bigmattystyles
bigmattystyles on Hacker News
Picard is the best by a mile, which is great praise because I liked Janeway and Sisko a lot too.
Same - also a good allegory for not trusting AI.
Is it a utopia? On earth and in the federation they make it seem so, at least post-scarcity but at the edges of the federation you have Romulans, the Borg, Cardassians. Multiple main characters undergo torture, etc...
It would make an interesting TV show / spin off where people are shuffling / politicking for power in a post-scarcity world.
As campy as TNG can be, there are so many moral themes and dillemas and Stewart's Picard always grounded them with his dedication to his craft. RIP.
For me reading ai code feels a lot like that time I tried reading Joyce. I don’t understand but I’m sure it’s beautiful.
Do they want regulation because they are behind and want the brakes applied to others so they can catch up using their huge pile of money, or are they so ahead they want to stifle the rest? My money, based on copilot is on the former.
Posted by
bigmattystyles on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.
To keep up at work, I have to use AI - in turn, I have found that I just have tmux with lazygit, perhaps neovim to check on a file out of curiosity and my agent(s) open. I only ever use my IDE to launch a local instance of what I'm working on, none of the features or plugins really matter anymore. I wonder if the future of IDEs is bleak.
Worse yet, this is contained but Putin will use it to argue against foreign actors weakening him further because 'think of the consequences`. I hate how paranoid this timeline has made me.
Are the two middle initials necessary? Any other notable Paul Dirac's?
From an infosec/networking stand point, aren’t still actively loading the site? Whether it’s in a preview window or not?
I'm convinced they do and they're trolling us.How many 100s of 1000s in consulting do you think it took to come up with Bob?
I mean Suge was driving the car and Tupac in the passenger seat. Seems risky.
I'm trying to find a good analogy for what it would be called when they have the cheese melting by the fireplace in restaurants.
It's like I said in another article, I've spent my life in C# and JavaScript. I'm a low-level programmer now, did even have to learn C or assembly.
Seems nuts that you would go through the trouble of air gapping a system then use a Bluetooth keyboard.
"What would you say you do here?" - The Bobs
I swear someone tried to do this pre-llms and they got harangued out of existence by the content creators.
It's so popular to think this is a bubble. Some aspects likely are, but the zeal for this to be a bubble is disturbing to me. I get that there will be winners and if you're not one of them, you might be more likely to want this thing to pop. In my mind, that's not the right disposition, you should want the gains to be spread as equitably as possible.
To be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious payload in....
Except mental health conditions in these plans seem limited to 2 years. For all the talk of mental health is health, this seems to run directly counter to that.
My 99 manual A4 is looking better all the time. Turns out more reliable too.
Don't look at how people submit code in industry then.
It should be encouraged but even accounting for side-effects, taking a pill is easy. From personal experience, when I'm heavily depressed, I can barely get out of bed or eat. Forget exercise.
Posted by
bigmattystyles on Monday July 27, 2026 @02:42PM
from the self-post dept.
It's an alert that comes in as a surprise from BMW - you don't have to click it, but when you do, you are met with a minute long video ad for Spiderman.Submitting as I figured it would be interesting for discussion. Boiling frogs and all.
Weird, on my iPhone it loaded instantly.
3 pages of reply or overly verbose code, often without abstractions - I read all the posters here and in other forums say that programming has shifted towards reviewing AI output rather than coding said output manually; I agree, however, I just don't buy that everyone is actually reviewing the code as intensely as one would expect - there is a tendency that arrived rather quickly to assume that the AI is correct and efficient. I guess the ultimate reviewer is another AI agent I guess.
Yes, AI code generation is the same.
Are you the one who wrote it though or just the one who wrote prompts? Not that it matters in the end…
That’s why even though 99% of my work is C#, llms have made it so I can finally call myself a low-level programmer, which I’ve always aspired to. I didn’t even have to do anything.