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Yes, after wandering through a few pages trying to find an example that actually did something, I gave up and moved on.

Maybe a lot of the budget is already going to a second level of workers checking the redacting workers' work.

TL,DR: A device that inputs waste heat to force pressure differences in hydrogen, outputting electricity.

Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?

Any time "secret" is in the title, it's not.

Seems like you already received plenty of good advice. It's time for you to move on.

I developed and shipped one product with monthly releases for decades and always simply bumped the version by one: 1, 2, 3..

Anything fancier doesn't really tell you exactly what features changed when, so a table in the documentation spelled that out for each version.

The only assistant I want is one I can interact with solely by voice. In other words, a replacement for a human secretary.

I have to believe that before starting implementation, they never put mockups in front of focus groups. Otherwise they would have immediately learned no one wanted it.

Before you read this, read "The Elements of Programming Style" by Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger.

Has private equity ever done anything good for anyone outside of the investors?

> I was refreshing one of our services. Part of this process was to migrate codebase from Scala 2.13 to Scala 3.

My first question was: why?

> The total payload is under 200KB.

Just out of curiosity, how big was what you considered Claude's best attempt to be?

In the 70's a Brazilian programmer told me his method was to make his best guess how long something would take, double it, then promise that amount plus-or-minus 50%.

Evoking a vibe is what artists try to do. Visually enticing buyers of your product is what graphic designers do. Either use a designer or copy from the millions of expertly designed sites that already exist. You'll have to change it all anyway in a decade or two when styles and fashions change.

"Splitting the universe of intellectual tasks" would be a gigantic job. Various AI implementations already fail at so many tasks it seems reasonable for skeptics to claim the AI is not yet thinking, and the burden is on the implementers to fix that.

This is two-wheelers, not cars.

If HN, Reddit, email, Slack and everything else is down for a day, I think my productivity would actually go up, not down.

A number of the new icons were recently critiqued at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838372

Any time you hear a vendor is being selected "without competitive bidding", you're probably not getting the best solution.

I'm amazed that city, county, state, and federal tech projects never want to clone best-of-show systems instead of starting from scratch. City needs a web site? Clone the best one you can find amongst the tens of thousands of cities already doing that. County jail needs tracking of inmate transports? Clone the best one you can find amongst the thousands of counties already doing that. State needs a sales tax system? Clone whatever other state system is the best. VA needs a system for hospital records? Don't develop from scratch, start by cloning the best system you can find amongst the thousands of existing hospital networks, and customize from there.

In that thread, someone suggested "Would have been better investing $5M each in 20 new promising directors [instead of Megalopolis]".

I think $10k each in 10k promising screenwriters would be even better.

I wouldn't call "release a smell" equivalent to "beg for death".

You're suggesting mixing with the right-brainers, who can drive the left-brainers crazy, and vice versa.

They're visual, but disconnected pieces, not a "guide to how the fire spread".

This 13-year-old article lists problems after a language has been implemented. Well before that happens, a big red flag would be the creator created the language more for the challenge of designing and implementing a language, rather than filling some real need for a new language. Also, even if a language doesn't have the flaws the article lists, a decent language is still doomed if it doesn't have the necessary critical mass of actual users.

To quote an AI lookup: Sources like The Historical Encyclopedia of Programming Languages list thousands, with some estimates reaching close to 9,000. The TIOBE Programming Community Index tracks over 100 actively used languages based on popularity.

That's a lot of competition.

What good is zooming if you can't pan or scroll?

Not 11.6%, not 11.8%, but 11.7%.

I think we're quickly getting to the point where for any task you need done there will be at least 9 different AI tools online to do that task.