Hacker News: nautilus12

New comment by nautilus12 in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

nautilus12 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:47:31 +0000

Guess where AI Coding entered the picture

New comment by nautilus12 in "Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers"

nautilus12 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:00:27 +0000

Worked for famous Japanese data platform for a few years. The Japanese engineers were collegial but some who didn't come in to the office were actually Hikikomori focused on very narrow things and were very nitpicky about details that wouldn't have ultimately mattered. Those that came into the Tokyo office lived to work and I saw people regularly sleeping at their desk after having stayed out all night for obligatory whiskey outing with colleagues and arriving at the office at 6 am as expected. The San Fran office was the opposite, very sloppy standards people, getting in at noon and staying up late to meet deadlines. The impedence mismatch between the two environments was almost unbearable.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

nautilus12 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:18:24 +0000

So is this a backtrack or clarification on their original stance? Do I need to be worried about skynet killing grandma?

New comment by nautilus12 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

nautilus12 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:05:23 +0000

You are citing negative metrics. The reality is that companies only care about positive metrics: increase marginal revenue by 30%

That's regardless of the lip service they pay to cost cutting or risk reduction. It will only get worse, in the AI economy it's all about growth.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

nautilus12 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:07:48 +0000

Great follow up, i agree

New comment by nautilus12 in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

nautilus12 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:32:39 +0000

This would just record a lot of me cursing at and calling the AI an idiot.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

nautilus12 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:35:52 +0000

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

New comment by nautilus12 in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

nautilus12 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:27:32 +0000

If ever I saw something that made me want to move to a log cabin the woods and never touch a computer again, this is it

New comment by nautilus12 in "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026"

nautilus12 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:06:52 +0000

Lol, does any of this matter anymore with AI coding? It was hard to get people to care about this sort of thing before ai coding, now its impossible. People in a few years will be coding without even knowing what unix is.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

nautilus12 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:11:43 +0000

Ok, why don't you work on getting 3.0 out of preview first? 10 min response time is pretty heinous

New comment by nautilus12 in "How AI destroys institutions"

nautilus12 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:32:53 +0000

I don't think this argument makes much sense. If you are running down hill towards a cliff then saying that adding a cart to speed up the process doesn't give the cart moral blameworthiness is an unhelpful observation. You can still chose to stop running down the hill or to not get on the cart.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

nautilus12 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:22:35 +0000

The irony is that the LLMs are trained on stack overflow and should inherit a lot of those traits and errors.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

nautilus12 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:09:26 +0000

I had the same problem. My Claude md eventually gets forgotten and it forgets best practices that I put in there. I've switched to using hooks that run it through a variety of things like requiring testing. That seems to work better than Claude md because it has to run the hook every time it makes changes.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

nautilus12 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:18:03 +0000

Unfortunately the question of whether we should is not a very popular one right now.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

nautilus12 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:25:42 +0000

If you always run npm inside of docker does that pretty much prevent attacks like this?

New comment by nautilus12 in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

nautilus12 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:19:44 +0000

Google safe browsing violation in 3...2...

New comment by nautilus12 in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

nautilus12 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:43:54 +0000

This is a relatively obvious universal sentiment with no suggestion as to how to make it happen.

New comment by nautilus12 in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

nautilus12 — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:14:43 +0000

Why don't you focus on automating your CEO's job, a comparatively easy task compared to automating engineering tasks.

New comment by nautilus12 in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

nautilus12 — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:12:04 +0000

Why don't you focus on automating your CEO's job, a comparatively easy task, rather than automating your fellow engineer's jobs?

New comment by nautilus12 in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

nautilus12 — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:09:40 +0000

But this way the developers can spend all their time working on the truly interesting problems, like how to file for unemployment.