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Re:Ukraine's Attack Exposed America's Achilles' Heel on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @05:02PM (#44185527)
Will be a lot of automated anti-drone weapons installed around US military locations, to start. Think C-RAM but smaller and more precise.

The issue in the future will probably turn to how you can protect & safe guard civilian locations & crowded public spaces from these types of attacks as the tech and range improve.

Re:Ask HN: Dealing with Vibe Coding Depression? on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:47PM (#44185343)
There is a sad reality and truthfulness is that you're probably experiencing that dread for nothing. Tech is moving forward but there is an underlying hype thesis that has really yet to become a reality.

The creators at these companies are making all their bets that the switch between interpolate and extrapolate will happen at sometime in the very near future.

If and when that fails to materialize (as I think you could argue some companies are already recognizing is coming, ie Microsoft), the bubble will burst.

Re:What do you think about synthetic users for user testing? on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:35PM (#44185198)
I think the ideal place this would add value is pre-launch of a feature or MVP.

With enough randomization and "thought" patterns to test out your features it could be a very novel approach to testing that differs from existing load testing & integration testing.

Randomization is the key though, the synthetic users would need to be capable of rooting out those random edge cases that you can only find by typically using a product "incorrectly".

Cool idea though!