Hacker News: r0x0r007

New comment by r0x0r007 in "The Claude Code Leak"

r0x0r007 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:14:06 +0000

I dont understand why so many people have the need to emphasize the code vs product battle. There is no battle. Coding/developing/software engineering is a skill, that just like any other skill has certain requirements and best practices that have to be followed in order to make a quality, maintainable and adaptable application that can stand the test of time from the software perspective. Product, features, marketing bla bla that is entrepreneurship part, and is not related to software, other than directing the software requirements,but not beacuse product people think about requirements, but instead just because they come naturally from the required features they envision.Just because programmers can write code doesnt mean they can ship good products.Just because a plumber can lay pipes doesnt mean he can run his own company or invent a new way of laying pipes. But I will tell you that a bad plumber who lays pipes and doesnt know how to connect them, bend them or shield them will surely have inferior product/service in the long term. And by the way, success of a company is measured over time, we will see where claude code will be in 10 years time when the hype dips a little, then we can say yeah the code was bad but everyone loved it and uses it still. I mean they leaked entire code online and this guy says yeah code was bad but who cares, what world are we living in? The fact that anything got leaked is a serious breach of best practices and security also at this point, something a company that used to work for DoD(W) shouldnt be doing, it can even be considered a national threat at this point. I know mistakes happen, I do them all the time, but then again the 'best' companies should be almost immune to mistakes cause stakes are high.But of course, move fast and break things is more important.Am I wrong?

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Choosing learning over autopilot"

r0x0r007 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:06:01 +0000

'If I had to guess, I'd say that is the main "skill" being lost'(to endure frustration).

I think this might be true for you, but for less experienced and new developers, well, they actually won't get to that stage because their 'learning' is basically prompting and they have nothing to forget nor remember. And that might be bigger issue.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Show HN: TCP chat server written in C# and .NET 9, used in the terminal"

r0x0r007 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:33:43 +0000

yeah maybe, I guess it's fine, I meant no disrespect for the person learning. I can see some git issues so probably a new dev showcasing.I just don't understand how the hn posts work. Shouldn't there be some upvoting of stuff to be on the main page, or it was just released so it appeared?

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Show HN: TCP chat server written in C# and .NET 9, used in the terminal"

r0x0r007 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:53:58 +0000

wow, a simple project made by chatGPT reaches hacker news top page. Way to go C# devs! And yes, I am one of them.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "DiLLeMma"

r0x0r007 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:43:40 +0000

We, as developers are currenty using a technology where: - we add things like 'You are an expert developer/DBA/{whatever}' to improve its performance - we add things like 'please' to make it work better - we no longer code, we write novels that describe code(features) - we pretend to be doing technical work, when all we do is write english, often yelling and cursing at the technology From the wannabe millionaire perspective that looks at devs and engineers like expenses, I get it. You write what you want and you are promised to get it.

But as developers we need to push back and point out few things, beacuse of professionalism and safety: - To describe a feature and get it, there are only 2 ways: - LLM is soooo amazingly good and knows not just to code, but what you need, what you meant and what you didn't mean, it knows your business, knows your clients it knows everything, it works alone it is amazing. This will never happen, and certainly not with this technology. - You are a technical user that is able to describe to llm exactly what you want, all the important steps, and all the edge cases and important stuff. Then you review it's code, fix it, prompt it more and so on. In this case, there are several big issues: - you already need to be a fairly experienced technical person (which kind of beats the whole LLM point) - you need to prompt the shi* out of it to make it work - you need to spend many a hours debugging issues around code you didn't write - you don't remember the code cause you didn't write it - how can you add new features if you didn't write the code? Tests? If LLM wrote them what's the point? These are pretty serious roadblocks, why aren't people talking about them? Why the fuc* are we doing todo apps instead? If llm's do everything what about new concepts, programming languages,paradigms? Are we supposed to use same forms, code block for everything forever? That might even be a good thing if the code was well written! But the crux of it is, programming is technical, if you don't write code you are not programming and are not meant to be churning out code. People could get hurt. And llm is not at fault, you are, check the contracts and warnings. If you are not programmming and are instead prompting, you should think about switching to alternate carrer like a novelist or scriptwriter. All is good, I just kind of wanted to ask you, did you actually buy the ticket and board the AI train?

DiLLeMma

r0x0r007 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:43:40 +0000

Article URL: https://media1.tenor.com/m/auIHDOEiIFoAAAAd/dumb-thats-dumb.gif

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364218

Points: 1

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New comment by r0x0r007 in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

r0x0r007 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:48:42 +0000

ffs, to find out what figures from the past thought and how they felt about the world, maybe we read some of their books, we will get the context. Don't prompt or train LLM to do it and consider it the hottest thing since MCP. Besides, what's the point? To teach younger generations a made up perspective of historic figures? Who guarantees the correctness/factuality? We will have students chatting with made up Hitler justifying his actions. So much AI slop everywhere.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

r0x0r007 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:04:43 +0000

I am too old for this sh...

New comment by r0x0r007 in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

r0x0r007 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:12:10 +0000

It's great to have .NET ecosystem expanding. I am a .NET dev, and I still use web optimized for mobile as my mobile platform(where applicable). Tried MAUI and all the other stuff, just doesn't cut it for me. You can make an app using it, but I would rather not to. The best 'mobile platform' for me was blazor hybrid, but then again - if it's already blazor why not go full web...I guess it depends on the 'seriousness' of your mobile application. If I had to develop a complex mobile app, I might choose another language framework, cause MAUI uses XAML and MVVM stuff that is quite a big overhead IMO.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona"

r0x0r007 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:38:15 +0000

yes, in fact If she was asked about her greatest achievements I would bet she would say having (grand)children.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "What the hell have you built"

r0x0r007 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:12:12 +0000

"just use postgres" is an excellent advice. How about incidental complexity and ridiculous limitations of an ORM? Time spent learning how to use an ORM can better be spent 'refreshing' your SQL knowledge. Also, when you learn how an ORM works, you still don't know proper SQL nor how do databases works, so when you switch language now what, you quickly take a course on another ORM? SQL is a language, ORM is not,it's just ' an entire layer of code that your application doesn't really need' and in some applications you could never ever use an ORM.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery"

r0x0r007 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:14:48 +0000

Seems like it could also be useful in planning combat(strategic) actions ad hoc, given limited resources, but I guess military already has some other tech for this...

New comment by r0x0r007 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

r0x0r007 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:11:14 +0000

'the underlying idea is "they better reach AGI, because that's the only way they could make money."'

Yeah, that's what I was going for.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

r0x0r007 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:49:22 +0000

not unless you are working on todo apps.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second"

r0x0r007 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:31:28 +0000

Nice, why don't we apply the same principles to our regular applications? Ooh, right, cause we couldn't use them and a whole industry got created that's called cybersecurity and it's supposed to be consulted BEFORE releasing privacy nightmares and using them. But hey, regular applications can't come up with cool poems.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

r0x0r007 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:32:03 +0000

Hahah,some things can't be unseen...

New comment by r0x0r007 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

r0x0r007 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:49:56 +0000

I think they will reach AGI pretty soon, because only AGI can find a way to make them profitable.

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability"

r0x0r007 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:23:45 +0000

That feeling when you open a brand new project in VS and immediately get: "The solution contains packages with vulnerabilities"

New comment by r0x0r007 in "The new calculus of AI-based coding"

r0x0r007 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:14:53 +0000

"For me, roughly 80% of the code I commit these days is written by the AI agent" Therefore, it is not commited by you, but by you in the name of AI agent and the holy slop. What to say, I hope that 100x productivity is worth it and you are making tons of money. If this stuff becomes mainstream, I suggest open source developers stop doing the grind part, stop writing and maintaining cool libraries and just leave all to the productivity guys, let's see how far they get. Maybe I've seen too many 1000x hacker news..

New comment by r0x0r007 in "Why can't transformers learn multiplication?"

r0x0r007 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:21:49 +0000

I agree with you, seems like we are trying to make the shoe fit. Not only are we missing the understanding of what is happening inside transformers, but now we are trying to teach them and see how they respond and then interpret it. That seems fine with viruses and animals, but we are talking about a piece of software here. Shouldn't we know what's happening inside? Maybe these kinds of papers can shine more light and give us better understanding though, still it feels backwards to me...Regarding the multiplication itself, shouldn't pure understanding of the meaning of multiplication(it's a summation basically) be enough for 'AI' to call it a day? If AI or human understands that, then the rest is computation part. We already got that covered, so instead of having 'AI' learn it on its own on crazy amount of data and get it right 99% of time, shouldn't we just give it a calculator? Somebody PLEEAASE give this AI a calculator :-)