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Lines-of-code considered helpful (or we stop taking sick peoples temperatures)

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The second "S" is for service – why vibe-coding won't replace enterprise SaaS

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Why the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website redesign so poorly received

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legostormtroopr
·19 gün önce·discuss
> At OpenClaw we get a huge volume of pull requests from the community and had to build our own bots for fighting spam.

I find it ironic that the people who originate the idea of AI-code-spam are being negatively impacted by this.

But all they will do is build an AI agent to review the code written by an AI agent, that probably never needed to be written to begin with.
legostormtroopr
·geçen ay·discuss
Speedrun: Starting World War III, any%
legostormtroopr
·geçen ay·discuss
And replaced with what?
legostormtroopr
·2 ay önce·discuss
Sounds like you "have a few qualms with this app" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
legostormtroopr
·2 ay önce·discuss
If a human messes up enough eventually they well get fired, fined or jailed. An AI will not.

A human also knows they might get punished if it messes up bad enough, which might cause it to think twice before doing something bad. For an AI there is a reward, but there is no risk.

So while both might lie, only the human will be worried that it will be found out. That makes a difference.
legostormtroopr
·3 ay önce·discuss
I’m not going to let you hide behind a big word.

You are publicly proposing “throwing all Republicans through a window to their death”.

This isn’t normal, and it isn’t right. If we allow anyone to call for political violence, then we become numb to it. Worse still, your call to violence against Republicans gives them a call to defence, and then a call to preemptive action.

“It was ok for us to shutdown HackerNews because they called for our deaths.”

We shouldn’t tolerate calls to political violence from anyone. Be better.
legostormtroopr
·5 ay önce·discuss
The author themselves disagree with you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-a...

So does the National Council of Teachers of English. https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/

Just because can't believe that people would promote a comic with explicit texting and sexual imagery to children doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
legostormtroopr
·5 ay önce·discuss
Firstly - you are going to get sued by Salesforce. You can't just make a Slack-clone, use their trademarked name and just add "Open" to the front.

Secondly, this is pure AI slop. There are 2 commits - "Initial commit" and "Trim feature table" where you changed the README.

Why would anyone use this? Has anyone read any of the code? Do you even understand how (or if) it even works?
legostormtroopr
·5 ay önce·discuss
But if AI can maintain code bases so easily, why does it matter if there are 3? People use electron to quickly deploy non-native apps across different systems.

Surely, it would be a flex to show that your AI agents are so good they make electron redundant.

But they don’t. So it’s reasonable to ask why that is.
legostormtroopr
·5 ay önce·discuss
More than anything, I would love to know the software this is built in.

This is a goregous way of presenting a book, and what looks like subscriber only chapter previews.
legostormtroopr
·5 ay önce·discuss
Why is it xenophobic to be concerned that non-registered drivers in one country are being allowed to drive remotely in a different country.
legostormtroopr
·6 ay önce·discuss
Unless I am wildly misreading this, this is actually worse that both GUIs and LLMs combined.

LLMs offer a level of flexibility and non-determinism that allow them to adapt to different situations.

GUIs offer precision and predictability - they are the same every time. Which means people can learn them and navigate them quickly. If you've ever seen a bank teller or rental car agent navigate a GUI or TUI they tab through and type so quickly because they have expert familliarity.

But this - with a non-determinstic user interface generated by AI, every time a user engages with a UI its different. So they a more rigid UI but also a non-deterministic set of options every time. Which means instead of memorising what is in every drop down and tabbing through quickly, they need to re-learn the interface every time.
legostormtroopr
·6 ay önce·discuss
> If you are correct, that implies to me that LLMs are not intelligent and just are exceptionally well tuned to echo back their training data.

Yes.

This is exactly how LLMs work. For a given input, an LLM will output a non-deterministic response that approximates its training data.

LLMs aren’t intelligent. And it isn’t that they don’t learn, they literally cannot learn from their experience in real time.
legostormtroopr
·7 ay önce·discuss
Wolves (and all dogs) could be vegetarians as they aren't obligate omnivores - and in certain conditions where pray is sparse they do eat berries to surviven. Cats on the other hand are obligate carnivores and can't produce taurine amino acids, so they have to eat meat to survive.
legostormtroopr
·7 ay önce·discuss
Current state AI doesn’t have hands. How can it possibly be better at installing electrics than anyone?

Your post reads like AI precisely because while the grammar is fine, it lacks context - like someone prompted “reply that AI is better than average”.
legostormtroopr
·7 ay önce·discuss
Finally, I can give up this life of a programmer and live my dream of being a moisture farmer.
legostormtroopr
·7 ay önce·discuss
What’s worse being accused of an AI post or being defended because your post is so bad that AI wouldn’t have written it?
legostormtroopr
·7 ay önce·discuss
I don't expect someone to do deep focused work from 9am to 5pm.

But at the same time, I don't expect them to spend their 9-to-5 working for another company at the same time.

As a founder, who respects the 9-to-5 and supports WFH, if I'm paying for 8 hours of work, I want 8 hours of output. Not 4 hours of output, and then you working 4 hours for another job.

If multi-jobbing becomes a thing, then WFH becomes untenable because at least in the office you can be monitored.
legostormtroopr
·9 ay önce·discuss
But why is it that news online defaults to US politics?

Yes, politics impacts everything, which is all the more reason to exclude it, otherwise how do we draw the line?

Are we buying protests in Indonesia against disappearances of protestors under the rug but not posting about it? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/prabowo-subianto-one-...?
legostormtroopr
·9 ay önce·discuss
It does seem like a rather modest proposal.