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

stoneforger — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:22:08 +0000

Who is this helping? What is creative about using their dog as a lava lamp?

New comment by stoneforger in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

stoneforger — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:34:22 +0000

The answer.

New comment by stoneforger in "Micron Is Spending $200B to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck"

stoneforger — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:16:26 +0000

Old matress

New comment by stoneforger in "Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts"

stoneforger — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:10:48 +0000

Adding more complexity to uncover issues caused by complexity defeats the purpose but I guess people need to sell shovels.

New comment by stoneforger in "Assistant to the Regional Manager"

stoneforger — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:06:54 +0000

Well they used the money to buy a house in New York so it wasn't 15000 , because that's not a down payment for a New York house/ apt, even in the 90s.

New comment by stoneforger in "Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990"

stoneforger — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:53:27 +0000

Of the games you mention it's civilization that's kind of hard to replay for me. RR tycoon had fewer, worse, iterations. All Xcom games are super replayable with the exception of Xcom 3. Colonization is super replayable and it's only reiteration based on Civ 4 is not worth it.

New comment by stoneforger in ""Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name"

stoneforger — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:44:42 +0000

Hey man people either get it or they don't. We're doomed.

New comment by stoneforger in "Something Big Is Happening"

stoneforger — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:51:55 +0000

Because if we engineered these to work, then we'd be out of a job because the problems would be solved and we could not sell the same service or software 1000 times.

New comment by stoneforger in "The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs"

stoneforger — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:01:01 +0000

Everything in a society is a manifestation of politics, it's the cybernetics of society.

New comment by stoneforger in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

stoneforger — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:49:23 +0000

You don't get how this works. You buy in AWS because everyone else is , so it's expected. It diffuses risk to your stock options. This also begets a whole generation of people who can only use cloud services so now you are more hard pressed to find people with experience to run things without the cloud. You also create a bigger expenses sheet so it shows you're investing and growing, attracting more investors. "We pay 10 mil in AWS , we're that big". It's classic perverse incentives feeding into a monoculture.

New comment by stoneforger in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

stoneforger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:28:31 +0000

Yeah it's called wealth transfer and the vast majority is on the wrong end.

New comment by stoneforger in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

stoneforger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:23:37 +0000

Amen to that.

New comment by stoneforger in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

stoneforger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:12:53 +0000

Sounds like a false dichotomy. NASA got all these different subcontractors to feed, in all these different states and they explicitly gutted MOL and dynasoar and all the air force projects that needed weird orbits and reentry trajectories so the space shuttle became a huge compromise. Perverse incentives and all that. It's not state organizations per se but rather non-profits that need to have a clear goal that creates capabilities, tools and utilities that act as multipliers for everyone. A pretty big cooperative. Like, I dunno , what societies are supposed to exist for.

New comment by stoneforger in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

stoneforger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:06:03 +0000

You would need a new sense of self and a life free of fear, raising children where they can truly be anything they like and teach their own kids how to find meaning in a life lived well. "Best I can do is treefiddy" though..

New comment by stoneforger in "The Abstraction Rises"

stoneforger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:43:15 +0000

Bro it's fine everyone's doing it get to the program. We all just need to use multiple agents with memory and skills and orchestrate them, connect them to ticketing systems with workload federation and let them create lambdas to push artifacts from a CI that has audit logs and snyk scanning, let them spin up a few kubernetes clusters per commit, then write the test suites with headless chrome and simulated agents that run A/B testing with multiple backups, regional HA, SSO, vertical and horizontal autoscaling, otel agents that rewrite what they collect based on other agentic processes that also run via lambdas that monitor datadog and splunk and sentry, automated PRs and red teaming. If you don't think about all of that even when you sleep do you even care about the customer?

New comment by stoneforger in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

stoneforger — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:08:50 +0000

Yes but every time the "why" is obscured perhaps not completely because there's no finished overview or because the original reason cannot be derived any longer from the current state of affairs. Its like the movie memento: you're trying to piece together a story from fragments that seem incoherent.

New comment by stoneforger in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

stoneforger — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:06:26 +0000

Excellent point. The intention of business is profit, how it arrives there is considered incidental. Any product no matter what, as long as it sells. Compounding effects in computing, the internet and miniaturisation, have enabled large profit margins that further compound these effects. They think of this as a machine that can keep on printing more money and subsuming more and more as software and computers are pervasive.

New comment by stoneforger in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

stoneforger — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:02:11 +0000

You do need to be able to understand nonstick coating is unhealthy and not magic. You do need to understand your options for pan frying for not sticking are a film of water or an ice cube if you don't want to add an oil into the mix. Then it really depends what you are cooking on how sticky it will be and what the end product will look like. That's why there are people that can't fry an egg, people that cook, chefs, and Michelin chefs. Because nuance matters, it's just that the domain where each person wants to apply it is different. I dont care about nuance in hockey picks but probably some people do. But some domains should concern everyone.

New comment by stoneforger in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

stoneforger — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:54:57 +0000

Nah bro it makes them productive. Get with the program. Amazing . Fantastic. Of course it resonates with idiots because they can't think beyond the vicinity of their own greed. We are doomed , noone gives two cents. Idiocracy is here and it's not Costco.

New comment by stoneforger in "Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?"

stoneforger — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:07:15 +0000

It's a cult, these people really just want to believe everything is better because of unhinged capitalism, not despite it.