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MisterKent commented on The "Learned Helplessness" of AI   himanshusinghbisht.substa... · Posted by u/gilfoyle_7
MisterKent · a month ago
I'm gonna phrase this terribly.

People said the exact same thing about web searches, and I think there's a lot of devs who would instant search for every issue they hit.

Isn't this just better web search?

On the other hand, it definitely feels like it might be too big a step in the spoon feeding direction.

Writing code without AI feels like art, and writing it with AI feels like painting a wall: get it done quickly, cheaply, and good enough that people don't see issues.

It's the art part of engineering that's being lost, AI has no appreciation of elegance. It has no empathy for cognitive overhead of bad code or poor-fit design patterns.

Cognitive Debt is the phrase to Google btw.

MisterKent commented on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately   techdirt.com/2025/11/13/n... · Posted by u/speckx
PeaceTed · a month ago
When Microsoft was first looking to do a remaster of Goldeneye from N64, even they couldn't manage the legal trouble of that one.

Microsoft had the original development team, Nintendo had the software and Activision had the James Bond License. Microsoft was willing to develop it for both Xbox 360 and Wii but they simply couldn't get the rights between all three straightened out.

If those three, companies that are no strangers to handling legal issues cannot figure out, it doesn't look good for smaller titles like this.

MisterKent · a month ago
But they did? Goldeneye for the Wii was released?
MisterKent commented on You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint   support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/artbristol
MisterKent · 2 months ago
Try going to OneDrive to see your stuff if you want to be really annoyed.
MisterKent commented on My Self-Hosting Setup   codecaptured.com/blog/my-... · Posted by u/mirdaki
redrove · 5 months ago
How are you finding Nix for the homelab to be? Every time I try it I just end up confused, maybe next time will be the charm.

The reason I ask is I homelab “hardcore”; i.e. I have a 25U rack and I run a small Kubernetes cluster and ceph via Talos Linux.

Due to various reasons, including me running k8s in the lab for about 7 years now, I’ve been itching to change and consolidate and simplify, and every time i think about my requirements I somehow end up where you did: Nix and ZFS.

All those services and problems are very very familiar to me, feel free to ask me questions back btw.

MisterKent · 5 months ago
I've been trying to switch my home cluster from Debian + K3s to Talos but keep running into issues.

What does your persistent storage layer look like on Talos? How have you found it's hardware stability over the long term?

MisterKent commented on Sincerity Wins the War   wheresyoured.at/sic/... · Posted by u/treadump
MisterKent · 6 months ago
My tech friends and I cannot wait for this agentic bubble to pop. Much like the dotcom bubble, there's absolutely value in AI but the hype is absurd and is actively hurting investments into reasonable things (like just good UX).

The hype and zealotry remind me of a cult. And as I go higher up the chain at my big tech company, the more culty they are in their beliefs. And the less they believe AI can do their specific jobs, and the less they have actually tried to use AI beyond badly summarizing documents they barely read before.

AI, as far as I can tell, has been a net negative for humans. It's made labor cheaper, answers less reliable, reduced the value we placed on creativity and professionals in general, allows mass disinformation, and mostly results in people being lazier and not learning the basics of anything. There are of course spots of brightness, but the hype bubble needs to burst so we can move on.

MisterKent commented on Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data   nbcnews.com/politics/supr... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
latency-guy2 · 7 months ago
Right, but that's a comment on yourself, even if you meant that for everyone else. Society absolutely trusts 20 somethings for sensitive data all the time.

Don't give me the bullshit about "this situation". Go to your nearest hospital and notices a sea of young nurses handling you and your family's medical data on a clipboard, paper, and a very poorly secured 20 year old workstation.

You are inconsistent, and you will continue to be inconsistent. In fact, your bank account info is known by the teller who has similar qualifications, your purchases and address is known by the customer service representative hired straight out of high school or in a call center in Egypt, and so much more.

This talking point is entirely a political cudgel that only makes sense to the kind of folk that do not think past their favorite politician's tweets. On that fact, wanna know who's been managing your letters/calls that you've been sending your politician? These ones know your phone number, and any modern filter will be looking for your address.

MisterKent · 7 months ago
Generically, the social security tech arm probably hires 20 somethings that have a way to access that data as well.
MisterKent commented on Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet   agent-kilo.github.io/jwno... · Posted by u/agentkilo
MisterKent · 7 months ago
How does it compare to komorebi? I've been using it for about 5 months with great success. I'm a Hyprland user when I'm on my personal machine, but for windows Komorebi has let me keep my muscle memory and workflow largely intact.
MisterKent commented on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs   twitter.com/skdh/status/1... · Posted by u/ksec
sc68cal · 9 months ago
> Does it fabricate references? Absolutely, maybe about a third of the time

And you don't have concerns about that? What kind of damage is that doing to our society, long term, if we have a system that _everyone_ uses and it's just accepted that a third of the time it is just making shit up?

MisterKent · 9 months ago
This. 100% this.

LLMs will spit out responses with zero backing with 100% conviction. People see citations and assume it's correct. We're conditioned for it thanks to....everything ever in history. Rarely do I need to check a wikipedia entry's source.

So why do people not understand that: this is absolutely going to pour jet fuel on misinformation in the world. And we as a society are allowed to hold a bar higher for what we'll accept get shoved down our throats by corporate overlords that want their VC payout.

MisterKent commented on Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics    · Posted by u/ansong99
MisterKent · 10 months ago
Maybe I'm alone in this, especially on this site.

I'm beginning to become disillusioned with these things. We're replacing like 1000s of jobs with a system that will almost certainly do a worse job than before. And the money is split between hospital shareholders and VC.

I get that there's an efficiency (market) gain here. But these AI startups that target existing sector automations seem like they're most just attempting to drive wealth inequality in a period of already terrible westh inequality.

u/MisterKent

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