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New comment by p_v_doom in "Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science"

p_v_doom — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:29:13 +0000

I think from a proper systemic view that joke is more correct than not. AI is just the frontend of people ...

New comment by p_v_doom in "LLMs can be exhausting"

p_v_doom — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:07:26 +0000

That may not be a bad comparison. A F1 car is really fast, really specialized car, that is also extremely fragile. A Lada may not be too fast but its incredibly versatile and robust even after decades of use. And has more luggage space

New comment by p_v_doom in "Nobody ever got fired for using a struct"

p_v_doom — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:37:29 +0000

> I saw tables with more than a thousand columns.

I used to work in a company that had all the tags in their SCADA system feed into SQL tables. They had multiple tables (as in tens of tables), because they ran out of columns ...

New comment by p_v_doom in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

p_v_doom — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:19:09 +0000

you mean agile dot ai?

New comment by p_v_doom in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

p_v_doom — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:17:52 +0000

> "but real scrum has never been tried" types.

Im one of these people. I do think for real that what most companies do is basically project management that wears the skin of scrum, and in most organizations beyond a certain size having that type of agile work and flexibility is basically impossible.

New comment by p_v_doom in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

p_v_doom — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:15:10 +0000

Except sometimes you get absolutely banger dreams.

New comment by p_v_doom in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

p_v_doom — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:27:13 +0000

Friedman is also not someone anyone should be taking seriously in the year of our lord '26

New comment by p_v_doom in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

p_v_doom — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:54:16 +0000

Also rigor is slow. Looks like a waste of time.

What are you optimizing all that code for, it works doesnt it? Dont let perfect be the enemy of good. If it works 80% thats enough, just push it. What is technical debt?

New comment by p_v_doom in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

p_v_doom — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:51:52 +0000

> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late.

Back in my data scientist days I used to push for testing and verification of models. Got told off for reducing the teams speed. If the model works well enough to get money in, and the managers that make the final calls do not understand the implications of being wrong, this would be the majority of cases.

New comment by p_v_doom in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

p_v_doom — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:18:00 +0000

Yes.

New comment by p_v_doom in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

p_v_doom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:03:23 +0000

> No, they are equals.

IDK, where I am its always been that managers specifically have power over ICs

New comment by p_v_doom in "The only moat left is knowing things"

p_v_doom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:54:01 +0000

> even when they resist understanding

Agreed. You may know so many things, but ultimately its useless if the other party does not care about wanting to understand them. And I have no clue what the right way is, besides letting people and their models fail and then being there with an answer ...

New comment by p_v_doom in "The future of software engineering is SRE"

p_v_doom — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:33:28 +0000

Generally yes. The more power one holds in an organization the more safe they are from automation.

New comment by p_v_doom in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

p_v_doom — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:56:35 +0000

> the real cause of nobody being able to afford anything is rent extractors.

Employers/Owners are essentially rent extractors to workers. Its even worse IMO. They buy some of your time to do stuff for them. They also lend you the tools and materials to do your job. And they own whatever you produce. If you are selling your one hour for 100 bucks to produce ten linen coats worth 100 bucks each, you get a 100, everything else - minus costs of materials and your 100 the employer gets to keep as free rent.

New comment by p_v_doom in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

p_v_doom — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:40:10 +0000

> You have to be the one who creates things to do.

Problem is it gets fucking exhausting to organize and reach out after a while. Especially with DnD.

New comment by p_v_doom in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

p_v_doom — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:05:33 +0000

> I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain.

Oooh, thats a good one. Next read the Architects paradox, Why Greatness cannot be planned and Understanding Variation and your views of the world will be forever altered. Or pick up "Architecture Modernization" by Nick Tune if you want more tools to do stuff and if you do not want to achieve enligntenment.

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Where did you acquire cheap ancient coins? ebay? May be cool to get some for my dnd group

New comment by p_v_doom in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

p_v_doom — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:57:50 +0000

That I promised my boss to check the office fridge for what we need for the team breakfast and forgot about it.

Also that Newfoundland has a pretty unique music tradition, that captures what irish music sounded before the Great Famine

New comment by p_v_doom in "Slowness is a virtue"

p_v_doom — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:33:57 +0000

Almost everywhere management- whether wearing the skin of agile on top, is still bound to good old school Taylorism. And there is always this complete lack of understanding of the types of work there are and that you cannot cramp work related to complex, novel things in the same way you do something standardized. Alas, business dont care, cause they wont their estimates and roadmaps and plans, and we all pretend it works ...

New comment by p_v_doom in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

p_v_doom — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:07:50 +0000

People in some places already are doing that. The Dystopia is now

New comment by p_v_doom in "A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces"

p_v_doom — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:05:41 +0000

We should make one new standard for everyone to use ...