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New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:52:06 +0000

That looks great. I want to read it! The techno caste system reminds me of Lord of Light.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:57:53 +0000

Yes, I understand what you're saying perfectly. And I had similar thoughts while I was writing this. I do not want to talk too much about the process of writing it, or the content itself, because I feel it's not right for me (the author) to talk about it. But I'd like to make it clear that I wrote this myself, and that many of the questions and points people have raised here have also been in my mind, and it was my intention to elicit this type of thinking. Thank you and all others for the comments - I really appreciate it, even the very negative ones. This is the first time I published something online and I'm very happy that it resonated with people.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:24:10 +0000

That is not what this is meant as.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:17:52 +0000

It's fiction. I did not use AI to write it. On whether it's worthy of people's time... well, I'm not presumptuous enough to say. :)

Ape Coding [fiction]

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206798

Points: 189

# Comments: 142

New comment by rmsaksida in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

rmsaksida — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:15:20 +0000

> Claude helped write the article. It is 2026.

If that's the case, why do we have to suffer through an AI-generated article? Just give us the prompt.

This topic interests me but I stopped reading as soon as I noticed the slop. I'd much rather read a couple of human-written paragraphs with your personal experience.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

rmsaksida — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:27:14 +0000

The generated post is even in the repo: https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax/blob/main/SHOW_HN_P...

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

rmsaksida — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:01:43 +0000

Unrelated - it looks like your blog's RSS feed isn't up to date. :-)

New comment by rmsaksida in "Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform"

rmsaksida — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:25:28 +0000

> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response.

I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't make sense. I do wish ChatGPT & co had a pro or advanced mode that was more similar to Google AI Studio.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Redis is open source again"

rmsaksida — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:56:18 +0000

I've been using Valkey simply because after I updated to the latest Fedora version, it dropped redis and pointed me to Valkey instead. I assume as more distros do this and more people update their systems, the Valkey user base will grow. But perhaps with the AGPL redis that will no longer be the case.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

rmsaksida — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:25:45 +0000

Yeah Pix lets you choose limits. There's decent granularity for those, you can pick max $ per day, per transfer, per period, and per device. There's a caveat that when you increase a limit it takes a day or two to come into effect (basically to avoid people being forced to increase their limits by criminals).

New comment by rmsaksida in "Bluesky now has 30 million users"

rmsaksida — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:56:09 +0000

It was a few months ago, but when X was banned in my country I tried Bluesky for a while. It took a lot of effort (adding blocklists, muting words and blocking individual accounts) to cleanse the timeline of k-pop and furry content. I am not interested in either type of content and didn't follow any such accounts, but still, the "Discover" feed kept showing that stuff to me. It was the strangest onboarding experience I've ever had in social media.

New comment by rmsaksida in "IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star"

rmsaksida — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:52:36 +0000

Life in that planet evolved to essentially hibernate during their long winter. Presumably the processes that resulted in the very earliest life forms happened countless times until some surfaced that had that feature.

New comment by rmsaksida in "GIMP 3.0 is on the way"

rmsaksida — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:27:12 +0000

Affinity is good but it's a shame they don't have a Linux version.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative"

rmsaksida — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:27:05 +0000

> All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..)

I don't know about VS Code, but I remember Atom was refactored to use manual DOM updates because the performance penalty of using React wasn't worth it.[1] By the way, isn't OOP by far the most popular paradigm for building desktop UIs? I imagine VS Code is a difficult codebase to work with that has a lot of intricate code (as is usually the case with large software projects), but that's a strange piece of criticism :-)

1. https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624

New comment by rmsaksida in "D&D is Anti-Medieval"

rmsaksida — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:21:24 +0000

I think at a time Vampire: The Masquerade was the most popular title in Brazil, but D&D eventually won.

Tormenta and Old Dragon are pretty popular as well.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing"

rmsaksida — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:24:12 +0000

How good is the Rails integration? I know Inertia is very popular in the Laravel community, but I rarely see it being mentioned among rubyists.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Just use Postgres"

rmsaksida — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:32:45 +0000

IMO a downside of SQLite that isn't discussed as often as it should be is the poor support for some table operations like ALTER COLUMN. Need to change a column to null / not null? Drop a foreign key constraint? Tough luck, in some cases the only way to implement a change is recreating the table.

New comment by rmsaksida in "80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding"

rmsaksida — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:39:02 +0000

Another problem, I think, is that there is something inherently unsatisfying about activities like programming where the result of your labor is usually abstract and not a thing you can physically touch and admire in the real world.

Fixing things in my home, painting walls, assembling furniture often gives me more satisfaction and the feeling of a finished job than deploying an update for a web app. This wasn't an issue for me for most of my career, but it's something I feel intensely in the long term (10+ yrs) and as I get older.

I think it's the reason why every now and then you see programmers switching careers to farming or carpentry.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers"

rmsaksida — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:59:47 +0000

Writers are the most common counter-example I can think of for this. There were many prolific, successful writers who had multiple children.