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New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

qazxcvbnmlp — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:37:25 +0000

I suspect what will happen is that the relative value of fixing 100 year old construction will decrease. Sure you can hire someone for 20k to fix the broken plumbing in your house or you can get a new one for 30k that also has the windows, kitchen, electrical and insulation fixed.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Dots: Always-on agents"

qazxcvbnmlp — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:20:46 +0000

Trust is a funny thing. 2 years ago yes the ai needed supervision 99.8% of the time. Conversely if you've ever tried to work with / lead humans they also need supervision. The ai is starting to flirt with the line where its supervision effort is lower than human supervision effort. Like sure, it might do dumb stuff, but so do people.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

qazxcvbnmlp — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:33:34 +0000

Also: rent cost money, keeping track of stuff cost time and money. By all means keep it if you need it, but on some scale you can afford to re buy the new cable that you threw out from the savings of not dealing with clutter.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

qazxcvbnmlp — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:49:47 +0000

Oh dear - this explains why people have bad experience with ai. The prompts in the game are terrible.

The user was providing no context, they had no ability to give the model background or context. A simple why would have prevented 95% of these side quests. “Im trying to increase the relative visibility of the add to cart action on the page. Can we please change it to blue without changing any other buttons. /effort low. Let me know if you have questions and before editing anything tell me what you are going to do”

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Decapitating a MacBook (2025)"

qazxcvbnmlp — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:39:11 +0000

Felt like a case of controlling what is visible to avoid some unconscious fear.

The relative tradeoffs (hacking together monitors, sketchy battery power, etc) don't seem to coherently add up to the stated goals.

Interesting read tho.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400"

qazxcvbnmlp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:50:33 +0000

I work on a C++ codebase. I frequently prototype in c and then have the ai model slopify it back to c++. Nice b/c I am faster at reading c, but hard b/c you miss some of the features/nuances of c++.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?"

qazxcvbnmlp — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:38:09 +0000

Don't spend too much time online. The collective conscious of online can be disconnected from reality. People who aren't successful tend to spend their time complaining online whereas you rarely hear stories of normal people success online.

Focus on meeting real people and understanding their problems and how you can help. Your connections during college will probably matter more than a particular test score.

Get a job (any job) during college, it shows you're employable and can navigate with the unpleasantries of being employed.

Oh! And dont’ stress too much! Enjoy the ride. Think of it all like a fun new video game. Take in the new levels with curiosity. Have fun! Many people who have jobs now would love to be in your shoes again. Embrace it, enjoy that time of life!

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

qazxcvbnmlp — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:33:35 +0000

Apparently paying for an upgrade to a nicer cabin isnt an option either.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

qazxcvbnmlp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:58:12 +0000

Being able to submit an issue, description, test criteria along with a token budget would be pretty cool.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

qazxcvbnmlp — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:13:00 +0000

Whenever I read posts like this I get the missing missing reasons vibes.

https://issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing...

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Doing nothing at work"

qazxcvbnmlp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:54:59 +0000

Your communication with stakeholders about your work ends up having more of an impact than your rate of work output.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

qazxcvbnmlp — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:26:15 +0000

The sneaky thing you don't realize when you’re 20 is that you come to be interested in what you work on. So if you just try and do what you do well, it will become interesting!

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Is This Sustainable?"

qazxcvbnmlp — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:53:21 +0000

Was a specific piece of functionality intentional or an unintended byproduct of a previous change? Did someone else remove something but forget to take this out, or is it important? Etc

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Can we have the day off?"

qazxcvbnmlp — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:33:23 +0000

I think this is where one of the biggest gains in productivity from AI will come from. Even if it levels off at current levels of “intelligence” a 30% reduction in team size will save alot of communication overhead.

We think of productivity as linear to the number of employees, but it’s more of Log(N) for knowledge work because of the communication overhead. If your AI spend and employee productivity improvement ends up being proportional to headcount thats a linear gain that used to be Log(N).

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park"

qazxcvbnmlp — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:00:35 +0000

Funny enough! There is a donation/disposal bin for bear-spray at BZN (the primary airport you fly to visit yellowstone).

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

qazxcvbnmlp — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:58:01 +0000

The gap between the ai haves and have-nots is starting to appear. 6 months ago a developer with copilot was about on par with one without. The AI code required a lot of review, about the same amount of time as writing the code manually.

Now.. the AI first engineer might still have to deal with hallucinated things. But.. they can also use the newfound cheapness of code to improve their workflow. Instead of just testing on localhost and manually deploying to prod, you can have a full dev, staging, prod pipeline for free. Tech debt can be one command from being refactored. The open source package that doesn’t quite do what you need it to do? Fork it and write a patch. The ai will be able to maintain the patch. Oh.. you need that bespoke feature for management? Np, done in a 1hr ai session.

Each of these things might be arguably insignificant on their own but net over a projects lifetime they really build up.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

qazxcvbnmlp — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:35:41 +0000

Grocery stores are a level of abstraction. Exchange money, get food. If your whole life you had grown food, it might feel a bit strange.

Occasionally the low level details leak through ie: this egg came from this farm, theres a shipping issue so onions are more expensive or whatever.

I think llm assisted coding is going to work something like this.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

qazxcvbnmlp — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:28:35 +0000

One can imagine a future where high vis gear becomes a regulated item.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

qazxcvbnmlp — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:50:35 +0000

The nuance for four-way stops is pretty simple. First come, first serve queue. Except you are allowed to jump out of order if you jumping out of order doesn't slow the people ahead of you down.

New comment by qazxcvbnmlp in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

qazxcvbnmlp — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:50:49 +0000

I can assure you the same thing is coming to fw and ee as well. If your in hw because you like building stuff its going to be a fun time to be alive, but there will be large chunks of engineering work that go away.