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Thank you. 100% of the cases where some headline makes big claims about "AI" based on some study, you take a good hard look at the study and none of the big claims stand on their o…

I'm truly amazed by what is happening right now. Software is a knowledge business. Teams and orgs compete on their capacity to learn, express and operationalize knowledge. Yet ever…

Bingo. All the clamor for more speed is driving erosion in the biggest asset class for most of the companies adopting these "accelerant tools": knowledge. Everybody cargo culting w…

If the new way and speed of working makes you deploy things that you then become the bottleneck on the organizational knowledge of, and now the organization is running things in pr…

Hey man we all have our own skill levels and challenges and do all sorts of different work. I don't want to shit on what you've done but you're coming in WAY too hot for how trivia…

There is a lot of space between broken and high quality that won't necessitate any business letting people "learn" on the job.

Everybody? Need? Obvious answer is no. Some people, teams and orgs can benefit from it. "I don't need it" is missing the point. "Not everybody needs it" is missing the same point f…

You demonstrate well the problem: yes anything that is computable can be than in any computation system. That's not what discussions about tooling are about. If a tool can help enf…

Good point, developing oneself and acquiring skills is often at odds with maximizing one's income. So much of what is debated on HN is people talking past each other from these opp…

Yet precisely that is happening with LLMs generating code for a lot of people who don't really understand what they are submitting chasing clout for competing in the labor market.

A life in tech filled with gratitude and fearlessness seems like a huge achievement in my eyes.

We've had paper and pencil permitting unfettered symbolic representations for centuries. The reason we settled on text is not some accidental bottleneck caused by typewriters. We s…

Excel, visual "programming" lo/no code environments, and Factorio itself are all examples of this fallacy: making it easier to build complex symbolic systems doesn't help people le…

Thank you for this treatment. I agree 100% with you, people for opinions about the name Dijkstra based on silly echoes of polemics that lost much of the irony in their origination.…

Wrong author. Darwin wrote about physiological changes in animal populations over generations. What you're describing is the alienation that the worker is subject to under a legal …

It comes from Pythagoras, not Gnosticism

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-woman-charged-murder-ab... https://www.newsweek.com/texas-gop-meeting-death-penalty-wom... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/preg…

Build more broken stuff seems to be the endgame of "move fast and break things". Like PCC building empty cities, numbers go up I guess. What a world. I want something else entirely…

I said introspect, not talk about introspection.

I'm still not sure what people declaring that they equate human cognition with large language models think they are contributing to the conversation when they do so. Nevermind the …