smugglerFlynn

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by smugglerFlynn 5d ago
You get downvoted but I remember the times when Google was carrying exact same sentiment, people who used Google were labeled 'lazy' etc
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by smugglerFlynn 12d ago
Going from “the human brain might use similar language techniques” to “human output is driven by autocomplete” - and implying that LLMs and the brain are therefore similar - is a very long road. Prove to me that autocomplete contributes eve
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by smugglerFlynn 13d ago
There is a difference between historical institutions failing people, and monkey A getting to a wrench quicker than monkey B (exactly what that email points to)
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by smugglerFlynn 13d ago
> My other children were smart enough to choose tennis and horses I am giving you a black card warning right there, sir
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by smugglerFlynn 13d ago
Many large modern corporations are third-hand cars. The original owner had a purpose and an emotional investment in owning the car; for the second-hand owner, it became a practical thing; for the third-hand owner, it is often a liability. I
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by smugglerFlynn 13d ago
There was an emergent and surprising phenomena in collaboratively writing Linux kernel and low level backbone of modern operating systems, or developing mobile apps, or scaling Internet to broader population. What is different about LLMs? I
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Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?
22 points by smugglerFlynn 13d ago|20 comments
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by smugglerFlynn 13d ago
I find this a very engineering/technology focused point of view. Most business related functions run on this “human in the loop” with zero hints from industry this will change anytime soon - quite the opposite. Even if we take purely
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by smugglerFlynn 15d ago
How do you solve this problem right now?
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by smugglerFlynn 16d ago
This feature is well thought out in terms of battery use, because nobody is going to ever use their phone as a "bedtime clock" Work smarter, not harder
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by smugglerFlynn 17d ago
If Apple continues like that, in 10 years it won’t exist
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by smugglerFlynn 17d ago
> you must ask yourself a single tough question: > How much do you value technological wonder over everyday, solid, smart game design? This quote applies to so much more than just gaming
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by smugglerFlynn 17d ago
Modern LLM services are engineer's pipe dream that was heavily shaped by the shadiest product management dark patterns you can find: applying gambling-style engagement tactics, exploiting cognitive biases, exploiting users' lack o
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by smugglerFlynn 17d ago
You invite a friend over, but raccoon appears. Then pigeon appears. Then friend appears but at the last second suddenly becomes a banana. You remember you are out of bananas so you order more and also some cola zero cans on your local groce
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by smugglerFlynn 19d ago
If intern is making a breakfast, and boss is the one who suddenly runs to the grocery store because eggs are missing, is boss still the one in a driver’s seat? From the original goal point of view yes, as it was boss who has initiated whole
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by smugglerFlynn 19d ago
> Also.. uh.. isn't this.. good? It is weird if you think about it this way: it is AI that waits for you, its ‘eyes’, to provide a feedback so it can continue working. It literally uses you as its organ. <!!spoiler ahead
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by smugglerFlynn 21d ago
I see aviation sentiment raised from time to time. In aviation failure is catastrophic, and systems you operate do not change on the fly (pun intended). You can probably drill SREs that way but you are only teaching them how to _react_ effi
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by smugglerFlynn 21d ago
"Middle devs take care of incidents, senior devs lose touch with their systems"
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by smugglerFlynn 24d ago
Interestingly, I took a different route: the problem was not quality of my memory, but all the overblown expectations I've put towards myself remembering all that stuff. Turns out most people are not even trying to juggle all these fac
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by smugglerFlynn 25d ago
I am not the target audience for this product, but I can’t get over the irony of building a CRM specifically to track details about people you genuinely care about
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by smugglerFlynn 25d ago
Can't help but notice that this line is not true anymore in 2026: > It’s harder to read code than to write it.
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by smugglerFlynn 29d ago
"I have really enjoyed that hand-crafted email" is not something you hear from actual people in real life. I am saying this non-ironically as I understand what you are talking about, but very few people are geeky about how the doc
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by smugglerFlynn 1mo ago
Not the guy you are asking the queation, but: be honest to the extent we can. Market and “visionaries” will catch up on reality sooner or later.
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by smugglerFlynn 1mo ago
It’s just that the overlap between “people who find AI coding fascinating” and the guy you are replying to is zero. Not everyone finds this means to an end AI treadmill even remotely ‘fun’. Resent studies show that this not even a minor gro
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
> It is my firm belief that any of the authors listed below (unless they’re dicks) would not want anyone to be prohibited from reading their work <links to book sharing websites follows> Hot take - any book authors who wa
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
I propose this short ‘Google test’ when ranting about LLM advertising: replace ‘LLM’ with ‘Google’ and see what happens. ‘Will Google decide on which ads to place? Will it be part of search results or a summary’ - we all know the answers
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
At this point why forcing people to use the service, if you can forcefully extract these eyeballs and then sell them directly to advertisers in large enough jars?
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
Modern version needs to be community focused, not platform focused. This could look like "old instagram" or "old reddit": people sharing findings with friends / small groups of like minded people. We are seemingly
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
Same thing happened with remote work. Things that were simple by-products of a face to face communication now need to be dissected and studied, and then carefully added back in, in order for remote environments not to suck. All the small ta
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
> I make an effort to use Spotify to find and listen to albums, but it wasn’t built for this, and invariably find 90% of my listening happening on algo-generated playlists of songs that sound exactly like a song I like. I never lear

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