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owebmaster··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
So people are right to say he has nothing to show to back his claims.
owebmaster··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
Then when asked for examples of what they built using AI, what they have to show is boring slop worse than "git cloning" a mature project.
owebmaster··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
If that was the case they should all be in jail.
owebmaster··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
Did Ronaldo say he's never been a better football player?
owebmaster··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
> What's the complain exactly?

What complain? OP asked a question. Carmack created Doom, Quake in 2, 3 years. What has he created in 4 years of AI? Should be exceptional if one of the most productive programmers ever says it makes him more productive.

What does he have to show?

owebmaster··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Flutter is pretty abandoned. If it's "awesome" for you still, it won't be for too long.
owebmaster··on Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop
> And every time I wonder where the people who create these tests are looking when they're deciding which harnesses to test?

It seems we need a place where harness creators can pay for that work. There are more people talking about their own harness in this post than talking about the post.

owebmaster··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
> Today banks use $250B/year on KYC checks. You could fix the world hunger and still have $50B leftover money with this amount.

How about getting $200B from the profits to end hunger first then reduce the money spent on KYC?

owebmaster··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
That's a weird response. Both form and content.

Anyway you are wrong, the tool calls are deterministic, generating a one-shot script isn't.

owebmaster··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
100k output is a good amount. Probably read and cache are way more, to the millions.
owebmaster··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
If that's what you think, why you keep posting comments linking to your blog?

If you know that to be true and still add your links everywhere ("helping"), isn't this a spammer's confession?

owebmaster··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Yes but only because they can actually ship the react app
owebmaster··on Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
There's no moderation but you feel the need to post more, not less? Sounds conflicting.
owebmaster··on I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
> but are you really so confident what might be possible in 10 years?

Do you think we are finally 10 years away from curing baldness?

owebmaster··on Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
The X account was created this year and has just one post. It's a made up story.
owebmaster··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
> "Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point."

That's a terrible framing. By this point it should be very easy for someone with 150 IQ but in reality they have issues finding someone to date.

owebmaster··on Why the AfD Wins
Every extremist thinks their ideas are moderate and so are the ideas of the rest of extremists they support. Elon Musk also thinks his agenda is truth. Trump created a social network named Truth Social
owebmaster··on Why the AfD Wins
"China made me do this" isn't a good excuse for fascism and it won't go well.
owebmaster··on Ask HN: Openrouter's per request markup is biting us now
It's terribly low quality aí slop
owebmaster··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Same way dishonest people use examples like her to attack social causes.
owebmaster··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
If Sam Altman was actually named Elizabeth Altman the OpenAI CEO would be in jail.
owebmaster··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
> Hmm, maybe I should be pro-imperialism. I’ll do that before calling a Brazilian, Canadian, or Mexican an American to satisfy the whims of the language police.

Sounds like a culture warrior

owebmaster··on The revolt of the reader
If the title is good that's enough. More often than not, the HN discussion is much more interesting.
owebmaster··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
The cotton mill proved its value long time ago. The current AI tools didn't. And a similar build up failed just a few years ago (crypto).
owebmaster··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'
Why are you excluding Ireland?
owebmaster··on 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
> Which just turns into endless fight over wording

Sure. One side benefits the users and the other benefits a monopoly. I don't work for that monopoly but I do use a smartphone that is locked to the monopolist OS.

owebmaster··on Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
AI PRs aren't fine. Open a issue and propose a change, the maintainers decide what to do next with their own AI if they want.
owebmaster··on GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB
That's a known fact. That's why the first thing doctors say to overweight people is to lose weight for pretty much any disease. Some get hurt and blame the doctors, which doesn't help them.
owebmaster··on 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
Helpful to whom? Google banning installing apps outside of play store is the correct story.
owebmaster··on The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
> Does it really take an agent that many more tokens to write Lit or regular HTML and HTMX?

Definitely not. That's skill issues. The shadow DOM can be a bit tricky.

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