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New comment by replyifuagree in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

replyifuagree — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:52:45 +0000

>If instead you wait when there is a real fire, you can get the 15 teams actually fixing that one.

In this case, with Microsoft's really amazing revenue stream, a charismatic management team can distort reality for quite some time and convince the right people within the company that there is no fire.

New comment by replyifuagree in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

replyifuagree — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:03:16 +0000

> logging into MS Teams

I mean, this is one application nobody should ever log into!

New comment by replyifuagree in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

replyifuagree — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:47:00 +0000

>I personally can't accept shipping unreviewed code. It feels wrong. The product has to work, but the code must also be high-quality.

Sadly review isn't enough. I just today I found some code that I reviewed 2 months where the developer clearly used an agent to generate the code and I completely missed some really dumb garbage the agent put in. The agent took a simple function that returns an object with some data and turned it into a mess that required multiple mocks in the tests (also generated by the agent).

The dev is a junior and a clear example of what is to come, inexperienced people thinking coding is getting an agent to get something to pass CI.

The tech debt is accelerating exponentially!

New comment by replyifuagree in "My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL"

replyifuagree — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:33:20 +0000

Those people on the boeing flights would have appreciated a little more of the correct motivations.

Instead they got McDonnell Douglas'd

As it turns out the motivations matter way more than you might think.

New comment by replyifuagree in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

replyifuagree — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:25:46 +0000

Another key difference is that wood itself has built in visual transparency as to the goodness of the solution - as it is pretty easy to figure out that a cabinet is horrible (I do get that there are defects in wood joining techniques that can surface after some time due to moisture, etc - but still, lot of transparency out of the box). Software has no such transparency built in.

The advantage of hand coded solutions is that the author of the code has some sense of what the code really does and so is a proxy for transparency, vibe coded solutions not so much.

I mean, it is 2025 and still customers are the best detectors of bad software over all quality apparatus to date.

New comment by replyifuagree in "I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code"

replyifuagree — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:22:01 +0000

You want to pay me bank to rubber stamp bad code? Weird flex but alright!

New comment by replyifuagree in "The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States"

replyifuagree — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:15:07 +0000

3. ...

4. ...

5. Profit!

New comment by replyifuagree in "How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America"

replyifuagree — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:49:05 +0000

If your competition figures out a way to cut overhead by 10% and you don't, they win. This is the normal outcome between similar businesses

The only thing that will save RTO companies now is graft and corruption.

New comment by replyifuagree in "Do not download the app, use the website"

replyifuagree — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:26:45 +0000

I'd love to. First you need to get Tim Cook to stop sabotaging mobile web.

New comment by replyifuagree in "When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?"

replyifuagree — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:01:06 +0000

I wonder how better DOM support would help a rust web application frontend framework like Leptos (https://leptos.dev)? Maybe a smaller WASM payload?

New comment by replyifuagree in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

replyifuagree — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:02:12 +0000

>(Shown above: my earnings from this bug.)

I lol'd!

New comment by replyifuagree in "Perverse incentives of vibe coding"

replyifuagree — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:20:19 +0000

As in all things, it depends. For example if you have an iron clad exit plan after you land that promotion for "delivering" a steaming pile for someone else to debug, and you have no sense of shame, then by all means!

New comment by replyifuagree in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

replyifuagree — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:15:31 +0000

>swap every postgres insert query, with the corresponding mysql insert query.

If the data and relationships in those insert queries matter, at some unknown future date you may find yourself cursing your choice to use an LLM for this task. On the other hand you might not ever find out and just experience a faint sense of unease as to why your customers have quietly dropped your product.

New comment by replyifuagree in "Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:28:07 +0000

yeah, adding "AI" to something like that really means add in random nonsensical failures

New comment by replyifuagree in "Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:26:45 +0000

Yep, Tim Cook = Steve Ballmer

New comment by replyifuagree in "Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:26:03 +0000

It is almost like Apple has an operations guy at the helm who doesn't understand software at all!

New comment by replyifuagree in "Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:25:30 +0000

This is why I still haven't pulled the trigger on home automation stuff. Bad enough keeping my laptop functioning, don't want that experience extending to the rest of my life!

New comment by replyifuagree in "Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:24:18 +0000

+1 OMG I was going die using that Gemini garbage! Was so glad they had a way to switch back!

New comment by replyifuagree in "Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:22:58 +0000

One feature I love on my android phone is how reliably it sets timers based on a voice command:

"Ok google, set a timer for 8 minutes" has kept me from burning my food on the stove for at least a year now!

New comment by replyifuagree in "The good times in tech are over"

replyifuagree — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:20:33 +0000

>“Value to the company” means furthering the explicit plans of your company’s executives

If you are a software leader, work on discovering and filling customer needs. Filling those will boost both your success and the company's success.

Executives at most companies rarely do anything other than figure out how to get a bigger paycheck. They have no clue about, nor do they try to discover, customer needs; but they have and aggressively acquire a strong sense of their upchain's needs.

This means a software leader who does basic research on customer needs is the one-eyed in the kingdom of the blind at most companies.