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by brushfoot 9mo ago
I'm not trolling. I'm just not aware of major differences between them. When I make a change with a Copilot Agent, it checks for issues, builds my project, runs tests, and iterates until things work. Multiple agents can do that in
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
Gas Town seems like a more confusing/expensive alternative to GitHub Copilot Agents. https://github.com/copilot/agents Go to the URL, type what you want done, and a cloud Claude agent creates a PR. $10/month.
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
Reader, keep in mind that OP being "a real person" has nothing to do with whether their content is appropriate for HN. Every spammer and scammer, even a bot, is ultimately controlled by a real person in some sense. That doesn&#x27
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
Your linked site has an AI-generated blog. If this were about grammar, it would be appropriate to translate something you wrote, not use generative AI to create it. This whole thing is an ad. All the post's sentiments that people are e
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
It's a shame to find an AI-written ad so highly upvoted here. The author even insists that AI was used because of their poor English, which is the standard excuse on Reddit as well. But clearly, this is not a translation: > Curious
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
To me this is the biggest threat that AI companies pose at the moment. As everyone rushes to them for fear of falling behind, they're forking over their secrets. And these users are essentially depending on -- what? The AI companies&#x
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
In summary, a wealthy westerner travels the world, asking the poor for favors. He eventually comes to believe that enlightened spirituality rests primarily on gratitude. (One can't imagine why.) He then proceeds to passive-aggressively
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
I pivoted into integrations in 2022. My day-to-day now is mostly in learning the undocumented quirks of other systems. I turn those into requirements, which I feed to the model du jour via GitHub Copilot Agents. Copilot creates PRs for me t
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
I think it goes beyond the social hurdle. I have an Oculus, and I just never use it. A phone or laptop screen generally just feels good enough. It's easier to start and stop using, and it doesn't feel like I'm shutting myself
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
These AI Overviews are awful. I've been documenting the ones I've gotten over the past few months. Examples: - 2025-09-19. My query: "is mics an abbreviation for micrograms." AI Overview: "No, MICs is not an abbrevi
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by brushfoot 9mo ago
Think of the kinds of people who vie for leadership roles at established companies like Sears was at the time. Those people aren't innovators and creators. They're management types, MBAs, bureaucrats. And fair enough: When the shi
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by brushfoot 10mo ago
My advice to anyone who wants to work at a place like this but who doesn't have connections is to try to find a good recruiting agency. An agency put me in a business like this, and the business hired me after 6 months. It was one of t
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by brushfoot 10mo ago
The edit history of the announcement is quite a ride: > [2025-11-27T02:10:07Z] it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to in
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by brushfoot 10mo ago
If this obnoxious and seemingly ubiquitous platitude were actually true, then torture would be a moral duty. Enforced poverty would be a moral duty. Governments would be obligated to regularly arrange mass starvations for their citizens. I
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by brushfoot 11mo ago
I've been considering Cloudflare for caching, DDoS protection and WAF, but I don't like furthering the centralization of the Web. And my host (Vultr) has had fantastic uptime over the 10 years I've been on them. How are other
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by brushfoot 1y ago
> Teams would chomp at the bit to do it to boost their own performance. This assumes teams care more about performance than comfort and convenience. Many teams care about both. And which one wins out can vary. It can even change over tim
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by brushfoot 1y ago
I'm a solopreneur. Yesterday, in 90 minutes, I developed an enhancement that would have taken a full day before. I did it by writing a detailed Markdown spec and feeding it to Copilot Agents running Sonnet 4.5. Copilot worked on it on
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by brushfoot 1y ago
I hear that. I enjoy that kind of tinkering; I just have too much on my plate with my business to go as deep into it as I used to. But I'm still interested in Linux, if only because it's a much-needed third option. I've been
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by brushfoot 1y ago
Oh wow, thanks for this. I had filed it under "Windows and Mac only" in my head for some reason. Now I see that it was originally Linux only!? Amazing that this free-to-download application supports Linux when Adobe doesn't.
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by brushfoot 1y ago
My main reasons for using Windows right now are: - Davinci Resolve - Adobe suite - AutoHotkey scripts, lots of them - Microsoft Office, mainly PowerPoint, Excel and Word for creating and interacting with other companies' docs. Libre&#x
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by brushfoot 1y ago
Yes, and in fact, Lena's response is part of the dialog. And its dismissiveness is telling. Not only does it reflect her attitude toward her constituents, it also exposes her tacit premise that digital communications are somehow unreal
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by brushfoot 1y ago
Thank you for implying I'm one in a million, but this just underscores why I avoid ecosystems like Node in favor of more top-down ones like .NET. When a lone developer is untrained and doesn't follow best practices, as happened he
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by brushfoot 1y ago
Yes, the article's insistence that anyone would have fallen for the phish, and that anyone who disagrees is simply "wrong," is unfortunate. My old corporate phishing training drilled it into my head pretty effectively that yo
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by brushfoot 1y ago
Agreed; the rich standard library from Microsoft is one of the many things I appreciate about C#. The article's author seems to be under the misapprehension that standard libraries should or have to be community-driven like Node's
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by brushfoot 1y ago
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by brushfoot 1y ago
I read AI coding negativity on Hacker News and Reddit with more and more astonishment every day. It's like we live in different worlds. I expect the breadth of tooling is partly responsible. What it means to you to "use the LLM co
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by brushfoot 1y ago
> While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite. Look at the language Coinbase uses. Only their view is a "belief." The opposing view is a "worry." Others are motivated by fear. O
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by brushfoot 1y ago
> they said the same thing about books, "young people are hypnotised!" It really doesn't matter what "they" said about books. We are talking about screen time. And screen time has measurably harmful effects on ch
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by brushfoot 1y ago
> This isn’t evolution. It’s self-inflicted complexity. > This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. > We’re not innovating. We’re rebuilding broken versions of tools the web already gave us – and doing it badly. > We’re not iteratin
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by brushfoot 1y ago
Linux has gotten in the way every time I've tried various distros over the years. And I'm a system administrator turned software engineer. I can't imagine the headaches for less technical users. Examples: - Screensharing in T

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