Hacker News: trwhite

New comment by trwhite in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

trwhite — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:28:15 +0000

The DevOps team at my company wants to hire a replacement for a very talented engineer. They’ve been interviewing candidates. The board got wind of it and someone not in their team decided they needed an AI Engineer, which is absolutely not what they want. So to release the funds they have been forced to change the job description and go after a different type of role altogether. It’s complete nonsense.

New comment by trwhite in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

trwhite — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:17:42 +0000

https://archive.ph/oqVDm

New comment by trwhite in "Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb"

trwhite — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:48:46 +0000

https://archive.ph/IKojW

New comment by trwhite in "Let's talk about LLMs"

trwhite — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:25:16 +0000

A well researched and written piece

No Smoking Gun

trwhite — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:43:56 +0000

Article URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/no-smoking-gun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001855

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Tell HN: I think my colleagues are just piping my replies into an LLM

trwhite — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:51:36 +0000

Recently my company issued Cursor licenses to everyone. We are about 100 people.

Last week my manager asked for comments on a spike (that he hadn't yet worked on). I put some real thought into it; perhaps an hour and a half of my own time. When he shared the outcome of his investigation it was very clearly LLM generated (subheadings, a clear, concise style he doesn't usually write in) but each point seemed to address only each of the concerns I'd raised in my comment. There was nothing else.

Then again today, I read some feedback on a comment I'd made on an MR. The response was not in a writing style I have come to expect of this person.

I'm somewhat convinced my colleagues are just copy-pasting my comments into Cursor and having it generate their responses.

It feels so incredibly lazy and dishonest... They were hired on the expectation that they'd do their own work. Now I just get these terribly manufactured, worthless answers. Someone has done the absolute bare minimum; they haven't even engaged with it in a remotely critical way, and I can't help but feel it devalues our profession.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688912

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by trwhite in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

trwhite — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:28:16 +0000

When is it correct to use “tonnes” or “tons”?

New comment by trwhite in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

trwhite — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:09:09 +0000

@dang What’s Hacker News’ official stance on this?

New comment by trwhite in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

trwhite — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:05:06 +0000

I’m reading that paragraph now and fail to see anything about a relationship with huggingface or the user responsible for copying the data.

New comment by trwhite in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

trwhite — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:57:03 +0000

Hello. I didn’t consent to any of my HN comments being used in this way. Please kindly remove them.

New comment by trwhite in "Writing code is cheap now"

trwhite — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:10:13 +0000

When did we ever measure the value of code by quantity, not quality? The author is misguided.

New comment by trwhite in "The Human Root of Trust – public domain framework for agent accountability"

trwhite — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:46:54 +0000

Care to elaborate? Your comment is unhelpful and unkind.

New comment by trwhite in "Raising money fucked me up"

trwhite — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:38:07 +0000

> It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it.

It’s much more impressive to say you have done something than to say you’re going to do it.

A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do, then gives up on. I wait a few months before telling people I’m doing something so I’m fairly confident it’s something I will carry on.

Ask HN: Why do you think the web of the noughties was better than it is now?

trwhite — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:49:56 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633302

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by trwhite in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

trwhite — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:57:28 +0000

http://notoriousbfg.com

New comment by trwhite in "A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go"

trwhite — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:26:30 +0000

I’ve been writing Go for nearly 4 years and work on a team with senior Go engineers. Concurrency is the language feature people seem to talk about most when talking about Go, and yet we use it so rarely; usually it’s just a second pass optimisation rather than something thought about from the start.

New comment by trwhite in "Always bet on text (2014)"

trwhite — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:11:16 +0000

Sadly this post can’t be saved to Readwise because it triggers the captcha check

Despite opposition, UK government intends to move forward with Digital ID scheme

trwhite — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?v=2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45460213

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by trwhite in "Quicksort explained IKEA-style"

trwhite — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:04:17 +0000

> Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.

Please can someone explain what’s meant by “bad worse-case runtime”?

New comment by trwhite in "Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker"

trwhite — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:42:53 +0000

Do you think he'd have felt remorse if he wasn't caught?