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New comment by thunfischtoast in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:57:59 +0000

A capable developer will at some point become a capable people manager :)

New comment by thunfischtoast in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:54:10 +0000

That has been my experience as well. One-shot time and budget estimates are always ridiculously off.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:12:53 +0000

My biggest concern isn't actually that my job can be automated (it can), but rather that the persons who need me stop valueing being right, and start valueing >being told< that they are right by an AI.

I feel my main purpose isn't that I can technically do something my clients can't, but that I know how to interpret their needs and find the solutions that fit for them.

Now they just query some AI which spits out >some< solution and they won't know that they are wrong until it can't even be tracked back to their AI.

This will result in "but the computer said" excuses all over the place.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:42:00 +0000

Reminds me of the old "I made this" meme

New comment by thunfischtoast in "GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:16:04 +0000

I think Gemini could be a great product, if they didn't decide to stuff it down my throat at every possible occasion.

Recent example: on my e-reader, tapping a word I don't now and clicking "Translate" pulls up the possible translations from a dictionary, a local file just a couple of megabytes big, near instantly, on this tiny processor.

Doing the same on my Android phone starts a Gemini-chat with the prompt "Translate the word x into y". Takes forever, internet access needed, results vary, burns who knows who much energy.

Why? Just why?

New comment by thunfischtoast in "I said no and Apple said yes"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:30:10 +0000

This hostile behavior has unfortunately grown over the years. Notice how often you cannot really unsubscribe from newsletters, because clicking the small link in the email will only unsubscribe you from 1 of 25 "topics" or whatever and they will gladly re-define the "topics" every 6 months and re-enable them all.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "How to Write with an LLM"

thunfischtoast — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:42:33 +0000

I think it's good advice. I find it a bit funny the author said to not use a single word coming out of the LLM, but they probably did just that because I never heard a human being say "load-bearing" before but now it's all over the place, also used here. Or I don't get the irony.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

thunfischtoast — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:58:04 +0000

I recently tried out the multiplayer with two friends and must say, while I like the games vibe, the multiplayer is deeply disappointing. You don't really play together, you just happen to be roughly in the same area at the same time. Nothing is shared really, every quest you need to do for yourself, and the sync is broken to the point where two players standing next to each other have completely different weather and see different enemies. If they fixed that I would come back, but I don't really feel like doing everything by myself.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:00:07 +0000

Which modern TV has good software? Seems like pretty much all TVs today come with horrible software. I'd very much like the option to only have a basic OS on there that's actually snappy like my old TVs used to be and not need to load its menu from the internet every time I start it.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

thunfischtoast — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:35:50 +0000

Sounds like something a DeepSeek V4 Pro bot would say

New comment by thunfischtoast in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:07:10 +0000

They still need to choose when to do that though. When I prompt the program to e.g. alter a bash script in a specific way or to recite a longer known text it can't go round and randomly exchange tokens. It has to somehow define what is a simple repeated text from a different origin and what is a novel generation.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:22:25 +0000

I've caught Fable discovering the ip to a production server in documentation and attempting to connect there on its own to run commands without explicitly being prompted to. It didn't work because I was watching it live and and also the key was password protected, but yeah, I do see some danger.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:51:20 +0000

Because those islands feel special and rare to me, and using the tight land for a sport that takes a lot of space and fresh water and is open only to a minority feels like waste.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:49:05 +0000

If it suits you, good for you. I said often, not all of it, of course.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:36:39 +0000

I think, without knowing, that art often is similar to the hobby programming communities the thread leads with: the end result is interesting not by itself, but through the process that made it. We have feelings about art pieces because we feel with and through the artist. Can't do that with silicon. The Mona Lisa, even if the end result were exactly the same, would be dead boring had it been produced by the hand of a machine. My take

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:09:57 +0000

Somehow it disturbs me that we have access to a far-away, tropical island and use the very limited space there for not just one, but eight golf courses

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:51:57 +0000

Still a small plattform for groups of gamers to share their library with each other and suggest and vote on games for a game night. I'm planning on a group finder feature where you can publicly search for others to play with you, currently it's more angled at existing groups.

https://game-pick.eu

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:25:31 +0000

Haven't tried it yet, but I think we need something in that direction. The terminal "Read file: xyz" mentions are not really followable. It would be nice to easily see where the LLM is taking info from.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:04:54 +0000

What I would find lovely is to connect my already existing Thunderbird profile that exists locally. I have 5 email accounts connected and there is no real need to sync them twice on the same machine.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:26:44 +0000

Matchmaking is a real problem in most games because of smurfing.