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New comment by rpicard in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

rpicard — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:49:42 +0000

In my experience this is not representative of most fintechs. Of course there are both cases of real intentional noncompliance, and accidental, but by and large it seems like everyone’s trying to innovate within the law.

New comment by rpicard in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

rpicard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:20:25 +0000

I’d love if they supported an SSH certificate CA for commit signing verification though.

New comment by rpicard in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

rpicard — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:47:04 +0000

This is what confuses me about tech sales too. Why do I always get a discount for buying right at the end of the quarter? Seems like you could just get ahead on the next one.

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

rpicard — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:24:14 +0000

I’ve listened to a few of these. Agree it’s also really well done.

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

rpicard — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:54:09 +0000

Oh that’s funny. Yes you’re right.

He has actually mentioned the History of English before, but I’ve never listened to it. Great to hear though!

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

rpicard — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:21:46 +0000

I think there’s a numbering difference. He went back and re did a bunch of earlier ones.

I’m listening on Apple Podcasts. Season 5 episode 5 “Printin and Perkin” if it helps.

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

rpicard — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:10:22 +0000

I’m just ahead of you on episode 200! Just getting into the rise of printing in English.

I absolutely agree. This has become my comfort podcast when I just want to decompress.

New comment by rpicard in "Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI"

rpicard — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:53:14 +0000

I’ve been happy with hey.com. No plans on switching.

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

rpicard — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:03:50 +0000

Fair! I’ve been surprised in some cases. I’m thinking specifically of a handful of conversations I was in or around during the Vegas cons.

I might also be hyper sensitive to the cynicism. It tends to bug me more than it probably should.

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

rpicard — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:00:38 +0000

No clue, and $1.

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

rpicard — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:57:53 +0000

My car can drive itself today.

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

rpicard — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:55:59 +0000

I’ve noticed a strong negative streak in the security community around LLMs. Lots of comments about how they’ll just generate more vulnerabilities, “junk code”, etc.

It seems very short sighted.

I think of it more like self driving cars. I expect the error rate to quickly become lower than humans.

Maybe in a couple of years we’ll consider it irresponsible not to write security and safety critical code with frontier LLMs.

New comment by rpicard in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

rpicard — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:02:55 +0000

I’m not affiliated, but this made me think of this AI for COBOL startup: https://www.cobolcopilot.com/

For some reason I think we’re all drawn to the idea of working with an older language. I wonder why!

New comment by rpicard in "Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)"

rpicard — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:30:18 +0000

This would be a cool place for LLMs to store a summary of the prompts used to generate the code in order to make it easier for other LLMs and humans to pick up where they left off.

New comment by rpicard in "Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange"

rpicard — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:29:48 +0000

I’m pretty sure this is an AI bot of some kind, especially after reviewing its history.

New comment by rpicard in "My sourdough starter has twins"

rpicard — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:23:15 +0000

My wife makes sourdough discard cookies and they’re amazing.

New comment by rpicard in "What Air Defenses Do the Houthis in Yemen Have?"

rpicard — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:29:35 +0000

Funny enough I read it as Wiz and was just as confused.

New comment by rpicard in "How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail"

rpicard — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:47:02 +0000

Good advice thank you. Makes me think maybe a slow charging set up by the bed and a fast charger down in the living room / kitchen / for travel.

Then maybe another slow charger for all those miscellaneous things around the house.

New comment by rpicard in "How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail"

rpicard — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:08:30 +0000

I have so many different chargers, brands, cables, and adapters and honestly have never checked what any are capable of.

I’d like to just buy 10 of a given charger, maybe with a couple of adapters for different devices.

What’s the best option today?

New comment by rpicard in "OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B"

rpicard — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:50:31 +0000

This would make a lot of sense for both sides I think. Owning the part of the stack that decides where the inference requests go is like Google owning the browser.

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New comment by rpicard in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

New comment by rpicard in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

New comment by rpicard in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

New comment by rpicard in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

New comment by rpicard in "Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI"

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

New comment by rpicard in "LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare"

New comment by rpicard in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

New comment by rpicard in "Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)"

New comment by rpicard in "Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange"

New comment by rpicard in "My sourdough starter has twins"

New comment by rpicard in "What Air Defenses Do the Houthis in Yemen Have?"

New comment by rpicard in "How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail"

New comment by rpicard in "How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail"

New comment by rpicard in "OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B"

New comment by rpicard in "Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)"