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New comment by nitwit005 in "I think they are lying to you [video]"

nitwit005 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:55:40 +0000

A lot of the comments in this thread are down voted. None of them have anything to do with the content of the video people came here to see discussion of.

New comment by nitwit005 in "I think they are lying to you [video]"

nitwit005 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:53:56 +0000

He's discussing Anthropic struggling to fix an issue with their own product. He's not the one struggling.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Doing nothing at work"

nitwit005 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:18:00 +0000

The concept of the responsible party bearing the costs is a good one, but if we're honest about who that is, it's often going to be company leadership.

The person who made the breaking change is often diligently following instructions to get it done as soon as possible.

New comment by nitwit005 in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

nitwit005 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:52:44 +0000

Yep, also meeting rooms for various clubs. My university genuinely had a wine tasting club that met in the library.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Doing nothing at work"

nitwit005 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:10:01 +0000

The examples of high impact all seem like things unlikely to receive recognition.

If you save a sales deal, they'll cheer the sales staff. And pay them a commission, which you will receive no part of.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

nitwit005 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:33:02 +0000

The classic pattern is they become a larger company, and either those processes stop working well, or a custom solution becomes worthwhile due to scale.

The row count limit in Excel has been hit many times over the years.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

nitwit005 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:27:41 +0000

You're both criticizing management for not knowing who's doing important work, and also for spending time talking to engineers to understand what's going on.

Most solutions to understand what's going on, in detail, are naturally going to be quite time consuming.

New comment by nitwit005 in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

nitwit005 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:17:28 +0000

It's not exactly a misconception, when companies are pitching AI as a full and complete replacement for human employees. People are just reading the billboards on the side of the road.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

nitwit005 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:56:15 +0000

They haven't been sanctioned, yet, but we live in a time where that's a real possibility.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

nitwit005 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:11:42 +0000

Facebook just isn't a social media site anymore. They pivoted, and did so multiple times.

Remember when they were going to be a games platform, where Farmville was their big hit? They eventually abandoned that and then wanted to be a video and streaming platform. Then Metaverse VR was going to replace everything. Now they're some sort of AI company.

People long ago started migrating to Whatsapp, Discord, and similar groups for actual socializing. They did seemingly panic a bit at that trend and bought Whatsapp.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

nitwit005 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:24:00 +0000

That was always something that looked possible to defeat if someone put in the effort. It depended on it not being worth the effort.

New comment by nitwit005 in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

nitwit005 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:16:16 +0000

That will never get fixed. Early in my career I demoed a Java Swing UI, emphasized it didn't actually do anything repeatedly. A manager declared it done. They'd "seen it working".

New comment by nitwit005 in "Every Byte Matters"

nitwit005 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:30:59 +0000

While this is true, it is true because the applications where it might be a concern avoid using Java.

New comment by nitwit005 in "The desperation of NYTimes"

nitwit005 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:25:13 +0000

The quality of the New York Times as a product is irrelevant to them being predatory about subscriptions.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

nitwit005 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:11:29 +0000

People seem to succeed in creating narratives around this sort of thing, but if we truly understood what was going on, we should be able to predict future economic growth rates.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

nitwit005 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:50:30 +0000

I imagine a lot of existing library related applications have had the AI label slapped on them.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

nitwit005 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:23:25 +0000

It'll be easy to work around no matter what. We don't succeed at keeping under age kids from getting alcohol. Adults give it to them.

These sorts of rules can only ever achieve "mildly difficult".

New comment by nitwit005 in "Rethinking search as code generation"

nitwit005 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:59:07 +0000

It feels like there will be some hard to deal with customer support issues related to limits. The generated Python code is unlikely to always run queries in an optimal way.

Normally you'd tell your customer they need to fix their code if they're doing something inefficient, but here, they didn't write the code and are presumably not expected to understand it.

New comment by nitwit005 in "America's Driving Mandate: Don't Call It "Freedom""

nitwit005 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:09:16 +0000

I'm sure there are cultural differences here, but no one enjoys wasting money. If people end up in a situation where a car is going unused, they'll tend to sell it.

New comment by nitwit005 in "Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible"

nitwit005 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:04:56 +0000

This is just a summary of the embedded Modern Vintage Gamer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f1-7c6WX10