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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?

New comment by relativeadv in "Skills Officially Comes to Codex"

relativeadv — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:46:26 +0000

it feels like people keep attempting this idea, largely because its easy to build, but in practice people aren't interested using others' prompts because the cost to create a customized skill/gpt/prompt/whatever is near zero

New comment by relativeadv in "Replacement.ai"

relativeadv — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:59:31 +0000

Think a bit harder on your statement. You'll get there eventually.

New comment by relativeadv in "Apple M5 chip"

relativeadv — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:26:16 +0000

Its not uncommon for Apple and others to compare against two generations ago rather than the immediately preceding one

New comment by relativeadv in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

relativeadv — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:44:11 +0000

is this effectively what Cursor did as well? I seem to remember some major pricing change of their in the past few months.

New comment by relativeadv in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"

relativeadv — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:55:27 +0000

> it's just gotten better.

Couldn't agree more. Like many, I've had my honeymoon phase with AI and have now learned what it is good for and what it is not. What it has truly been good for is satisfying the nauseating number of topics I want to learn about. I can spend $20 a month and drill down into any topic I like for as long as I like in an incredibly efficient way. What a time to be alive.

New comment by relativeadv in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

relativeadv — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:04:12 +0000

> "This is a good way to test how "AI-native" the candidate is."

yuck

New comment by relativeadv in "JavaScript Trademark Update"

relativeadv — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:54:02 +0000

Oracle is doing something petty and absurd? Are you sure?

New comment by relativeadv in "I tried Windows gaming on a Mac"

relativeadv — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:04:10 +0000

i love my studio displays but they would be absolute dogwater for gaming

New comment by relativeadv in "Ask HN: What do you look for in a work monitor?"

relativeadv — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:44:47 +0000

5k resolution, >= 220 ppi. Everything else is secondary.

New comment by relativeadv in "I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life"

relativeadv — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:44:20 +0000

I would get a sleep study performed then. I know its expensive but fortunately once you have the prescription you're set to get a calibrated machine for you.