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bdcravens commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino

SOLAR_FIELDS · a day ago

Why is obesity not considered a necessitating condition? It often carries the comorbidities you just mentioned. Should not exclude people just because they haven’t had these specific health problems (yet) but will eventually have them.

bdcravens · a day ago

While I tend to agree, insurance companies don't see it that way. They need a doctor to indicate a necessity to treat a condition, as opposed to it being the easiest way to treat it.

For example, I have to take digestive enzymes to digest my food (pancreatic insufficiency). For someone with an unusually high metabolism, they would also give them a leg up on gaining weight, even though there are other approaches to gaining that weight. However in many cases, the insurance company wouldn't cover their prescription when they will mine.

bdcravens commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino

notesinthefield · a day ago

It was infuriating trying to get Wegovy via insurance. My doctor made three appeals, all denied. Out of pocket it wouldve been $1600/mo. Ive been getting semaglutide from compounding pharmacies for the last year and half for $149-$200. I have lost 97lbs, come back to running 30 miles a week after several major knee injuries made even a mile jog a multiday recovery effort. I absolutely get the regulatory stance but the name brands are absolutely unaffordable.

bdcravens · a day ago

Do you have diabetes, heart disease, or another condition necessitating a GLP-1?

bdcravens commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk

bdcravens · a day ago

I don't see it as either/or. Frameworks give you a common vocabulary to use with the LLMs, and what allow you to organize your thoughts and maintain good git hygiene, and serve as a useful street map to review and explore what's been built.

bdcravens commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk

rglover · a day ago

A significant number of developers and businesses are going to have an absolutely brutal rude awakening in the not too distant future.

You can build things this way, and they may work for a time, but you don't know what you don't know (and experience teaches you that you only find most stuff by building/struggling; not sipping a soda while the AI blurts out potentially secure/stable code).

The hubris around AI is going to be hard to watch unwind. What the moment is I can't predict (nor do I care to), but there will be a shift when all of these vibe code only folks get cooked in a way that's closer to existential than benign.

Good time to be in business if you can see through the bs and understand how these systems actually function (hint: you won't have much competition soon as most people won't care until it's too late and will "price themselves out of the market").

bdcravens · a day ago

You still "find most stuff by building/struggling". You just move up stack.

> there will be a shift when all of these vibe code only folks get cooked in a way that's closer to existential than benign

For those who are "vibe code only", perhaps. But it's no different than the "coding bootcamp only" developers who never really learned to think holistically. Or the folks who learned the bare minimum to get those sweet dotcom boom dollars back in the day, and then had to return to selling cars when it call came crashing down.

The winners have been, and will always be, those who can think bigger. The ones today who already know how to build from scratch but then find the superpower is in architecture, not syntax, and suddenly find themselves 10x more productive.

bdcravens commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk

abcde666777 · a day ago

It's strange to me when articles like this describe the 'pain of writing code'. I've always found that the easy part.

Anyway, this stuff makes me think of what it would be like if you had Tolkein around today using AI to assist him in his writing.

'Claude, generate me a paragraph describing Frodo and Sam having an argument over the trustworthiness of Gollum. Frodo should be defending Gollum and Sam should be on his side.'

'Revise that so that Sam is Harsher and Frodo more stubborn.'

Sooner or later I look at that and think he'd be better off just writing the damned book instead of wasting so much time writing prompts.

bdcravens · a day ago

I don't find writing code painful, but I do find it tedious. The amount of time wasted on boilerplate keeps me from getting to the good stuff. LLMs let me speed run through all of that.

To take it back to your example, let's imagine Tolkien is spending a ton of time on setting up his typewriter, making sure he had his correction tape handy, verifying his spelling and correcting mistakes, ensuring his tab stops were setup to his writing standard, checking for punctuation marks, etc. Now imagine eliminating all that crap so he can focus on the artistic nature of the dialogue.

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bdcravens commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm

zbentley · 2 days ago

This kind of absolutism is unhelpful. At every point on the spectrum between "a good app that people choose to spend time on because it's valuable to them" and "heroin marketed to preteens in schools" there is no clear line or delineation between addictive abuse and autonomy.

But we still don't let liquor stores sell to kids. We still criminalize a lot of drug use. And while there are tons of different opinions about whether specific instances of those restrictions are appropriate, pretty much everyone agrees that there are qualitative differences between predatory behavior-influencing and bad choices.

It's a question about where to move lines that society already broadly agreed to put in place, not about whether to have lines at all a la "well you might as well just make bad choices illegal then". We already do that, and it succeeds at mitigating harm in many (not all) cases.

bdcravens · 2 days ago

Drugs and alcohol are explicit substances with an explicit definition.

bdcravens commented on Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases nytimes.com/2026/02/05/bu... · Posted by u/buellerbueller

bdcravens · 2 days ago

The driver acknowledged he knew she was drunk, and that he didn't get explicit consent.

Uber had already flagged it internally as a high-risk ride (drunk female, alone) and didn't take additional security measures.

bdcravens commented on $300B Evaporated. The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun forbes.com/sites/donmuir/... · Posted by u/m-hodges

vivzkestrel · 2 days ago

wanna hear what you have to say about this https://www.saastr.com/the-2026-saas-crash-its-not-what-you-...

bdcravens · 2 days ago

I used to listen to the SaaStr podcast a few years ago. The way the host was always trying to prop up Jason Lemkin (the "author" of this article and the founder of SaaStr) gave me some weird cult of personality vibes. Add to that the fact that their annual SaaS conference (though they've been certain to "AI" to the marketing) generate some $10M in ticket sales suggests they may not be the most objective news source.

bdcravens commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm

bdcravens · 2 days ago

So what's next, Hacker News is illegal because the point system encourages retention?