TheCleric (u/TheCleric)

TheCleric commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

TillE · 3 days ago

I would've thought that explicit discussion of suicide is one of those topics that chatbots will absolutely refuse to engage with. Like as soon as people started talking about using LLMs as therapists, it's really easy to see how that can go wrong.

TheCleric · 3 days ago

Well everyone seemed to turn on the AI ethicists as cowards a few years ago, so I guess this is what happens.

TheCleric commented on Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely gmcgoldr.github.io/2025/0... · Posted by u/garrinm

TheCleric · 6 days ago

This just feels like recreating exceptions, but with more complicated syntax.

TheCleric commented on Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/Kye

GuinansEyebrows · 7 days ago

I don’t know how this works: how can Mississippi compel Bluesky to pay these fines for breaking a state regulation if they’re not based in Mississippi?

TheCleric · 7 days ago

Because if they have users in Mississippi they are doing “interstate commerce” and a federal court has the ability and jurisdiction to compel them to pay those fines.

TheCleric commented on Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/Kye

frumplestlatz · 7 days ago

> And there is nothing on Blue sky that is not appropriate for children over 13-with parental guidance.

I've heard that it's full of furry porn and worse. Is that not the case?

TheCleric · 7 days ago

I wouldn’t say “full of”, but like other mostly uncensored social media sites like Twitter, it’s definitely there if you’re looking for it (and sometimes even when you’re not).

TheCleric commented on SimpleIDE github.com/jamesplotts/si... · Posted by u/impendingchange

TheCleric · 9 days ago

I truly don’t mean this as an insult, but it always catches me off guard that people are still using VB in 2025.

TheCleric commented on I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid thomasorus.com/i-tried-co... · Posted by u/mikae1

snickerdoodle12 · 19 days ago

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about what happens when nearly everyone is unemployed

TheCleric · 19 days ago

There once was a career that’s in shambles

Replaced with a technology that rambles

Its advocates thought

This stuff is so hot

But in the end their brains were all scrambled

TheCleric commented on I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid thomasorus.com/i-tried-co... · Posted by u/mikae1

CharlesW · 19 days ago

What were you using? Did you use it for a real project? I ask because you're going to have a vastly different experience with Cursor than with Claude Code, for example.

TheCleric · 19 days ago

My work has offered us various tools. Copilot, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT. All of them had the same behavior for me. They would produce some code that looks like it would work but hallucinate a lot of things like what parameters a function takes or what libraries to import for functionality.

In the end, every tool I tried felt like I was spending a significant amount of time saying “no that won’t work” just to get a piece of code that would build, let alone fit for the task. There was never an instance where it took less time or produced a better solution than just building it myself, with the added bonus that building it myself meant I understood it better.

In addition to that I got into this line of work because I like solving problems. So even if it was as fast and as reliable as me I’ve changed my job from problem solver to manager, which is not a trade I would make.

TheCleric commented on I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid thomasorus.com/i-tried-co... · Posted by u/mikae1

TheCleric · 19 days ago

I am so glad someone else has this same experience as me because everyone else seems all in and I feel like I’m staring at an emperor without clothes.

TheCleric commented on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible news.uscg.mil/Press-Relea... · Posted by u/rwmj

TheCleric · 24 days ago

This seems like the logical conclusion of move fast and break things + regulation is evil culture. Most regulation is there for a reason and most safety rules are written in blood. You don’t get to pretend that’s not true because they would slow you down. You’re not built different.

TheCleric commented on Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door techcrunch.com/2025/08/05... · Posted by u/dkroy

digitalPhonix · 24 days ago

> We don’t believe in work-life balance—building the future of software engineering is a mission we all care so deeply about that we couldn’t possibly separate the two

What did I just read? How can you think/say/write that in a public email?

TheCleric · 24 days ago

A thinly disguised cult manifesto.