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> Interesting, I don’t see this very often with the latest models.

Strange response. I agree with the parent comment here, plan mode lets me ensure that I have specified everything correctly before it gets built which is far too late. I don't see how an improved models even matter to this workflow. Is Fable going to read my mind?

This is not much different for hiring a contractor to build your personal blog. What happens when something breaks and you have no mental model of the code to know where to look? You call up the contractor to fix it. You have simply outsourced the problem.

The mistake in logic here the assumption that having AI build your personal blog means that you build the personal blog. You did not. There should be no more expectation of having a mental model than if you got another human to do it.

(I assume downvoted because people didn't get that this was joke)

Summarizing large PR documentation sounds like a job for AI...

I don't think so. Google's customers are phone OEMs and as long as they are happy, things will continue as is. The precedents here are Microsoft with Windows and maybe Apple with iOS.

Anything Oracle doesn't have much relevance. They were not really interested in growing any marketshare of those products for anyone.

In reading the article, it did feel somewhat wrong in a way that I couldn't quite describe. But after reading this comment, maybe it just seems old and maybe obsolete.

Taking the example provided in the article, I don't feel like the new code is meaningfully less complex. In fact, since it added some additional indirection, I could argue it's slightly more complex.

The core code with the nested if statements is something that I would probably refactor in some other way entirely. Maybe by taking advantage of other language features. It is a toy example so it's hard to say but that's part that feels like it needs simplification and untouched in this example.

> Apply the same question to music, or drawing, and perhaps the answer to this will be easier to see.

As much as I experience the appreciation of code as art, the vast majority of code is not art -- it is merely functional and entirely ephemeral. Most of code I've ever written in my life is gone and wouldn't be interesting anymore; products of a time that no longer exists.

Just like people still knit sweaters, even knitters still go to the store to buy them. I code for fun and I code for work but character of the code I do for work is changing. If AI can solve a problem better and faster than I can, I no longer have any interest in solving that problem "by hand" for my job. You can call that lack of respect in that I no longer respect good well-written code that an AI can spit out for $30 a month.

You get into vintage computer collecting and regret all things that you tossed...

I think because the Minecraft world is like a giant tub of Lego. You go out into the procedural world to collect your pieces and then you create from that. It's actually your creations that are interesting and without them Minecraft would equally purposeless and bland.

> I wish IBM got better at product again...

I'm not sure where that "again" comes from. IBM has never been good a product and everybody is looking at OS/2 through glasses so rose tinted that they're essentially blind. The PC itself was a skunk-works project that was removed from their influence as soon as the rest of company got involved.

The fact that it was the top comment only shows that people agreed or liked it, not that it was actually valuable, accurate, or useful. Popularity and value aren't the same thing, correlation is not causation, etc, etc...

Most observational studies do in fact account for the first thing a random HN poster can come up with 5 seconds after reading the title. So there is very little value in such a comment.

If the commenter read the study and found that they did not, in fact, account for that then it would be valid to point it out here.

Otherwise, it's just a waste of our time.

It looks like it did and you still posted anyway.

I never stated I had a problem. The original poster seemed almost offended that McDonald's made a "large" profit. So my question is, what is the correct amount of profit that company should make? And, conversely, what happens if a company has losses?

As for whether employees should make more money, I'm definitely not against that. Seems to me, raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation would be a good start.

Many early corporations were ordinary profit-seeking businesses. Manufacturing, in particular, were increasingly incorporated simply to conduct private enterprise, and states began passing general incorporation statutes for manufacturers quite early in the 19th century.

The special-charter system wasn't some golden age of corporations being held accountable to society. One of the reasons states abandoned special chartering was because it became associated with favouritism, lobbying, monopoly privileges and corruption. Legislators had something valuable to hand out, so connected businesses could seek preferential charters. General incorporation laws were partly an anti-corruption reform.

Such legislation? That's pretty hand-wavy.. what specifically are we asking for here?

> There was more emphasis on values like: God-as-god. Country. Family. Courage. Integrity.

By corporations?!? Because that is what we talking about.

Frankly, if we go back far enough we get all the way to slavery and genocide so rose-tinting your glasses about past values doesn't sway me.

Ok. Lets do it. Tell me how?

Richard and Maurice McDonald had a small business that almost certainly wouldn't even be around today if they didn't sell to Ray Kroc. The McDonald's we know is a corporation. Corporatization is the process of turning government agencies, public services, or non-business organization into corporations. A more broad interpretation would be applying corporate philosophy to non-corporate things.

McDonald's is already a corporation -- corporatization doesn't apply.

If you don't want corporations to be corporate; I don't what to tell you!

Did they really have broader values or did they just not have the technical sophistication to optimize their operation to this level? Where "values" just a substitute for more limited information?

I think computers have made the structure of the present inevitable.

> How many companies with that kind of profit are actively dodging taxes from aggressive accounting, getting deals with local governments, or any other way?

I don't think it's fair to imply that McDonald's is doing anything shady. They have over 2 million workers (although not directly, it's a franchise model). They make a lot of profit but, proportional to the total workforce, it's about average. Hardly something to be outraged about.

If you spread $1 billion evenly among two million workers, that's about $500 per employee per year. That is roughly 25 cents an hour for a full-time worker. Paying 100% health care would be several billion dollars.

The underlying implication here is whether companies should make any profit at all. If the amount of profit allowed is non-zero, what is the correct number? And if there is a correct number, what do you propose to do about it?

Who say's they don't? How does this compare to what you do for a living?

This is meaningless because it's entirely hypothetical. If McDonald's is only looking at quantitative data the "bad outcome" hasn't come for them. It seems quite successful in fact (especially in these tough economic times). Maybe if leads to a massive failure we can come back and revisit this but for now, based on facts, it's working just fine for them.

People like to believe that enshitifying everything will eventually lead to failure because sucks for us. It does suck for us. But I'm not convinced that karma is coming for them.

The large multi-national corporation known as "McDonald's" should care about its family, friends, and personal fulfillment instead?

Except that, adjusted for inflation, a Big Mac was cheaper at that time.

They only changed this recently.

These bad outcomes aren't coming. Maybe we as customers don't like it but it doesn't mean the companies are suffering for it.

For example, McDonald's reported a full-year 2025 net income (profit) of $8.563 billion, an increase from the $8.223 billion reported in 2024.

That was my impression as well. The data collected is fairly innocuous.

This is exactly the kind of data that every business collects and processes to one degree or another even without an app or loyalty program.

I wonder if it's time to step it up a little bit. We have all the LLMs that are great at looking at code and processing it so perhaps the future of ad blocking is letting the LLM handle it.

Has anyone thought about building something like this?