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What, you don't like hearing about how someone used the new AI to AI an AI in order to bash something together that will never get updates?

I believe it's a response to something posted recently, but I don't know what.

Which was naturally used to train the models.

If you're routing like it's 1999, sure, 404. On the other hand, if it's a CRUD app and you're filtering a list of entities by various field values? Returning that no items matched …

I'm maybe less pessimistic, but I expect in the next decade or two, I'm going to spend a lot of time fixing apps that people who were moderately technical vibe-coded years before. …

> Sometimes when I log into Hacker News, more than half of the posts are about AI. And I don't ever see it under a fifth, anymore. There is a Hell of a marketing push going on, and…

It's not a "reminder" for people who've never been to the site before. Especially not when the icon isn't even visible on some devices, like my phone in portrait.

It's at least a factor in why I value HN commentary so much less than I used to.

My having to prune my subscriptions says otherwise.

And they're always desperately insisting that won't go away and you can't escape it. It stinks a lot of Big Lie techniques.

Illusion. Mirage.

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Also, I want it to do everything that this really cool house I saw does. But, I only want to pay for a day or two of labor in order to accomplish every feature that massive contruc…

On the one hand, I think everyone should try to put together a simple website with a few pages in raw HTML, just to get an idea of how it works. And actual, semantic HTML is not te…

> But let’s substi­tute a different phrase: “learn to cook”. People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat b…

Looking forward to a brief rush of editorial cartoon-level works doing absolutely nothing not already covered by parody or fair use. Maybe a bad horror or porn movie. Then nothing,…

I still support a few sites and continue to update one large app written in it.

If you take it as "life on land", it's accurate on both counts. Those are some old mountains.

Also the royal "we".

Really, book covers were getting terrible by the late 90s and early Aughts. I remember the especially cringeworthy period where a few female Asian-American writers got semi-autobio…

I think the fading, if I paused to think about anything, would make me lose track of what I'd already written.

Really, I always assumed that of a lot of their articles.