spzb

Some context: this article is from a right-wing newspaper and is written by a senior member of far right party, Reform. It doesn't seem grounded in any actual facts.

AI's going to be a whole lot less useful when it doesn't have any open source component libraries to crib from.

Ironic to call it a strawman whilst making a strawman yourself. I never said AI was useless, I said vibe coding hasn't produced anything novel.

> Why? People don't ask hammers to do much more than bash in nails into walls.

No one is propping up a multi-billion dollar tech bubble by promising hammers that do more than bash nails. As a point of comparison that makes no sense.

That's about as far removed from vibe coding as you can get. It's the result of an algorithm developed for a specific purpose by researchers at one of the most advanced machine learning companies.

Naive junior engineers eventually learn and become competent senior engineers. LLMs forget everything they "learn" as soon as the context window gets too big.

curl in particular is being plagued by AI-slop security reports which are actively slowing development by forcing the maintainers to triage crap when they could be working on new features (or, you know, enjoying their lives) eg https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_ni...

I am yet to see a vibe coded success that isn't a small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data. Let's see something ground-breaking. If AI coding is so great and is going to take us to 10x or 100x productivity let's see it generate a new, highly efficient compression algorithm or a state-of-art travelling salesman solution.

I've got a bridge to sell you

Good write ups:

https://doublepulsar.com/merry-christmas-day-have-a-mongodb-...

https://blog.ecapuano.com/p/hunting-mongobleed-cve-2025-1484...

It’s bizarre to me that anyone would get confused by this. I can only imagine it’s a USA thing. Indicators flash on the side you’re turning towards. I’d never expect it to be an arrow pointing in any direction.

"Even if you could push through the bitterness, it’s unlikely you’d be able to stomach the bucketfuls of tea required to get enough salicin from willow bark (or similar plants) to ease your discomfort."

So, rather than killing pain, they probably just stopped complaining about it to save them from having to drink any more bitter willow tea.

Background on Basicode : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE

Tell me you know nothing about the UK without telling me you know nothing about the UK.

In a manner of speaking, the grid is already the storage mechanism. In summer you sell the excess to the grid; in winter you buy it back. Obviously you pay more to buy than you get for selling but that's the premium for using someone else's infrastructure. You'd spend a load more buying a battery the size of a small house.

Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784809

Not true. Free speech is not freedom to incite violence. If you think anyone has been jailed for skepticism you are misinformed.

Bear in mind this is a right wing newspaper with an anti-migrant bias misrepresenting the story for its audience. The police are looking for signs of violence being planned; nothing to do with free speech. An alternative view : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/27/police-unit-...

I find it bizarre that it's considered a competency for anyone.

Why waste time and money on actually fixing things when you can have so much more fun playing with fantasy ideas instead?

There's always money in the banana stand

This seems like a staggeringly inefficient way to develop what is essentially a FPS engine.

Everything's hobby level if you have deep enough pockets.

Requires only $600 worth of additional equipment. "With Arduino" is doing some heavy lifting.

That’s exactly the sort of thing I was hoping someone would have done. Thanks for sharing!

What an arrogant, ableist thing to say. I hope you're not involved in recruitment. The world has changed. Location is not the barrier it was five years ago.

Yep. And all on the same IP addresses with the same registrars and DNS servers. Amazing coincidence. (Edit: it's Netlify)

5 stars on Trustpilot. Yeah? Your site doesn’t exist on Trustpilot.

That makes me think this is a trustworthy product and not at all shady.

30% retention means that 70% of people who have paid for it didn't consider it valuable enough to pay for.

The $2m figure is unverified but, even if it was, turnover is meaningless without knowing their expenses. If they're burning through £2.1m in LLM compute and marketing then they're losing money.

Plus, the guy seems like a dick so I'm taking his story with an enormous pinch of salt.

It's almost as if people are reading the article and critically evaluating the product.