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Readit Newsbrushfoot commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
I completely agree.
On a side note.. ya’ll must be prompt wizards if you can actually use the LLM code.
I use it for debugging sometimes to get an idea, or a quick sketch up of an UI.
As for actual code.. the code it writes is a huge mess of spaghetti code, overly verbose, with serious performance and security risks, and complete misunderstanding of pretty much every design pattern I give it..
I read AI coding negativity on Hacker News and Reddit with more and more astonishment every day. It's like we live in different worlds. I expect the breadth of tooling is partly responsible. What it means to you to "use the LLM code" could be very different from what it means to me. What LLM are we talking about? What context does it have? What IDE are you using?
Personally, I wrote 200K lines of my B2B SaaS before agentic coding came around. With Sonnet 4 in Agent mode, I'd say I now write maybe 20% of the ongoing code from day to day, perhaps less. Interactive Sonnet in VS Code and GitHub Copilot Agents (autonomous agents running on GitHub's servers) do the other 80%. The more I document in Markdown, the higher that percentage becomes. I then carefully review and test.
brushfoot commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
This is prime HR style lying. The response is: Problem statement. Claim that reality is the opposite of the problem statement, with no justification given, despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Statement that if reality doesn't match their claim, the worker is at fault. End of statement.
Dystopian, infuriating, unethical and immoral.
> While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite.
Look at the language Coinbase uses. Only their view is a "belief." The opposing view is a "worry." Others are motivated by fear. Only holy Coinbase is motivated by love!
This is, of course, doublethink. We all know that removing humans from the hiring process is, by definition, dehumanizing.
Coinbase's article would have been more palatable if it were truthful:
> Some believe AI will dehumanize the hiring process. We agree, and we're SO excited about that! I mean, we aren't in this business to make friends. We're in it to make cold, hard cash. And the less we have to interact with boring, messy human beings along the way, the better! If you're cold, calculating and transactional like us, sign on the dotted line, and let's make some dough!
But if they were that truthful, fun, and straightforward, they'd probably be more social, and they wouldn't have this dehumanizing hiring process to begin with.
they said the same thing about books, "young people are hypnotised!" And I agree that it has an impact on vocabulary, it widens it. You learn to talk by hearing other people do it, and youtube is full of different accents and ways of talking. How many parents would take them outside to meet that many different people?
> they said the same thing about books, "young people are hypnotised!"
It really doesn't matter what "they" said about books. We are talking about screen time. And screen time has measurably harmful effects on child development.
It leads to worse outcomes across the board. Sleep disorders. Obesity. Mental health disorders. Depression. Anxiety. Decreased ability to interpret emotions. Aggressive conduct. And this is to say nothing of ADHD (7.7 times higher likelihood in the heaviest screen users) or social media's effects on adolescents. [1][2]
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10353947/
[2] https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/childhood-adhd...
brushfoot commented on JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
> This isn’t evolution. It’s self-inflicted complexity.
> This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural.
> We’re not innovating. We’re rebuilding broken versions of tools the web already gave us – and doing it badly.
> We’re not iterating toward impact – we’re iterating just to stay afloat.
It's not X, it's Y? Dashes? Question fragments? This style isn't just tedious—it's a hallmark of LLM-generated content.
The whole article feels like low-effort LLM-generated clickbait to fan the eternal flamewar between web developers and web app developers. Yes, you might not need React for a static blog. Yes, React is useful for writing web applications. Can we talk about something else now?
brushfoot commented on End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux endof10.org/... · Posted by u/doener
Linux has gotten in the way every time I've tried various distros over the years. And I'm a system administrator turned software engineer. I can't imagine the headaches for less technical users.
Examples:
- Screensharing in Teams. There was a gaussian blur over everything. I had this happen during a work call.
- Nvidia. I kept getting screen-tearing. I went through various guides, installed drivers and so on, but it never worked properly.
- Office. LibreOffice slaughters my Office docs. The formatting is wrong, things are broken.
- Media. I had issues watching things that I could just watch on Windows.
Those kinds of issues were fun to me 20 years ago; they were part of the adventure of roughing it and sticking it to the man. Today, I don't have the time or energy. I'd rather use an OS that Just Works. When I need Linux, WSL has worked great.
Wasn’t HTMX just a meme? I can’t really tell if it’s serious because of Poe’s Law.
Solopreneur making use of it in my bootstrapped B2B SaaS business. Clients don't need or want anything flashy. There are islands of interactivity, and some HTMX sprinkled there has been a great fit.
As someone who has two annual subs of Cursor Pro (one from student account and another from Lenny's newsletter), I just spent $100 on Claude Code and I haven't touched Cursor AI for any coding tasks since. If you already spend anything near or over $100 on Cursor, it's no brainer. The agent experience is night and day. No more wrong tool-calling, premature ending of conversation, failure to apply changes or overwriting a whole file with the update snippet. I'm considering upgrading to $200 Claude Max next month for more concurrent sessions. If anyone reading this thinking this is a paid comment, go search for other users' feedback. Claude Code is that good.
Copilot at $10/mo. lets you use Sonnet 4 in VS Code, which has been working very well for me in agent mode. Curious what Claude Max offers that sets it apart.
I wish they optimized things before adding more crap that will slow things down even more. The only thing that's fast with copilot is the autocomplete, it sometimes takes several minutes to make edits on a 100 line file regardless of the model I pick (some are faster than others). If these models had a close to 100% hit rate this would be somewhat fine, but going back and forth with something that takes this long is not productive. It's literally faster to open claude/chatgpt on a new tab and paste the question and code there and paste it back into vscode than using their ask/edit/agent tools.
I've cancelled my copilot subscription last week and when it expires in two weeks I'll mostly likely shift to local models for autocomplete/simple stuff.
My experience has mostly been the opposite -- changes to several-hundred-line files usually only take a few seconds.
That said, months ago I did experience the kind of slow agent edit times you mentioned. I don't know where the bottleneck was, but it hasn't come back.
I'm on library WiFi right now, "vibe coding" (as much as I dislike that term) a new tool for my customers using Copilot, and it's snappy.
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