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New comment by thawawaycold in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

thawawaycold — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:51:02 +0000

Not OP but for me it comes down to "asking a person" ≠ "asking a device". Besides just to be pedantic one of the thing you've described is not something an llm would be able to do, and for the second one... That's what watches and clocks are for. You don't need to have a datacenter running smwh in the world or a beefy PC to take a glance at the time. If you think you do, I personally wouldn't call others "a little strange" if I were you.

New comment by thawawaycold in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

thawawaycold — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:23:24 +0000

Asinine comments such at these is the reason why we have countries having to sound an alarm in the first place

New comment by thawawaycold in "OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill"

thawawaycold — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:11:59 +0000

Agree. Also what upsets me the most is that to a great extent, all of these antics he pulls out are largely ignored by its userbase, meaning that most of the people using OpenAI products are either ignoring or ignorant altogether of what he truly thinks of them. I'm not advocating for stopping GenAI usage because of this, but considering there are several equivalent competitors out there, it'd be mostly warranted to boycott OpenAI for these exact reason.

Otherwise the message that remains in the eye of these ghouls is that no matter how much you treat the world population as annoying cattle, they'll gobble it up in exchange for restaurant suggestions and rageslop

OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill

thawawaycold — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/x2y.tech/post/3mfeulapemk2d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109535

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by thawawaycold in "Ask HN: Transition away from embedded SWE due to AI?"

thawawaycold — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:47:20 +0000

Yep that's true, on the other hand the trend I've been seeing in the last months is worrying me, in that the company I'm working for and other adjacent ones, the focus is to hand off the development to "managed agents" or whatever, relegating embedded engineers to basically just V&V or QA. The increase in crap code has been duly reported by employees such as me and promptly discarded, considered just FUD by upper management

Ask HN: Transition away from embedded SWE due to AI?

thawawaycold — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:37:19 +0000

Hi all,

as the title suggests, I've been increasingly worried about the current trends in replacing all sorts of SWE with agentic coding, and would like to shield myself (as I'm sure everyone would...) from the upcoming changes in my career field.

I do mainly embedded work, so microcontrollers and -processors with RTOSes and baremetal. I've always been very passionate about this field, so much so that my main hobbies revolve around making PCBs for myself and tinker with new technologies. In the past I've also had positions in which I did mainly 3D design, though that was at a "junior" level, so to speak. Right now I'm considered a halfway senior in my role, both in terms of IC skills and managerial skills, though I'd personally like to learn much more stuff before hailing myself as a senior dev.

I think I'm gonna be replaced in the near future, whether AI can actually perform my job or not, because that's the trend all companies are pursuing; so I wouldn't mind just changing careers, since I could still pursue embedded work in my own free time, though I really wouldn't mind working in something adjacent to that field (hardware/firmware).

What do you personally recommend doing in my position? I realize we're all in the same pot and that I have no right asking guidance to other people that may be struggling even worse than I am, nevertheless if you feel like sharing a suggestion (in any direction) I'll be very thankful for that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523630

Points: 1

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New comment by thawawaycold in "I'm just having fun"

thawawaycold — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:35:45 +0000

oh okay, I shouldn't have judged that so haphazardly. thx for the references

New comment by thawawaycold in "I'm just having fun"

thawawaycold — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:55:58 +0000

imho it was definitely popular before and altman adopted it to fit in with the online crowd

FPGAs Need a New Future

thawawaycold — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:29:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/industry-articles/fpgas-need-a-new-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324269

Points: 235

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New comment by thawawaycold in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

thawawaycold — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:03:30 +0000

he's started making videos way before LLMs were able to aid in researching content. He's just good at doing what he does, no tricks there.

New comment by thawawaycold in "Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses"

thawawaycold — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:11:29 +0000

They just know it's not going to happen

STMicroelectronics official MEMS drivers, written in Rust

thawawaycold — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:24:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/st-mems-rust-drivers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369816

Points: 18

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New comment by thawawaycold in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

thawawaycold — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:07:32 +0000

Not the best counterpoint to the argument IMHO, especially considering there are tens/hundred of thousand of people that do the same as you, and that has only driven rent cost up in the extended Milan metropolitan area, even 30-40 km further away from the city, and with roads that are not nearly capable enough to carry commuters' traffic, it just transforms the underlying issues into massive, daily traffic jams anywhere in the immediate area

New comment by thawawaycold in "Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now"

thawawaycold — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:37:29 +0000

What about EU's CRA?

New comment by thawawaycold in "A Research Preview of Codex"

thawawaycold — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:09:57 +0000

If that someone then takes that work that you're providing for free to other people to build on it, makes a closed source product out of it and gives you no attribution, then you can be darn well sure I want to protect it.

New comment by thawawaycold in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

thawawaycold — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:42:23 +0000

that does not answer at all OP's question.

New comment by thawawaycold in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

thawawaycold — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:35:21 +0000

that is not what OP was talking about though.

New comment by thawawaycold in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

thawawaycold — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:43:46 +0000

I hope you're being sarcastic. SPC is necessary because mechanical parts have physical tolerances and manufacturing processes are affected by unavoidable statistical variations; it is beyond idiotic to be provided with a machine that can execute deterministic, repeatable processes and then throw that all into the gutter for mere convenience, justifying that simply because "the time is ripe for SWE to learn statistics"

New comment by thawawaycold in "Googler... ex-Googler"

thawawaycold — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:56:19 +0000

Nor is sticking your head in the sand.

New comment by thawawaycold in "ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?"

thawawaycold — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:20:05 +0000

not just the members states but also all the other behemoths stakeholders like Airbus, Thales, OHB and so on, which need to make sure that new missions are as easy to adapt to their preexisting flight heritage as possible