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Absolutely not. This is what I come to HN for!

This is the content I come to HN for.

Talented, technical geek, with absolutely no interest in fitting in or being liked, spending a ridiculous amount of time to meticulously analyze a piece of software they clearly liked at some point, to make a list of all the ways it can be improved. Brutally honest, not for being brutal’s sake, but out of principle and out of respect for the golden rule.

OpenCode is my daily driver. And I have mad respect for the team. Basically, the only “AI people” I trust and follow. But the article is accurate. Session management leaves a lot to be desired. And most of the session management issues just need a simple 2-pointer state tracking algorithm. Its model-specific prompts are ridiculously long, and the fact that someone had enough confidence to “prompt-engineer” them and configure a harness with them is somewhat silly.

I was about to say “username checks out” but then realized it’s not Reddit.

And I am not sure if your comment can be explained by naivety, unless you were under a rock for the last year, and missed all the events that showed they are not capable of “being the one that guides it.”

How many accidental private source code uploads did you read about? I heard exactly one. It was Anthropic. It was so bizarre I thought it was intentional. That kind of unserious behavior is somewhat unimaginable.

At some point if you are not capable of fulfilling a role that _you deem critical for the society_, yet you don’t acknowledge you fall short - for whatever reason - because it’s not in your interest, I think the benefit of the doubt disappears.

It’s about the cost of energy. And China has cheap, clean energy.

The calculation is about tokens/gigawatt and $/gigawatt.

So they had to rewrite Bun instead of Claud Code because they “already had bought Bun.”

This thread is filled with non-sequiturs.

This is a confusing comment because it’s the exact argument you would present against rewriting Bun to Zig, but you are arguing for one and against the other.

Serious adults?

They are in extremely short supply right now.

It’s a mix of serious-wanna be, quasi religious, quasi-technical people running the show right now.

I am so happy to I got to read about the 90s-2000s tech culture, and experienced the post-2008 startup culture.

Just about 10 years ago people were really serious, but chill-looking. Somehow that got flipped.

It’s not even the act that bothers me, it’s the self-righteousness. It’s the relentless attempts at regulatory capture with real or pretend messiah complex.

You don’t have to design your product to allow distillation. Do your best to prevent it. And if they beat you, well, they beat you.

I suppose if the messiah complex is real being beaten means it’s the end of the world.

Life was good when only one group cried rapture every few years.

Are you implying the author of one of the best, if not the best performing agentic coding harness is having a hard time with vibecoding as a new paradigm?

I’d look him up.

Umm, yeah.

Obviously the neckbeard who wrote C in vim and compiled when he is done is a better coder than the one who kept compiling and fixed issues when told by the compiler.

Pretty sure this section’s title was “Say something nice”

…he had to resort to AI for this part.

If left to my own devices, I can code 12-16 hour days. Have a crash day every 4-5 days, and then go back. It would be extremely unwise to merge even half of that stuff. I would frequently throw it away. Even before AI. It would be extremely naive to think that I am productive/efficient or responsible or a hard-worker for doing this.

Hey, I can party the way I like to party.

(I am old enough to catch myself and stop this cycle now)

Edit: I was super impressed with him in the first 10 minutes. It’s very Knuth-like to create a programming language because you had trouble building an audio system.

I completely agree. But not entirely sure that triggering the EA crowd is the effective way to deliver this message.

They are the crowd who need to understand your framing the most, but they’re completely shutdown by your framing, as any religious follower would be.

Your message gives me hope that not everyone’s drunk on the kool aid.

I think he is longing for the “old web” or “small web” as some refer to as these days.

Oh god, George is getting old. Sounding like an old guy.

What does that say about me? I used to find him childish.

Jokes aside I also didn’t like him. Until I heard him on that podcast with the Russian-American dude whose name I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to search right now. I was surprised to start find that I would like George, because he said he was religious and I generally dislike people who capitalize god, etc.

I think he was one of the coolest hackers of the millennial generation.

This comment was a scary read. I might add it ruined my evening.

I wasn’t aware that they were so deliberately targeting (attacking?) teens.

This reality show kind of bored me already. I haven’t even made an attempt to use Fable 5.

Is it so amazing? Or is it the “intermittent reward” and exclusivity driving people to use it?

They are the chosen ones. Protecting the world from <insert most recent claim>

Any and all ends justify any and all means.

/s

This is a strange plea for optimism.

Sincerely or not, judgement is yours, Dario has been begging for regulation. He has been talking about how Claude models are distilled by foreign adversaries. And now the regulation is here.

What makes you think this situation that the CEO of Anthropic is asking for it temporary? Do you not believe Dario was sincere?

Exactly what I was going to say. And exactly what’s intended: for someone to make money.

I don’t follow why retiring pre-55 is a good idea. Can you elaborate?

I knew I should’ve paid extra and gotten the Sound Blaster!

Agreed. It’s an idiotic euphemism.

Disappointingly, it still works.

They used this type of language with GPT-2. Le sigh, yawn.

.com or .box.sk?

But it is not 1-2% of the total US market cap, is it?

It aspires to be that way. The market decides, and it hasn’t decided yet.

Am I missing something?

I am pretty certain that the book of at least 1 of the Abrahamic religions explicitly states that you either believe all of it, or you are not a believer.

What you’re describing is religion applied to every opinion.

I wasn’t patient enough to read the whole thing. But I know Justine to be of extraordinary technical prowess.

I can imagine that someone with that level of talent can be extremely socially unfit - whether intentionally or unintentionally I am unaware. At some point I may have been that way (hoping I am no longer that way, hopefully I was that way with the talent as opposed to without), and I’ve met others who are.

What strikes me as weird is how no manager/leader is able to utilize this absolute treasure of technical ability. I think that makes someone a true leader and/or a capitalist. Anyone can hire average skill who needs the money and is capable of faking sincerity.

Who has the time to watch films 10-12 hours a day?

I think the comment put forward that as an incorrect assumption that was made prior to the cable build-out.

Didn’t know I’d ever get to use the phrase “banal platitudes,” which is how I’d describe much of this post.

Obviously and literally everything is temporary and will be replaced by something better. And those who are born into it will call it “temporary garbage.”

Thanks for the bonus ad hominems. Made it all more convincing.