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New comment by radlad in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

radlad — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:15:45 +0000

I find it impossible to daydream while focused on traffic.

New comment by radlad in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

radlad — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:43:43 +0000

This is blatantly false based on my usage of Fable and Opus. Though they are much better than they used to be.

New comment by radlad in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

radlad — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:57:15 +0000

As a native English speaker, I worry about picking up LLM-speak simply due to interacting with Claude Code all day.

New comment by radlad in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

radlad — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:49:27 +0000

I'm sorry to hear that's how it's going at your work.

New comment by radlad in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

radlad — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:41:07 +0000

The best engineers hand-edit .git

Edit: But actually, one of my favorite Git explainers is https://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git/

New comment by radlad in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

radlad — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:31:30 +0000

Considering most teams have only switched to heavy AI use in the past few months, the verdict is still out on this.

That said, I've had lots of success using AI to learn, refactor and clean up codebases.

I notice another trend were a lot of AI naysayers haven't really spent a ton of time getting intimately familiar with AI.

New comment by radlad in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

radlad — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:30:51 +0000

Definitely not - the biggest risk with this increased speed is going full-bore in the wrong direction. A product mindset (and a critical eye to architecture) matters more now than ever.

Bringing Nebula connectivity to everyone with free managed lighthouses

radlad — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:24:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.defined.net/blog/announcing-managed-lighthouses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862721

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New comment by radlad in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

radlad — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:57:22 +0000

> I use LLMs for exploration and for review, but I write the code myself. I find it hard to believe why so many engineers try to avoid it. It’s not consuming much of my time. And it’s actually the most enjoyable part.

At my workplace, there is more work to be done than there is engineers, and approximately 2 engineers per service. I can spin off multiple Claude Code instances on unrelated work, steering them occasionally, and then finally reviewing the output. After I have reviewed it, I post it for team review.

You're absolutely right that my depth of familiarity is lesser with this code, but we are absolutely shipping more as a result of increased parallelization.

The bottleneck now is typically reviews - both pre-push and team reviews.

New comment by radlad in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

radlad — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:32:27 +0000

I find project-wide or subpackage-wide (for sufficiently large projects) CLAUDE.md's that document patterns (including for tests) solves this.

/init will make a project-wide one, or you can instruct it to "Create CLAUDE.md in any sub-directory that is sufficiently complex" then modify from there.

New comment by radlad in "GPT-5.6"

radlad — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:51:06 +0000

I don't expect that would be the case. This is what's called BLUF or Bottom Line Up Front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)

The model will still have read the entirety of the document before composing its response. And I believe that even in auto mode, there are thinking tokens behind the scenes.

New comment by radlad in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

radlad — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:13:58 +0000

I could be crazy, but don't all the external antennas allow for more flexibility with regard to directionality of signal?

I have a U7 Lite and it is very directional compared to other routers I have used (spider style, trash can style, etc.)

New comment by radlad in "Claude Sonnet 5"

radlad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:16:51 +0000

Seems kinda weird - it's cognitive load I'd love to avoid. If I'm going to take it on, I might as well try other providers.

New comment by radlad in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

radlad — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:58:13 +0000

I can empathize with this view but I've also seen one line clear bug fixes rejected because CC signed off on it.

There's no other correct fix - why do you care which pen I used to write it?

New comment by radlad in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

radlad — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:25:06 +0000

What fundamentals are those?

New comment by radlad in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

radlad — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:07:34 +0000

This sounds like what regular commit messages do. How are conventional commits specifically helpful?

New comment by radlad in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

radlad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:40:17 +0000

As I recall, Amazon also famously didn't turn a profit for ages - but they were also capable of turning one much earlier than they did.

Are AI companies capable of turning a profit today if they turn some knobs?

New comment by radlad in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

radlad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:43:18 +0000

Regarding seed ratio, generally by perma seeding. Many private sites either use seed time requirements instead of ratio or offer bonus points for seed time which can be exchanged for ratio. But also as new editions and formats are released, the library has a bit more turnaround than your music sites of yesteryear.

New comment by radlad in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

radlad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:39:22 +0000

Out of curiosity, what movie?

> hey there's a project idea: a "todo list" for rippers that scrapes imdb and checks what's not in pirate ba

Private sites do things like this, archival efforts and have request systems.

New comment by radlad in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

radlad — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:31:45 +0000

Don't want to name drop, but this is unfortunately a real phenomenon.