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New comment by seattle_spring in "Grok Bot"

seattle_spring — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:47:54 +0000

Yeah I'm a bit baffled too... the world is so, so much worse now because of AI.

More scams/spam, lower quality software everywhere, development is no longer fun, many interactions with coworkers are just "have my people talk to your people" behind the scenes, except it's "have my LLM read the huge document your LLM generated". Every business is trying to cut corners by using AI, so customer service sucks, products suck, prices are optimized to be the absolute maximum people will pay regardless of the actual value being provided (including food)...

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?"

seattle_spring — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:37:20 +0000

I've resorted to adding instructions like, "do not insert any comments unless they will be exceptionally useful in clarifying blocks of code for future developers."

Adding it to AGENTS.md seems to do nothing.

New comment by seattle_spring in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

seattle_spring — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:40:37 +0000

Bundled with a revived Streets of SimCity please and thank you

New comment by seattle_spring in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

seattle_spring — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:49:02 +0000

Right but once your traditional IRA is fully rolled over to a 401k, you can take full advantage of backdoor Roth IRA contributions regardless of income.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Severance"

seattle_spring — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:35:33 +0000

> Most programming jobs are remote. What's the alternative, exactly?

Maybe in 2021...

New comment by seattle_spring in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

seattle_spring — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:33:25 +0000

Frequency therapies and inflammation reduction activities for ... curing HIV?

New comment by seattle_spring in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

seattle_spring — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:28:21 +0000

Which treatments specifically are you referring to?

New comment by seattle_spring in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

seattle_spring — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:06:46 +0000

Anyone else notice that the things certain people claim to be "not allowed to say" are somehow wedged into every single thread, post, or forum on the internet? If you were actually forbidden from saying it, then I wouldn't have to read it 20 times a day.

New comment by seattle_spring in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

seattle_spring — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:29:39 +0000

I know at least one of those only uses Oracle for internal/HR "cloud" purposes, while their main customer-facing business is on AWS. Not sure about the others, but when I think of a business using "Oracle cloud" I don't interpret it as just their marketing/HR.

New comment by seattle_spring in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

seattle_spring — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:47:37 +0000

They're spending $10 million USD per engineer on LLMs?

New comment by seattle_spring in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

seattle_spring — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:38:42 +0000

The "and" is very important here. Places like Seattle now mandate servers get a real wage. It inexplicably hasn't changed tip culture at all, so now they get regular wages and still complain when someone doesn't tip 20%+ for a takeout order.

New comment by seattle_spring in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

seattle_spring — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:02:22 +0000

> Garbage

It's not just garbage — it's AI slop garbage.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: How Do You "Not Write Any Code by Hand" with a Token Budget?"

seattle_spring — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:09:06 +0000

> "you shouldn't be writing code by hand"

That sounds unbelievably moronic as a firm mandate. Are companies actually mandating this?

New comment by seattle_spring in "Great Salt Lake Tracker"

seattle_spring — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:41:27 +0000

Friend of a friend went to an ICP show at Saltair... Dressed like a traditional clown (think Bozo the Clown)

https://www.slugmag.com/community/mike-brown-the-icp-show/

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?"

seattle_spring — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:20:54 +0000

Or an unrelated half-naked thirst trap beach selfie. You know, to "drive engagement."

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?"

seattle_spring — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:27:13 +0000

I just went to check-- I have 6 first-degree connections with the phrase "thought leader" in their title. This out of about 800 connections, all of which are people I've met in-person. Some real-world examples:

* "Independent Thought Leader and Consultant"

* "Strategy, Innovation, and Distruptive Technology thought leader in the Hyperscale/Cloud business"

* "AI Thought Leader + Founder at .ai"

* "C++ expert and agile process thought leader"

When expanded to 2nd degree connections, I get more than 10 pages of results when searching for the phrase "Thought Leader" (in quotes, so it's not a fuzzy search phrase).

Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?

seattle_spring — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:23:03 +0000

My LinkedIn feed is absolutely unreal right now. 90% (I don't even think I'm exaggerating) of the posts in my feed are from connections who have changed their title to something like "AI Thought Leader | AI Native | Thought Coaching". They post *daily* about something LLM/agentic. The biggest problem is that it's never "hey check out this cool thing", it's "if you're not doing this, you're a dinosaur who will be left in the past."

Other common content is regurgitating blog / Twitter folks from "AI influencers", associated with statements like, "Boris McAI said software engineering is dead. Here's 5 reasons why he's right."

I felt this way a bit when cryptocurrency was at its height, but it never got this embarrassing or self-fellating. How do so many of my connections (more than 800 at this point) have literally zero shame? Hell it's not even first-degree connections.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765450

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New comment by seattle_spring in "Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine"

seattle_spring — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:44:16 +0000

If done properly, autocomplete w/ Typescript and string literals should work just fine.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account"

seattle_spring — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:09:57 +0000

> used a bot to replace all posts with random sentences

not so pertinent to your main point, but I've got to say: This is absolutely ruining Reddit, and I sure hope they prevent this from happening sometime soon.

Nothing worse than finally finding the answer some some esoteric question, seeing a thread of "wow, that works perfectly, you're a Godsend!", and then getting to the answer itself and finding something like "Urban walrus clover ocean speaker carpet [this comment has been removed by SomeTool]".

New comment by seattle_spring in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

seattle_spring — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:04:31 +0000

How about when compared to income potential?