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New comment by qjack in "Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)"

qjack — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:53:27 +0000

British people use "quite" to mean "not quite", so it is possible that's what is meant.

(Reading the paragraph over though, I don't think this is the case here.)

New comment by qjack in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

qjack — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:22:22 +0000

Anthropic has been trying to win the developer marketshare, and has been quite successful with Claude Code. While I understand the argument that this acquisition is to protect their usage in CC or even just to acquire the team, I do hope that part of their goal is to use this to strengthen their brand. Being good stewards of open source projects is a huge part of how positively I view a company.

New comment by qjack in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

qjack — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:27:22 +0000

While I agree with you broadly, remember that those that employ you don't have those skills either. They accept that they are ceding control of the details and trust us to make those decisions or ask clarifying questions (LLMs are getting better at those things too). Vibe coders are clients seeking an alternative, not developers.

New comment by qjack in "Why I Won't Use AI"

qjack — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:18:04 +0000

> One implication would be to skip college, take that money and invest it in the stock market. Why invest in labor when capital grows faster? Although I don't think anyone with this mindset would offer that advice, but rather dwell in the fact that they are laborers by design with no hope of ever breaking that.

As a student, I could easily get a loan to cover my tuition, but the bank would not let me barrow money to gamble in the stock market. Even if they would, I of course would have also not taken that route. There were experiences I was interested in having and things I was interested in learning.

Now I have the capital to invest and those experiences I sought, but I still don't wish to become a capitalist or a landlord or a day trader. I take great pride in being a labourer.