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New comment by yks in "India's surprise baby bust"

yks — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:23:02 +0000

> the deliberately child free people I know all veer on the “soyboy” type of person

If you were to actually know parents at your local area daycare centers/schools, it'd quickly become evident that the "masculine"/"feminine" types are a definite minority.

New comment by yks in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

yks — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:20:42 +0000

> won't even be at Dell 18 months from now as they chase the next step in their career

* as they get laid off

New comment by yks in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

yks — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:40:51 +0000

would oboe be more effective then, albeit harder to will-power yourself into mastering?

New comment by yks in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

yks — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:54:32 +0000

I recommend reading essays from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090321. Tangentially related to your question.

TLDR is that it’s a job that can pay enough to keep one housed, and sometimes there are no alternatives.

I’d redirect the outrage away from the grunts denying care, and towards the leadership that set up those incentives. And even further, when the shareholders demand more profit because the line must go up, what to do?

New comment by yks in "GitHub is sinking"

yks — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:00:41 +0000

Got me thinking, if 99% of code pushed to GH is generated by Claude, GH just becomes a free Claude distillation service. Gotta ban it on natsec grounds obviously.

New comment by yks in "Agent Skills"

yks — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:31:08 +0000

The problem is it’s so rarely A/B tested, definitely not at scale. An engineer, who writes all these my-workflow-but-for-agents skills, proceeds to get the good outcome, while also seeing affirmations that the agent did follow the prescribed processes - that is considered a victory. In reality the outcome could’ve been just as good if they fed Claude a spec + acceptance criteria, or even a basic prompt for the simpler tasks.

New comment by yks in "3.4M Solar Panels"

yks — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:59:06 +0000

I know this narrative is very popular these days cause it allows to frame voting against one’s interests as some sort of justified rebellious act, but let’s not forget that the opposition to renewables is a decades in the making, paid for, “opinion-shaping” operation (uncharitably, brainwashing)

New comment by yks in "Why Japan has such good railways"

yks — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:31:22 +0000

You’d think so, but in fact it’s almost the opposite! You can own your land all you want but your neighbor has a final say on what’s allowed on your land.

New comment by yks in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

yks — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:21:49 +0000

> managing a swarm of idiot savant chatbots with "OK, that looks good" or "no, do it better" commands.

That’s what the management class thinks of software development process anyway, LLMs are just more idiotic and more savant than swes

New comment by yks in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

yks — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:39:45 +0000

Tangentially related, but how does one protect themselves against the bank account/brokerage being hacked? Can you print out a proof of funds/securities owned to take to court to be made whole?

New comment by yks in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

yks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:55:16 +0000

> the DOJ can't turn around and charge you with a crime, if they advised you beforehand it was not a crime

this sounds like the kind of rules we, as a society, decided to dispense with, so the DOJ can absolutely turn around.

New comment by yks in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

yks — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:54:46 +0000

But that documentation itself is likely AI-generated

New comment by yks in "Marketing for Founders"

yks — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:50:08 +0000

X is not Y — it’s Z.

Because: - A: … - B: …

New comment by yks in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

yks — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:55:17 +0000

With JD Vance things will go even worse

New comment by yks in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

yks — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:38:28 +0000

> it's the first agent that many people who usually avoid AI simply LOVE.

Not arguing with your other points, but I can't imagine "people who usually avoid AI" going through the motions to host OpenClaw.

New comment by yks in "DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'"

yks — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:48:45 +0000

> My guess is you couldn't get a roomful of experts to agree on what "DEI" means

let's not pretend that anyone involved cares one bit

New comment by yks in "I’m joining OpenAI"

yks — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:41:40 +0000

It's how Steve Yegge became a "father of agentic orchestration" or something - there is some Canonical Universe Building exercise somewhere on twitter that just looks, for the lack of a better word, not rigorous. But good for all these people, I guess, for riding the hype to glory.

New comment by yks in "What Drives Stock Market Returns? (2018)"

yks — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:11:13 +0000

What does "contraction of circulating currency" look like in the post-cash world?

New comment by yks in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

yks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:25:43 +0000

Agree, langchain was useless then and completely irrelevant now, but the idea that we need to orchestrate different LLM loops is extremely obvious.

New comment by yks in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

yks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:35:56 +0000

Seriously, I thought that was what langchain was for back in 2023.