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New comment by throwaway98797 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

throwaway98797 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:05:31 +0000

it’s not that it’s ai generated it’s that it’s bad.

A Good Vimrc (2014)

throwaway98797 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156668

Points: 2

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New comment by throwaway98797 in "Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)"

throwaway98797 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:01:48 +0000

politics, can’t have the government give a dime to the rich directly.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

throwaway98797 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:51:32 +0000

sometimes fraud leads to positive outcomes.

imagine a world where SBF didn’t defraud the crypto world.

in that world anthropic may have not existed.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "The room the economy can't see"

throwaway98797 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:18:44 +0000

i wish i could codify voice.

probably someone has.

i’m not beyond being fooled, but when there’s voice there’s a human.

this is especially true with certain types of awkward phrasings that LLMs love to correct but humans don’t.

one day my internal filter will fail, but not today.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "The room the economy can't see"

throwaway98797 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:42:31 +0000

you are so wrong. this is not ai.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

throwaway98797 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:26:13 +0000

if something’s strategically important for safety it’s wise to have competency in it.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Apple Foundation Models"

throwaway98797 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:49:36 +0000

people use outlook when gmail exists.

employees will always suffer.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

throwaway98797 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:21:52 +0000

some employers may like this wishy washy answers.

personally i find this offensive and would disqualify the candidate.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

throwaway98797 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:38:21 +0000

ain’t no one learning all of that

New comment by throwaway98797 in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

throwaway98797 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:47:08 +0000

no business person will ever want to consider the right tradeoffs without being forced to

the ai making assumptions can’t get it right

New comment by throwaway98797 in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

throwaway98797 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:45:26 +0000

let them launch and fail

it’s the only way they learn

New comment by throwaway98797 in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

throwaway98797 — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:26:31 +0000

yea find this so unproductive

as we grow we change

that is life

lots of things i cared deeply about 10 years ago that i don’t even remember now

i find self loathing a previous version of yourself to be a by product of religious thinking

yes the original sin is that you were born but for now you can enjoy your life do so

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Google changes its search box"

throwaway98797 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:36:26 +0000

no it is not

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

throwaway98797 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:16:07 +0000

profits 3.5x yet stock increased 12x

counterfactuals are hard

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Average is all you need"

throwaway98797 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:59:14 +0000

adding LLMs to the incompetent doesn’t transform them

if anything it makes the world more dangerous

a reckoning is coming

the top decile will be janitors for the rest

New comment by throwaway98797 in "What Being Ripped Off Taught Me"

throwaway98797 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:54:53 +0000

> End clients can’t tell the difference between these bozos and me. I don’t know what to do with that information but it feels bad.

this is only getting worse with ai.

all the artifacts of good work are there but none of the depth.

New comment by throwaway98797 in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

throwaway98797 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:33:42 +0000

pretty degrading to call what they do useless

we all need to do something

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Agent Skills"

throwaway98797 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:56:31 +0000

might be too early to standardize

standards are good but they slow development and experimentation

New comment by throwaway98797 in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

throwaway98797 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:29:28 +0000

if you have to ask the answer is no.

if you are young there’s still hope that you can change your mindset and approach though.

if software can save time and make money than human capital then there will be demand.