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At OpenClaw we get a huge volume of pull requests from the community and had to build our own bots for fighting spam.
I find it ironic that the people who originate the idea of AI-code-spam are being negatively impacted by this.
But all they will do is build an AI agent to review the code written by an AI agent, that probably never needed to be written to begin with.
Speedrun: Starting World War III, any%
And replaced with what?
Sounds like you "have a few qualms with this app" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
If a human messes up enough eventually they well get fired, fined or jailed. An AI will not.
A human also knows they might get punished if it messes up bad enough, which might cause it to think twice before doing something bad. For an AI there is a reward, but there is no risk.
So while both might lie, only the human will be worried that it will be found out. That makes a difference.
I’m not going to let you hide behind a big word.
You are publicly proposing “throwing all Republicans through a window to their death”.
This isn’t normal, and it isn’t right. If we allow anyone to call for political violence, then we become numb to it. Worse still, your call to violence against Republicans gives them a call to defence, and then a call to preemptive action.
“It was ok for us to shutdown HackerNews because they called for our deaths.”
We shouldn’t tolerate calls to political violence from anyone. Be better.
The author themselves disagree with you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-a...
So does the National Council of Teachers of English. https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/
Just because can't believe that people would promote a comic with explicit texting and sexual imagery to children doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Firstly - you are going to get sued by Salesforce. You can't just make a Slack-clone, use their trademarked name and just add "Open" to the front.
Secondly, this is pure AI slop. There are 2 commits - "Initial commit" and "Trim feature table" where you changed the README.
Why would anyone use this? Has anyone read any of the code? Do you even understand how (or if) it even works?
But if AI can maintain code bases so easily, why does it matter if there are 3? People use electron to quickly deploy non-native apps across different systems.
Surely, it would be a flex to show that your AI agents are so good they make electron redundant.
But they don’t. So it’s reasonable to ask why that is.
More than anything, I would love to know the software this is built in.
This is a goregous way of presenting a book, and what looks like subscriber only chapter previews.
Why is it xenophobic to be concerned that non-registered drivers in one country are being allowed to drive remotely in a different country.
Unless I am wildly misreading this, this is actually worse that both GUIs and LLMs combined.
LLMs offer a level of flexibility and non-determinism that allow them to adapt to different situations.
GUIs offer precision and predictability - they are the same every time. Which means people can learn them and navigate them quickly. If you've ever seen a bank teller or rental car agent navigate a GUI or TUI they tab through and type so quickly because they have expert familliarity.
But this - with a non-determinstic user interface generated by AI, every time a user engages with a UI its different. So they a more rigid UI but also a non-deterministic set of options every time. Which means instead of memorising what is in every drop down and tabbing through quickly, they need to re-learn the interface every time.
If you are correct, that implies to me that LLMs are not intelligent and just are exceptionally well tuned to echo back their training data.
Yes.
This is exactly how LLMs work. For a given input, an LLM will output a non-deterministic response that approximates its training data.
LLMs aren’t intelligent. And it isn’t that they don’t learn, they literally cannot learn from their experience in real time.
Wolves (and all dogs) could be vegetarians as they aren't obligate omnivores - and in certain conditions where pray is sparse they do eat berries to surviven. Cats on the other hand are obligate carnivores and can't produce taurine amino acids, so they have to eat meat to survive.
Current state AI doesn’t have hands. How can it possibly be better at installing electrics than anyone?
Your post reads like AI precisely because while the grammar is fine, it lacks context - like someone prompted “reply that AI is better than average”.
Finally, I can give up this life of a programmer and live my dream of being a moisture farmer.
What’s worse being accused of an AI post or being defended because your post is so bad that AI wouldn’t have written it?
I don't expect someone to do deep focused work from 9am to 5pm.
But at the same time, I don't expect them to spend their 9-to-5 working for another company at the same time.
As a founder, who respects the 9-to-5 and supports WFH, if I'm paying for 8 hours of work, I want 8 hours of output. Not 4 hours of output, and then you working 4 hours for another job.
If multi-jobbing becomes a thing, then WFH becomes untenable because at least in the office you can be monitored.
But why is it that news online defaults to US politics?
Yes, politics impacts everything, which is all the more reason to exclude it, otherwise how do we draw the line?
Are we buying protests in Indonesia against disappearances of protestors under the rug but not posting about it? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/prabowo-subianto-one-...?
It does seem like a rather modest proposal.
Have you considered that … conservatives are self-selecting out or can't cut it at all?
When the ingroup is underrepresented the question is “how can we get more ingroup in”.
But when the outgroup is underrepresented it’s met with “maybe outgroup just isn’t as good”.
Eg. women in tech, men in nursing; conservatives vs liberals in academia.
walking towards slavery
Modern slavery is a massive problem. There are more slaves today than there were at the peak of slavery in the United States.
It is a strange side effect of US-exceptionalism that projects a shameful-pride that US slavery was the biggest and the worst slavery and they are the heroes for ending slavery, when none of these are remotely true.
I've see so many HN posts and cmments about CSVs sucking and Unicode control characters as delimiters, that I set about creating a spec and some tools for use with it.
Nothing good enough to share as its own post, but its something I'm working on that people may be interested in.
This is so dumb - I love it. So much of modern computing is monetised and sanitised.
It’s so cool to see an interesting toy-like tech demo that does something new and different.
I’m going to defend your dad here.
AI slop at work is an absolute waste of time and effort.
But your dad is trying to write his story, probably because he wants to leave something behind so he’s not forgotten. It might be cliche-riddled but AI is helping him write his experiences in a form he’s happy with and it’s still his story even if he got help.
He’s also probably only writing it for an audience of one - you. So don’t shit on it, read it. Or you might regret it.
I would say the most important thing for linting natural language specifications would be a strictly enforced, well defined grammar that precisely defines what words could be used in what order, do that the linter could identify tokens that were out of place. Otherwise, you have ambiguity that of all too common in natural language.
But you also said you don’t want to discuss why natural language isn’t code.
The Xbox, Switch and PS5 play games, but they all allow you to install apps, stream movies, buy movies, stream audio and join fitness classes.
They also have chat apps and you can stream your own games to places like twitch for others to watch. And through simple steps they all have browsers you can load web pages on.
If a mobile phone is a computer, a game console is a computer.
So the solution to using AI so you don't have to code, is to try to write some kind of pseudocode in AGENT.md and hope the AI does a bit better?
Why does it seem that the solution to no-code (which AI-coding agents are) always comes back to "no-code, but actually there is some code behind the scenes, but if you squint enough it looks like no-code".
I think from context a more likely interpretation of the parent comment is that it is saying "60% to 80% utilisation [of working hours]".
There is something about that code that just screams "vibe coded".
I don't know what - but its like looking at the main.py file is like looking into the uncanny valley of code.