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New comment by palebluedot in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

palebluedot — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:20:24 +0000

> IME using LLMs for software development corrodes my intuitive understanding of an enterprise codebase.

I feel you there, I definitely notice that. I find I can output high quality software with it (if I control the design and planning, and iterate), but I lack that intuitive feel I get about how it all works in practice. Especially noticeable when debugging; I have fewer "Oh! I bet I know what is going on!" eureka moments.

New comment by palebluedot in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

palebluedot — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:48:34 +0000

> FWIW I think LLMs are a dead end for software development, and that the people who think otherwise are exceptionally gullible.

By this do you mean there isn't much more room for future improvement, or that you feel it is not useful in its current form for software development? I think the latter is hard position to defend, speaking as a user of it. I am definitely more productive with it now, although I'm not sure I enjoy software development as much anymore (but that is a different topic)

New comment by palebluedot in "Why are interviews harder than the job?"

palebluedot — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:42:59 +0000

We were worried about that as well. But we have found that most people are not doing well on our take home. If we get to the point that most people are crushing it, then we may need to think more about AI and take homes (maybe tweak the it with the explicit expectation that they may use AI, etc.)

They also need to be able to reason well about why they made the choices they did. Something useful when talking to them can be asking questions like "If X changed, how would that impact your design?". If they were reliant on AI for vibing (rather than just using it as a tool), then those can be more difficult questions to answer well.

New comment by palebluedot in "Signal Secure Backups"

palebluedot — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:58:43 +0000

That seems pretty trivial to implement

New comment by palebluedot in "CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts due to cuts"

palebluedot — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:14:46 +0000

Censys is not part of Google, that article is referencing two different companies

CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts due to cuts

palebluedot — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:54:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/04/cisa-warns-threat-hunting-staff-end-google-censys-contracts-agency-cuts-set/404680/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43733568

Points: 14

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New comment by palebluedot in "Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)"

palebluedot — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:24:02 +0000

Do you have a rough estimate of "too big"? I'm wrestled a bit with this myself.

New comment by palebluedot in "Kalman Filter Explained Simply"

palebluedot — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:56:32 +0000

> All of these were well covered by state estimation research from 80s to now, but again, the textbooks seem to be written in stone in 1972.

Do you have any good resources (online or textbook) you could recommend, as an introduction to these concepts, that is more modern / up-to-date?

New comment by palebluedot in "Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper"

palebluedot — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:22:01 +0000

There are different spins of Fedora that are immutable and based on rpm-ostree and flatpaks, the variation being the desktop manager environment:

* Silverblue: GNOME

* Onyx: Budgie

* Kinoite: KDE Plasma

* Sericea: Sway

New comment by palebluedot in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

palebluedot — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 03:40:03 +0000

> Everything just assumes that without Sam they’re worse off. > > But what if, my gosh, they aren’t? What if innovation accelerates?

It reads like they ousted him because they wanted to slow the pace down, so by design and intent it would seem unlikely innovation would accelerate. Which seems doubly bad if they effectively spawned a competitor that is made up by all the other people that wanted to move faster

Censys lands new cash to grow its threat-detecting cybersecurity service

palebluedot — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:47:11 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/censys-lands-new-cash-to-grow-its-threat-detecting-cybersecurity-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999906

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by palebluedot in "Systemd 254 released, deprecating sysvinit scripts"

palebluedot — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:22:27 +0000

I find systemd amazing, and worlds better than sysvinit. I'll be happy to never admin a sysvinit box again!

New comment by palebluedot in "Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories"

palebluedot — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:31:33 +0000

Very good point. And with very long lifespans (thousands of years), all of those low-probability events that may cause accidental death (airplane crash, getting hit by a car crossing the street, violence, etc.) may really start to add up to a not-so-low probability of at least one of them happening within your extended lifespan.