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New comment by yakattak in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

yakattak — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:12:34 +0000

I was wondering just yesterday if a model of “why waste time say lot word when few word do trick” would be easier on the tokens. I’ll have to give this a try lol

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

yakattak — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:43:44 +0000

> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.

If you have buggy software, people don’t use it if there are alternatives. They don’t care about the code but hard to maintain, buggy code will eventually translate to users trying other products.

New comment by yakattak in "VR Is Not Dead"

yakattak — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:06:13 +0000

This has been the sentiment for nearly a decade now.

New comment by yakattak in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

yakattak — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:51:15 +0000

Steam works on the top 2 most played games on Steam right now.

The rise of malicious repositories on GitHub

yakattak — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:26:29 +0000

Article URL: https://rushter.com/blog/github-malware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393155

Points: 5

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New comment by yakattak in "AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier"

yakattak — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:18:47 +0000

Anecdotally I have not seen consistency in quality at all.

New comment by yakattak in "Digg is gone again"

yakattak — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:42:29 +0000

I don’t love the original idea because uploading identification is risky. You could just plug AI into a verified account but at least the vector is a single account instead of unbounded.

New comment by yakattak in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

yakattak — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:32:36 +0000

You could pay another $10 (or maybe $15?) to change someone else's avatar.

New comment by yakattak in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

yakattak — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:47:49 +0000

Honestly the $10 barrier to SomethingAwful back in the day (and I guess now since it’s still around) definitely made a huge difference. I hate the idea of subscribing to a site like HN or Reddit… but one time $10 to post? I’d accept that if it meant less bots.

New comment by yakattak in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

yakattak — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:58:52 +0000

They need to add “comprehensive tests” for Claude.

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6

yakattak — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:40:54 +0000

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/kyj825w6vxr8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232167

Points: 2

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New comment by yakattak in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

yakattak — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:35:16 +0000

The individual details, probably not. But the high level/broad strokes I definitely remember 6+ months later.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:05:23 +0000

That’s true. I think it’s more of a problem of getting someone in the door. Anecdotally going to art festivals I’m much more likely to enter the booth of someone who has handcrafted marketing over the person who has generated marketing.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:01:38 +0000

> Advertisements were already actively malicious fantasies to exploit the way our brains react to pictures. They're just fantasies that required whole teams of humans doing weird bullshit with lighting and photoshop, and I'm not sure that's much better.

This is a good point. My gut reaction is “well at least someone was paid to do it and can continue to keep society/the economy going ”.

I can see the other side where that’s a soulless job. Not sure what’s worse. Soulless job where your skills apply or even less jobs in a competitive industry.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:54:03 +0000

I think this is where I see the benefit for small business. I don’t want to speak for you, but I imagine it’s either “no voice over, we can’t afford it.” or “inexpensive AI voice over to make it more accessible and appealing.”

My thought is the large corps that could afford it, still won’t because it’s a cost they don’t need to incur. For them it’s not even a moral conundrum.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:48:54 +0000

Yeah if/when it becomes indistinguishable I think most people won’t care. That being said I do think someone finding out something is AI generated will be met with poor response. Does that ultimately matter? Probably not in a business world.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:47:08 +0000

Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t think that’s what I meant by “at scale” but I can see that being useful day to day.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:46:00 +0000

True! Though I’d argue diagrams as code like PlantUML or Mermaid are better than an image!

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:44:07 +0000

Those industries (computers, robots) created other jobs though. This doesn’t seem to.

New comment by yakattak in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

yakattak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:38:25 +0000

Isn’t that what photographers are for?