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New comment by rozap in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

rozap — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:58:07 +0000

Very true. I work for an AI company, I use it every day, it's a huge value add for certain problems.

My heat pump died the other day and I called an HVAC place and got an AI agent, which was frustrating and not helpful. So I called a different HVAC place and spoke to someone who could actually help, then I gave them lots of money.

New comment by rozap in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

rozap — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:18:15 +0000

My experience is a bit different. They constantly update it and make it more unusable. At this point it's totally broken. Occasionally I open it, it loads for 30 seconds, I have a notification icon for a post I saw a month ago, then my feed shows the same picture of a guy I follow driving his rally car, which was posted several months ago, then I log off. It's truly bizarre what they've managed to do.

New comment by rozap in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

rozap — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:47:22 +0000

This is wild, have you written about it publicly, or can you expand on it here?

New comment by rozap in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

rozap — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:17:22 +0000

So we're now in this world where everyone is instantly 10x more productive at turning their thoughts into code. Now, think about the coworkers you've had that are middling to mediocre. Do you want them to have a tool that makes them 10x more productive?

That's what I wonder about, what happens to all those folks.

New comment by rozap in "Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump"

rozap — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:03:01 +0000

This is a good point. We should just let all the ponzi schemes that are currently underway ride. Maybe they made good investments that will return 100x. The only way to know is to not intervene.

New comment by rozap in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

rozap — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:12:24 +0000

You're right it's a good thing, but I think they're maybe 10 years too late. The issue is that their product is hateful, non-functional, and my feelings toward the brand are probably more negative than any other brand I can think of. So why would I give them money? It's a tough sell.

New comment by rozap in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

rozap — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:32:31 +0000

I spent $111 for two quarts

New comment by rozap in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

rozap — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:38:08 +0000

Yes, this is happening. A friend of mine was telling me about a 25k LoC PR that was submitted by a product manager that he had to content with. And the politics are real - you can't just be like "no", but it's pretty tough to meaningfully review a 25k line PR, let alone from someone who knows fuck all about what they're doing and can't answer questions you might have.

New comment by rozap in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

rozap — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:15:28 +0000

Every billionaire is a policy failure. It's not a question of equity, the issue is that no one human should be that powerful. It's very obvious that its leading to the US's rather quick and colorful decline. A small cohort of very powerful people are moving elections and policy to enrich themselves, everyone else be damned.

New comment by rozap in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

rozap — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:23:51 +0000

Saying that shunning the machine that is usurping human creativity and intelligence is "anti intellectual" is pretty funny

I'm not an AI hater but the implication of your comment is that being on the AI train is the intellectual position, which is wild, given the AI hype is almost entirely from CEOs, who are the furthest thing from.

New comment by rozap in "Your Most Improbable Life"

rozap — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:32:42 +0000

I was recently talking to a friend about this, the concept of a normie. A normie is kind of a mirage, it only exists in the realm of statistics, but when you look at any one individual who could fit that label, they are unlikely, so, can they really be a normie? Once internalized, the only real way out is to be less judgemental. Sure, you won't be friends with everyone, but the buckets are just not super useful when looking at an individual.

New comment by rozap in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

rozap — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:18:29 +0000

You're right, it does, and my edit was my emotion getting the better of me. But when you realize you're interacting with an account that only posts about the same few talking points and never contributed to tech discussion, I think it's a reasonable conclusion to come to. I was wound up enough to check his profile, which yea...don't do that, but he got me. Bot and troll accounts are good at that, whereas generally discussion on hn is alright, even if the viewpoints are disagreeable.

New comment by rozap in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

rozap — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:15:53 +0000

America was literally founded on this premise, and it should come as no surprise that our government has (d)evolved into what the founders felt was inevitable.

America is fairly exceptional in that it's not racist to say "Americans are ____" given it's a melting pot of so many different races and cultures. That's a beautiful thing, but something that the white supremecists in control of the US are working to erode.

Edit: damn I think this account is actually a bot. It's only pro Israel talking points, islamaphobia, and appeals to the mod to get people banned.

New comment by rozap in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

rozap — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:21:06 +0000

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New comment by rozap in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

rozap — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:31:37 +0000

Yep, we also don't touch them for this same reason.

New comment by rozap in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

rozap — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:22:34 +0000

There are plenty of FOSS engine management projects around. There is a big community of people doing incredible mods. But cars are complicated and to do it well requires a lot of time, effort, knowledge, money. I've blown up plenty of engines along the way, and it's fun and I'm learning a lot, but it's not something that's easy to just dabble in.

New comment by rozap in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

rozap — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:55 +0000

Reminder that the article was good and there is a lot of truth in it.

Also, never trust Microsoft.

New comment by rozap in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

rozap — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:07:12 +0000

This is pretty interesting. I'd read your blog if you write a thing about it.

New comment by rozap in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

rozap — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:14:01 +0000

Excess labor would only translate to increased revenue and new products if these companies had a product vision to begin with. But they don't, so people get sacked.

New comment by rozap in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

rozap — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:20:30 +0000

And now the libraries have been outsourced to saas companies because ???