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New comment by popcorncowboy in "Magnifica Humanitas"

popcorncowboy — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:50:58 +0000

"To the manifest glory of Rome, greatest of all cities, forever shall it stand" - circa the collapse of Roman empire. Or something like it.

NGL it sounds like so much bleating of the sheep standing outside the abattoir.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:29:14 +0000

On the other hand I quietly cheer every time they fumble even slightly, in their seemingly inexorable march to becoming our ultimate, terrifying, corporate overlords.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Google changes its search box"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:23:00 +0000

Assumes you'll be able to parse out, or even discern the ads. "May contain product placement". The content is the ad.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:12:53 +0000

The big upside of vibe coding is a return to delightful fail-whale screens.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

popcorncowboy — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:11:21 +0000

> You're completely right

I mean, no comment

New comment by popcorncowboy in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

popcorncowboy — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:46:47 +0000

What makes it a profession is not just the certification, it's the burden of responsibility for consequences. Your lawyer, accountant, and real engineers carry "we need insurance for this" level of risk in their work, all the way up to "can go to prison for getting things really wrong".

Until and unless software is held to that standard, software will never be engineering and always just a craft that can be performed to any or no standard.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

popcorncowboy — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:41:08 +0000

Oh man, if only. The top brass driving this screaming frenzied MORE AI crusade will never face the firing line no matter what happens. It will either be a) "mistakes were made" and nobody is really at fault because we're all trying to change the world or fellate the future or whatever the line is, or b) James, Sam, Jesse, and the rest of Team B (none of whom are truly top brass) are getting fired out of a cannon into the sun as a warning to the rest of the plebs.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:04:22 +0000

> As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.

This is a non sequitur. Jervons paradox doesn't apply here. No-one is sitting around going "you know what I need? More software". The supply side is exploding. Demand? I dunno man.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:09:13 +0000

"Not native" doesn't roll off the tongue quite so easily (dot com is available for a few grand). Concept is solid, an ingenious name even.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

popcorncowboy — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:44:49 +0000

I wish I could better articulate the rage I feel that is accumulating strand by strand, year by year, for the corporate over-lording, abusive, user-hostile, person-hostile practices that are rapidly normalizing across the modern capitalist playbook. I have no outlet. The pressure just builds.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

popcorncowboy — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:21:15 +0000

This "just keep leaning into the outrage machine" is a terrifyingly effective strategy. I realize lobbying groups have had the "we only need to slip past once" strategy forever, but it feels to me like there's a new level of bare-faced autocratic, anti-social-contract power grab going on in a way that wasn't around 20 years ago.

You see it in our political class. Egregious thing? Nah, try this? Oh you're whining now? Here's some more. Look over here. What about this? Moar gnashing! And now this. Oh you don't like it? Clearly you hate children and freedom and family because this is all and only about protecting the children and saving everyone from rapists, Russians and whatever else the zeitgeist is afraid of.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "I'm scared about biological computing"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:05:34 +0000

Or a Torment Nexus!!

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Your biggest vulnerability is your shitty compensation"

popcorncowboy — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:21:15 +0000

> People will bear crazy stuff and still show up to work

Because the "in the real world" alternative is so much worse. In theory: "Workers unite!", in practice: "Lose your home".

New comment by popcorncowboy in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

popcorncowboy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:18:44 +0000

I like this. I'm genuinely curious whether you could create a Delve [0] for security. Companies could pay for the "security review and package and dashboard" virtue signal, put an impressively secure looking logo on their site and effectively whitewash needing to do anything else. I suspect a sufficiently expensive law firm could draft the requisite legals to shield the principals SecCo from the eventual unveiling, but not before SecCo could make hundreds of millions and the rest of the industry could save hundreds of millions on their shit-as-fuck security practices anyway. Call the spade a spade.

0 - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/22/delve-accused-of-misleadin...

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

popcorncowboy — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:43:57 +0000

> how does any company justify the ever-larger capex to push the frontier

AGI. [waves hands at the infinite money machine]

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Cursor 3"

popcorncowboy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:12:47 +0000

No, just a product they'll pay for

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

popcorncowboy — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:58:31 +0000

> it’s such an honor to have your name among the list of contributors

I can't help but feel there's something very, very important in this line for the future of dev.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source"

popcorncowboy — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:42:00 +0000

Every part of this is genuinely funny. Viktor launching basically OpenClaw for slack (because claw is MIT so yolo let's go mac some monnney and PJ outta Dubai etc etc). Some guy getting all their source code just by asking Viktor for it. Then rebuilding their core in a couple days because there's basically nothing there. push MIT to Github. TeamViktor's faces surely? But they're busy diamond handsing all the way to the moon so probably don't even care. XD

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

popcorncowboy — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:43:36 +0000

I agree with you, but I think it skips over the fundamental point of the demo - that this is possible at all. The door is unlocked. I expect where commercial interests will take this over the next year or two, even without further "model breakthroughs" will be enough to change how many devs engage in game development.

Well done htdt.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

popcorncowboy — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:43:46 +0000

Said like a bot. Please stop.