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Is it just me, or is this article arguing against a straw-man? Isn't the real argument that " writing code is not the hard part"? As in, reading and understanding is the hard part.…

I've been maintaining homelab servers for two decades, used all kinds of IaC approaches etc. Switched to NixOS a few years ago, and I can't overstate the amount of peace it has bro…

I'm constantly thinking about that Microsoft guy who posted something like "we want 1 million LoC per engineer per month", which basically read as satire to most engineers I talked…

I dunno, I find it extremely unbelievable that we will get self-improving AGI which chooses to become a slave to humanity at all, ultra rich or otherwise.

Glorifying this type of abuse needs to be called out. Every human gets only ~16 waking hours a day to live their lives, it is absolutely immoral to sign a contract to pay somebody …

I'm honestly not convinced that it isn't just LLMs going in circles with each other

Realistically I am starting to think China would be more responsible with it than the US.

Has anybody else noticed a pretty significant shift in sentiment when discussing Claude/Codex with other engineers since even just a few months ago? Specifically because of the sec…

I've been arguing that it's POSSIBLE to get a small (but meaningful) uplift in productivity on average if you are careful with how you use LLMs, but at the same time, it's also ext…

The point is that you can’t just serve tokens without also training the next models. It’s an inseparable part of your costs, so naturally you can’t be profitable unless the price y…

I'm really curious what you consider to be the obvious health reasons - it's far from obvious for me.

I am pretty convinced that for most types of day to day work, any perceived improvements from the latest Claude models for example were total placebo. In blind tests and with norma…

Maybe I'm misreading it, but I don't see him saying it's just the cost of *inference* alone (which is the strawman that the article in the OP is arguing against). He says: > this c…

Surely that can't be true? The expectation would be that people pay $200 a month for building open source and personal hobby software with Claude?

If it remains just a token-predictor that can’t evolve, then I am not worried about it replacing humans.

I’m not worried about job loss as a result of being replaced by AI, because if we get AI that is actually better than humans - which I imagine must be AGI - then I don’t see why th…

The US does not benefit from a stronger, more unified Europe. Thanks to NATO, "the west" has effectively become an empire in all but name, with the US having enough influence to be…

The question posed sounds like "why should we have deterministic behavior if we can have non-deterministic behavior instead?" Am I wrong to think that the answer is obvious? I mean…

I hate submitting any kind of form on any website from my phone, because I can't open dev tools and see if there were any errors in the response which were invisible in the UI.

I've always found it ridiculous that Sony is allowed to sell their consoles and games in my county without allowing me to create a PSN account. They even sell the digital PS5, whic…

That's interesting. My feeling is that things became MORE explicit with hooks, not less, so I'm quite confused still. > What you're probably thinking is "it's faster to write a TOD…

I've seen this criticism several times on HN, but have never been able to relate to it. I've been using hooks since they were introduced, in several teams (at several different com…

I always mentally autocorrect "unlimited PTO" to "there is a limit to PTO, but we won't tell you what it is!"