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by johnfn 8mo ago
Uhhh, this is my work, so… we didn’t have a SEV? None of our thousands of customers paying us money reported the site was broken?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
The other day I got Codex to one-shot an upgrade to Vite 8 at my day job (a real website with revenue). It worked in this for over 3 hours without intervention (I went to sleep). This is now in production.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Showboat does look neat -- though I feel like I don't fully grasp the use case yet! Maybe I just need to use more AI :) As for rodney, I was thinking that although Playwright is good, there are a lot of cases where AI can't really
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using Rodney when Playwright has the same set of features and AI understands how to write a Playwright script very well?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
> Cursor's Composer 2.0 There is no Composer 2.0. There is Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1.5.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I am still getting joy out of building things. If anything, I have a bit more joy than I used to because I can accomplish small things faster. I still find the work to be mentally demanding and interesting, and there are a lot of new intere
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I would suggest a new feature here. I have been hesitating on flagging them because I feel 'flag' is for things which are obvious rule violations. I feel a bit bad flagging a submission off the front page when I only have a vague
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by johnfn 8mo ago
It has nothing to do with power. I just want to build bigger, cooler things, faster.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
But this is no more than 5 lines of code. If it was 100 I’d understand.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Genuine question out of curiosity. Why do I want parallel and sequential when I can just write a simple bash script to accomplish the same thing? Is there some additional complexity I’m missing?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Sorry for this, Simon. But just know that this non-newly-created hacker news account does not think you are a “vapid propagandist” and appreciates your content.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Hey Tom! Earnest question here - I am seeing on the order of one AI post a day on HN, sometimes more than that. It's good to know we can email in about these things, but I think most users don't understand that - certainly I didn&
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by johnfn 8mo ago
This is just AI slop. The best tell is how much AI loves tables. Look at "The Hidden Costs Add Up", where it literally just repeats "1" in the second column and "7" in the third column. No human would ever wr
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Yes, I think it is probably a question of semantics. I imagine you don't really take issue with the "they code" part, so it's the "they think" thing that bothers you? But what would you call it if not "thi
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by johnfn 8mo ago
> It can code in an autocomplete sense. I just (right before hopping on HN) finished up a session where an agent rewrote 3000 lines of custom tests. If you know of any "autocomplete" that can do something similar, let me know.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Are you really claiming that there isn't a machine in existence that can code? And that that is never possible?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
The previous post in this blog is titled "Leaving 1X". So your wait is over!
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I think if OP had said "I miss getting paid for (a particular type of) thinking hard" I would find it to be a lot more agreeable. But he's just saying he misses it in general. I think that's what I (and, from OP's s
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by johnfn 8mo ago
And I am pretty sure every single one of those "billions of people" have had the experience of returning back from the grocery store, only to realize they were actually out of eggs.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
When I read the article, I feel the same emotions that I feel if someone were to tell me "I keep trying to ride a bike but I keep falling off". My experience with LLMs is that the "lack of thinking" is mostly a quick tro
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by johnfn 8mo ago
It's certainly a different style of thinking hard. I used to really stress myself over coding - i.e. I would get frustrated that solving an issue would cause me to introduce some sort of hack or otherwise snowball into a huge refacto
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Yeah, I feel like this is really the smoking gun. Because it's not actually deeper? An LLM running untrusted code is not some additional level of security violation above a plugin running untrusted code. I feel like the most annoying p
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by johnfn 9mo ago
If your words don’t portray who you are, what does?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I absolutely pay to have a maid come over and clean, yes.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
> Just organize your life better. Do you really think this is a viable solution to families with kids?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
It might surprise you to learn that a plumber is human sized.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
For some reason I can't understand, you appear to be contorting yourself into making a totally bizarre argument (there is no valued in saved time whatsoever). You can't honestly believe that.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I responded to someone saying "Ain’t nobody made the business case for that. It is pure vibes." When I point one out, all the responses shift the goal posts, as you are doing, to say execution is incredibly hard or Tesla is far be
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I don't understand why my question was so controversial. Oftentimes on this website I feel like everyone is tapped into some polarizing news source that I am not, and so when I ask some (to my mind) benign question it's actually a
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I mean, forget the manufacturing industry. I'd happily pay a lot of money just to have one help me with menial tasks around the house. I mean, I'd probably pay thousands for a bot that could just do the laundry. Are you saying t

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