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Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:48PM (#50265592)
I've been wanting a guide like you are but a question I haven't been able to answer is: what would go in it?

LLM and harnesses are changing so fast that if I had a guide from 6 months ago I'm not sure how relevant it would be today.

I'm guessing that when things calm down and the landscape isn't changing as much then we will get the guides.

Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:50PM (#50076705)
Man if only there were laws governing something you own (i.e. a cow) that covers when that thing you own does damage to someone's property (destroys your neighbor's fence) but didn't have ill intent as it doesn't have sentience.

If only that sort of thing had been dealt with in the past......

Re:Things that don't bother me as your manager on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:30PM (#50060727)
> Looking for another role

I don't care how good of a manager I have, they're not going to hear if I'm looking to work elsewhere until I hand in my notice. Telling them provides me no value, and since I work in the US could lead to immediate termination regardless of my plans.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still own a printer? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:59PM (#49983271)
Yes! I bought a brother laser printer to use as part of my D&D hobby. I love paper and pencil for D&D to the point that my notes are all printed and staple bound in a digest sized packet for each session.
Re:Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:13AM (#49965168)
I still can't recommend Typst enough! I was able to jive with it way easier than LaTex (the markup is lighter, and the user scripting was easier to pickup for me).
Correctness isn't the issue, it's that you copy pasted an LLM response in a form for humans. You could have extracted the names you were looking for and posted those, but instead you disrespected future readers by copy pasting slop.
Thanks for the slop!
Re:Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:17AM (#49753995)
Who told you how I work? I thought it was a closely guarded secret?
Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:34PM (#49674837)
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
I wish that "just stop having x thoughts" was a thing I could control.
At least in the USA, due to the lack of social safety nets I have to disagree. It's very much work or starve. Yeah you can try to change your perspective, but unless your in a privileged situation where you have a safety net (i.e. a wealthy family to support you if things go wrong) then it's difficult to stop thinking about it.
Re:Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:01AM (#49627765)
Yep, feels nice to work in both mental problems as well as physical ones.
Rehabilitation has never been the point of jail in the US. Else why would the thirteenth amendment to the US constitution still be on the books?
Several people would have their incompetence more visible.
Noth America had cats before the Europeans came, just not any in the niche that house cats fill. Think less barn cat more bob cat or mountain lion.
Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:21PM (#49483102)
Even as a devoutember of the church of emacs I couldn't live without the emacs version of which-key [1]

[1] I was going to link to a repo, but I just learned that which-key is included in Emacs out of the box.

It may be an impossible thing to get funding for, but I would love to see this kind of study done in a matriarchal society and see what the results would look like. I'm not looking to argue with the results here, but I am curious as to how the set up of society (patriarchal vs matriarchal) is affecting the results of the study.
Re:Anger, Anxiety and Agency on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:29AM (#49433712)
So much of the drudgery in my day to day is dealing with corporate red tape and ensuring my team is producing the right thing. LLMs don't help much in that regard.

The hard part (where I work) was never the code, it was all of the other BS that needs done (a lot of which happens in crusty old systems that look like they're from the mid 2000's)

Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:05PM (#49390155)
I wish I had say in our git forge decisions at work, but I don't and I can either tolerate this or quit my job. So I will continue to disparage one of the world's biggest tech companies not being able to manage GitHub properly.
Re:Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:31PM (#49352266)
I did a cost analysis when my work had our RTO mandate (minimum 3days in office). I can easily believe these numbers based on what I was able to calculate for myself (taking into account no salary adjustment for going 100% remote to having a 30 min commute each way, new fuel spending, extra maintenance for the car, dealing with house hold costs like daycare).
From a retirement standpoint I keep hearing that not enough Americans are saving for retirement, so this would still be a win for me.
They can both be awful. Disliking one doesn't endorse the other.
Tin foil hat time:

Why would it be in Microsoft's, the owner of GitHub, interest to promote a competitor to Copilot on one of the largest developer platforms on the planet?

To get a job: Step 1: already have a job that pays you enough to afford LLMs Step 2: ? Step 3: profit
Re:A tycoon game where you run an AI company on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:07PM (#49290540)
A game about running an AI company used AI in the creation of the game. I'm shocked I say, shocked!
Re:Ask HN: Why Connected Home Appliances? on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:09AM (#49285380)
Eh, just set a timer on your phone that matches what the display on the machine shows. It may not be an exact match, but it will get the job done for free.
Re:Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:47PM (#48836576)
I recently watched a short video by Matt Ferrell going over the R&D for an electric generator that does just that [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/MuQRxatte5g?is=GUyY4kPH-7WklV1E

Re:Tidal AI Policy on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:56PM (#48722688)
Also they aren't paying out for AI generated content.
NGL I like modern Angular more than React, but I never experienced v1 of AngularJS so I don't know how much of modern Angular is influenced by React.

I like that it's a framework with opinions vs React which is a "Library".

How is this "dead simple" engine simpler than creating a HTML file and hosting that on a webserver? I couldn't find an explanation of why this is "dead simple".

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