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New comment by spelunker in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

spelunker — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:26:13 +0000

Crypto and the Metaverse were solutions in search of a problem. LLMs kind of felt like that until tooling arrived that enabled doing a lot more than copying + pasting chat conversations.

Sure, maybe crypto changed some lives, but an entire industry? I think ALL of software dev is going under a transformation and I think we're past the point of "wait it out" IMO.

Or I'm wrong, but right I'm being paid to develop a new skill professionally. Maybe the skill ends up not being useful - ok, back to writing code the old way then.

New comment by spelunker in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

spelunker — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:50:48 +0000

Like everything generated by LLMs though, it is built on the shoulders of giants - what will happen to software if no one is creating new programming languages anymore? Does that matter?

New comment by spelunker in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

spelunker — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:51:04 +0000

This is definitely a "known problem". At my company we call it "promotion-driven development". The promotion guidelines call out that knowing when _not_ to build something is important, but how do you put that in a body of work? "Decided not to build A". Nobody cares.

New comment by spelunker in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

spelunker — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:01:14 +0000

I've been trying out vibe coding with my 4 year-old, but they quickly lose interest once we start getting into the "weeds" of implementation. Hey kiddo, which CSS library should we use for your web game?

New comment by spelunker in "Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other"

spelunker — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:00:38 +0000

This is neat! What kind of steering or context did you provide to the LLMs? Super basic like "You are playing a card game called Magic: The Gathering", or more complex?

New comment by spelunker in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

spelunker — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:07:56 +0000

How Butlerian of you.

New comment by spelunker in "Runjak.codes: An adversarial coding test"

spelunker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:22:20 +0000

What was the actual intended goal of the malicious code? Or maybe that wasn't the point. I had no idea .vscode/tasks.json was a thing.

New comment by spelunker in "How I fell in love with Erlang"

spelunker — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:50:56 +0000

Pattern matching and function guards sold me. I'll never look back, you can take patterns out of my COLD DEAD HANDS!

New comment by spelunker in "Let's write a macro in Rust"

spelunker — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:45:18 +0000

It became distracting after the first two or three spelling errors, agreed.

New comment by spelunker in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

spelunker — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:35:32 +0000

This is also good advice for personal projects - want to ship stuff? Just do what works, nobody cares!

New comment by spelunker in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

spelunker — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:47:39 +0000

Ah yes - nobody is doing REST correctly. My favorite form of bikeshedding.

New comment by spelunker in "CU Randomness Beacon"

spelunker — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:50:38 +0000

The source of their randomness is interesting, as someone not well-versed in physics: https://random.colorado.edu/concepts/traceable-randomness

New comment by spelunker in "Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver"

spelunker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:56:11 +0000

Yeah, turns out I should have read TFA:

>The short summary of the Sudoku + Poetry post is that unlike Rust or JavaScript, a single Python project cannot use more than one version of a specific Python package.

New comment by spelunker in "Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver"

spelunker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:39:22 +0000

Ok, now do npm!

New comment by spelunker in "Getting ready to issue IP address certificates"

spelunker — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:51:31 +0000

But my EC2 instance is public! Ok not "local" per se, but definitely could be part of development work.

New comment by spelunker in "Getting ready to issue IP address certificates"

spelunker — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:41:48 +0000

Might be nice for local/development environment work. Test HTTPS without needing to set up `my-dev-env.staging.service.com` or whatever.

New comment by spelunker in "Alpha Centauri"

spelunker — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:39:01 +0000

One of my favorite games of all time. Like others have said, the quotes/videos/etc presented during secret projects or research breakthroughs left quite a mark on my young mind.

That and the X-COM: UFO Defense opening cinematic lol

New comment by spelunker in "I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected"

spelunker — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:38:10 +0000

New Belgium "Juice Force IPA", I'm looking at you!

New comment by spelunker in "Getting Past Procrastination"

spelunker — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:25:49 +0000

Honestly, medication.

New comment by spelunker in "Why I wrote the BEAM book"

spelunker — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:41:18 +0000

I mean in the blog post the author literally open sourced and then self-published his book after being dropped by multiple publishers for taking too long.