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New comment by walt_grata in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

walt_grata — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:15:01 +0000

In ops we call it monitor blindness. Just constant asks get annoying and folks just want to make it stop

New comment by walt_grata in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

walt_grata — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:13:38 +0000

I read it as management only knows how to evaluate and reward change even if its just for the sake of the promotion process

New comment by walt_grata in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

walt_grata — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:22:03 +0000

Sure it does. I still nees to know the correct mathematics to type into the calculator and the calculator is deterministic. If you don't understand it without the llm explaining it, how can you be sure you actually understand it? How can you catch mistakes made due to it being non-deterministic? Ask another llm? Same problem

New comment by walt_grata in "Why write code in 2026"

walt_grata — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:34:29 +0000

We have more code than we need. Proof for me is every "smart" device that worked better before we put a computer in it.

New comment by walt_grata in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

walt_grata — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:04:11 +0000

Blame goes to everyone involved. From the decision makers to the implementors

New comment by walt_grata in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

walt_grata — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:46:27 +0000

What did they actually say about some's kida?

Knocking out someones teeth would necessitate filing charges

New comment by walt_grata in "Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap"

walt_grata — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:32:14 +0000

I write code by hand every day. I do the main part of the feature implementation myself and leave comments for the code i want the agent to write. I have some skills and a command that sets the stage to get the agent to fill in the rest

New comment by walt_grata in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

walt_grata — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:26:37 +0000

Vibes are not evidence, neither is a curated demo. You need actual measured evidence that has an adversarial review to actually prove something without falling to confirmation bias.

New comment by walt_grata in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

walt_grata — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:47:39 +0000

Yep to the point where its easier without the gps.

New comment by walt_grata in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

walt_grata — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:44:22 +0000

Got any sources for those claims that show how broadly adopted ai is in those countries? I lookes at japan and china and could find a few articles, the anime one cites a single anime made with ai and nothing about its reception and similar results for china

New comment by walt_grata in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

walt_grata — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:37:56 +0000

Id say it improved until about 2016, since then the additions have generally made the software worse.

More overlays and popups More needlessly verbose navigation instructions Less predictable routes.

Thats just the start

New comment by walt_grata in "Facebook is cooked"

walt_grata — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:51:44 +0000

They aren't blameless, friends and family only should be the default even if you don't engage much. Why would they default it to a bunch of junk.

New comment by walt_grata in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

walt_grata — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:12:32 +0000

I'd agree but we're closer to getting forced into the chair than making a decision that's right for us

New comment by walt_grata in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

walt_grata — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:19:13 +0000

Yes but able bodied people shouldnt decide to use a wheelchair until their legs attrophy and become useless.

New comment by walt_grata in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

walt_grata — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:41:52 +0000

I've been very happy using cdk for interacting with aws. Much better than terraform and the like.

New comment by walt_grata in "10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?"

walt_grata — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:22:38 +0000

Or how you'll get all your data out and imported into your custom system.

New comment by walt_grata in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

walt_grata — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:14:11 +0000

Just give multiple options in the config file. Give us the current default, what you now call verbose mode and the previous verbose mode. If Claude is as effective as marketing claims then maintaining all 3 options should be trivially doable, we've been doing more complex configuration in tons of apps for decades.

New comment by walt_grata in "Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage"

walt_grata — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:49:28 +0000

Vibe steering and navigating

New comment by walt_grata in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

walt_grata — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:45:54 +0000

I assume all ads are scams. That's easier.

New comment by walt_grata in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

walt_grata — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:38:44 +0000

We could measure it for cocaine and cigarettes couldn't we.