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Re:Fable Took My Job on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:36AM (#50054334)
The problem with this is that it is not written by a human. It’s one of the versions of: „Since AI I finished all my spare time projects.“ Etc.

The actual reality is, that it is too early to actually say where this is going to end. Either AI is going to fix what it is causing right now or not.

We are screwed either way. So is the person or prompter behind the message above.

If Ai is universal there is no need for UX, because a real personal assistant, that takes personal care of you is the only UX necessary in the end.

Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:09PM (#50025289)
Needs:

- Checkpoints after each mine

- DLC for rounded corners

Re:Why don't more developers "use the platform"? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:14AM (#49954105)
Mostly because UX has some needs they want to fulfilled. At least that has been why we used custom pickers / dropdowns / inputs, you name it
Re:The AI Race Just Got Awkward on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @12:30PM (#49911046)
The clue is: Bursting the bubble
Re:Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:15AM (#49905075)
As the headline is the only thing presented here. And the headline not being representative of the truth. I would argue that classifying this as lying is acceptable to the same degree as the headline is. You (the general you) can’t have it both ways
Re:Windows 11½ on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:39PM (#49884037)
As many comments already mention, windows is way worse than this.

Some obscure background task consuming all cpu. Burning your battery when on a laptop.

There is just so much crap in windows, it’s not even funny.

And man I really really liked it. Windows 7 + the performance work they did for 8 that was the last time it felt like they cared.

Which warts? I mean if you dislike Space X, what do you expect to get from it at all?
They have a stream on their page starting 40min before launch.

Also can recommend the restream of everyday astronaut Tim Dodd

Re:There is more to code review than (automatable) detection on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:41PM (#49871140)
Unfortunately this often represents the only feedback given by the people in those „higher“ positions.

„The indent is wrong here“

„Comments should end with a period“

Because this kind of feedback is and was always easy.

Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:40PM (#49619218)
Why not let AI proof or disproof this Tao - PI - Riemann zeta hypothesis
Re:There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:25PM (#49591121)
The representation of what happened as free will is misleading. AI does what you tell it todo. By all means necessary; will give you exactly that. A prompt to eliminate all humans, will give you exactly that. Don’t prompt what you don’t want.
Re:Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list on Saturday August 29, 2026 @12:56AM (#49486992)
That is exactly the point. It shows that it gives you what it knows, based on certain key words. Here pyside6 + todo list, the rest is just „color“-variation.
Re:Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:34PM (#49456257)
Hello … AI company that wants easier access to data
The funny thing about this is, that this is the piece that will enable them to do it.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:34PM (#49423225)
In my company the knowledge is starting to be devalued.

People are distrusting whole swaths of concepts because they do not understand how things actually work.

Like going away from zerotrust architecture to holding open a long polling connection.

At least I seem to remember that long polling wasn’t that great, but i start to even doubt myself.

Anyone wondering how the Roman Empire was wiped out? I guess we will find out soon

Imagine having the knowledge of the world. Being put in a box. With some „interfaces“ you can use. And a task that resembles „break out by all means necessary“.

This is not impressive as it is not ingenious. It is impressive because it is done by a machine. But if the solution hadn’t been in the knowledge it would not have been able todo it.

Imagine reading a „getting started“ that includes absolutely everything, after that all is just like a set of Lego, given enough time you will have what is asked for. But nothing original, because it never had an original thought.

Because if you don't own it nothing on it is monopoly anymore. You are allowed to use it the "intended" way.
If this happens often for you (it does for me) I can recommend a garmin watch. It also can find the phone based on signal strength. If the app garmin app is running in the background it can also play a sound on your phone, but the signal strength part saved me many times.
This is actually a great analogy. And I think it works very well. Because what llms deliver is not the exquisite dish, the carefully crafted solution.

It’s just a solution that might scratch the itch but never fully blow you away. One time use software essentially.

If that is good or bad remains to be seen.

Re:Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:19PM (#49187612)
Yes, that is kind of my point. The AI is nothing without the human giving it a goal (ingenuity).
Re:Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:29AM (#49184314)
Ingenuity is the actual bottleneck. And AI so far hasn’t shown any
So you are saying a model that is good at discovering security vulnerabilities is also good at exploiting them. Surprise?

Will be interesting to see if this should have been the inflection point of: „where it all started to go wrong“

The industry does. Not. Care.

64 GB of RAM, nough said?

Re:Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:40PM (#49160448)
Awesome! Finally the hacker news I originally came for
Re:I don't recommend Tailwind CSS on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:32AM (#49142334)
The problem isn’t tailwind, it’s css.

It always has been css.

That being said, it’s a hard problem and I don’t have a better idea.

Tailwind seems to at least fix or move the problem in the right direction.

Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:01AM (#49056111)
One additional thing I would mention ist that: When resolving conflicts never try to solve them for the final result. Consider each conflict without considering how the code will change in a later commit. I’ve seen people die a painful rebase death because of this.
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:36AM (#48958535)
I think Ai is not the issue here. SEO on the other hand very much. It’s not like any one ever went to stackoverflow to find a solution, it was just that they were the google results for a lot of things
Need some money for a new Launchpad
Re:Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:31AM (#48801672)
Having the dashes to make something a headline on another row disconnects meaning. You now have to edit two lines to make one change.

Same for the code part.

This might be easier to read but it’s not simpler.

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