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New comment by puchatek in "Claude for Small Business"

puchatek — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:45:58 +0000

The future is perpetually dealing with the fallout from all the vibe coding as the pool of people who'd have a shot at fixing it gets smaller and smaller. Shitty will be the new normal.

New comment by puchatek in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

puchatek — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:48:04 +0000

So... What's your point? Sounds like what you identify as key is not relevant to the remainder of your comment.

New comment by puchatek in "Honda is killing its EVs"

puchatek — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:15:28 +0000

Big Vintage Energy

New comment by puchatek in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

puchatek — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:02:52 +0000

Uhm... the second sentence of the original comment does contain "x isn't Y, it's Z". You missed this... just like an LLM will miss things sometimes, making me wonder if you're one of them, too.

/s ... ?

New comment by puchatek in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

puchatek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:59:33 +0000

For me this is very valuable. The results of personal "research projects" are in there. I use it for reference. Of course I could ask Claude to get me those answers but why waste the energy?

New comment by puchatek in "We Will Not Be Divided"

puchatek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:36:21 +0000

It's different because we are talking about a technology that we might lose control over at some point. Those drones in your example might make an entirely different choice than what you anticipated when you let them take off.

New comment by puchatek in "We Will Not Be Divided"

puchatek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:26:02 +0000

Democratic governments care about this to a degree but only autocratic ones get paranoid.

New comment by puchatek in "We Will Not Be Divided"

puchatek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:58:52 +0000

The deal was only possible because anthropic stayed by their convictions. OpenAI didn't have agency in that. You're making it sound like Altman orchestrated the whole thing.

New comment by puchatek in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

puchatek — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:46:12 +0000

No, we will exclude a few people because Germany doesn't have its shit together when it comes to digital stuff. Then hopefully people will complain and things will improve.

New comment by puchatek in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

puchatek — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:58:55 +0000

This is the way. It annoys me to no end when e.g. the German chancellor demands clearnames in social media. The real issue are bots and algorithmically enhanced reach. Proof of personhood in a privacy-preserving way is enough to fix this. But it should be mandatory for social media in the EU. You don't need to expose people to the doxxing mob to protect our democracy.

Tbh, when I read that "platforms face a choice between excluding lawful users and monitoring everyone." I don't have much understanding.

No gov. ID, no participation. It's not like you cannot go outside and talk to people anymore so let's not pretend that being on insta is some sort of universal human right and anybody barred from it is some sort of terrible tragedy.

New comment by puchatek in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

puchatek — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:06:48 +0000

Spec-driven looks very much like what the author describes. He may have some tweaks of his own but they could just as well be coded into the artifacts that something like OpenSpec produces.

New comment by puchatek in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

puchatek — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:35:42 +0000

Is it on GH?

New comment by puchatek in "European Tech Alternatives"

puchatek — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:26:45 +0000

I believe the EU inc initiative attempts to fix the capital aspect

New comment by puchatek in "We mourn our craft"

puchatek — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:26:42 +0000

If that was the final price, no strings attached and perfect, reliable privacy then I might consider it. Maybe not for the current iteration but for what will be on offer in a year or two.

But as it stands right now, the most useful LLMs are hosted by companies that are legally obligated to hand over your data if the US gov. had decided that it wants it. It's unacceptable.

New comment by puchatek in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

puchatek — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:06:01 +0000

That's been my main argument for why LLMs might be at their zenith. But I recently started wondering whether all those codebases we expose to them are maybe good enough training data for the next generation. It's not high quality like accepted stackoverflow answers but it's working software for the most part.

New comment by puchatek in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

puchatek — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:29:23 +0000

I can only read at mouth speed. I'm pronouncing each word in my head. I wished I could go fast sometimes. Finishing books takes me at least twice as long as it does for my wife.

New comment by puchatek in "Is it a bubble?"

puchatek — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:10:39 +0000

And i am so buying the vision of Elon using AI to give me free stuff. He just gives off this enormous altruistic energy.

New comment by puchatek in "Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)"

puchatek — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:29:52 +0000

This one, like some others in this style guide, can also be found in Clean Code. Not sure why you feel the need to call it "BS". Nobody is saying that your 75 line function is bad.

It's a reasonable guideline. Juniors won't do this automagically.

New comment by puchatek in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

puchatek — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:02:45 +0000

How can you have an opinion string enough for a blog post about something when you have decided not to go near it?

New comment by puchatek in "When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail""

puchatek — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:44:05 +0000

So this is the reality of the free speech utopia that Zuckerberg promised when he let go of content moderators at meta.