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New comment by preordained in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

preordained — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:06:56 +0000

I can't be the only one to think it is silly to interact with tools in this way. Honestly, I see skills, "hooks", and other monkey-patch efforts as things that will be short-lived investments, weird kludges from an era where you had to "hand-crank" your AI, more often. Something to go the same way as using HTML tables as bastardized CSS

New comment by preordained in "Ask HN: How do you feel when your coding assistant loses context?"

preordained — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:30:15 +0000

Terrible, honestly. Betrayed, gaslit. Don't tell me it's just a tool and it's my problem...hell no, fix your stupid tool. The whole point is to immerse yourself so you don't feel any different than having an energetic and resourceful junior or some perhaps limited but useful companion at your beck and call. If that illusion drops, it's on the tool.

New comment by preordained in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

preordained — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:19:43 +0000

Delightfulness? I'm seeing some indication "delightness" may be a word (can't say 100%)...but it seems a poor substitution for IMO the natural version of it

New comment by preordained in "Young people aren't as happy as they used to be [Global Flourishing Study]"

preordained — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:43:37 +0000

They are utterly cooked. The only ones I've ever seen on the "it's not so bad" side of this argument are aloof boomers and anyone young enough to never have experienced at least a good swath of the 90s--i.e. has no truly visceral basis for comparison/has no clue how bloodless and sick the vampires have left society

New comment by preordained in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

preordained — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:00:31 +0000

Is there no pipeline--or a job fair? A way to get a moment with prospective employers? It seems tragically stupid if MIT offers no such thing. Applying into the void seems like a fool's errand.

New comment by preordained in "LLMs are everything that it wrong in computing"

preordained — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:56:57 +0000

I think as-applied now, the author's take strikes a chord with me. LLMs are a technical marvel, but their results feel very cheap and tacky...it doesn't take much to catch at glimpse at the fallible man behind the curtain. They are lauded more for how impressive the illusion they render all things considered more than what they are actually GOOD FOR. Weird hallucinating search, smart but untrustworthy coding intern...people hold these things up in a way that suggests we've arrived instead of acknowledging their disappointment and saying "yes, there is a lot of power here, but we still haven't found the killer application or the thing that takes this from an impressive but flawed trick to indispensable".

New comment by preordained in "AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products"

preordained — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:48:39 +0000

"I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet"

There is an indictment of AI "products" if I ever heard one

New comment by preordained in "Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?"

preordained — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:16:58 +0000

That sounds terrible! Some people just take these things in stride I guess, but I have no interest in going through these kind of hurdles for something like this...

New comment by preordained in "Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count"

preordained — Sun, 19 May 2024 13:27:18 +0000

I wish this was a joke...

New comment by preordained in "The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong"

preordained — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:54:09 +0000

"pay-to-win"

Yah, good luck with that. Anyone who has played competitively knows you will absolutely get stomped by a higher skill opponent even if your deck is more powerful on paper unless the discrepancy is ludicrous. Garfield made his game too well to fall to such trite criticisms...he outdid himself, its immune to his own potshots, lol

New comment by preordained in "Mental health in software engineering"

preordained — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:36:33 +0000

This is real thing I'm glad you've acknowledged as more than just a figment of my imagination. There are things I want to do outside of work programming that are there own level of mental taxing and/or creative...side projects, competitive Magic the Gathering...and I while usually find some juice to squeeze into these, I do agree that it seems like many other professions leave a lot more in the tank.

New comment by preordained in "Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?"

preordained — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:13:22 +0000

Weird troll, or sociopath?

New comment by preordained in "Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos"

preordained — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:59:16 +0000

Well, I guess we're just naturally evolving and adapting into enslaving ourselves, just following nature's course... There doesn't need to be a "master plan", but clearly there are some working themes

New comment by preordained in "The Yak Shave"

preordained — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:51:55 +0000

That's cool...but won't lie, I get the "Microservices" vibe reading this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Ask HN: Career for someone good at making time-sensitive critical decisions?

preordained — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:41:44 +0000

I don't think there is any way to avoid this coming off as a humble brag so I'll just shoot.

My son is really clever, always has been. It really shines in an interesting way in games like Magic the Gathering or more complex board games which our family has always been into. He dominates these things in a way that seems preternatural for a kid. I say this as an adult and a decent programmer, and my wife was top notch in school, my son (15 now) makes us feel DUUUMMMB sometimes.

I can honest to God say that if he had the domain expertise he is the one I'd want to count on to defuse a bomb or do some risky surgery. That said, I only know of things that might be suitable for such an individual from the common tropes (brain surgeon!). Is there any thing lesser known that sounds worth thinking about?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39264009

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New comment by preordained in "The Flix Programming Language"

preordained — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 11:51:26 +0000

Datalog! I especially like that in the smorgasbord of features. I'm still not convinced having a sentient AI encoded in the type system is what the doctor ordered for industry at large.

New comment by preordained in "Ask HN: Why did Python win?"

preordained — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:22:55 +0000

I'd argue that better relative ergonomics had diddly squat effect on Python's current position. It's first mover advantage, plain and simple. It got its hooks in data science like JavaScript got its in the browser.

I can say that personally using Ruby, Python felt like a massive step backward. I can see how others might disagree, but I feel like it's all in what you know first. On a certain level, most of us know JavaScript is just terrible, but there have been millions of new devs who knew nothing else and thought it's fine--better than fine, its great, it's the other stuff that's weird! But then you go on for a while, maybe eventually find lisp and/or functional programming, and you realize how brain-damaged our most commonly used tools really are.

New comment by preordained in "PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model"

preordained — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:50:35 +0000

It can be. Anything can be. It is far more treacherous, though.

New comment by preordained in "Douglas Crockford on JavaScript"

preordained — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:37:53 +0000

By this logic, the Imperial System is the best measurement system for the US (pick whatever entrenched system you want). Whether you agree or disagree with it, it's the most widely used in US so its superiority there is self-evident.

New comment by preordained in "The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated"

preordained — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:58:24 +0000

That's really not fair here. These would be trains you could bolt onto highways, and "transform" them back into cars as needed.