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New comment by xboxnolifes in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:13:46 +0000

I've done this, and always get subpar results. I cant get the LLM to make the minor tweaks I want to see, and now I have no mental model of the code to make the fix myself. Sometimes they arent minor things.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:33:53 +0000

Careful, you might accidentally improve the user experience of SaaS products.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "My old job feels distant now"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:21:51 +0000

Each existing software solution having 10,000 clones is not the same as software being saturated. There are still unsolved problems.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:29:53 +0000

Both of those examples come mostly from innovative technology, not economics of sscale. 10TB drives today are literally completely different things than 10TB drives from 20 years ago.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:17:00 +0000

> And human developers are also non-deterministic. There is always the nondeterminism even before AI.

Pointing out humans are not deterministic is irrelevant to the comparison. In the original example of LLMs replacing compilers, the deterministic compiler is being replaced, not the non-deterministic human. In the original example, we move from non-deterministic human -> sourced code -> deterministic compiler, to non-deterministic human -> sourced prompt(?) -> non-deterministic LLM. The important part is the sourced code into a deterministic final step so your build artifact doesn't change.

You can point out you can change temperature to zero or what ever, but then you don't actually get the build artifact you wanted in the first place.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:47:11 +0000

Are you going to register a complaint on every complaint about LLM prose? They aren't going away. Spare the rest of us.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:45:18 +0000

The AI didnt help him write. The AI wrote very annoying prose. Seemingly everyone was completely capable of writing long winded comments, rants, and rambles before AI. They can do it after too just fine.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:42:29 +0000

Everything? No, but governments do have the monopoly on violence. As long as that is true, they bare the primary responsibility of security.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:39:01 +0000

US airbase guards are not private actors, which is their point.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:44:30 +0000

If their hobby was contributing through code and now their contributions are worthless, they have lost a hobby.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:22:17 +0000

Until I need to login to the website on a PC that is not my own.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:37:01 +0000

> You are not too smart to be tricked. Nobody is.

Maybe, but most websites I really dont care if my account gets hacked. I care way more about being able to login conveniently. Im just as frustrated with seemingly every single website wanting 2fa doing a 2fa check every week or less.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "How to engineer an AI harness for game development"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:21:23 +0000

Candy crush is not the first of its genre, yet it is the most successful. What made it stand out from its bejeweled predecessors? Vision. Colors. Positioning. Animations. Smooth movement. Feedback. Tighter gameplay loops. Sense of accomplishment. All of the above

What are choices of vision, colors, positioning, feedback animation, sounds, etc, if not the exact things you call "employing direct signals and ques from cognition and cognitive neuroscience"? The former is the execution of the theory of the latter.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Now that information is free, what's a college campus for?"

xboxnolifes — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:49:21 +0000

15 years is barely 1 generation. Social institutions die slowly.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

xboxnolifes — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:48:24 +0000

You can ban a compound action. We have antitrust laws.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Leaving Tech"

xboxnolifes — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:24:10 +0000

It's not the rejections that are abnormal, but the total response rate. 66% is a very good response rate. My very long job search has a 21% response rate.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:00:27 +0000

It's data-driven decision making. Youtube makes website changes based on data. MrBeast makes video changes based on data.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:26:41 +0000

Not everything is about the economy. Even when you have a market-driven economy I'd say most things that people value aren't even represented by the economy.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:46:48 +0000

Is market value the only important thing?

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:00:08 +0000

They'll be slow to respond to a single house.