Hacker News: tediousgraffit1

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "The dead economy theory"

tediousgraffit1 — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:14:04 +0000

> at a fraction of the cost of human workers.

herein lies the rub

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:11:11 +0000

> I am also dealing with a number of emergencies, including a lockdown at the Minneapolis courthouse because of protest activity, the defiance of several court orders by ICE, and the illegal detention of many detainees by ICE (including, yesterday, a two-year old).[1]

Federal district judges in mpls are releasing dozens of illegally detained individuals per day. You may not be hearing about it, but it is absolutely happening. Your not hearing about is part of the problem.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca8.113...

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "I know you didn't write this"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:25:55 +0000

> It used to be that a well-written document was a proof-of-work that the author thought things through (or at least spent some time thinking about it).

I think you hit the nail on the head here. The problem isn't so much that people can do bad work faster than ever now, its that we can no longer rely on the same heuristics for quickly assessing a given piece of work. I dont have a great answer. But I do still think it has something to do with trust and how we build relationships with each other.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "I know you didn't write this"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:24:55 +0000

This is a trust issue. If someone I trust hands me a big pr, I focus on the important details. If someone i dont trust hands me a big pr, i just reject it and ask them to break the problem down further. I dont waste my time on this kind of thing, regardless of whether it was hand written or generated.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "I know you didn't write this"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:19:34 +0000

Nowhere in here does it indicate that the generated plan was wrong or broken. I dont care if you use ai to write. I care if you write well. If the author trusted the other person, then it shouldn't matter. If the author didn't trust the other person, then they'd have to validate their output anyway. Granted the tech allows people I dont trust to generate a lot more bs, a lot faster. But i just reject and move on with my life in that case. I am no ai booster but a lot people are expressing distaste for tools when they should be expressing distaste for fools.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:10:25 +0000

I guess this is more broad than like code triage and sites like that? Hard to tell cause I dont want to sign up to see what's in it.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:05:30 +0000

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis"

tediousgraffit1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:55:34 +0000

I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibilit

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

tediousgraffit1 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:42:21 +0000

ok but how does it work though? Is this seriously just passing the titles to some llm with a prompt like 'roast this'? is it reading the actual content of the link as well?

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

tediousgraffit1 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:03:06 +0000

By that logic, we should ban lettuce[1] next

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/e-coli-outbreak-trac...

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents"

tediousgraffit1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:06:43 +0000

lol, if the primary outcome is better documentation...i'll take it

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils"

tediousgraffit1 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:16:26 +0000

Yeah, this is a good blog article and a great pitch for this service. There was a discussion yesterday about where to look for the next github...

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"

tediousgraffit1 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:00:06 +0000

> You’re not rejecting a bad engineer, you’re rejecting someone who doesn’t perform well while being watched.

a related thing here is that I've long believed that remote work positively impacted my career for precisely this reason.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"

tediousgraffit1 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:56:03 +0000

I'm curious how you would respond to the folks who are concerned that asking people to 'just do the work' in an interview are asking for unpaid labor, and that's unfair?

(post made me lol, thanks)

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos"

tediousgraffit1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:01:43 +0000

Because we can still do things computers can't and that's interesting

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

tediousgraffit1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:42:06 +0000

this is the key idea right here. LLMs are not replacing good coders, they're electric yak shavers that we should all learn how to use. The value add is real, and incremental, not revolutionary.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing"

tediousgraffit1 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:01:33 +0000

I really like this, this is the perfect size project for exploring a new piece of tech. I especially like that you implemented an actual cli and not just tests.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "What to Do"

tediousgraffit1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:39:30 +0000

This. No one, not even the very wicked, get up in the morning and think 'Im going to go make some old, bad stuff, because I'd like to decrease the amount of The Good in the world.' This article reads like the height of narcissistic navel-gazing, with absolutely zero nontrivial insight.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "What to Do"

tediousgraffit1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:33:51 +0000

That just pushes the question off a step; a chair fit for sitting isn't fit for sleeping, etc. Fitness assumes a purpose.

New comment by tediousgraffit1 in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

tediousgraffit1 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:36:41 +0000

I believe musk to be a fool and this reinforces that belief. It should not have taken him 3 years to realize that the value of Twitter was the hot and cold running stream of conversational data.