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Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:14AM (#49878319)
Also - capitalism doesn't like "works just fine". We call that stagnation. For better or worse they're going to continue to try to "innovate" new ways of squeezing some KPIs out of their products
Re:I'm Tired of Being on the Network on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:18AM (#49845828)
> AM radio sucked.

Right? Also it still exists and can be listened to. The ads were interesting? What?

I don't even know what the ads are on the podcasts I listen to because I can skip them instantly

Re:I'm Tired of Being on the Network on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:14AM (#49845793)
I was definitely disappointed when I saw that the last half was essentially an ad for this gaming console
Re:Snap launches $2,195 Specs smart glasses on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:47AM (#49739403)
Different use cases currently.

Specs are AR with interactive “lenses” that are similar to traditional apps

Meta glasses seem to be more video content creation + AI camera tie-in focused, no AR

You’d be more likely to casually wear the meta glasses and the Specs for a specific purpose

Re:OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:35AM (#49727700)
Who wants any ads?
Because you sign up for the service, agree to the terms, and voluntarily get into the car.
Yeah I don’t get it. You’re getting into a privately owned vehicle. You agree to the terms of service when you sign up and ask for a ride. You should assume you have zero privacy in those cars.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:25PM (#49569806)
Yep, found these as well

"Its indexed June archive shows tens of thousands of links, many created within seconds by distinct cloud addresses; some aliases explicitly say ...REPLY, ACK, or R2 confirmed, and one points straight back to a known DseWiki collaboration page"

I've got 33. I don't know how that stacks up against other but a large percentage of them came just from my backyard. Just got added a Baltimore Oriole that showed up this week.
Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @07:52AM (#48345002)
This doesn’t even 100% mean that the code was generated using Claude, only really means the commit message was.

Write some code and then ask Claude to diff your changes and write a commit message. Now the internet hates you

Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @07:42AM (#48344951)
I think a lot of people have a sort of “slot machine” experience with it at some point. You just start firing off prompts on some new project, wait a few seconds, see what prize you got. Then you start doing that over and over just letting the LLM code and code and not even review what it’s doing. It really is like getting hooked on gambling. You’re getting a thrill from anticipation, not the actual results.

This is what I personally consider “vibe coding”, not simply using LLMs or agents or whatever in your workflow

Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @07:28AM (#48344883)
It really is an odd feeling to be in between the 2 extremes
Like I just mentioned in another comment, they're also a way to get you back to work ASAP. Just about everyone NOT working a comfy white collar office job needs to be working in order to make money. Time off is less income, people can't afford that so they do what they need to do to get back to work.

Sprained ankle? Injured back? Headache? Broken bone? All things that people work through everyday with some NSAIDs because calling out sick means losing income

Well for one thing, in America, you gotta get back to work.

Work a manual labor job or one where you're on your feet all day and sprained your ankle? Would you rather miss a week of pay (or worse lose your job) or take some pain killers and work through it?

The new engagement bait technique is "vague posting" so that people need to click into the comments and ask for specifics, its terrible
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:32AM (#46393038)
So is the internet, computers even
Re:Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:26AM (#46392983)
We don't, that's why we do review it. We also do things like communicate with teammates, have expectations of not wasting other people's time, and try to uphold standards and meet SLAs. Maybe people should worry about why their teams are so dysfunctional rather than how the code was produced
Re:Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:17AM (#46392872)
And yet, you clicked the link
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:49AM (#46392504)
I think the response would be something about the value of enjoying art and "supporting the film industry" when streaming vs what that person sees as a totally worthless, if not degrading, activity. I'm more pro-AI than anti-AI, but I keep my opinions to myself IRL currently. The economics of the situation have really tainted being interested in the technology
Re:Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:05PM (#46315428)
Not at all. Submitting untested PRs is a wildly outside of my experience. Having tests written to cover your code is a pre-requisite for having your PR reviewed on our team. "Does it work" aka passing manual testing, is literally the bare minimum before submitting a PR
Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:37PM (#45931134)
It is really interesting to watch them for a while. QWEN keeps outputting some really abstract interpretations of a clock, KIMI is consistently very good, GPT5's results line up exactly with my experience with its code output (overly complex and never working correctly)
Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:10AM (#45900407)
"Besides nobody gives a shit about your stupid political opinions or the software stack you use."

But sure, tell everyone about your feelings on tattoos and stickers

Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:29AM (#45732648)
Just missing the social programs that redistribute the wealth to the working class

The system/ideology you're looking for starts with an "F" and ends with "ascism"

Greenfield development of small web apps. I’m familiar enough with everything that I can get something up and running on my own, but I don’t do it regularly so I need to read a lot of docs to be up to date. I can describe the basic design and requirements of an app and have something like Claude Code spit out a prototype in a couple of hours
For me, on small personal projects, I can get a project to a point in about 4 hours where previous to new AI tools it would’ve taken about 40. At work, there is a huge difference due to the complexity of the code base and services. Using agents to code for me in these cases as 100% been the loop of iterating on something so often, I would’ve been better off with a more hands on approach, essentially just reviewing PRs written by AI.
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? on Monday July 21, 2025 @09:34AM (#44634901)
TBH I hate this version of the web, I have no problem with it being remade
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? on Monday July 21, 2025 @09:31AM (#44634878)
Or developers will have more free time to solve novel problems instead of wasting hours digging through Google results and StackOverflow threads to find answers to already solved problems
Re:Merlin Bird ID on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:26AM (#44180506)
Yeah I use it almost everyday. I've gotten to where I frequently recognize new birds. I don't talk about it much because I haven't fully come to terms with entering a bird watching phase of my life, but occasionally I'll say something like "Oh that Northern Flicker is back" and my wife will be totally confused. We live in Brooklyn near Prospect Park and have a backyard so we get a pretty wide range of birds.
Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:25AM (#43611137)
A lot of people do immigrate by flying in and not leaving when their visa expires. It doesn't make for very spectacular news footage though. Not sure what the numbers are, but I used to work in restaurants with lots of people who were "undocumented" and they all came to the US via flight. The people crossing the border on foot are absolutely destitute and easy targets of animosity
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:54AM (#43494320)
I think by "these services" they mean apps like Doordash, not delivery as a concept

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