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I’ve been using Kagi for over a year (maybe two?) and it’s been tremendous. I can’t recommend it enough.
Re:Don't just paste the AI at me on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:34PM (#48243290)
2 is far worse. Asking a question that can be answered by AI can also spark a good conversation. That's not bad at all.
Re:Don't just paste the AI at me on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:33PM (#48243287)
The wording is a bit rude but the message is still important.
Re:A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft on Friday May 22, 2026 @06:40PM (#48242527)
I can't wait to have windowing bugs and UI issues but in Minecraft!

Jokes aside, I've grown to love "XYZ in Minecraft". It's like a newer (still 2011 was a long time ago!) version of "Doom on XYZ".

Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:42PM (#48215898)
Gamers don’t like AI.[1][2] I actually think indie studios that don’t use AI will do better than ones that do.

1: https://www.ign.com/articles/larian-ceo-responds-to-divinity...

2: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/clair-obscur-expedition-33-ai...

Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:05PM (#48215550)
That's assuming that the only market is stuff people are hanging up. The games industry, one that already takes advantage of its workers, is going to love this to the detriment of really passionate artists who love their craft and industry.
This is so silly, but I’m really enjoying it lol. If you wanted to add some extra juice, haptic feedback on the rolls would be super cool!
Re:I don't think AI will make your processes go faster on Sunday May 17, 2026 @09:22AM (#48168711)
Sadly I think you’re right. I even shy away from sharing these types of posts at work because it feels like anything that doesn’t mesh with the status quo isn’t received well.
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:46PM (#48116061)
That title gave me a heart attack.
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:28AM (#48095456)
This is kind of how I feel I think. Putting pen to paper for me is hard.
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:01AM (#48095143)
I want to preface this with that I am all for agentic engineering.

I am so tired of hearing about this false equivalency. Compilers are deterministic, their outputs are well understood and they’re transparent.

LLMs are not.

Maybe. But it depends on the metric. It seems like orgs are focused on PR count and token usage. Issues caused by poor code are often lagging indicators so it’s asymmetrical in that aspect.

Write lots of code now and statistically look great, while the impact won’t be felt for a much larger range of time.

With the job search and whatnot then yeah, caring becomes a lot more important. That’s true.

Yeah but you care which is my exact point.
Defeat in what aspect?
The only people who are going to put in the time, are people who care enough to. The problem is you have people who didn’t care before who were equipped with a garden hose. Now that they have a fully pressurized fire hose they can make more of a mess faster.
I guess for a seasonal job, where maybe you don’t care as much about the human interaction aspects of the job I’d be okay with this.

If I ever got an AI interviewer at a company I was interested in working for long term, it would be dead on arrival. Interviewing is a two way street. Candidates glean info about their possible teammates and work experience from the interviewer, just like the interviewer gets a read on the candidate.

Also if I am having someone join my team, I’d want to get to know them first. I’m sure the goal isn’t to have this replace every interview panel but it feels icky to me outside of a seasonal job.

Re:An Update on GitHub Availability on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:13AM (#47934117)
To die. I’m sure that’s nothing new for GitHub, but now it can happen at scale.
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:11PM (#47878377)
I moved my forge to my home, outside of a little stress getting all the containers wrangled it was pretty effortless to setup Forgejo.

I do need a good backup solution though, that’s one thing I’m missing.

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:22PM (#47795726)
There’s one that’s like “Considering 17 theories” that had me wondering what those 17 things would be, I wanted to see them! Turns out it’s just a static message. Very confusing.
Re:AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development on Thursday April 16, 2026 @09:14AM (#47792496)
They do, though I imagine just having “someone” reading it to you with intonation and whatnot is nice. I don’t know though.
Re:AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @02:43PM (#47783392)
Sounds great for people who are seeing impaired.
Re:AI Job Loss Tracker on Saturday April 11, 2026 @08:40PM (#47735199)
The “explicit” tag on some of these should really be “self reported”. It seems like most companies these days mismanage themselves into layoffs and spin it as AI gains to appease shareholders instead.
Re:Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @03:11AM (#47686435)
They’re asking for $100+/mo for the plans that are actually usable at scale. If I’m paying that much I have very high expectations.

There’s also the fact that they’re known for dogfooding heavily, I imagine that contributes to it a lot.

Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:45PM (#47665950)
Honestly for such a powerful tool, it’s pretty damn janky. Permissions don’t always work, hitting escape doesn’t always register correctly, the formatting breaks on its own to name a few of the issues i’ve had. It’s popular and successful but it’s got lots of thorns
Re:Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:01AM (#47661826)
Crazy timing. My copy of this is being delivered today from the local bookshop. Great review.
Re:Talk like caveman on Sunday April 05, 2026 @01:12PM (#47651526)
I was wondering just yesterday if a model of “why waste time say lot word when few word do trick” would be easier on the tokens. I’ll have to give this a try lol
Re: on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:43PM (#47591689)
> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.

If you have buggy software, people don’t use it if there are alternatives. They don’t care about the code but hard to maintain, buggy code will eventually translate to users trying other products.

Re:VR Is Not Dead on Sunday March 29, 2026 @02:06PM (#47565544)
This has been the sentiment for nearly a decade now.
Steam works on the top 2 most played games on Steam right now.

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