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New comment by tofuahdude in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

tofuahdude — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:48 +0000

I was on team dynamic for a long time and have moved to team static.

For any long-lived code base, dynamic piles up invisible problems over time.

It's great for short-lived throwaway stuff, but as soon as you know you'll be maintaining a large code base for a long time, the "easier" part of dynamic actually becomes harder than just spelling stuff out.

It's obviously a trade-off and not everyone agrees, but that's my personal experience having run large eng teams for both types.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Operation: Epic Furious"

tofuahdude — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:48:15 +0000

Anyone finish burning the files yet?

I tried... but it looked like it would take awhile...

New comment by tofuahdude in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

tofuahdude — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:11:48 +0000

Why unjust? Who promised you that the way software is made will stay static?

Our software industry has specialized, for decades, in "rug pulling" / changing / "disrupting" other industries on a massive scale.

I find it pretty ironic when engineers make these statements in that context.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

tofuahdude — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:28:21 +0000

That was a great read, very interesting!

New comment by tofuahdude in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

tofuahdude — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:03:44 +0000

Direct quote from Peter Thiel:

> I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible

New comment by tofuahdude in "There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him"

tofuahdude — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:05:14 +0000

My dad was Woz's RA in the Berkeley dorms. He often tells this story:

One night, dad was on duty, probably smoking pot with his student residents.

The phones all stop working.

So dad goes down to the maintenance closet, opens it up... and sure enough, there's Woz digging around the building's phone wiring. Woz immediately says "I'll fix it, I'll fix it!!".

He was down there installing one of those phreaking devices for free long-distance phone calls for everyone in the dorms.

My dad let him do his thing.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

tofuahdude — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:14:53 +0000

Pretty hilarious write up and interesting frontier research project. I love it.

New comment by tofuahdude in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

tofuahdude — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:25:57 +0000

Same situation over here. Multiple family members only know chatgpt / think that chatgpt knows them and have never heard of the competitors.

New comment by tofuahdude in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

tofuahdude — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:30:22 +0000

> it’s clear that Labubus are on the downswing

On the other hand, they've only recently penetrated my greater social circle, so I'm not so certain as this author that the trend has ended.

New comment by tofuahdude in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

tofuahdude — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:17:56 +0000

FFMPEG, at no cost to Google, provided a core piece of their infrastructure for multiple multi-billion dollar product lines.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Our efforts, in part, define us"

tofuahdude — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:20:59 +0000

I really like the way you said we emit meaning.

It is kind of funny, that we seek meaning and/or purpose in everything - our lives, our actions, our thoughts - but there is a nice change in perspective in considering it as something that we produce rather than find.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

tofuahdude — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:55:24 +0000

Anthropic literally stated yesterday that they suffered degraded model performance over the last month due to bugs:

https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c

Suggesting people are "out of their mind" is not really appropriate on this forum, especially so in this circumstance.

New comment by tofuahdude in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

tofuahdude — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:33:37 +0000

Grafana log search does this if change the currently-applied log filter, and then they charge you for search volume!

I've had to adjust my UX usage so that I don't get billed for every character I type, rather than the string I'm looking for.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Find Your People"

tofuahdude — Sat, 24 May 2025 16:34:43 +0000

I've worked with many people who directly stated that they went to grad school because they "didn't know what else to do". As well as several who couldn't get a job, so they went back to school.

It definitely isn't always for the love of academics.

New comment by tofuahdude in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"

tofuahdude — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:14:42 +0000

No, instead, they had two annoying CEOs who grandstanded their own egos.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?"

tofuahdude — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:28:52 +0000

Top notch monday morning rant!

New comment by tofuahdude in "Bitcoin is over $100k"

tofuahdude — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:36:34 +0000

I'm curious what you'll "blame" the next 50% price increase on.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Bitcoin is over $100k"

tofuahdude — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:25:49 +0000

If I sell a bitcoin on Coinbase, Kraken, or any of the other highly regulated exchanges, I am sure as shit getting USD and not USDT, which does not exist on the bitcoin chain.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

tofuahdude — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:27:09 +0000

Sounds like you were on a scam, fake version of the channel.

New comment by tofuahdude in "Life, death, and retirement"

tofuahdude — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:36:41 +0000

Don't accept that premise!