ok_dad

6 ms·

91.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I don’t agree with the presentation, but the dead comment here has a point I agree with. Most developers were shit before, and now they’re just faster at that shit. AI isn’t the cause, it’s a tool being misused. Misused at a grand scale, in
92.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I don’t let AI either, I tell it what I want and it builds it to my exact specs. Not vibing, I specify the interface and what the functionality should be then I verify it. I just don’t have to press the keyboard. The result is what I’d have
93.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
Yea you gotta buy blades. I spend more for wood and tools than I do tokens.
94.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
You’d be surprised at the things table saws do when the wood has imperfections. I’ve had to buy new lumber when I fuck up a rip. Circular saws are maybe a better example because with both those and AI you need skills to use them properly.
95.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
There’s also all the crime trump and his cronies are trying to distract from that they’re doing by ignoring laws and taking bribes and stuff.
96.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
Everyone is talking about AI coding like only brainless idiots are using it. I’m a professional, I can judge and fix the clankers output. I don’t give a shit if some other idiot is using their tools right.
97.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I’m a professional so I don’t mind paying for tools.
98.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I was a hand tool woodworker, but the first time I had to rip 56 6 foot boards into 7 strips I immediately purchased a table saw. Now I use hand tools rarely because I find the speed and quality of my cuts are better. I still use hand tools
99.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I think I’m lucky that I never enjoyed programming, I enjoyed thinking about problems. That makes AI coding great, because I’m good enough at programming that I can describe what I want easily to an LLM, and I can judge the results very wel
100.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I am perplexed at how it can cost so much. I have been using AI every day, all day for a few months now and I have not even gotten to spending $300 a month. I use Cursor for teams, so we get ~$80 of usage for our ~$40 per member, then we pa
101.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
Companies never want to reduce productivity unless they need to cut spending or increase profits. In other words, if AI increases productivity that’s a direct win they can use to beat their competitors. You can’t spend money you don’t have,
102.
by ok_dad 5mo ago
I love you this was the best sim game when I was a kid and now I’ll spend my weekend on your site!
103.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
I think people today think that compartmentalization is easy but sometimes in life your work and personal life and everything else gets all mixed up and you get situations where others might call it unhealthy but for you, it’s fine ante it’
104.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Yea, I actually looked into a similar thing myself recently. I was looking at how we could replace Cursor, and I found that for ~10 people we'd need a half dozen H100's or something on that scale, which would cost ~$1500 per devel
105.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Sorry, didn't mean to be dismissive, I was just being a dickhead needlessly. I actually respect this a ton, good work.
106.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
yea just buy 300k worth of hardware and bob's your uncle
107.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
This one? https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...
108.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
No, what the fuck, I’m advocating for cars to stay the fuck in their own space. Are you being purposely obtuse?
109.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
You almost seem proud of your ignorance, maybe you should be learning something from this rather than just being fine with your hour of arguing misinformation. If you are truly not ashamed of bring ignorant and spreading FUD because of that
110.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Victim blaming right there. They have as right to the lane, cars don’t.
111.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Maybe you need to be less comfortable with being wrong and educate yourself about politics more before you comment a dozen times with misinformation then claim you’re totally innocent and were just “asking questions”. That shit is so common
112.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Maybe go back and edit or delete your other ignorant comments now that you’ve actually learned something. You sat here derailing the conversation for an hour because you lacked the motivation to look up facts.
113.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Pulling into the bike lane for 30 seconds causes bikers to have to unsafely pull around the car, possibly causing accidents. In some cities and lanes you may be endangering dozens of bikers during the 30 seconds. I had to commute by foot fo
114.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Military academies are not upper class at all, mostly middle class folks. Officers are generally of the same stock as any other white collar job in engineering, law, business, etc.
115.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Cool, thanks for the additional details! I use Cursor but it's getting expensive lately, so I'm trying to reduce context size and move to OpenCode or something like that which I can use with some cheaper provider and Kimi 2.5 or w
116.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
I get it, but if tomorrow every inference provider doubled costs I still understand my applications code and can continue to work on it myself.
117.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
I don’t find it slower overall, personally, but YMMV depending on how you like to tackle problems. Also the problem space and the project details can dictate that these tools aren’t helpful. Luckily the code I write tends to be perfect for
118.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
The agent mostly helps me reduce cognitive load and avoid the fiddly bits. I still review and understand all of the code but I don’t have to think about writing all of it. I also still hand write tons of code when I want to be very specific
119.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
I’m basically saying don’t do parallel work, use it as a tool. Just sit there and watch it do stuff, make sure it’s doing what you want, and stop it if it’s doing too much or not what you want to do. Maybe I’m just weird (actually that’s a
120.
by ok_dad 6mo ago
Just don’t buy the tools for 10x improvements, buy them for the 1.1x improvement and the help it gives with the annoying stuff like refactoring arguments to a function that’s used all over, writing tests, etc. They can also help reduce cogn

More ›