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Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports... by jnakano89 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @02:46AM (#48131934)
Engineers solving "my agent stops when I close my lid" by physically holding the lid open is the funniest possible local optimum. Amphetamine app fixes the lid problem. Claude's /remote-control command also helps. The two together cost zero dollars and one minute of setup.
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Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports... by gofreddygo on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:55AM (#48132359)
The article explicitly says "AI coders". Not engineers. Not hackers. Not a mere accident I suppose.
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Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports... by yumraj on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:14AM (#48132889)
one's a head of product, didn't read beyond that..
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Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports... by ekjhgkejhgk on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:35AM (#48134499)
These aren't engineers they're influencers. And your solution doesn't convey any status. I promise you that this either already is or soon will be understood even by the normies as a status signal.
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Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports... by add-sub-mul-div on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:40AM (#48134564)
It also costs the slightest bit of ambition and independent problem solving.

We should have foreseen that were breeding a population that can't independently solve problems when it became so ubiquitous for people to ask questions online that could be answered instantly with even the compromised 2020s state of search engines.

Dependence on LLMs could be the natural extension of that culture.

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Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports... by toasty228 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:18AM (#48134999)
There are people who go YEARS with smoke alarms chirping every 5 minutes, I stopped being impress at what people are willing to put up with, even if a 30s google search would solve their problem, the sky is the limit
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