nurettin

I've been using both codex and claude for the past month and if anthropic acted up like that I'd switch fully to codex in a heartbeat.

Looking back, I wonder what really changed over 25 years for the linux ecosystem. We had lots of distros, there were games built for linux (I remember playing the entire Neverwinter nights on debian) there was wine for StarCraft broodwars, x11+compiz for cool accelerated desktop graphics, proprietary Nvidia drivers were always there. Sure, everything was 32bit but it was good enough for desktop, and amd64 was about to pop.

The other day I tried to install fedora 44 on a friend's computer. He wanted kde so we set that up and whoops, no way to start programs on the discrete video card. I hacked around it by starting xorg, setting an alias and environment variables, but it was a bit embarrassing to see that things have regressed.

I'm not going to downplay it. I've been coding since the 80s and using these models since 2023. 10 minutes after using fable I told my colleague this is a new era. It is the difference between sonnet and opus. I didn't think this was possible.

It was over before this announcement. After a couple of days, even though the model was set to fable, it felt like opus. We are back to sticks and stones.

Sometimes it is ok to sit there in confusion and ask the user to clarify rather than go on an adhd fueled rampage to figure it out without asking.

What do you mean by water fasting? Do you avoid drinking water directly, or do you avoid all food? For example salads are basically sacks of water.

I also run a Qwen 3.6 moe A4B on old hardware. I set it up with

numactl --membind=1

so it is constrained to one of the memory sticks which speeds up token generation a little.

Learning some schmuck's framework, IDE, language or OS never felt rewarding to me. It was always like playing with broken toys. Hear me out.

There was always some subtle quirk, a bug that irks me once every so often, something I'd never want to unleash upon masses and although these people made their work available through various channels, paid or unpaid, for some reason I felt more of a grudge than gratitude.

And I tried to fix things I did. It was a breathless, thankless exercise of working through someone else's code line by line for decades while hardly being able to lift my head because of actual work I had to do to support my life. And thus a villain was born.

I am so glad it is over. It is all ingested into neural network weights and high-pressure sprayed to the masses through RNG. I am finally free. I don't have to learn your stupid aws commands, your helm configs, your systemd antics, your http api. I don't have to care about your life times, your gc params. I tell the computer and it clinks and clanks and eventually gets the job done like gene rodenberry intended.

To be fair, nowhere on the frontpage does it say it can build libraries that depend on node. It seems like you are just waiting in the bushes to dis AI assisted coding.

And it was so much better/more stable than Borland C++6! Open/close 15-30 files or mistype a path and borland gave you the good old crash. You had to handle that IDE with extreme care. You'd develop a feeling for its quirks and sometimes it would work for hours without crashing.

I loved react in 2013 when it had the life cycle methods. Everything was deterministic, I knew what caused what where and when. Now every framework is a mess and I'm glad I won't have to learn anyone's crap anymore thanks to random code generators.

---- Before it was:

Me: We need to do this this that.

Claude: <random stuff that approximates human outout>

Me: Are you sure?

Claude: Well actually there is a bug <more random stuff that looks right this time>

----- Now it is:

Me: We need to do this this that.

Claude: <random stuff that approximates human outout>

Claude: Let me consult the advisor on that.

Claude: advisor came up with some advice, adjusting according to that. <more random stuff that looks right this time>

Because every developer asking for permission 3,800 times is exhausting for everyone.

Feels like 7/2025 claude. Nowadays it doesn't do that very often, only when you get it into a happy-go-lucky mode.

The demand for cushy white collar desk jobs (which weren't around 30 years ago) is crashing. Rest of the world, not so much.

There are more points of view than that on HN.

A common one: "I have stopped writing code, the world is going to end"

Another: "I will code by hand, I don't care"

Another: "I use it as a tool, but the hype bothers me so much that I have to bitch and moan from morning to night"

This one is: "I have stopped writing code, it wasn't the end of the world."

Find the best LLM for your local hardware.

lifts mask

It's qwen.

I think anthropic gave ample warnings. I set up periodic backups and I wouldn't hold them accountable because they basically serve good RNG.

I had a trust issue up to opus 4.6

Now I have claude hooked up to a dozen projects I used to maintain manually. It is such a pleasure watch it read the complaint and go to town on small problems without dropping any databases or removing home dirs.

My phone's screen died the same way. Thank god I had adb set up for claude to use.

Rust has bad ergonomics. You will see that "attitude" as long as coding exists, or lifetimes are fixed in a way to allow you to omit them in contexts which are not concurrent or are embarrassingly parallelizable.

It didn't cause a problem in my Commodore 64. ROM4L

It should have been HolyBasic. Mistyping a HolyC indirection in an editor causes the OS to crash.

> This obsession with one liners is inversely proportional to professional experience.

Yes, I see this sentiment on every billboard. It is a sign of mediocrity.

> No one is impressed if you write some meta magic one-liner.

I am very impressed if they can express the entire algorithm succinctly with a one liner. That's the kind of abstraction every piece of code should strive for and be shamed to the ground if they haven't.

> I would rather be more impressed if I can read your code and form a mental image on how many paths your code takes to achieve an outcome in a single sitting, instead of pinging you for a quick call to explain yourself.

Does this mean you're impressed by the ability to read go's if spaghetti?

Yeah no it's fine, the only thing I've learned is that some things are better left unexperienced.

They can do that now? I did that with agents since last summer. They also helped me set up aws and azure. It is such a pleasure to not having to read about their stupid platforms. What a security group is, what a vps is, what an eni and what a gateway is blah blah I just give the agent specs and access lists, then check it and it all just works.

> took one, and it did make everything a little brighter, birds sweeter sounding, and everything seemed a little bit better for a while.

Used to work at a dreary sweatshop where breaks amounted to smoking outside while staring at eachother, they used biometrics and software to track your KPIs , you'd get diarrhea from workplace food and departments had various beefs with each other.

Switched jobs to an international car manufacturer where people would greet eachother, drop their guards and have fun working together.

I got this exact feeling! The sky was more blue, flowers were more colorful, birds more chirpy, halls brighter and people smiled. Lasted for five months.

I do this because I don't want to rely on others for my basic needs.

https://github.com/nurettin/gnome-extensions-topterm

https://github.com/nurettin/gnome-extensions-toptop

It's all words, man!

-- Wittgenstein, probably

winapi introduced event based programming to the masses and took it to the next level. You could argue that they weren't the first, but blanket singling it out as bad design makes no sense.

This control flow has been taught everywhere and is the basis of node's async loop (node waits on io, winapi waits on kb/mouse/timers) so "no system copied it" is complete ignorance. It is the first thing I think of when I'm designing an async flow.