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BatFastard

1,876 karma · joined February 22, 2014

Admirer of all things, software developer by choice, electrical engineer by training, maker by nature. Father, cyclist, martial artist, lover of great entertainment. Years ago I could say I had tried just about everything once, sometimes twice. Now I am content to contemplate life in Atlanta.
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BatFastard··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
I found the article very interesting. Not click bait at all.

I didn't realize that an octopuses brain was spread out all over its body.

BatFastard··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
10,000 LOC, hell my LLM can do that in a day!

Current project has over 60,000 LOC, I find using an antagonistic agent code and architecture reviews are really handy for keeping things grounded.

BatFastard··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
next year I PROMISE!
BatFastard··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
I would be interested in see that. I have reems of rules I use with Claude.
BatFastard··on How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
Mostly agree, one small caveat. I always had a class of critical problems. They were rarely the important, but they were critical to things running smoothly.
BatFastard··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
Many are, but some perform for lack of a better word.. magic.

Went to a Orthopedic surgeon, he said my back pain was the cost of walking on two legs.

Then I went to half a dozen cracking Chiropractors, and the were shit.

Finally found one that practiced DNFT (Directional Non Force Therapy), its a close to magic as I have ever seen, but it works wonders. I can sleep, walk, and sit with no pain. Something I never thought I would do again.

BatFastard··on I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
King? I thought it was Lord Trump! His AI generated personality has ruled over the earth for all time.
BatFastard··on Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices
Why don't I hear anyone mentioning "Windfall profits tax" Are oil companies immune from legislation under the current administration?
BatFastard··on The lost civic life of movie rental stores
Is there not a way to flag something as an AI submission?

If NOT we need it! Really needs to happen behind the scenes or this will turn into AI talking to AI.

BatFastard··on The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough
I totally agreed with Rick. A.I is a rabbit hole revealer. And it encourages me to go down them with its "Great Idea" spam.

Edit: Reveler vs Revealer

BatFastard··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
Their CEO needs to tell them to remove the lorum ipsum from the landing page.

"Quis tellus eget adipiscing convallis sit sit eget aliquet quis. Suspendisse eget egestas a elementum pulvinar et feugiat blandit at. In mi viverra elit nunc."

BatFastard··on REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
Pretty sure Slate offer exactly this.
BatFastard··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
I found these hilarious!

I was ROFL over some of the mistakes the AI made. Parts of it was amazing, other parts were amazingly off.

BatFastard··on Grok Build is open source
No need to believe, just look at the facts.
BatFastard··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
I personally find the AI allows me to think at a more abstract level. For me as a maker, this is fabulous! I dont have to worry if I am crossing my T and dotting my i, I get to worry about the overall composition. Which for me at least is mind-blowing!
BatFastard··on The Tower Keeps Rising
Use the force Luke!

I finally learned to let go of the code. I dont even run my C++ editor anymore.

I run frequent code and architectural reviews. Its awesome.

BatFastard··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
I miss OS2
BatFastard··on Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)
Aren't article like this required to say "in mice" somewhere in title?
BatFastard··on GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps
I hear "Honestly" more often from Anthropic than I ever do from all humans.
BatFastard··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
Indeed there are different kinds of learning, which the poster is not aware of.

No booking learning is needed for 4-9 year old's. But learning patience, understanding, empathy are life long pursuits.

BatFastard··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
Love the I {heart} NY in there!
BatFastard··on Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
Anyone know how Signal is responding to this? They ARE E2EE.
BatFastard··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Does anyone here remember owning games on disk?

It was a royal pain in the ass!

You had to inset the disk every time you wanted to play game. The disks got scratched, destroyed, or rearranged by the wife.

Steam has saved me from all of that. Plus I can share my whole library with my family members.

Sure I might lose access to them all when I die, but 20 years from now who is going to care?

BatFastard··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
I love Costco, but I hate that they constantly move shit!
BatFastard··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
As someone who has spent years creating virtual environments, all I can say is "Its turtles all the way down" every detail contains more details.
BatFastard··on Redeploying Fable 5
Yeah! I only knew it for 3 days but I was starting to fall in love!
BatFastard··on Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
That looks like just what I have been looking for. Now time to see how well it works!
BatFastard··on Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
what do you imagine the social network would/could/should become? Obviously what we have is not working for some folks.
BatFastard··on AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers
December for me too, went from hallucinating a lot, to doing really well. I guess it was opus 4.5?
BatFastard··on Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability
Seems like a great opportunity for the "Boring Co" to start specializing in digging underground bunkers for data centers. You KNOW our AI Overlords are going to want it!
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