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Ask HN: Concerns around knowledge loss from vibe coding?

sudo_bang_bang — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:56:14 +0000

I’ve been spending the day playing with Claude 3.7 trying the vibe coding approach and I’ve been able to build some complex audio synthesis one off applications.

I have no understanding how any of it works. That sparked a lot of fear in me, not so much of job loss but knowledge loss.

As these models improve I’m worried we are going to build larger systems we do not understand. It’s hard enough as it is to read code written by humans, but I worry this will be exacerbated by these ever improving models.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43226332

Points: 8

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New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web"

sudo_bang_bang — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:51:41 +0000

Can I run WebVM inside WebVM?

Shirky Principle (2010)

sudo_bang_bang — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:08:08 +0000

Article URL: https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471065

Points: 2

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New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question"

sudo_bang_bang — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:56:47 +0000

He graduated with a mathematics degree from Harvard so the concept of binary search would have likely been familiar to him. But you’re right, as far as I can tell, he never did any technical work like programming in his career.

New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach"

sudo_bang_bang — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:17:05 +0000

It’s both a username and a password

Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy

sudo_bang_bang — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40523572

Points: 2

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New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Libyear"

sudo_bang_bang — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:56:56 +0000

Very rarely do I so vehemently disagree with a particular argument in software. This idea epitomizes much of what is wrong in the industry.

We can all agree security updates are essential, but a lot of libraries are “done” from a functional perspective for a majority of their existing use cases.

Yes updates can be needed because interfaces break between other programs, standards evolve in backward incompatible ways, performance improvements can be made, etc. But much of the updates I see are changes for the sake of changes.

You could use a 5 year old version of React for example, and modulo some set of security fixes if any, you could have a robust application.

Sometimes software is just done. We are better off for accepting that idea. Get us off the update hamster wheel and stop the enshittification.

New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Ask HN: What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?"

sudo_bang_bang — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:38:17 +0000

I changed my mind about what constitutes a fulfilling life for me. I realized that I personally could not live a life consisting solely of devotion to work and consumption of luxury goods. I started a family and have two wonderful children.

I still believe that investing in work is necessary and rewarding, and indulgences are a somewhat important part of life, but those alone are all kind of meaningless for me in the end. It’s the endless chase of another dragon.

With my children, I feel a greater sense of joy and accomplishment when I watch them grow. I’ve had higher highs raising kids than I ever did finding the next excursion I could go on or the hottest new company to work for.

Wicked Bible

sudo_bang_bang — Wed, 03 May 2023 01:52:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35796753

Points: 3

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Semi-Controversial Predictions for 2023

sudo_bang_bang — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 14:36:06 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/austin_rief/status/1607735083863244802

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148998

Points: 1

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New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Evaluating front end frameworks and not choosing any"

sudo_bang_bang — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:34:26 +0000

The Lindy Effect is real.

New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate"

sudo_bang_bang — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:20:37 +0000

Important to note that real income per capita isn’t actually flat, only household income but that’s likely because of household size changes.

See here for disposable real income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0

Bootleggers and Baptists

sudo_bang_bang — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:13:12 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25224778

Points: 7

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House Panel to Recommend Breakup of Tech Giants

sudo_bang_bang — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:03:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-05/house-panel-to-recommend-breakup-of-tech-giants-republican-says

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24693482

Points: 5

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New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

sudo_bang_bang — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 01:49:16 +0000

Safe:

* Recession will happen that will affect the global economy causing at least a 30% decrease in major world stock indexes.

* China will stumble in a major recession but the Communist Party will maintain power.

* Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft will still be the biggest tech companies by market cap.

* A new company that hasn’t been started yet will be in the top 10 tech companies by market cap.

* The duopoly of cloud computing services will be AWS and Google Cloud. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies will use one or the other.

* Big Tech will not be broken up because of their large value decline during recession, with focus being diverted to prop economy back up.

Bold:

* Breakthrough battery technology will make electric vehicles better for consumers than than their fossil fuel counterparts.

* The breakthrough battery tech will allow a very affordable manned mission to Mars.

* Solar will be the dominant form of energy creation in the United States.

* HIV vaccine available to nearly all healthy adults.

* Netflix will be bought by Disney.

* DeepFake technology will be used to create an entire feature film by a major studio.

* Donald Trump will win the 2020 presidential election despite being unsuccessfully tried during impeachment.

* In the United States, majority of people will eat synthetic meat over animal-based meat.

* San Francisco Bay Area will not be globally in the top 10 areas of funding for new technology startups.

Crazy:

* A state in the United States will successfully secede.

* Glaciation will increase in parts of the world with their albedo effect predicted to offset most of the temperature increase from man-made climate change.

* Major disease epidemic will kill at least 20 million people. Will not be noticed at first but will rapidly kill after long incubation.

* Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be achieved, accidentally.

* Despite AGI, self-driving cars will not be the majority of vehicles on the road.

Atari AI: As Seen in the Latest Silicon Valley Episode

sudo_bang_bang — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 03:36:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Stitchpunk/atari-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11811909

Points: 1

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New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "Asana Engineering Interview Guide"

sudo_bang_bang — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:30:46 +0000

I tried interviewing with Asana and they rejected me on the basis that I didn't have a computer science degree. For the record, I've built apps that have generated millions in revenue and I have many years of experience. If they are trying to be meritocratic and community friendly with this, they should change that aspect of their culture to reflect that.

New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives"

sudo_bang_bang — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:13:11 +0000

There's also a great Freakonomics podcast about this story http://freakonomics.com/podcast/make-me-a-match-a-new-freako...

New comment by sudo_bang_bang in "React/JavaScript fatigue"

sudo_bang_bang — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:12:59 +0000

Build tools are partly necessary because of how many old crusty browsers hang around out there. I mean, I still work on an app that has to support IE8. That's just ridiculous. As it is, ES6/ES7 imports make a lot of the issues of JS inclusion a thing of the past, but the build tools are necessary for packing these together and transpiling down to ES5, to support older browsers. The other tools you see in the React ecosystem do take time to learn for sure. The whole React/Flux paradigm takes a while but once you get it there's not many surprises. I do feel the fatigue though just as the author does. There's a million ways to do what the browsers should just do natively already. In a few years we hopefully won't have to worry about this anymore.

Ask HN: What are the interest rate increase effects on VC?

sudo_bang_bang — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 03:24:00 +0000

If the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, what will the effect be for startups trying to raise money?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735703

Points: 2

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