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Re:Vim 9.2 Released on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:09PM (#47016790)
That's pretty nifty. Link please
No. It has a voice mode.
Re:Eight More Months of Agents on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:29AM (#46956077)
You missed option c. C) keep all 8 engineers so the team can pump out features faster, all still working 8 hour days. The ceo will probably be forced to do it to keep up with their competition.
Re:OpenClaw Is Changing My Life on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:38PM (#46939751)
From the linked project:

> The reality: 3 weeks in, ~50 hours of coding, and I'm mass-producing features faster than I can stabilize them. Things break. A lot. But when it works, it works.

Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:22PM (#46939655)
Appreciate the response. My primary concern with llm coding is long term maintainability. The paper you linked seems interesting, will give it a read!
Re:Software Factories and the Agentic Moment on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:47AM (#46933445)
> The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.

Lol. Any time I see something ai related endorsed by simonw, I tend to view it as mostly hype, and I have been right so far.

Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:01PM (#46842184)
Are these software popular? Are these maintainable long term? Are you getting feedback from users?
Lol same. Didn't realize it was the ai hype master on my first read.
Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:11PM (#46798221)
The parent comment is obviously cherry picking news and trying to push an agenda.

Uk investment: https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/job-creation-and-investme...

Us investment: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-invest-50-billion-ai

Guessing x loses ad revenue when traffic goes to xcancel.
I don't know if it's fair to call him an ai addict or deduce that his ego is bruised. But I do wonder whether karpathy's agentic llm experiences are based on actual production code or pet projects. Based on a few videos I have seen of his, I am guessing it's the latter. Also, he is a research scientist (probably a great one), not a software developer. I agree with the op that karpathy should not be given much attention in this topic i.e llms for software development.
With the llm, it might work or it might not. If it doesn't work, then you have to keep iterating and hand holding it to make it work. Sometimes that process is less optimal than writing the code manually. With a calculator, you can be sure that the first attempt will work. An idiot with a calculator can still produce correct results. An idiot with an llm often cannot outside trivial solutions.
Cursor and gpt 4 have been a thing from 2023. So, no, vibe coding didn't become real just last year.
Re:Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years? on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:05AM (#46644209)
Encode your data as qr codes and etch them onto diamonds. Your data lasts virtually forever in the form of family heirlooms.

Using modern femtosecond lasers, you can etch codes as small as 250 to 500 microns. Total Capacity (5 Diamonds): 180 QR codes (36 per diamond) = 230 KB of data.

Webcam athletics
I have two LG oleds. I turned off a bunch off settings and blocked the LG update url in pihole, set pihole as dns. I just use the tv, without any connected devices. It is pretty responsive, I get 0 ads. The only inconvenient part is going fully through their god awful settings menu and turning off a bunch of them once.
Of course he is
Re:AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:19PM (#46072388)
Can we also replace shareholders with Ai
Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:27PM (#46009182)
They could offer a $X steam credits with their steam hardware for a win win.
Re:Blame as a Service on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @10:02PM (#45988399)
Excellent article
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:39PM (#43019287)
Exactly. I have been waiting for gpt5 to see the delta, but after gpt4 things seemed to have stalled.