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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:48PM (#50064148)
Not for long. Prompt engineering is only a stop gap measure. Its value is decreasing day by day.
Re:100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:20PM (#50001564)
Just remove Windows 11, duh!
Re:'Neanderthals Among Us' by Peter Sahlins Review
on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:36AM (#49966253)
Indians are already a mixed race: ancient (pre Aryan) Iranian hunter-gatherers + eurasian steppe (Aryan) + ancient south Indians etc.
Re:I Don't Like LLMs
on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:42AM (#49843213)
It would have been okay if he stopped there. I think success went to his head and he became the BSer-in-chief of the software industry after that. The Emperor has no clothes.
Re:I Don't Like LLMs
on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:46AM (#49750281)
No he did not. For some reason people think he did.
See following article where he talks about the inventors of refactoring: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?u...
Re:I Don't Like LLMs
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:42AM (#49742479)
I don't like Martin Fowler. He is the archetype of the architect astronaut. The OG bullshit meister.
I like LLMs for stuff I don't care about. Programming is not one of them.
Re:Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:23AM (#49726665)
> serious question: do you program in machine code or assembler
Sometimes yes.
> or use a higher level language? do you use design patterns and functional approaches? metaprogramming, code generation, templating, app frameworks?
Most of the time.
> Each tool, abstraction, language feature elevates coding to get more done with less (more concisely)
Sure. I hope you understand AI is fundamentally different. It's nothing like the things you listed above.
Re:Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:56AM (#49697992)
90's high school hobby programmer. I'd rather not use AI for programming if given the chance. For everything else I am pro AI.
Re:Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:47AM (#49659408)
Sure, if that is what you like. I for one did not get into this field because I wanted to hire people (artificial or natural) to write the programs for me. Programming as an activity / art is what I enjoyed the most. Managing people / agents is a total turn off.
Re:Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:42AM (#49659323)
This is precisely what the word quote means!
Re:Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:54AM (#49658489)
> I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously.
This takes all the fun out of programming for me.
Re:Why does the U.S. military seem stymied in the war with Iran?
on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:45AM (#49385865)
Some say this war was started to distract from the Epstein files issue.
Re:Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Ch...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:56AM (#49220972)
Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.
Re:I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:46PM (#49104076)
Is there a name for the phenomenon in which you look at something and know that there is something wrong with it but struggle to identify the problem?
I got this feeling looking at the (non)word cantine.
Re:Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks
on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:10AM (#48716252)
How do you run this thing? What kind of hardware do you need?
Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:21PM (#48611546)
Isn't this like the P vs NP problems? Once you have a solution it is easy to verify?
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know?
on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:26AM (#48607400)
Strangely, I knew this one. Once you hear this word it refuses to leave your head.
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know?
on Friday June 19, 2026 @11:27AM (#48599710)
Apparently I am Stephen Fry in disguise :D
My score: 78,000 words, 20/20/19/18/18.
Re:What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:44AM (#48587163)
Windows Vista / 7 was peak UI for me.
Re:I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and lo...
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:04PM (#48532703)
I have an RTX 5090 card but it only has 32 GB RAM, can something like this work on my machine?
Re:AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing ch...
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:34AM (#48310477)
What are some good alternatives (to Xilinx/AMD) for hobbyists / small outfits?
Re:Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:11AM (#47932094)
English is a "romance" language then.
Re:A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas
on Saturday March 21, 2026 @09:12AM (#47466700)
Cringe?
Re:LotusNotes
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:18AM (#47436754)
Here's a quote from the article. Hopefully this helps the people with rose tinted glasses get some perspective...
>Lotus Notes is used by millions of people, but almost all of them seem to hate it. How can a program be so bad, yet thrive?
Re:LotusNotes
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:10AM (#47435209)
It was bad. There was a dedicated site called lotusnotessucks.com or something like that. It does not exist anymore but here is an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/09/guardianw...
Re:A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:46AM (#47386473)
Where's the rest of it?
Re:It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup D'État
on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:34PM (#47183864)
India went through something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India).
Re:Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public...
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:06PM (#46998817)
It will use robots to replace pesky humans. The robots can refuel and maintain the power plant etc.
Re:D Programming Language
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:58AM (#46989652)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/carpente...
a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures
Re:D Programming Language
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:49AM (#46985969)
I think you have misunderstood what a carpenter is. A carpenter is someone who makes wooden furniture (among other things).