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New comment by zcw100 in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

zcw100 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:22:16 +0000

This is just like when Paypal got started and was basically operating their own bank. Good luck doing that without getting in trouble. This is selling pharmaceutical drugs over the internet. You're playing chicken with going to jail they just happened to get lucky.

New comment by zcw100 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

zcw100 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:55:39 +0000

Why so every armchair reviewer can yell, "Slop!"?

New comment by zcw100 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

zcw100 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:25:55 +0000

I just met a guy from Amazon this past weekend who was bragging, "We've got unlimited access to LLMs and our developers have 10 agents going at a time.". I tried telling him it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows but I didn't get the impression he cared and just kept crapping out skittles.

New comment by zcw100 in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"

zcw100 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:13:32 +0000

They should but they don't and that's the problem.

New comment by zcw100 in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"

zcw100 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:12:05 +0000

I really enjoy Patrick Boyle's reports. Really high information content with very little fluff. I love how he sneaks in the deadpan snarky comment every once in a while.

New comment by zcw100 in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

zcw100 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:44:39 +0000

I replaced all the light switches in my house with smart dimmers and have the lights dim in the evening. It happens in steps so it's noticeable and it's like a clock ticking down. I don't know if there's anything scientific about it but it's pleasant, like the house is going to sleep so maybe I should too.

New comment by zcw100 in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

zcw100 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:50:56 +0000

"I took a look" is the human version of vibe coding.

New comment by zcw100 in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

zcw100 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:59:10 +0000

What does verifying code by hand even mean? Do we now have artisanal testing, lovingly hand crafted? I get the current debate about LLM assisted coding but this is mudslinging and not constructive discussion.

New comment by zcw100 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

zcw100 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:48:57 +0000

I suspect that we are going to see managers say, "Hey, this request is BS. I'm just going to get ChatGPT to do it" while employees say, "Hey, this response is BS, I'm just going to get ChatGPT to do it" and then we'll just have ChatGPT talking to itself. Eventually someone will notice and fire them both.

"What would you say you do here?" --Office Space

New comment by zcw100 in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

zcw100 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:55:11 +0000

I think you'd enjoy reading about the Gervais Principle. It's pretty much what you're talking about.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

New comment by zcw100 in "Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026"

zcw100 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:08:50 +0000

Why have I been seeing people use "enshitification" so much lately? Yes I know where it comes from and what it means. It's like Cory Doctorow is the new Noam Chomsky of IT and enshitification has replaced "manufactured consent".

New comment by zcw100 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

zcw100 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:54:51 +0000

Many technical directions in the past 15 years have been a thinly veiled attempt to actually get paid for doing work.

New comment by zcw100 in "Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next"

zcw100 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:08:16 +0000

Have some faith, if it really is an AI bubble and it pops imagine the deals you're going to get like when Etherium went to PoS.

New comment by zcw100 in "Which programming languages are most token-efficient?"

zcw100 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:27:28 +0000

Working on it too. It's actually more like a meta language that is very token efficient.

New comment by zcw100 in "What happened to WebAssembly"

zcw100 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:40:04 +0000

I'm usually pretty good at explaining new technologies to people but WebAssembly has got to be the most difficult to try and explain. The sheer number of misunderstandings about it is amazing. Luckily the misunderstandings serve my purpose for right now so I'm glad to see all the noise.

New comment by zcw100 in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

zcw100 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:12:21 +0000

No, I meant a General Purpose Language (GPL) or actually this was an application specific language. You don't need to be so pedantic. Yes, the L is for language but the idea of a DSL is not well defined but these remarks reinforce my argument that people are too dogmatic.

New comment by zcw100 in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

zcw100 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:32:18 +0000

I just came across a situation where I had a DSL but it was clear that a language would have been better. What I don't like about this is the dogmatic tone which is pretty common in IT. Don't to it that way, do it my way! Sometimes a DSL is a solid choice, sometimes a language is a better one, sometimes you might want to support both but I guess "Choose the right abstraction for your domain" doesn't make for a clickbait title.

New comment by zcw100 in "Kitchen optimizations"

zcw100 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:59:26 +0000

It does't tell you if it's bad, it only tells you how old it is. You get to decide if you want to eat it. It makes the decision process easier and helps to select the older leftovers that are still good but pushing it on the age.

New comment by zcw100 in "Kitchen optimizations"

zcw100 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:35:59 +0000

I've found the blue tape and a sharpie to be a game changer. It helps me keep my fridge tidy without having to go through everything and guess if it's still ok. I find I actually waste less food when I throw things out regularly because I know that if it's in there it's good to eat and it doesn't get lost among old leftovers that aren't any good anymore anyway.

New comment by zcw100 in "Kitchen optimizations"

zcw100 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:33:04 +0000

Mise en place is ok sometimes but it also generates a lot unnecessary cleaning.