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New comment by witx in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

witx — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:03:26 +0000

It's a good thing we're ruining the climate so that we can also erode job quality and social interactions.

I can only hope aerospace and medical industries are raising strict constraints against this slop otherwise I fear for the future. Eroding engineering AND communication? Thats a good formula for success

New comment by witx in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

witx — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:57:49 +0000

It's at this point you have zero empathy for someone and just shame them personally and report to some higher up.

I can (very marginally) understand running the argument over an LLM if you've difficulties communicating in the language, but never copy paste

New comment by witx in "Leave Me Behind"

witx — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:43:50 +0000

I'm on the same boat I'd rather be left behind than play this stupid game.

It's specially hurtful to see open source developers and projects using and supporting the tools of companies which blatantly stole their work - and now profit from it - and that are actively against the open source ideals (Anthropic when trying to close github repos with their code)

I've stopped all my monetary support for open source projects, and moved all my code to a self hosted instance.

I'm not against AI tools I see where they can be useful, I'm just morally opposed to and disgusted of the ways these companies work.

New comment by witx in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

witx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:15:34 +0000

> These checks are part of how we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping,

Do you guys see the irony here?

New comment by witx in "Having Kids (2019)"

witx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:47:00 +0000

What a sad and egotistical thing to say.

New comment by witx in "Please do not A/B test my workflow"

witx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:21:37 +0000

That ship has sailed. These models were trained unethically on stollen data, they pollute tremendously and are causing a bubble that is hurting people.

"Responsible" and "Ethic" are faaar gone.

New comment by witx in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

witx — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:51:37 +0000

Good someone is taking a stance against slopware

New comment by witx in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

witx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:10:11 +0000

Let me ask Claude

New comment by witx in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

witx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:03:30 +0000

There is plenty of proof on how these models were trained, you're just too enamored with your "more code, move faster" button to care.

That's fine no one's perfect we all look away from some things here and there, me included. But don't throw shade

New comment by witx in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

witx — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:23:37 +0000

It's so bizarre I see everyone happy using llms trained unethically, so they stop doing the only creative and interesting part of the whole SDLC and just become managers

New comment by witx in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

witx — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:34:06 +0000

The astro turfing is strong in this whole thread

I am a London housewife of the industrial times and Claude has re ignited my love for programming. My steam machines are pumping again hapilly

New comment by witx in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

witx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:01:35 +0000

All I see here is a bunch of people cheering for, allegedly, stolen content

New comment by witx in "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]"

witx — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:11:21 +0000

You very conveniently don't mention SpaceX the most well accomplished of his companies (and of any modern space company for that matter) -- I really don't believe SpaceX is as good as it is because of him though...

And no I'm not a fan of the Musk personna.

New comment by witx in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

witx — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:41:48 +0000

From my understanding (I might be wrong) the images are pre-built by the owner of the project right? I remember there being a form you fill and you receive a download link.

If that's the case what guarantees do I have there's no "funny business" on the image?

New comment by witx in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

witx — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:15:05 +0000

A constant is a variable that _always_ has the same value on all lifecycles, e.g.

    const int a{10};

An immutable variable well ... does not

   void some_function(const int a);

Can you tell me what is the value of `a` on both cases?

New comment by witx in "Vibe engineering"

witx — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:44:15 +0000

> vibe coding is just being good at coding

Having someone cook my dinner's ingredients is just (me) being a good cook ...

New comment by witx in "Vibe engineering"

witx — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:42:20 +0000

But it's not engineering ...

New comment by witx in "Vibe engineering"

witx — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:41:25 +0000

> A better term is agentic coding, agentic software engineering, etc. rather than being vibe based.

I prefer slop-coding.

New comment by witx in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

witx — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:24:52 +0000

> So really, good taste is about navigating future uncertainty by laying down foundational elements that protect against the uncertainty so you don't drive off a cliff.

Absolutely! But also be careful not to over-engineer a solution for a situation that never appeared

New comment by witx in "AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents"

witx — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:37:36 +0000

Devs are just being trolled into documenting their code. But because it's AI they are hyping it