Hacker News: popcorncowboy

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:30:11 +0000

Never has it been brought so clearly into light how brilliant I am, than in correspondence with Gemini.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:26:49 +0000

"Watermarking"

New comment by popcorncowboy in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

popcorncowboy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:35:26 +0000

Moat is whatever thing is stopping the next guy from simply drinking your milkshake. People conflate "I could smash this out in a weekend" with "and therefore could also build a multi-billion dollar revenue stream in [counted in months]".

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

popcorncowboy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:04:54 +0000

How? Nothing stopped cypherpunks in the 90s+ from meaningfully innovating in the space. Table stakes entry for competitive LLMs runs to nation-state budget-levels. There will be no film about 3 genius kids up-ending the trillion dollar oligopolies - they're already working for A\ or OAI.

Capital has eaten software.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

popcorncowboy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:55:01 +0000

> If my efficiency is tripled

Our 401ks turn on this actually being true. Otherwise pop.

New comment by popcorncowboy in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

popcorncowboy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:18:23 +0000

The only way for companies _that raise nine figures chasing decacorn status_ to survive

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Do agents.md files help coding agents?"

popcorncowboy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:29:02 +0000

Agents.md is just a prompt pre-pend. This is like asking "do prompts help coding agents".

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

popcorncowboy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:27:21 +0000

I am shocked, shocked to hear that there are ulterior motives behind age verification and that the stated benefit is in fact exactly the opposite of what happens irl. Shocked!

New comment by popcorncowboy in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

popcorncowboy — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:58:48 +0000

Though this is how it will stay, and it won't be changing back. Anthropic has understood clearly for a while that they need to capture the stack. They will subsidise Max for as long as they need to do this. All other off-stack usage will get pushed into per-token billing.

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.