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New comment by seanw444 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

seanw444 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:45:34 +0000

Yeah the Mormons in Utah are of a much more vapid culture than those from out of state, I can say from experience. All of the out-of-stater Mormons I've met that were here for BYU and such, they all said they can't stand the people here. Don't blame them one bit.

New comment by seanw444 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

seanw444 — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:29:30 +0000

Proprietary stochastic compilers. Hooray.

New comment by seanw444 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

seanw444 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:47:11 +0000

They're finally applying their 2A strategy to the 1A.

New comment by seanw444 in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

seanw444 — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:04:58 +0000

I wouldn't say it's random. But I do like referring to them as statistical code generators.

New comment by seanw444 in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

seanw444 — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:47:53 +0000

The assumption used to be that you respected the library enough and believed it was well reviewed and architected by the maintainer(s). But now even that's unreliable because libraries are being slopified at an unreviewable pace too.

New comment by seanw444 in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

seanw444 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:21:20 +0000

Can we stop calling it AI and making it sound cooler than it really is: a lossily-compressed text lookup DB?

New comment by seanw444 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

seanw444 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:48:06 +0000

There's a lot to appreciate about the middle ages. It wasn't all bad.

New comment by seanw444 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

seanw444 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:20:59 +0000

> To be clear, I am not claiming that all human work will be automated away soon. Just that a huge portion of it will be.

You don't even need to be a believer in the technology to be concerned. All that matters is that the people with all the money perceive some positive outcome for their wallets from all this investment and AI hype. That is where they'll put their money. Whether or not it ends bad or good. The economy has been reshaped around a hope. Either the hope is false and the economy tanks, or the hope is realized and jobs disappear. Lose-lose.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI is making me dumb"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:54:51 +0000

> YMMV but I think if you use the tool as a more expressive Google search it can be a great companion.

I get the most mileage out of this as well. It's the middle ground option. Everyone's either saying AI is useless, or saying how it's so good that writing code is an obsolete task already. Personally, I'm learning a ton with AI as a research tool, and implementing my code by hand with that knowledge. It also naturally solves the "you can't review 20,000 lines of code a day to even properly understand that it's correct" problem as a side effect too. But I am still building things much faster.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI is making me dumb"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:46:36 +0000

> I am glad that we are finally moving towards a world where we can utilize code as a tool rather than constantly trying to think how to make it into a product.

Maybe that's just you. Code as a tool rather than just a product has always existed.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI is making me dumb"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:43:23 +0000

> Bigger than any other tool, for any other price.

For as long as the investor money runway has asphalt left.

New comment by seanw444 in "New Nginx Exploit"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:44 +0000

Can often also be noticeably more performant.

New comment by seanw444 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

seanw444 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:09:29 +0000

> LLMs are currently being used to solve simple problems, instead of important ones

Which is still cool. I just wish people were more honest about this.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

seanw444 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:16:45 +0000

First

New comment by seanw444 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

seanw444 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:13:46 +0000

The tin foil hatters are always told they're making slippery slope fallacies until they're proven right a few years later. Over and over again.

New comment by seanw444 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

seanw444 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:45:03 +0000

Two more weeks!

New comment by seanw444 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

seanw444 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:39:41 +0000

"I don't trust this giant statistical model to generate correct code, so to fix it, I'm going to have this giant statistical model generate more code to confirm that the other code it generated is correct."

I swear I'm living through mass hysteria.

New comment by seanw444 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

seanw444 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:33:23 +0000

I seriously don't see how version control and LLMs are comparable. A deterministic way to track code changes over time, versus an essentially non-deterministic statistical code generator that might get you what you want, and might do it in a reasonable time frame, and that might not land you in a minefield of short-term-good/long-term-bad design points.

New comment by seanw444 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

seanw444 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:46:36 +0000

I don't know anything about his son, but hopefully "don't screw up your father's legacy" is a core tenet for him. That news gives me slight hope.

New comment by seanw444 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

seanw444 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:19:49 +0000

Gabe better be immortal.