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Re:Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:42AM (#49034764)
Hell no
Re:Codex Micro on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:03PM (#48926348)
Is it April 1st already?
Amazing idea! Need to try that.
It feels like constant stop and go traffic, even with multiple agents.
Well, the 10x promised revenue increase must come from somewhere...
Re:Writing code is cheap now on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:43AM (#47138564)
Who's going to maintain all the cheap code and review it? Is the "software janitor" job title becoming reality now?
Re:GitHub Agentic Workflows on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:48PM (#46936691)
Surely this won't be a security nightmare.
Re:Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:20AM (#46314691)
it's even worse than that! bots are doing it as well
Re:Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:28PM (#45825478)
I am using this every day, such a useful little tool!
Re:You don't want to hire "the best engineers" on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:53AM (#45104737)
If you want the best engineers, you also need to be the best employer.
Re:Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:32AM (#45049470)
> Now, in many cases, LLMs can handle the "how" for you. You describe what you want in plain language, and the system works like a programmer or system analyst: breaking your problem into building blocks, mapping a flow to solve it, and creating the first version.

People keep saying things like this, but what's an actual example of a viable product created that way? Talk is cheap, I want to see it.

Re:A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250M Pay Packages on Saturday August 02, 2025 @09:08AM (#44767300)
2027
Re:LLM Inevitabilism on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:58AM (#44571232)
Don't worry, it will go away once the stock market plunges.
Re:Recovering from AI Addiction on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:54AM (#44533645)
Somehow this text looks suspiciously clean, as if it was generated ;)
Re:P-Hacking in Startups on Sunday June 22, 2025 @05:45AM (#44345475)
The problem probably more often just is that the product/vision itself is not as good as it is sold to shareholders. No PM will like to push back on this, so they're stuck with things like optimizing the landing page because "clearly the business vision is flawless, it must be that users don't understand it correctly".
Redundant Backups
So who will be held accountable if things break? "Sorry dear customer, it's not our fault, this code was AI generated and it worked in our tests."
Re:A simple search engine from scratch on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @11:30AM (#44042722)
Using tfidf or bm25 would actually be simpler than a vector search.

I understand this is just for fun, just wanted to point that out.

Re:A simple search engine from scratch on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @11:15AM (#44042567)
Nice idea, but this approach does not handle out of vocabulary words well which is one major motivation for using a vector-based search. It might not perform significantly better compared to lexical matching like tf-idf or BM25, and being slower because of linear complexity. But cool regardless.
MCP is practically useful, but the total lack of security in its "design" for me just underlines the type of YOLO-driven development and lack of quality that's being marketed as productivity improvement in software engineering too often these days.
Re:I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:31PM (#43998458)
In your comments history someone replied to a job posting "Just an FYI, if you do a takehome project for William, he won't respond to you (not even with an auto reject)."
Don't confuse cynical with realistic, though.
Re:Difficult Employees (and How to Handle Them) on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:22AM (#43243317)
This article tells me much more about the author's type of character.
Re:We Are Destroying Software on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:00PM (#42984734)
We are destroying software by letting non-technical people make technical decisions.
Re:Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @02:16PM (#42784135)
Very well said.
Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:47PM (#42544175)
I predict Bluesky will add some form of targeted advertisements in the future once the user base has grown to a certain size. Isn't that obvious? I'd assume that's also why investors are willing to invest.
Re:How I write code using Cursor: A review on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:09AM (#41983058)
Nope
Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech on Sunday October 27, 2024 @04:18AM (#41960743)
So, almost all servers running Linux around the world is just ignored by the author?
Re:Scaling up linear programming with PDLP on Sunday September 22, 2024 @10:31AM (#41617335)
Just share it for free. Science doesn't work that way.

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