<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: skirmish</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skirmish</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 22:21:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=skirmish" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skirmish in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You would think arithmetic should be deterministic, but just days ago I received paper mail from IRS saying my tax software computed federal tax underpayment penalty incorrectly, and they are refunding me > $300.</p>
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<p>Software licenses usually explicitly disclaim all financial damages.  I assume Intuit does too (I don't use Turbotax myself).</p>
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<p>> we can't explain why neurons firing results in us feeling/experiencing the world<p>Feelings/experiences are specific patterns of specific neurons activating.  Why is that hard?</p>
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<p>P-zombies cannot be argued about, if you reject their existence your opponent will call you a p-zombie (happened to Dennett).</p>
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<p>> It’s a subjective experience argument.<p>"Earth is flat" is also a subjective experience argument.  Yet mostly nobody takes it seriously anymore.  I hope "qualia" will be like this soon too.</p>
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<p>At least mammals do show recognizable signs of pain and suffering.  That is good enough for me; I don't know for sure other people can suffer, but I assume they do based on their behavior I see.</p>
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<p>Massive parallel processing.</p>
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<p>> If there's ever to be a "solution" to the dualism/materialism argument, it cannot possibly end in a "slam dunk" where it turns out that one side or the other was simply nonsensical.<p>Huh, evolution vs. creationism, many arguments happened over many years, yet one side was simply nonsensical.<p>> if we ask what "we" know, as a society of scientists and philosophers<p>That is how science is done; if you reject that approach a priori, no wonder your conclusions become unreliable.</p>
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<p>> Why some kinds of information processing and not others?<p>Using Rovelli's example: why some clouds create a thunderstorm and not others?  It is just a complex phenomenon that happens only under right conditions.</p>
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<p>Yes, it was.</p>
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<p>In my first job after graduation in a small company I was talking to the VP of engineering, and he mentioned offhand: "yeah, I wrote Scorch when I was in college".  Mind blown.</p>
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<p>> codebase is so large it’s going to break whatever tools your used to using anyway, no git<p>There is Jujutsu (with Piper backend) officially supported, and that is better than git.  But of course, you will not be grepping the source code, there is code search for that.</p>
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<p>> It can take weeks of work to produce a 500 word product vision document.<p>Don't you get dinged as a slow performer?  Management expects x5 speed on everything now that AI is available.</p>
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<p>> I do get upset when people say "I'll ask claude"<p>The dude is just acting like a manager with a technical employee (agent) who does the hands-on work.  If you are upset about this you should be hopping mad about the whole manager-director-VP-SVP hierarchy above this dude.</p>
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<p>So you just rubber-stamp the lazy work?  What else can you do when this PR is assigned to you specifically for reviewing?</p>
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<p>> non-chat LLM interaction pattern<p>"Deep research" is another interaction style that produces more official sounding texts, yet still leads to anthropomorphization.<p>What you are looking for is perhaps an LLM flaunting all the obvious slop patterns in its responses.  But then people would be disgusted and would refuse to communicate with it.</p>
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<p>> is the product of evolution and thus by definition it has no “purpose”<p>But as most things that appeared in evolution, it perhaps helped at least some individuals until sexual maturity and successful procreation.</p>
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<p>Lots of discussions on HN about it recently [1], [2], I heard of it right here.  It works on git repositories, so it's very easy to try.<p>For me, the killer feature is updating some commit deep inside some feature branch, and all child commits and branches get auto-updated, no more faffing with endless rebases.  Also conflict handling is so much more pleasant than git's.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763759">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763759</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672280">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672280</a></p>
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<p>I am with you on UI updates, just moving things around and re-skinning the UI without useful functionality additions make me mad often.  But then I grind my teeth and bear it.</p>
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<p>You are making it too hard on yourself.  Most people would just paste the ticket URL and type "fix this", then spend the next 3 hours on social media.<p>OTOH, I try hard to provide all possibly relevant context, manually copy/paste logs to reduce context overhead, always ask to produce an implementation plan and review it before making any code changes.  Yet I often feel like a dinosaur here, all coworkers who tout "LLM productivity" just type a few words in and let the agent spin for hours without any guidance.</p>
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