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Re:RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:20AM (#48474636)
The implementation that can be achieved at a hackathon is trivial at this point

Enterprise is just fishing for other people's ideas that they can use as their own

If you truly had a novel and useful idea, someone else can just steal it and recreate it themselves

Re:Agent Skill for TDD on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:28AM (#48424900)
TDD is unnecessary bloat at this point

Just work with Codex to fill the gaps, and then get it to one shot the implementation

Do review afterwards if needed

All these md files will be increasingly useless as models improve

openAI has how many employees and the chatGPT app has 1 billion MAU
If someone has parents and kids themselves should they convince them to press blue as well?
Humans are conditionally cooperative

When we suspect some people are not cooperative then it gets reciprocated

Re:Now is the best time to write code by hand on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:47PM (#47741800)
Just curious,

would that include lab grown animal products?

How could it possibly be the rational choice if the ev doing so is so ridiculously negative?

Having student debt doesn't justify throwing away the rest of your residual income

Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:19AM (#47015155)
No because open source models are close behind

Compute costs will fall drastically for existing models

But it's likely that frontier models of the future won't be released to the public at all, because they'll be too good