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Re:The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable on Thursday July 02, 2026 @09:46PM (#48769718)
Nothing I haven’t read 1,000 times before.
Re:Why AI Sucks at Front End on Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:58PM (#47742496)
This doesn't make sense. I think you mean "If you are really good at something, you'll find AI might not be as good as the something you are really good at"
Re:Why AI Sucks at Front End on Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:57PM (#47742485)
Ask it to take control of a browser using something like Playwright and use the UI itself like an end user would and evaluate whether it is a good experience.
Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:22AM (#46203360)
Code isn't the moat and it hasn't been for quite some time. Data is the moat.
It's very problematic for companies, mainly because of the tooling. Large companies are equating lovable, replit, bold, V0 with Claude Code, Codex, etc all under the "Vibe Coding" banner.

I try to fit the former under the banner of "Prompt-to-app Tools" and the latter as "Autonomous AI Engineering"

Alternate headline: "Parents failed to dissuade son from killing himself"
Even if everyone on earth agrees with an opinion, it's still an opinion. There is a material difference between a fact and an opinion.
No. Facts are facts. Opinions are opinions. And statements of fact are unverified facts.

I wish people would start understanding the difference.

"Ice cream is cold" is an opinion.

"Ice cream melts at 50 degrees Fahrenheit" is a statement of fact.

Agreed. If your identity is your ability to bang away on a keyboard writing instructions to a computer in Python (or any other "language"), you're in for a bad time.

If your identity is solving difficult, domain-specific software-based problems, efficiently and securely, it doesn't matter if your instructions are written in English, French or... Python.

Re:Show HN: Wispbit – Keep codebase standards alive on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @09:54PM (#45587219)
Is that a "yes" on lint rules? AI needs determinism to block commits because once the slop hits code review, it's already a gigantic waste of time. AI needs self-correcting loops.
Re:Ask HN: What's your opinion on weekly 1:1s? on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:04AM (#36256061)
As a manager, I think weekly 1:1s are a waste of time.

As an employee, I think weekly 1:1s are a waste of time.

Re:Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:49AM (#33970432)
Man. People complain that JavaScript sucks as a language and then complain when it evolves too quickly to appease these same people.

Oh well.

Re:List of school shootings in the United States on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:13PM (#31506592)
The Taliban could fend off the West because the West adheres (mostly) to rules of engagement.

A tyrannical government attempting to subjugate its own citizenry would have no such compunction.

They were on the wrong side of a massive bet and lost.

Let's take the reverse and say they were on the right side of the bet and made millions and left everyone else behind to wallow relatively "poor".

Would they feel sorry for those who didn't take the bet?

But wasn't that the big pull of crypto? Decentralized, unregulated, blah, blah, blah?
What type of usage volume are we talking about here?
I reject the premise
None of that pays the mortgage, though.
That was my thought. What is this rag?
78% of Republicans is actually pretty dreadful. I would expect that number to be closer to the mid 90s for a party's former president. Can you imagine what the numbers would be for Obama?
Not true. Freedom of speech in the US prevents the US government for levying consequences against you for what you said. This is not the case in North Koreas
Re:We've been lied to: JavaScript is fast on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:57AM (#28824817)
Is that a problem?
So is lack of sleep. If people are working more, they may be sleeping less.
Re:A new public beta of GitHub Releases on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:52AM (#28761138)
Would really be nice if it could attach all the issues that the release closed.
I think it's already been touched on, but the reason Germany made it illegal is to prevent Nazism from happening again. The German government wasn't trying to hide anything. The German government was trying to prevent Nazi's from hiding something.
> the only reason to make something like that illegal IS because you're hiding something

That is the most illogical statement I've read all month.

Don't be naive. It's not the wackos who won't have a platform. It's the people who know vaccines aren't dangerous, but realize they can snag an audience by claiming otherwise, so they prey on those people. These charlatans are the people who won't have a platform and, I say good riddance.
Ok. Thanks. So no real changes with iOS 15
> Users can install it, add the icon to the homescreen, get push notifications

Did I miss something? Did iOS 15 add push and installabilty for PWAs?

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