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Always fun to wake up (ok; I didn't wake up, I got off a 10 hour flight) to see my work on the front page of hn. I'll be doing a retrospective in a few weeks when the dust has settled, as well as new tools I've been made aware of.
I thoroughly enjoyed the post, one of the few lengthier blog posts I read start-to-finish. Seems like ZeroPath might be worth looking into if the price is reasonable
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Same. I think there are two types of devs. Those that love designing the individual building blocks and those that wanna stack the blocks together to make something new. At this point AI is best at the first thing and less good at the second. I like stacking blocks together. If I build a beautiful UI I don't enjoy writing the individual css code for every button but rather composing the big picture. Not saying either…
The thing is, i love doing both. But there’s an actual rush of enjoyment when I finally figure one of the tenets of a system. It’s like solving a puzzle for me. After that, it’s all became routine work as easy as drinking water. You explain the problem and I can quicly find the solution. Using AI at this point would be like herding cats. I already know what code to write, having a handful being suggested is distracti…
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I keep irritating people with this observation but this was the status quo ante before AI, and at least an AI slop report shows clear intent; you can ban those submitters without even a glance at anything else they send.
The current scale of poor reports was absolutely not the status quo before AI
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No you can't. You can only pay to transfer them to someone else on top of their own. It's fundamentally different from how a machine or some code makes a task actually go away or at least become smaller.
There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so on. All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent (and sometimes a greater than 99 percent) savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually. You still have to move the objects they operate on around within your house but tha…
Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff because the act of cleaning is extremely fun and creative to a lot of people: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De... being a great example
Actually I do NOT want my robot to do my laundry for me! And because I'm garbage at painting and comparatively better at laundry, I DO want it to paint for me.
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No you can't. You can only pay to transfer them to someone else on top of their own. It's fundamentally different from how a machine or some code makes a task actually go away or at least become smaller.
There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so on. All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent (and sometimes a greater than 99 percent) savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually. You still have to move the objects they operate on around within your house but tha…
Lol, nope.
Dishwashers solve at best some 50% of the hassle that are the easy to wash table dishes, while being completely unable to clean oven ones. Floor cleaners solve a 5 minutes task in a couple-of-days-long house upkeep. Coffee makers... don't really automate anything, why did you list them here? And there's no automation available for heating and cooling food. And the part about drilling and turning screws also isn't automation at all.
The only thing on your list that is close to solved is clothes cleaning. And there's the entire ironing thing that is incredibly resistant to solving. But yeah, that puts it way beyond 90% solved.
This is exactly what I'd want from an 'AI coding companion'. Don't write or fix the code for me (thanks but I can manage that on my own with much less hassle), but instead tell me which places in the code look suspicious and where I need to have a closer look. When I ask Claude to find bugs in my 20kloc C library it more or less just splits the file(s) into smaller chunks and greps for specific code patterns and in t…
GPT 5 has been disappointing with thinking and without.
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I had a conversation in a chat room yesterday about AI-assisted math tutoring where a skeptic said that the ability of GPT5 to effortlessly solve quotient differentials or partial fraction decomposition or rational inequalities wasn't indicative of LLM improvements, but rather just represented the LLMs driving CAS tools and thus didn't count. As a math student, I can't possibly care less about that distinction; eithe…
I don't care if it counts as true LLM brilliance or not. If it doesn't matter if it's AI or not, just that they're good tools, why even advertise the AI keyword all over it? Just say "best in class security analysis toolset". It's proprietary anyway, you can't know how much of it is actually AI (unless you reproduce its results, which is the core argument you missed here).
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There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so on. All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent (and sometimes a greater than 99 percent) savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually. You still have to move the objects they operate on around within your house but tha…
As someone who played the roomba game quite a bit - you transfer the problem of vacuuming to the problem of very frequent robot cleaning. I've saved more time switching to a high powered central vac than I ever did with constantly cleaning the robot because I had the audacity to own a fluffy dog. Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff becaus…
Washer dryer combos are good too. Folding laundry is biggest pain of my life so far. Also unloading dishwasher, but fix is easy here - get double one.
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> Creativity is fun. AIs automate that away. I've been developing with LLMs on my side for months/about a year now, and feels like it's allowing me to be more creative, not less. But I'm not doing any "vibe-coding", maybe that's why? The creative parts (for me) is coming up with the actual design of the software, and how it all fits together, what it should do and how, and I get to do that more than ever now.
Same. I think there are two types of devs. Those that love designing the individual building blocks and those that wanna stack the blocks together to make something new. At this point AI is best at the first thing and less good at the second. I like stacking blocks together. If I build a beautiful UI I don't enjoy writing the individual css code for every button but rather composing the big picture. Not saying either…
You can't successfully build the big picture on the sort of rotten foundation that AI produces though
I don't care how much you enjoy assembling building blocks over building the low level stuff, if you offload part of the building onto AI you're building garbage