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shameles self promotion: I posted similar thing a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773805

https://9.1-1-1.de

the threshold is not low, I would argue, it's just companies like to exploit it.

(I just wrote an extensive analysis about that https://nickyreinert.de/2026/2026-05-28-google-maps-reviews/

Security by Obviousness.

shameless plug, it's part of the Nerd Encyclopedia: it's also called "nasal demons".

https://nickyreinert.de/2023/2023-05-16-nerd-enzyklop%C3%A4d...

Having an M3 with 36 GByte I was under the assumption, that I can utilize like Qwen and similar models. It's quite easy to set up, you can use pi or hermes for CLI access, or "Continue" to use it in VS Code. You can choose between omlx, Ollama and even more to run the model itself. It's no rocket science, but the results are also not satisfying.

I use it occassionally for very easy tasks, fix typos or update meta data in blog posts. So yeah, it improves productivity. But coding-wise it's far away from Codex, Claude et al.

Shameless plug: It's not that fancy but follows the same principle:

https://institut-fdh.de/?2026-aya

There's also this well known page which does the exact same thing in a more ordered way:

https://browserleaks.com/

First: if you compare rates (salary, wages,...) you also always must consider rents, cost of living etc.

Second: You can't just pick Berlin for comparison.

Third: Take away foreign owend companies from Berlin, you get a cheap, dirty poor capital.

Most comments already explained it, however:

No! It's a common misunderstanding (imho) that software development is about "writing code" or knowing a programming language's syntax. It never was, it never will be. I experienced this misunderstanding:

I never studied CS or IT or anything related. All my skills are self taught, starting when I was a litle boy. When I was young, I had problems getting into this busines, because HR and recruiters where tasking me with "Write this <x> using this <y>". They wanted to see A grades from 6 years of a master in CS.

Well. I am not that guy that memorizes syntax or coding rules. My approach is very different - and so are many, I assume. And this is what software development is about: You get a problem and you find a way to solve it. At many stations in my professional career I was able to proof that. I "mastered" Pascal from the scratch, on the job. Same goes for VBA, Shell scripting, Python, PHP, JavaScript... you name it.

It may sound arrogant - but then you misunderstood what I am trying to say: The language, the syntax, the coding rules are just "tools" for me. I don't care what I use. I focus on the problem.

Isn't it the same as "Write this <x> using this <y>" you may ask? No. Because this expects a specific solution. Not saying this will not lead to a result. It just a very narrow view on the solution.

There are good software developers that can answer those questions "Write this <x> using this <y>". That's not the point. The point is: There are also great software developers who can't.

With AI you don't have to worry to memorize syntax or rules. You can focus on the problem solving process.

So, AI is changing how software will be created. It make it more efficient. And it changes how HR and recruites hopefully will look at this profession. It's not about A grades in a CS class.

I want to believe. A couple of weeks ago I fell into this "trap", they offered a similar thing. I subscribed to the Pro Plan. Had fun for a couple of weeks and then I entered frustration phase. I love the product, but I hate those up and downs. My rant made it to HN front page - which I am not happy of. I want the stuff I build to be seen on the front page.

shameless plug:

A series of Jupyter notebooks explaining the whole machine learning mechanism, from the beginning

https://github.com/nickyreinert/DeepLearning-with-PyTorch-fr...

and of course also how to build an llm from scratch

https://github.com/nickyreinert/basic-llm-with-pytorch/blob/...

The internet only took off because the primary business model which ran on ads and derivative information that servers do to their users.

quite the opposite I would argue:

https://nickyreinert.de/2020/2020-10-24-marketing-killed-the...

That was the goal, yes (⌐■_■)

I can't believe that domain trading is still a thing.. I am sitting on a bunch of "nice" domains; I could never imagine someone actually bought for not even vor 100 bucks... and here we are, 30k?

OK.

reminds me of that:

https://institut-fdh.de/

but your's is way better implemented it seems - very nice!

(disclaimer: it's my site, shameless-plug)

I like the clean style, I was working on something similar, but never reached that readines-level.

However, the first screen seems a little contra productive. User entered a paragraph and in return gets a "summary" - but it feels so long. It's probably okay... it just triggered me very first impulse.

And what remains unclear is the meaning of "Team Sync". What's happening there? Is it a "group chat" or does it sends messages?

Speaking of... what about integrations with like Teams, Slack, Discord? I know that Teams offers a Meeting Summary which would be great if you could directly store it in _sig_.

I like your blog and I can totally relate to this article - it's like something I wanted to write about for a couple of weeks now. :D

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/adhd-ai-agent-personal-experience...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894155

(I am just learning that "a couple of weeks" apparently means "2 weeks"...)

I am trying Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6 since a couple of days now locally coming from OMLX. Either via Hermes or Continue in VS Code. It's oka'ish, even performance-wise.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-R...

I dare to call meself a senior dev, so I don't need a replacement, I need a tool.

That's what I am thinking, too. It sound's like a conspiracy theory, but at the end Anthropic et al benefits from models that don't finish their jobs. I recently read about this "over editing phenomenon". The machine is never done. It doesn't want to.

It's like dating apps. They don't want you to find a good match, because then you cancel the subscription.

consumer-grade hardware

Not disagreeing per se, but a quick look at the installation instructions confirms what I assumed:

Yeah, you can run a highly quantized version on your 2020 Nvidia GPU. But:

- When inferencing, it occupies your "whole machine.". At least you have a modern interactive heating feature in your flat.

- You need to follow eleven-thousand nerdy steps to get it running; my mum is really looking forward to that.

- Not to mention the pain you went through installing Nvidia drivers; nothing my mum will ever manage in the near future.

... and all this to get something that merely competes with Haiku.

Don't get me wrong - I am exaggerating, I know. It's important to have competition and the opportunity to run "AI" on your own metal. But this reminds me of the early days of smartphones and my old XDA Neo. Sure, it was damn smart, and I remember all those jealous faces because of my "device from the future." But oh boy, it was also a PITA maintaining it.

Here we are now. Running AI locally is a sneak peek into the future. But as long as you need a CS degree and hardware worth a small car to achieve reasonable results, it's far from mainstream. Therefore, "consumer-grade hardware" sounds like a euphemism here.

I like how we nerds are living in our buble celebrating this stuff while 99% of mankind still doomscroll through facebook and laughing at (now AI generated) brain rot.

(No offense (ʘ‿ʘ)╯)

Why would you want to move conversations with you? I use multiple different models, I don't care about the history.

My "brain" in terms of projects, is local on my computer. I have a simple set of system rules that I need to copy.

I am not everyone, I understand that. What I try to say: don't overestimate the lock in effect of AI. I doubt there is one.

Can you explain how you achieved it? I don't find it in your repo, I am too tired probably? However, I tried something different but stuck eventually with the receiving part on Android. One cannot just pull files from somewhere and put them into the Obsidian folder. I mean, not without efforts.

Problem is, that just having a Claude subscription doesn't make you productive. Most of those talks happen in a "tech'ish" environments. Not every business is about coding.

Real life example: A client came to me asking how to compare orders against order confirmation from the vendor. They come as PDF files. Which made me wonder: Wait, you don't have any kind of API or at least structured data that the vendor gives you?

Nope.

And here you are. I am not talking about a niche business. I assume that's a broader problem. Tech can probably automate everything and this since 30 years. Still business lack of "proper" IT processes, because at the end every company is unique and requires particular measures to be "fully" onboarded to IT based improvements like that.

first I was like "What but why? You don't save any space or what's that excercise about" then I read it again and it blew my mind. I thought I knew everything about ASCII. What a fool I am, Sokrates was right. Always.

only that would have broken the whole thing back in the days ;)

That’s essentially what I’ve experienced, call it 'anecdotal evidence.'

I had a long, ongoing, and very upsetting interaction with a bigger German company. Since I have experience in data privacy and GDPR, I eventually started thoroughly crawling their entire online presence for infringements. I found a significant number of issues and compiled a very extensive report. At first, they were completely dismissive. It was only after I issued formal legal warnings that an actual lawyer contacted me and promised to fix the issues.

Most of the GDPR violations were simply sloppy, though some were genuinely ignorant. It’s wild that we are eight years past 'Year Zero,' and while everyone is constantly talking about data privacy, these gaps still exist.

Some of them eventually has been fixed after my report, silently of course. phhh...

can you explain why? I mean a company ignoring common and simple rules of law... why you want to "protect" that?

Sure will do, thanks! (first time I am hearing about the "SCP")

of course! :D (how to approach the development of a maze algorithm)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131983