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New comment by xyzwave in "Is it a bubble?"

xyzwave — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:02:39 +0000

I hate writing code, but love debugging. LLMs have been a godsend for banging out boilerplate and getting things 95% of the way there. Now I spend most of my time on the hard stuff (debugging, refactoring), while building things that would have taken weeks in days. It’s honestly made the act of building software more enjoyable and rewarding.

New comment by xyzwave in "Perl's decline was cultural"

xyzwave — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:03:35 +0000

“Warning: Smartmatch is experimental at foobar.pl line 42.”

If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen this message.

New comment by xyzwave in "One hundred and one rules of effective living"

xyzwave — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:32:19 +0000

Fair critique, we should never lose the spirit of play, but Franklin’s guidance seems very much in line with a quote from Gustave Flaubert I often see echoed:

> Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work

New comment by xyzwave in "Why birds do not fall while sleeping"

xyzwave — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:06:36 +0000

Therefore mutations ensure you don't get stuck there.

New comment by xyzwave in "Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'"

xyzwave — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:35:53 +0000

"You wanna buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?"

https://youtu.be/pLgpUEpaUVs?si=WXciPD8BuEgP5nMe

New comment by xyzwave in "Apple Is Bringing A.I. To Your Personal Life, Like It or Not"

xyzwave — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:29:10 +0000

> Be careful what you outsource. Better a creator than a proofreader, IMO.

Or as authors put it: "write drunk, edit sober".

New comment by xyzwave in "Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]"

xyzwave — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:46:13 +0000

I haven’t watched the video yet, but I was instantly reminded of the Alan J. Perlis quote he and Abelson used for SICP’s dedication:

> I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

New comment by xyzwave in "Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Down?"

xyzwave — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:22:13 +0000

Thanks, strange. This reproduced for a good 30 mins, but no longer does now.

New comment by xyzwave in "Is ChatGPT Down?"

xyzwave — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:42:49 +0000

I butchered the "Ask HN" format by providing a link in this post.

Made an updated submission with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469206

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Down?

xyzwave — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:41:28 +0000

I'm unable to load the ChatGPT web app login page from both my phone and desktop.

Not much in the DOM, just a