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New comment by relativeadv in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

relativeadv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:20:56 +0000

I've been writing technical documentation and architecture docs that no one ever reads for years. I now write those same documents using ai in a fraction of the time. No one reads those either but they are memorialized so that no one can bitch about tribal knowledge.

New comment by relativeadv in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

relativeadv — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:01:01 +0000

Bravo! Wonderful read.

The comments here are a cesspool unfortunately. People bickering about pronouns used for cats, how many shots it takes for a vase to explode, or whether or not some circa-1993 software was used or mentioned.

New comment by relativeadv in "Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?"

relativeadv — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:09:38 +0000

this. the meetups i was a part of devolved into product pitches and people looking for jobs

New comment by relativeadv in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

relativeadv — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:29:57 +0000

The obviously ai generated dramatic prose. The entire site has the veneer of AI generation as well. The gradient background, the glowing header text, the monospaced fonts, the dots next to the footer subnav items that serve no purpose. If i were writing a blog today i would take comfort knowing it has never been easier to stand out by simply being yourself.

New comment by relativeadv in "GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100"

relativeadv — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:59:17 +0000

nice

New comment by relativeadv in "GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100"

relativeadv — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:59:01 +0000

nice

New comment by relativeadv in "Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory"

relativeadv — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:39:44 +0000

right? I read the kleppman post sometime ago about formal verification taking off but i could never square away who verifies the verifier.

New comment by relativeadv in "Learn Harness Engineering"

relativeadv — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:42:30 +0000

slop

New comment by relativeadv in "Ted Turner has died"

relativeadv — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:54:25 +0000

position is one thing. implementation of that position is another.

New comment by relativeadv in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

relativeadv — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:04:37 +0000

"Forty years later, in September of 2018, I started working on this version of Space War. It's an animated GUI driven system with a frame rate of 30fps. It is written entirely in Clojure and uses the Quil shim for the Processing GUI framework." - Robert Martin

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2021/11/28/Spacewar.ht...

New comment by relativeadv in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

relativeadv — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:24:17 +0000

I work with others who have made this same claim. For those people, when I observed their work during demo days the unmentioned thing is that they were going to the AI for system design questions as well. This was framed as "just using it as a sounding board" but what was actually done was not merely a sounding board but instead was asking for solutions. Anchoring bias being what it is, these felt like good ideas and they kept them.

Its the feeling of having done a lot of thinking for themselves without having actually done so.

New comment by relativeadv in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

relativeadv — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:33:26 +0000

most (all?) models are fundamentally a regression toward the mean. Good taste is rarely, if ever, residing in the mean.

New comment by relativeadv in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

relativeadv — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:37:36 +0000

It definitely activates something within people. Maybe I'm just terminally online, but there is always _always_ someone who will say "Idiocracy isn't satire, its a documentary."

New comment by relativeadv in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

relativeadv — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:43:53 +0000

Very cool. What have you built with this method? Do you mind sharing details about the kinds of projects?

New comment by relativeadv in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

relativeadv — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:50:50 +0000

But you don't actually do any of that, do you? Instead, you get tired and lazy and attempt to have the LLM solve those hard problems for you too. You just don't tell others about it.

New comment by relativeadv in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

relativeadv — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:56:23 +0000

yes, all of the typical signs and symptoms appear to be there. Lists upon sublists of verbose overengineered plausibly thoughtful writing.

If you can't be bothered to write it, why should i be bothered to read it?

New comment by relativeadv in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

relativeadv — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:54:39 +0000

Once again I am asking for you to please show us what you have built. Bring receipts.

New comment by relativeadv in "Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe"

relativeadv — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:38:27 +0000

???

New comment by relativeadv in "Web development is fun again"

relativeadv — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:56:02 +0000

Of course its fun. Making slop _is_ very fun. Its a low-effort dopamine-driven way of producing things. Learning is uncomfortable. Improving things using only your braincells can be very difficult and time consuming.

New comment by relativeadv in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

relativeadv — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:50:43 +0000

won't someone think of the shareholders?