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New comment by robofanatic in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

robofanatic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:18:57 +0000

> Half the code was written in a language you didn't understand. The other half was written using libraries you never heard of.

> As you waded through the slop, you browsed job postings and fantasized about leaving

Just because you didn't understand something or haven't heard about a library, doesn't mean its slop. How do you make sure your definition of "clean code" is not a slop to others?

New comment by robofanatic in "Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers"

robofanatic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:15:40 +0000

Give an abstract requirement and access to your AI tool. Ask the candidate to create a working solution and review the AI generated code. requirement analysis and code review are now the primary skills for developers.

New comment by robofanatic in "3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering"

robofanatic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:32:37 +0000

Is anyone else confused by thier cookie consent banner? The switches start out gray and become black when toggled. which position means consent? It feels intentionally misleading.

New comment by robofanatic in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

robofanatic — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:48:47 +0000

> e.g. Indian parents can obtain Indian citizenship for their kids but it also means letting go of the kids' US citizenship

This is not true, India has something called “Overseas Citizenship of India” which is technically not a citizenship even though the name says, but its a life time visa available for US citizens of Indian origin. And you don’t have to give up US citizenship

New comment by robofanatic in "SpaceX S-1"

robofanatic — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:23:13 +0000

How will this affect TSLA share holders? Will the value go up or down?

New comment by robofanatic in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

robofanatic — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:56:08 +0000

$44B is peanuts for a soon to be trillionaire

New comment by robofanatic in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

robofanatic — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:37:17 +0000

He is a billionaire and still thinks at a developer level is pretty remarkable! Hope other billionaires pay attention to this!

New comment by robofanatic in "Why most product tours get skipped"

robofanatic — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:28:09 +0000

A good PM knows rejecting bad ideas is a big part of their job.

New comment by robofanatic in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

robofanatic — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:59:17 +0000

and this is the fifth comment

New comment by robofanatic in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

robofanatic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:44:14 +0000

> However, I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical errors that result in incorrect billing routing.

What a claude excuse

New comment by robofanatic in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

robofanatic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:33:13 +0000

> The world is like a ride in an amusement park

only difference is, in real world there may be consequences that you may not be able to undo so you may have to be little careful while riding.

New comment by robofanatic in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

robofanatic — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:02:28 +0000

invention of bitcoin is significant enough that world needs to know who really did it. Why is the person hiding is the real question.

New comment by robofanatic in "LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think"

robofanatic — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:49:15 +0000

Well, in few years not sure I will know how to think any more. If I am stuck on something I just ask the LLM and get the solution. While this shortcut sometimes saves me a ton of time and headaches, I miss that long route of thinking and getting to a solution myself. Maybe in future we will have gyms for brain workouts… I don’t know

New comment by robofanatic in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

robofanatic — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:23:49 +0000

But hopefully erratic behavior of such callers may actually bring some change because Karen is definitely going to complain about him once the manager asks why the fax machine is down.

New comment by robofanatic in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

robofanatic — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:16:52 +0000

this is magic. hope Spotify doesn't spot it and stop it!

New comment by robofanatic in "Mamba-3"

robofanatic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:01:10 +0000

Of course my only objection was the language. LLMs are now old enough to leave the jargon behind and talk in simple easy to understand terms.

New comment by robofanatic in "Mamba-3"

robofanatic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:09:24 +0000

> Mamba-3 is a new state space model (SSM) designed with inference efficiency as the primary goal — a departure from Mamba-2, which optimized for training speed. The key upgrades are a more expressive recurrence formula, complex-valued state tracking, and a MIMO (multi-input, multi-output) variant that boosts accuracy without slowing down decoding.

Why can’t they simply say -

Mamba-3 focuses on being faster and more efficient when making predictions, rather than just being fast to train like Mamba-2.

New comment by robofanatic in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

robofanatic — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:59:52 +0000

> with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks for everything, node for this, npm for that, Angular, React, Vue, whatever - as if solving business problems just became too boring for software developers, so we decided to spend our cycles on the new hotness at every turn

I kinda feel the same way when I visit Home Depot once a year

New comment by robofanatic in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

robofanatic — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:30:33 +0000

oxidation is a chemical process where a substance loses electrons, often by reacting with oxygen, causing it to change. What does it have to do with JavaScript?

New comment by robofanatic in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

robofanatic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:44:31 +0000

most .ai domains are taken. How I regret not buying watermelon.ai for $85, next day I see it was gone :-(