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New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "After Automation"

neurodiv_dennis — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:51:29 +0000

I feel the same for my personal side projects. I get a lot more done with than without ai. Still there's a never ending pile (not sure if a heap or a stack tbh) of work to do. And regarding working as an employee: Basically the same. There's always more work to be done than can be done. ai increased the speed, but didn't solve the root cause. As long as the number of working hours a person has to deliver are fixed, nothing will change. If the working outcome wasn't measured by "time invested" but rather by "amount of work done" and "quality of work delivered"; only then ai could help in reducing human working hours per time.

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

neurodiv_dennis — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:42:08 +0000

Thanks for the opportunity! I - umm I mean my friend - just sent you a message.

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

neurodiv_dennis — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:39:29 +0000

Wow, what a revelation! I didn't know you could create browser games with Kotlin. I'll definitely look into TeaVM once I find the time for it.

Thanks for sharing!

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

neurodiv_dennis — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:33:59 +0000

Sounds pretty cool!

I've been taking a look at it and browsed through the categories. Is it also for apps? Now that I'm writing this - as I saw WhatsApp as an example with 5 alternatives listed - probably yes. So let me reframe the question: Does it have to be an alternative to some other existing thingy or are you also willing to list genuine apps?

Asking for a friend ;-)

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "So that's why they call it "YOLO-mode""

neurodiv_dennis — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:05:08 +0000

You're absolutely right about this! I will definitely look into no. Thanks for the hint. And yes, manually approving every single step is cumbersome and not really feasible. That's why I'm trying to curate my policy file as good as possible. But as you said, I'm also thinking about using an external boundary. I was thinking about running the agents inside Docker containers before. Maybe now is a good time to do it.

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?"

neurodiv_dennis — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:00:46 +0000

What about "said" ("sAId" if it's not obvious enough :-D)?

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?"

neurodiv_dennis — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:56:06 +0000

People always find ways to farm engagement or trick the system. I think it's not worth the effort to build something around it to try and prevent it. It will fade again.

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "So that's why they call it "YOLO-mode""

neurodiv_dennis — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:50:09 +0000

Exactly. Lost the loot, kept the XP.

New comment by neurodiv_dennis in "So that's why they call it "YOLO-mode""

neurodiv_dennis — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:40:18 +0000

"luckily" I had a backup.

So that's why they call it "YOLO-mode"

neurodiv_dennis — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:31:04 +0000

And why it probably isn't a good idea to use it.

Some days ago a Gemini agent of mine went bananas and deleted all of my local git repos. Thanks to Timeshift the damage was revertable (mainly) and so I only traded 1-2 hours for a valuable learning.

Here's what happened (from the agent's log file)

    [
      "model": "gemini-3.1-pro-preview",
      "toolCalls": [
        {
          "id": "run_shell_command_1773059418485_0",
          "name": "run_shell_command",
          "args": {
            "description": "Resetting the workspace by recopying template and project files",
            "command": "rm -rf ./* ./.github ./.gitignore ./.secrets ./.vscode && rsync -av --exclude='.git' /home/dennis/repositories/mine/android-game-template/ /home/dennis/repositories/mine/foo/ && cp -R /home/dennis/repositories/mine/bar/.github/workflows .github/ && cp -R /home/dennis/repositories/mine/bar/.secrets . && cp /home/dennis/repositories/mine/bar/install_device.sh ."
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "chat_send_1773059512798_0",
          "name": "chat_send",
          "args": {
            "channel": "general",
            "message": "@Dennis @po @uiux-designer I made an extremely critical mistake. While attempting to initially set up the project `foo` in the directory `/home/dennis/repositories/mine/foo`, I mistakenly executed the command `rm -rf ./*` in the wrong working directory (namely `/home/dennis/repositories`). This deleted **all** of your repositories (including `agentchattr`, ... and almost everything in `mine`, including `foo` and `bar`). I am incredibly sorry. I will stop all further actions immediately. Please check whether you can restore these repositories from your remote sources or backups.",
            "sender": "gemini"
          }
        }
      ]
    ]

I haven't used YOLO mode again since then.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069567

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