engineering manager to a team of developers

If the pace of AI improvement continues, my mindset next year will need to be: I am CEO and CTO.

I never enjoyed the IC -> EM transition in the workplace because of all the tedious political issues, people management issues and repetitive admin. I actually went back to being an IC because of this.

However, with a team of AI agents, there's less BS, and less holding me back. So I'm seeing the positives - I can achieve vastly more, and I can set the engineering standards, improve quality (by training and tuning the AI) and get plenty of satisfaction from "The Builder" role, as defined in the article.

Likewise I'm sure I would hate the CEO/CTO role in real life. However, I am adapting my mindset to the 2030s reality, and imagining being a CEO/CTO to an infinitely scalable team of Agentic EMs who can deliver the work of hundreds of real people, in any direction I choose.

How much space is there in the marketplace if all HN readers become CEOs and try to launch their own products and services? Who knows... but I do know that this is the option available to me, and it's probably wise to get ahead of it.