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by imiric 8mo ago
And yet here we are communicating over a network from the 1970s.
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by imiric 8mo ago
All of that sounds reasonable. But it also doesn't need to be a reason to find maintaining OSS very draining or unpleasant, as GP put it. First of all, when a project grows, its core team of maintainers can also grow, so that the maint
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by imiric 8mo ago
> it's not about the money OP sure makes it sound like it's about the money. > for someone that just wants to put code out there that is very draining and unpleasant. I never understood this. Then why publish the code in the
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by imiric 8mo ago
It's remarkable how many people wrongly assume that open source projects can't be monetized. Business models and open source are orthogonal but compatible concepts. However, if your primary goal while maintaining an open source pr
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by imiric 8mo ago
> What evidence of intelligence would satisfy you? That is a loaded question. It presumes that we can agree on what intelligence is, and that we can measure it in a reliable way. It is akin to asking an atheist the same about God. The bu
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Indeed, and the specific task machines are accomplishing now is intelligence. How so? This sentence, like most of this field, is making baseless claims that are more aspirational than true. Maybe it would help if we could first agree o
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by imiric 8mo ago
Part of OpenRouter's appeal to me is precisely that it is a middle man. I don't want to create accounts on every provider, and juggle all the API keys myself. I suppose this increases my exposure, but I trust all these providers a
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by imiric 8mo ago
What is the point of comparing performance of these tools to humans? Machines have been able to accomplish specific tasks better than humans since the industrial revolution. Yet we don't ascribe intelligence to a calculator. None of th
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Worse would be x.com.
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Computing is getting cheaper Heh. Looks like a great product, although maybe mention some honest reasons to not use it, instead of the passive-aggressive marketing ones.
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by imiric 8mo ago
Wait, surely adding 10x more agents to my project will speed up development, improve the end product, and make me more productive by that same proportion, right? I will task a few of them to write a perfectly detailed spec up front, break u
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by imiric 8mo ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but what makes you think that the internet or technology at all can help with this? Judging by the state of the modern internet and WWW, technology seems to be making things worse, not better. The idealistic view
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by imiric 8mo ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing! Automata are marvels of engineering. They're similar to computer programs, except their creators are expert artisans of both hardware and "software". For anyone interested in this topic, I highl
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by imiric 8mo ago
What makes you think next time will be different? Revolutions happen all the time. They all inevitably end up in the same place. The problem is not them. The problem is us.
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by imiric 8mo ago
They're out there. I've noticed a surge of Show HNs right here. A lot of it is vibe coded. I would like to see GitHub's project creation and activity charts from today compared to 5 years ago. Similar trends must be happening
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by imiric 8mo ago
Jesus Christ.
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I can't tell if your general premise is serious or not, but in case it is: I get zero dopamine hits from using these tools. My dopamine rush comes from solving a problem, learning something new, producing a particularly elegant and per
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by imiric 8mo ago
Pray tell, how has the world benefited from a flood of all these superhuman developers? Where is the groundbreaking software that is making our lives better ?
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by imiric 8mo ago
> But suddenly you're working in a completely newer level of abstraction where a lot of the manual work that used to be your main concern is suddenly automated away. It's remarkable that people who think like this don't ha
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by imiric 8mo ago
I find it amusing that the innovation in this space for the past year+ has been mostly centered around engineering: MCP, "agents", "skills", etc. Now "agent" orchestration is the new hotness. Meanwhile, the sam
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by imiric 8mo ago
The possibility that the performance of these tools still isn't at the level some people need it to be is not an option? It's insulting that criticism is often met with superficial excuses and insinuation that the user lacks the r
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by imiric 8mo ago
I'm curious: what concrete value have you extracted using these tools that is worth US$thousands?
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Hhmm I think that's more difficult than using these tools for creating software. If generated software doesn't compile, or does the wrong thing, you know there's an issue. Whereas if the LLM gives you seemingly accurate infor
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by imiric 8mo ago
That doesn't track at all IME. Programming is not something you can teach to people who are not interested in it in the first place. This is why campaigns like "Learn to code" are doomed to fail. Whereas (good) programmers st
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by imiric 8mo ago
This type of software is mainly created to gain brand recognition, influence, or valuation, not to solve problems for humans. Its value is indirect and speculative. These are the pets.com of the current bubble, and we'll be flooded by
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by imiric 8mo ago
I wish we would see these warnings on all articles and comments from pro-AI influencers as well.
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by imiric 8mo ago
> otherwise you can't really have a default value, because there's no way to tell if a given zero was explicit or implicit You can use pointers, or nullable types. These are not ideal, admittedly, but it's not true that &q
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by imiric 8mo ago
I'm not familiar with what UNIX or its modern descendants have or have not implemented. But why should Linux mimic them? Linux is a Unix-like, and a standalone implementation of the POSIX standard. The init system is implementation-spe
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> Linux has nothing to do with UNIX design Respectfully, that's nonsense. Linux is directly inspired by Unix (note: lowercase) and Minix, shares many of their traits (process and user model, system calls, shells, filesystem, small t
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This is not about mindless worship, but about the fact that the UNIX design has stood the test of time for this long, and is still a solid base compared to most other operating systems. Sure, there are more modern designs that improve on

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