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Re:I am against GenAI and everything it stands for on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:23PM (#48341919)
And then everyone clapped.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:19PM (#48341888)
I mean if you ask the AI to make something to manage the inventory in a warehouse without any detail about how the warehouses operate then you're going to get a worse result than a domain expert talking to the AI.

The problem is that more and more people are getting convinced by the AI's that they're domain experts when they're really not.

Gemini is probably one of the better AI's for programming, despite Google not making a decent official client to access it.
Newer GPT (5+) models seem to forget imports more often than Claude and use all lowercase comments more (possibly as part of OpenAI's effort to make it more concise).

It also seems to use modern Java features like var and records more.

Re:It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle on Saturday May 30, 2026 @01:47PM (#48338861)
Yes and they'll have one of those wetware computers on board
I got a charger with a bluetooth speaker once (not from temu) and it came apart inside the outlet with the prongs sticking out from it.
Is it really any worse than AliExpress?
Yeah because he didn't responsibly report it. What did he expect?
Re:MCP Is Dead on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:36PM (#48331486)
I swear something is dead every week for yall.
Re:Java Card on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:04PM (#48311960)
I got one of these recently. I paid about $30 for it since they don't like to sell them to individual consumers. It's one of the newer dual-interface JCOP 4 cards, so it also supports ints, which most cards don't. You program them with a standard PC card reader, which I have.
So when you need an LLM in your backend, scrape Claude Code instead of using the API :)
Re:The Best Engineers Write Less Code on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:25PM (#48300122)
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code" - Ken Thompson
Once I looked up how to add placeholder text on a textbox with Swing and someone on Stack Overflow said to add a random JAR file into my project but the DuckDuckGo AI gave me the correct answer. So good riddance I guess.
Lenovo also shipped a Superfish backdoor on their older computers.
Re:Grok Build on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:03PM (#48288142)
Will it randomly bring up the "white genocide in South Africa" when working on a coding project?
Re:The User Is Visibly Frustrated on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:01PM (#48288124)
Claude Code actually has regexes that detect when the user is frustrated. You can see it from the leak.
Re:Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:59PM (#48288109)
Your Python client eats all my CPU. My CPU usage goes down from 75% to 5% when I close it.
Re:Bun.Image on Saturday May 23, 2026 @07:37PM (#48252697)
Glad to see that Bun is doing something that Java has been doing since 1998.