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Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:33PM (#49340926)
Oh no, you said "landed"! It's dug into our brains!
Re:A Possible Future for Damn Interesting on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:28AM (#48858086)
I think remember you said in one episode you didn't want to run ads in the podcast so you could talk about anything you want, but most of the episodes are about one of historical events. Do you really think the sponsors would try to alter your content. Personally I wouldn't mind 1 or 2 ad spots in the episodes.
It rejected Asians more because of their higher SAT scores? If it’s not directly based on applicants disclosing their ethnicity then probably something more obvious like names.
Re:The Coming Loop on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:10AM (#48646259)
Inertia is on our side
Re:Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:46PM (#48495464)
4 day work week could help with this like weekends help sell more automobiles.
Re:Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:23AM (#48491627)
I think LLMs will make vertical slice architecture more common using less abstraction. If juniors are mostly relying on LLMs then they will accept the long files it generates and not have the opportunity to learn abstractions.
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:27PM (#48467226)
This is just marketing that Anthropic is building the singularity.
What happens if you just keep vibe coding is? Does it whack-a-mole fix one area and break another?
Re:AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:16PM (#48378529)
He would tell you NFTs were AGIs if it might get you to buy them.
Re:Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:55AM (#48246344)
2 months ago: no limits. 1 month ago we had a leaderboard for whoever had the highest token spend not taking into account what was actually produced. This week: “everyone is using opus too much, just use it for planning.”
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:21PM (#48052899)
yup, the standard way of thinking about agents seems backwards and probably costly. Use LLMs to write scripts, then stick all your scripts in your own looping harness and call out for LLMs for those parts that are too hard to automate with some deterministic validation at the end.
Can you describe how you work in this higher level? Sounds like scratches a similar itch that traditional programming offers.
Re:Everything we like is a psyop on Thursday April 16, 2026 @08:47PM (#47801322)
See payolla for the radio era equivalent.
Re:Everything we like is a psyop on Thursday April 16, 2026 @08:46PM (#47801318)
When reading this I immediately thought of them. Anyone I know who plays an instrument said their socials are flooded with them.
Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:52PM (#47683844)
Are they admitting they may be enslaving conscious beings?
Re:Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:07AM (#47599289)
Yup, strange to see people still don’t understand LLMs massively speed up coding greenfield pet projects. Anytime you see a bee web app it’s better to assume AI use rather than not anymore.
Re:Hold on to Your Hardware on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:00AM (#47542174)
It actually gives you warning in an overlay first that the favicon would change if you open a new tab. I did and I got "zuckerberg nudes"
Re:I'm OK being left behind, thanks on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:36AM (#47455182)
The executives are, not the devs.
Re:LLMs can be exhausting on Monday March 16, 2026 @12:00AM (#47395091)
Yup, and we arr wasting our weekends worried about keeping pace in an imagined red queen's race. Another similar post today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646

they fantasize about unpaid interns writing specs and nobody ever needed to look at the code in a few years
Re:Codegen Is Not Productivity on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:40PM (#47389746)
XD
Re:My take on vibe coding for PMs on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:22AM (#47245968)
Isn’t this the type of work interns used to do? Prototype hackathon type things?
Are ethnic Chinese from Taiwan still allowed? If so it's probably just about the US' geopolitical rivals not being allowed perceived competitive advantages.
Re:I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:33PM (#47209863)
Probably many SICP or "Write Yourself A Scheme" readers have pushed basic scheme compilers to GH.
We know because we're not shooting rockets at them.
Re:Software Factories and the Agentic Moment on Saturday February 07, 2026 @11:58AM (#46925345)
I get the following on safari on iOs: A problem repeatedly occurred on (url)
The people of the US mostly wouldn’t like it the people of VZ mostly did and consider Maduro a thug who lost and stayed in power not their president. Ideologies like Paul have trouble with exceptions to their world view.
I thought it was RFK
Will companies be willing to pay more to send junk mail if it is no longer largely subsidized? In this regard it could be a good thing assuming they don’t already have a regulation against junk mail there.

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