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New comment by woeirua in "Goodbye, middle managers. Hello, 'player-coaches' and 'org leads'"

woeirua — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:45:11 +0000

If I was going to bet against anyone it would be Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.

New comment by woeirua in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

woeirua — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:51:13 +0000

Have you tried just asking CC to make a codebase more elegant? It’s surprisingly effective up to a point. No reason to think that won’t work better down the road.

New comment by woeirua in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

woeirua — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:49:10 +0000

No one cares about code quality. No one has ever cared about code quality. It’s only been tolerated in businesses because no one could objectively say that ignoring code quality can result in high velocity. With coding agents, velocity is now extremely high if you get humans out of the way.

New comment by woeirua in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

woeirua — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:46:26 +0000

You can literally do this right now if you want. The masses have spoken, they want CC.

New comment by woeirua in "Reinventing the Pull Request"

woeirua — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:08:39 +0000

There’s an interesting nugget of an idea in this ad. But the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. What I want out of the PR interface is to be able to ask an agent questions and get back supported answers and to be able to easily see the changes live in a system so I can test them. That requires solving a huge problem of iterative deployments but if you could do that the value of stacked PRs would be immense. If someone doesn’t do this then PRs will just be abandoned.

New comment by woeirua in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

woeirua — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:01:35 +0000

Just more evidence that the B tier models are six months behind. Ultimately that’s good. Opus 4.6 level intelligence will be cheap later this year!

New comment by woeirua in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

woeirua — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:11:24 +0000

This gives drones way too much credit. The USN knew that Iran could block the strait of Hormuz back in the 80s. Anti-ship missiles were already effective and plentiful enough to do it then and they’ve only gotten more lethal since. The long term solution here is to build pipelines that eliminate the need to sail up the strait. Why this wasn’t done already is beyond me.

New comment by woeirua in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

woeirua — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:06:02 +0000

This is delusional. Iran has thousands of ASM on the coastline. They need 1 to make it through to take out a tanker. Even the best anti missile systems we have aren’t 99.99% reliable. It was always a losing proposition. Iran has always been able to close the strait.

What I don’t get is why we need to take Kharg island. Can’t we just blockade ships selling Iranian oil?

New comment by woeirua in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:09:33 +0000

The language itself is bad. Even the creator admitted it.

New comment by woeirua in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:09:21 +0000

None of this is true. Pretty much all JavaScript code is slop because the language is god awful. It’s so bad that we spent the last 20 years trying to code around the severe limitations of the language itself. Despite everyone knowing that JS sucks, no one has been able to displace it. Slop wins. Typically because of first mover advantage.

New comment by woeirua in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:05:28 +0000

The most successful software in a field is typically NOT the best software. The authors of the article live in a world that does not exist. Clean code lost, many years ago.

New comment by woeirua in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:27:23 +0000

Exactly. They probably barely knew his name.

New comment by woeirua in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:05:17 +0000

Is a manager “good” if they’re not talking about your career growth? I disagree with the author on this point so the rest of it really doesn’t follow. Then again, he also had 20 managers in 18 years… so yeah I can see why none of his managers ever got around to asking about his career growth.

New comment by woeirua in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:31:54 +0000

Supply chain attacks are so scary that I think most companies are going to use agents to hard fork their own versions of a lot of these core libraries instead. It wasn’t practical before. It’s definitely much more doable today.

New comment by woeirua in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:24:42 +0000

Theres a video of a recent talk Nicolas Carlini gave this past week on Youtube. It’s eye opening. If you don’t believe that LLMs are going to transform the cybersecurity space after watching that I can’t help you.

New comment by woeirua in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

woeirua — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:21:45 +0000

Because not all software gets auto-updated. Most of it does not!

New comment by woeirua in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

woeirua — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:01:22 +0000

Yeah. I think people are deluding themselves as to how capable these models are now.

New comment by woeirua in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

woeirua — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:07:01 +0000

Agents can clearly strip out functionality from libraries already. They can certainly backport patches to whatever parts you strip out.

The advantage of decoupling from supply chain attacks is so large that I expect this to be standard practice as soon as later this year.

New comment by woeirua in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

woeirua — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:56:11 +0000

I’m not so sure… what I see as more likely is that coding agents will just strip parts from open source libraries to build bespoke applications for users. Users will be ecstatic because they get exactly what they want and they don’t have to worry about upstream supply chain attacks. Maintainers get screwed because no one contributes back to the main code base. In the end open source software becomes critical to the ecosystem, but gets none of the credit.

New comment by woeirua in "Observations from carbon dioxide monitoring"

woeirua — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:46:12 +0000

Am I the only person here confused by the line the author draws between high CO2 levels and high transmissibility of viruses. I think they’re confusing correlation for causation here.