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New comment by pconstantine in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

pconstantine — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:40:49 +0000

Communists were also not thinking "hahaha how evil we are, let's do GULAGs!" they wanted happiness for everyone, but look where it went. The thing is - it always goes there.

New comment by pconstantine in "Write-only code"

pconstantine — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:59:03 +0000

The only docs that explain what code does are a carbon copy of the code. I've saw that "no-code, write docs, write spec" movie so many times, and it always ends as a flop in the box office.

New comment by pconstantine in "Write-only code"

pconstantine — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:32:55 +0000

It will never work. Code is the documentation. The difference between Code -> IR -> binary is that the transition is deterministic. Doc -> Code is non-deterministic asf. And will never be. The only reason it works and we have senior, middle, junior engineers is the fact that assumptions on that path that senior engineers make are better than the ones junior engineers make. LLMs cannot make any assumptions though, as they have zero real world knowledge and thus zero common sense.

New comment by pconstantine in "Write-only code"

pconstantine — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:41:37 +0000

> We observed that participants who had access to the AI assistant were more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities for the majority of programming tasks, yet were also more likely to rate their insecure answers as secure compared to those in our control group.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622

EOD

New comment by pconstantine in "Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data"

pconstantine — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:54:36 +0000

It takes >50 seconds to generate these schemas for some pretty simple use-cases with large enums, for example. Imagine that latency added to each request...

New comment by pconstantine in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

pconstantine — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:51:48 +0000

Not really, it's just like counting: awk, grep, sed, uniq, tail, etc. "CloudOS" is in it's early days right now. You need to be careful on what tool or library you pick.

New comment by pconstantine in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

pconstantine — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:44:57 +0000

What questions do you even ask?

In my experience all questions I've had for AWS were: 1. Their bugs, which won't be fixed in near future anyway. 2. Their transient failures, that will be fixed anyway soon.

So there's zero value in ever contacting AWS support.

New comment by pconstantine in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

pconstantine — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:46:30 +0000

Totally agree. It's cherry-picking some weird case that's not even close to a typical for startup.

New comment by pconstantine in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

pconstantine — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:44:45 +0000

People, who use MSFT SQL server in 2024 should suffer. For everybody else there's always Neon.

New comment by pconstantine in "My failed attempt at using a closet as an office"

pconstantine — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:06:41 +0000

Use co-working, Luke.