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chomp commented on A new AI winter is coming? taranis.ie/llms-are-a-fai... · Posted by u/voxleone

tarr11 · 18 days ago

This has convinced many non-programmers that they can program, but the results are consistently disastrous, because it still requires genuine expertise to spot the hallucinations.

I've been programming for 30+ years and now a people manager. Claude Code has enabled me to code again and I'm several times more productive than I ever was as an IC in the 2000s and 2010s. I suspect this person hasn't really tried the most recent generation, it is quite impressive and works very well if you do know what you are doing

chomp · 18 days ago

For toy and low effort coding it works fantastic. I can smash out changes and PRs fantastically quick, and they’re mostly correct. However, certain problem domains and tough problems cause it to spin its wheels worse than a junior programmer. Especially if some of the back and forth troubleshooting goes longer than one context compaction. Then it can forget the context of what it’s tried in the past, and goes back to square one (it may know that it tried something, but it won’t know the exact details).

chomp commented on The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving twopct.com/p/the-secret-s... · Posted by u/bilsbie

josefritzishere · 21 days ago

Fun take but if french fries are bad, what is the correct way to ingest potatoes? Why bogart the secret?

chomp · 21 days ago

They’re not bad, it just depends on how much you process them. Oven baked fries for instance, are not far removed from normal oven roasted potatoes. Par boiling and then deep frying them in fats will release more nutrients than you would get from a normal baker. Slicing paper thin and perfectly frying is an industrial process that most people can’t replicate at home.

I honestly think home cooked potatoes are going to be perfectly fine in most ways.

chomp commented on USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply thehill.com/homenews/admi... · Posted by u/sipofwater

Difwif · a month ago

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chomp · a month ago

Maybe go try to meet some truly poor people and understand their story. It might provide you enough context for this discussion.

chomp commented on Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing? · Posted by u/razoorka

mikert89 · 3 months ago

its not, software quality is better than ever, far more sophisticated than the simple programs of the past.

chomp · 3 months ago

You are claiming sophistication is quality, it is not.

chomp commented on OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse boilingsteam.com/orange-p... · Posted by u/ekianjo

farixco · 3 months ago

The NPU is somewhat usable on RK3588(S(2)) boards, as long as the kernel you’re using is recent enough to have the latest NPU driver.

For a quick bring-up and implementation, take a look at this repo: https://github.com/Pelochus/ezrknpu

I have a Radxa Rock 5C (on Armbian) and it runs various models rather well. Trying to convert models is kind of a pain, though, so watch out.

chomp · 3 months ago

Works great for me on Frigate. I am doing object detection on 3x 4k streams and it’s only 20% utilized.

chomp commented on Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code · Posted by u/throwaway-ai-qs

kstrauser · 3 months ago

I disagree. Code is code: it speaks for itself. If it's high quality, I don't care whether it came from a human or an AI trained on good code examples. If it sucks, it's not somehow less awful just because someone worked really hard on it. What would change for me is how tactful I am in wording my response to it, in which case it's a little nicer replying to AIs because I don't care about being mean to them. The summary of my review would be the same either way: here are the bad parts I want you to re-work before I consider this.

chomp · 3 months ago

> What would change for me is how tactful I am in wording my response to it

So code is not code? You’re admitting that provenance matters in how you handle it.

chomp commented on Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice coloradosun.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/mooreds

HankStallone · 4 months ago

The bit that jumped out at me was "a 3-2 vote that wasn’t even on its meeting agenda." Seems like we're seeing an increasing number of cases where small-time officials who used to work largely unseen because no one went to meetings of things like the local water board, are getting resentful because now they're on video or citizens are starting to show up and ask questions, and they're not responding well to all the democratic involvement. So you get sneaky tricks like sneaking things into the agenda at the last minute, or outright lies like accusing citizens of threats when they were just asking questions.

chomp · 4 months ago

I don’t think you can put pump breakage on an agenda. Sometimes emergencies require emergency action.

chomp commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

strictnein · 5 months ago

The API is far more expensive. For Opus 4 it's almost priced in a way that says "don't use this".

chomp · 5 months ago

That’s not what the parent commenter asked though, they wanted a price for not being concerned about limits. The API pricing is that.

chomp commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

serf · 5 months ago

200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks.

NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project.

This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me.

'35 hours' is absolutely nothing when you spawn lots of agents, and the damn thing is built to support that behavior.

chomp · 5 months ago

Just use the API