Hacker News: vor_

New comment by vor_ in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

vor_ — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:55:37 +0000

If a human was hallucinating and polluting a codebase with errors, they would be fired and possibly treated for dementia. Even worse, an LLM is trained to produce plausible-looking results, so it's harder to detect the mistakes.

New comment by vor_ in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

vor_ — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:46:51 +0000

> 3 years max. Maybe 5 if you are lucky.The models will continue to improve. The exponential gains in compute efficiency that have been ongoing for 70+ years will continue and that will result in even smarter models. There are dramatic hardware changes in the pipeline.

I remember hearing that 10 years ago about self-driving.

New comment by vor_ in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

vor_ — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:41:47 +0000

> most code changes are AI generated

That's a huge claim.

New comment by vor_ in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

vor_ — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:45:41 +0000

In 7 days?

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

vor_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:50:45 +0000

> LLMs are so frequently inaccurate its crazy to think of it fully replacing search.

It's baffling that people have become so devoted to them as a source of information given how inaccurate they are. I've learned not to trust anything they say, ever, especially when it comes to technical subjects.

New comment by vor_ in "Native all the way, until you need text"

vor_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:50:49 +0000

They're saying that if you try to step outside the box or achieve a complex design, SwiftUI falls short, which is also my experience with the framework after using it for many years, especially on macOS.

New comment by vor_ in "Native all the way, until you need text"

vor_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:44:20 +0000

> Claims like "It's hard to build a performant SwiftUI app" get into skill-issue territory

I don't know why SwiftUI evangelists are still doing this in 2026. How many examples of SwiftUI's poor performance have to be demonstrated over the years? Even basic things like List continue to lag behind NSTableView in the most recent releases.

New comment by vor_ in "Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts"

vor_ — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:04:16 +0000

60% is a normal human mistake rate? You can't be serious.

New comment by vor_ in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

vor_ — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:58:54 +0000

> what do you actually want?

I want to be able to right-click on an app and choose "Open" to run the program with an authentication dialog. You used to be able to do this, but Apple removed it in favor of an incredibly annoying process of having to go into System Settings every time.

New comment by vor_ in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

vor_ — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:46:29 +0000

Unfortunately, Linux is nowhere near ready for the desktop outside of the techies/programmers who read Hacker News.

New comment by vor_ in "Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan"

vor_ — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:19:15 +0000

Surveillance states and mass media manipulation are a staple of sci-fi. Those topics were particularly common around that time too. E.g., The Matrix.

New comment by vor_ in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

vor_ — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:20:49 +0000

That's certainly a claim.

New comment by vor_ in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

vor_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:16 +0000

One of the amusing things about AI bros is how naively over-enthusiastic they are about the technology and its inevitability.

New comment by vor_ in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

vor_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:57:50 +0000

> No. AI is a must for software development. It's non-negotiable.

???

New comment by vor_ in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

vor_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:48:26 +0000

Because it's funny that The Onion will be taking over InfoWars.

New comment by vor_ in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

vor_ — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:54:23 +0000

> When DJT talked about cancelling the Dept of Edu, I got ahold of all the teachers I knew and asked them what impact it would have, and their response was mostly that they would lose their school lunch benefits.

Not the most convincing sample size.

New comment by vor_ in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

vor_ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:54:14 +0000

Sounds like a great way to avoid alcohol addiction, prevent drunk driving deaths, and save countless generations from being negatively impacted in one way or another by alcohol.

New comment by vor_ in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

vor_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:57:49 +0000

Using a client-server model for single-player allows it to lean on that system for replaying state changes.

New comment by vor_ in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

vor_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:54:11 +0000

> But it's also been anti-Javascript, anti-cloud, anti-social-media, anti-crypto, anti-React, and so on.

It was never any of these things, and you're misremembering if you think it was. There's never been a mono-opinion held by some all-encompassing hivemind.

New comment by vor_ in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

vor_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:49:04 +0000

You've been complaining about Hacker News for years.