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New comment by polyterative in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

polyterative — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:08:38 +0000

I am using AI to rewrite every proprietary driver/companion soft I had still running on my Mac system.I am using 5/10% of the original application's RAM.I am getting more features.My background RAM usage halved after converting many of them to my own versions.

New comment by polyterative in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

polyterative — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:00:30 +0000

I love programming.I have been doing it nonstop for the last ten years. I'm immensely happy of being able of increasing the scope of my projects a hundredfold. I am very happy of being able to ship ten major projects in my lifetime instead of only one.

New comment by polyterative in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

polyterative — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:53:59 +0000

I strongly disagree.After many years in software development, I'm sick of resolving the same issues all over again.Make me write less code, make me spend less time fixing it.That's what is increasing productivity and scope for my projects.

New comment by polyterative in "Mistral OCR 4"

polyterative — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:22:09 +0000

Well I guess a lot of humans are involved as well, so that helps

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

polyterative — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:40:26 +0000

I've been a full stack and frontend focused engineer for six years and got sick of writing code by hand. Moved to design. Now since I can code with my voice basically I'm getting back into vibe coding and building products. And it's awesome. My bosses still trying to figure out the new situation though, i think the old school separation of roles is starting to die.Being on the intersection I think is the best place to be right now. I feel like my whole life I've been preparing for this moment.

New comment by polyterative in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

polyterative — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:24:52 +0000

Sick company environment.

New comment by polyterative in "Artemis II Photo Timeline"

polyterative — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:32:14 +0000

This is a amazing exactly how I want to explore the mission.

New comment by polyterative in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

polyterative — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:35:23 +0000

Loving my m4 mac studio. I expected this as well

New comment by polyterative in "Flipdiscs"

polyterative — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:45:22 +0000

Technology is so cool and you're using it to build a mirror. Would have loved to see generative or other weird graphics.

New comment by polyterative in "Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they're drowning in 'workslop'"

polyterative — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:22:20 +0000

Many times my design day job is now about fixing hallucinated ai assisted designs prompted by incompetent people.

New comment by polyterative in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

polyterative — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:39:50 +0000

Only they can make the money.

New comment by polyterative in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

polyterative — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:09:33 +0000

why not both

New comment by polyterative in "Every GPU That Mattered"

polyterative — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:02:37 +0000

my 5700xt is still in use, has some instability after it repaid itself with mining but I love this card. newer cards are overpriced anyway

New comment by polyterative in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

polyterative — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:09:52 +0000

My favorite video game of the universe.

New comment by polyterative in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

polyterative — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:15:14 +0000

Windows does ha not have this issue.

New comment by polyterative in "Don't Wait for Claude"

polyterative — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:20:22 +0000

Don't really agree, in my experience the switching context is extremely costly. I personally have trouble having even a couple of sessions running in parallel,Especially when I'm talking difficult hard to solve problems. Of course it's easy for trivial jobs, but it's not always the case. I have been much more successful in making my time worth by taking a look at the model's output and actively participating.It gives me time to think as well.When I have a list of simple tasks I just tell it to the model and it executes one after another.

New comment by polyterative in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

polyterative — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:13:33 +0000

I have developed five applications for my Mac using claude that I made for myself. I'm perfectly happy with the setup. The projects help me solve daily problems. I could never have had the time or the skill to do them myself.

New comment by polyterative in "Can I run AI locally?"

polyterative — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:36:17 +0000

awesome, needed this

New comment by polyterative in "How people woke up before alarm clocks"

polyterative — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:26:48 +0000

I love my smart rolling shutters to do the same, literally night and day difference :P

New comment by polyterative in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

polyterative — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:10:17 +0000

I have a similar experience. My hobby project was put on hold after a burnout and lack of motivation. I got a big burst of energy back when I started implementing some long desired features quickly with these new models. I was able to get the project to the point of what I consider is maturity. I did in a month during free time the kind of work that would have burned me up in a good six months fulltime.