Hacker News: w29UiIm2Xz

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

w29UiIm2Xz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:27:01 +0000

If AI replaces labor, that's a trillion dollars of labor. About one-fifteenth of annual labor/wage earnings.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

w29UiIm2Xz — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:52:05 +0000

The bottleneck wasn't the coding, but previously it had the second order effect of slowing product development decisions enough to improve product cohesion.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

w29UiIm2Xz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:59:51 +0000

I'm not sure if I'd want to code without an LLM anymore. That said, there will always be open models.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

w29UiIm2Xz — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:47:59 +0000

I encountered many a web service that do not use HTTP verbs correctly.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings"

w29UiIm2Xz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:45:46 +0000

A simpler solution to this would be to introduce new ETF tickers for changed rules. It's a breaking change -- version it.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

w29UiIm2Xz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:28:31 +0000

What's the adage, it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage"

w29UiIm2Xz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:10:04 +0000

The upper middle class' opinions and reflections on business seem to be shifting in this environment. It seems less mutually beneficial than it used to be.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

w29UiIm2Xz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:52:38 +0000

To be fair, the vibes (at the time) were that Microsoft has changed. Probably, in some way, a zero-interest rate phenomena.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "AI is slowing down"

w29UiIm2Xz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:49:14 +0000

It's disappointing that this article got mindshare when a more neutral author could better argue the bearish case for AI valuations. I want the steelman argument from a more respected individual.

The problem is when untrusted authors take positions, then it circulates widely, then people discredit the author and by proxy the position, when the position could be correct.

The article has a number of emotional appeals in it. Something more focused on raw numbers would foster more curious discussion.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "AI is slowing down"

w29UiIm2Xz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:28:39 +0000

Productivity is defined revenue per worker hour. And we know worker hours are going down as there are fewer workers with the layoffs.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

w29UiIm2Xz — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:04:22 +0000

Those people could've traded up. And plenty of people in the trades have done that. But now, it is not obvious what 'trading up' in this situation is. There was optionality: upskill and increase your compensation. Now, there may be no opportunity to upskill. And that is a meaningfully different environment.

The other aspect to this is many of us spent our pre-LLM days writing basic CRUD apps for a living (and many of us still do so) -- we didn't meaningfully contribute to the rise of LLM technology. Very little of anything I did was in the public domain for training.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

w29UiIm2Xz — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:51:35 +0000

No technology will have me "excited" if the prospect is lower/no compensation and poorer working conditions. I concur on the nuance -- I use it as a tool at work. I see value in it. I see business value in it displacing me, even if that's not the maximally correct position because some higher up did some numeric calculations. The first prompt I got a decent reply to was a thrill. Then the thinking of the second-order effects kicked in.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

w29UiIm2Xz — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:03:54 +0000

Nobody who trades their labor for income would legitimately trust simply getting money for existing because we created such surplus. What happens if the checks stop rolling? It is undesirable to be that dependent on the state, in an environment where faith in institutions has declined. To give up labor is to give up any leverage one possibly has in our system.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

w29UiIm2Xz — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:24:06 +0000

If only the AI era was born in ZIRP.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

w29UiIm2Xz — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09:40 +0000

The power wasn't there in the first place if the administration couldn't defend Hormuz. It's all the same capital and resources that prior administrations had. The actual blunder was exposing that weakness to the world. We could have done nothing and reputation would've carried the idea that we could.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

w29UiIm2Xz — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:56:04 +0000

Trash night (early morning) is once a week in my area. You can use the ear plugs strategically.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Cursor 3"

w29UiIm2Xz — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:24:18 +0000

As a Cursor user who hasn't tried Claude Code yet, am I missing anything? I seem (sometimes) exceptionally productive in it and it's working for me. To my understanding, Claude Code is all terminal, but something like an IDE seems like the better interface to me: I want to see the file system, etc. It seems Cursor doesn't have the mindshare relative to Claude in public discussion spaces.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase"

w29UiIm2Xz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:08:23 +0000

Shouldn't all of this be implicit from the codebase? Why do I have to write a file telling it these things?

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"

w29UiIm2Xz — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:17:27 +0000

Some sort of service that sat on top of bookings would have its own set of terms and conditions that you agree to, which would at least disincentivize them from acting against your interest.

New comment by w29UiIm2Xz in "No Instagram, no privacy"

w29UiIm2Xz — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:27:13 +0000

It's both things. Being an adult means not being overly bothered if you weren't invited, and it's also very adult to prevent the situation where the uninvited friend doesn't find out, out of concern for their feelings. Both are simply approaching it from different ends.