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Just donated, please do likewise if you can. Reposting this helps too. Thank you. Link: www.miwrc.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Just donated, please do likewise if you can. Reposting this helps too. Thank you. Link: www.miwrc.org
Whose fault is it that everyone calls the latest point release of LLMs "frontier"? I don't remember ever hearing "frontier" used in this way for software previously.
January 21, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Whose fault is it that everyone calls the latest point release of LLMs "frontier"? I don't remember ever hearing "frontier" used in this way for software previously.
lmao
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
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January 21, 2026 at 4:12 PM
lmao
Wild how many people are totally content with answer-shaped things and don't give a shit if they are actual answers.
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Wild how many people are totally content with answer-shaped things and don't give a shit if they are actual answers.
"Taste is now the most important software development skill" would be terrible news for 100% of the guys I've heard saying that if it were true.
January 14, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"Taste is now the most important software development skill" would be terrible news for 100% of the guys I've heard saying that if it were true.
If you believe the "we won't train models on your company's data, pinky promise" line on LLM products, send me your address and next availability, and I'll get you scheduled for a visit from the wallet inspector.
January 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
If you believe the "we won't train models on your company's data, pinky promise" line on LLM products, send me your address and next availability, and I'll get you scheduled for a visit from the wallet inspector.
I sometimes fantasize about what life would be like if I'd had a successful startup exit in the 2010s and could afford to be comfortably unemployed forever, but apparently it means you are cursed to reply to 100% of Hacker News comments about AI, so maybe it's better that it didn't happen.
January 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I sometimes fantasize about what life would be like if I'd had a successful startup exit in the 2010s and could afford to be comfortably unemployed forever, but apparently it means you are cursed to reply to 100% of Hacker News comments about AI, so maybe it's better that it didn't happen.
Nationally, 2025 was quite bad. Personally, though? Well, that also was pretty bad. However, professionally? Also a shit year for me.
December 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nationally, 2025 was quite bad. Personally, though? Well, that also was pretty bad. However, professionally? Also a shit year for me.
I've learned that I can't predict, by extrapolating from what they've said in the past, which way people will break on the whole LLM coding thing, so it was very nice to see Rich Hickey's statement about "AI". That's what I'd *hope* the author of "Simple Made Easy" would say, but you never know.
December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I've learned that I can't predict, by extrapolating from what they've said in the past, which way people will break on the whole LLM coding thing, so it was very nice to see Rich Hickey's statement about "AI". That's what I'd *hope* the author of "Simple Made Easy" would say, but you never know.
I have to return to my home planet.
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I have to return to my home planet.
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As we near the new year I'm still on the look out for a new position and I'd really appreciate anyone's help or reference for any QA Automation positions you know of. I've hit the point where I've run out of unemployment benefits and also it would be great just to have some work to do!
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As we near the new year I'm still on the look out for a new position and I'd really appreciate anyone's help or reference for any QA Automation positions you know of. I've hit the point where I've run out of unemployment benefits and also it would be great just to have some work to do!
Obviously people enjoy all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons, but nothing makes me feel like an alien quite like hearing programmers say they have a blast working with LLM coding tools. I find it miserable, and it’s hard for me to imagine a mind that liked 2021-ass programming and also LLMs.
December 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Obviously people enjoy all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons, but nothing makes me feel like an alien quite like hearing programmers say they have a blast working with LLM coding tools. I find it miserable, and it’s hard for me to imagine a mind that liked 2021-ass programming and also LLMs.
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Been thinking a lot about how I want to move forward in 2026. In 2025, I spent a huge amount of time borderline incapacitated by fury. There was a lot to be furious about, and it was the correct emotional response. However I let it lock me up instead of driving me to action.
December 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Been thinking a lot about how I want to move forward in 2026. In 2025, I spent a huge amount of time borderline incapacitated by fury. There was a lot to be furious about, and it was the correct emotional response. However I let it lock me up instead of driving me to action.
Oh hey you're welcome, I democratized an activity, by which I mean I took something that anyone with a computer and a little curiosity could already learn to do and am charging a subscription to a centralized service for it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oh hey you're welcome, I democratized an activity, by which I mean I took something that anyone with a computer and a little curiosity could already learn to do and am charging a subscription to a centralized service for it.
Hey y'all sorry for using one of my monkey paw wishes on getting people to write longer READMEs, that's my bad.
December 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hey y'all sorry for using one of my monkey paw wishes on getting people to write longer READMEs, that's my bad.
Just finished this and it was great the whole way through! Highly recommend Complete CSS by @bell.bz for anybody who is fair-to-decent at CSS but wants to step it up to a truly professional level. Excited to try out these ideas in the context of my own projects soon. piccalil.li/complete-css/
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just finished this and it was great the whole way through! Highly recommend Complete CSS by @bell.bz for anybody who is fair-to-decent at CSS but wants to step it up to a truly professional level. Excited to try out these ideas in the context of my own projects soon. piccalil.li/complete-css/
Read the whole thread. On top of this, at least for now, the programmers deskilling themselves in this way are offloading the duty of paying attention to whoever gets stuck with the code review and maintenance, meanwhile collecting the kudos from management for "being so productive with AI".
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Read the whole thread. On top of this, at least for now, the programmers deskilling themselves in this way are offloading the duty of paying attention to whoever gets stuck with the code review and maintenance, meanwhile collecting the kudos from management for "being so productive with AI".
As of late December 2025:
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
As of late December 2025:
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
I always knew that software developers were the dumbest motherfuckers on planet earth when it comes to class consciousness, but I did not realize the true depths of that dumb motherfuckitude until this year. Truly astounding.
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I always knew that software developers were the dumbest motherfuckers on planet earth when it comes to class consciousness, but I did not realize the true depths of that dumb motherfuckitude until this year. Truly astounding.
The whole deal with "rubber duck debugging" is that the duck *does not talk back*, so definitionally you can't use an LLM as a rubber duck. This isn't even a comment about whether or not I think it's good to talk through ideas with LLMs, I'm just Once Again Cranky About Vocabulary.
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The whole deal with "rubber duck debugging" is that the duck *does not talk back*, so definitionally you can't use an LLM as a rubber duck. This isn't even a comment about whether or not I think it's good to talk through ideas with LLMs, I'm just Once Again Cranky About Vocabulary.
I've said it before and it's never been more true: software engineering should be a licensed profession and I should be the one who decides if you get a license or not. Retesting for renewal every 5 years. Capped at 450,000 total licenses globally.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've said it before and it's never been more true: software engineering should be a licensed profession and I should be the one who decides if you get a license or not. Retesting for renewal every 5 years. Capped at 450,000 total licenses globally.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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