Hacker News: sotix

New comment by sotix in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

sotix — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:22:25 +0000

How are you finding KDE Linux's performance? I'm really excited for its progress!

New comment by sotix in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

sotix — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:43:08 +0000

My Playdate survival game, Plight of the Wizard[0], which uses the crank for aiming spells. I've had a ton of fun doing performance improvements, and now I'm implementing an upgrade system.

[0]: https://sotix.itch.io/plight-of-the-wizard/devlog/1517881/v0...

New comment by sotix in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

sotix — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:07:47 +0000

Interesting. I've talked with engineers at Apple that worked directly on the Siri team who made no such claim and said it largely a cultural issue.

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

sotix — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:07:42 +0000

Build it up in your free time. It's extraordinarily valuable to build up those skills, and I'm not convinced that companies will allow time to slow down and build them.

New comment by sotix in "ChatGPT for Excel"

sotix — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:53:35 +0000

Exactly. My company's add-in is a React app, which can be fun to debug with the limited developer tools in Word/Excel's browser.

New comment by sotix in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

sotix — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:02:56 +0000

> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.

That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems really harmful if Spain wants to have the possibility of individuals with full time jobs developing ideas that can turn into startups that could become unicorns.

New comment by sotix in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

sotix — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:20:20 +0000

My experience has been that the disconnect is between the Bay Area and everywhere else. The engineers at my company are split 50% in the Bay Area and 50% elsewhere. The engineers in the Bay treat it as a borderline religion. They evangelize it, and do not allow any form of criticism. It reminds me of the hippie movement: idealistic and not grounded in reality.

New comment by sotix in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

sotix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:30:31 +0000

This somewhat aligns with the 12 seasons of New York[0].

[0]: https://12seasons.nyc/

New comment by sotix in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

sotix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:46:27 +0000

Vegetables, legumes, nuts, and grains are not expensive, and veganism is a protected class in the UK.

Comprehension Debt – the hidden cost of AI generated code

sotix — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/comprehension-debt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574029

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by sotix in "AI is making junior devs useless"

sotix — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:28:25 +0000

AI has made senior engineers useless to me. I have purposefully asked senior engineers specific questions to get their insight on a matter only to have them tell me, "here's what our internal AI tool said". This has occurred countless times. I find that staff and principal engineers have remained extraordinarily valuable as teachers. Our junior devs have been exceptional and are eager to learn. Our seniors have become lazier and stopped being as generous with their knowledge.

New comment by sotix in "I stopped following the news"

sotix — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:11:46 +0000

If anyone is interested in keeping up with current events in a manner closer to "reading the history" rather than reading the news, check out Wikipedia's Current Events portal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

New comment by sotix in "I stopped following the news"

sotix — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:07:04 +0000

> If one of those 30 is related to politics I don't see the problem. Just don't click on it.

I think it's a fair issue for people trying to avoid triggering news topics. Sometimes the headlines can be really inflammatory. Avoiding them might be feasible for you and me but may be tougher for others. For example, the top post right now is titled, "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants", which is tricky because it is tech related and straddles the line of politics and tech. But I can see how someone might get triggered by reading that. Telling someone, "Just don't click on it", may be akin to telling an alcoholic, "Just don't drink that poured beer" in this case.

It would be nice if you could unsubscribe from certain tags like you can on Tildes. That way, you would have slight control over what you see while allowing others to keep what they want to see.

New comment by sotix in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

sotix — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:48:50 +0000

I'd consider 5'8 and 210lbs morbidly obese. An average male at 5'8 should generally weigh about 150lbs and no more than 164lbs.

New comment by sotix in "There is an AI code review bubble"

sotix — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:43:28 +0000

I follow a consistent comment pattern[0] that makes blocking vs non-blocking easy to identify.

[0]: https://conventionalcomments.org/

New comment by sotix in "Bugs Apple loves"

sotix — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:57:17 +0000

No quite. On iOS, I cannot place the cursor in the middle of a word by putting my finger there. It goes to the beginning or end of the word, and then I have to drag it like an ice cube to the precise spot. On Android you can tap exactly where you want the cursor to go, and it does with perfect precision.

New comment by sotix in "Bugs Apple loves"

sotix — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:24:20 +0000

Yet on Android you can simply tap exactly where you want the cursor to be placed. It's a much superior experience.

New comment by sotix in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

sotix — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:39:59 +0000

> I’ll take a moment to lament the demise of the light duty pickup that provided a bit of extra utility while still fitting in a normal parking space.

Remind me of my favorite article title: In the land of the free, why can’t we have mini-pickup trucks like the Taliban and ISIS?[0]

[0]: https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dion-lefler...

New comment by sotix in "LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick"

sotix — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:05:24 +0000

My hypothesis for why our developers have reduced productivity is that LLM assisted coding has made reviews much more difficult. The words that are written are subtly more complex for a human to understand compared to what our engineers would have previously written themselves. Sort of an uncanny valley effect.

Couple that with engineers across the board mentioning that they feel like they're losing proficiency in an understanding of the codebase and where things are.

New comment by sotix in "LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick"

sotix — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:52:05 +0000

> The productivity gains I'm seeing right now are unprecedented.

My company just released a year-long productivity chart covering our shift to Claude Code, and overall, developer productivity has plummeted despite the self-reported productivity survey conveying developers felt it had shot through the roof.