Well this just created a lot of work for me. Everything’s turning to shit at an alarming rate.
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copperroof commented on Gmail AI gets more intrusive daveverse.org/2025/11/07/... · Posted by u/speckx
You don't have any old browser extensions by any chance? "Enhancer for YouTube" is an extension which has become unmaintained, and will break YouTube.
No I have a few privacy plugins/adblock but they all work fine with YouTube normally. I tried disabling everything. All the standard debugging tests.
copperroof commented on Gmail AI gets more intrusive daveverse.org/2025/11/07/... · Posted by u/speckx
> The worst UX decision I have seen recently is AI auto-dubbing all youtube videos by default with no way to disable this behavior globally.
Recently anyways. The most egregious thing about Youtube, which is not terribly new, is the Shorts. If your video is short enough, it is auto-converted to a "Short", and the original aspect ratio gets cropped to be vertical orientation (for viewing on a phone, presumably).
The most irritating thing for me now is that YouTube doesn’t work in my browser anymore. Clearly being a/b tested because sometimes it does, and sometimes it spews out thousands of console errors and doesn’t load anything.
The commute doesn’t help you, but working in an office next to your team mates will accelerate your work.
Software development is a team sport and individual productivity is not the same as team productivity. Communication bandwidth in person is much higher when colocated. Startups move fast and higher bandwidth increases velocity, reduces errors, improves quality and team cohesion.
For other situations remote can be “good enough”, and has advantages eg bigger recruitment pool or cheaper labour, but in general in person is just going to be a lot faster with higher quality results.
A lot of engineers don’t wish this to be true, because wfh is often better for them as individuals, but it is what it is.
I use this kind of opinion as my idiot bat signal now. It’s so obviously untrue when someone starts spouting this nonsense you know they are a very feelings based decision maker.
copperroof commented on Amazon's AWS CEO chides staff for slow product rollouts reuters.com/business/fina... · Posted by u/cebert
lol. All the competent folks I knew left. They bled talent like crazy with return to office. Everyone figured that was the point of it… all that’s left of the groups I worked with there is morons and sycophants from top to bottom.
copperroof commented on Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust pyrefly.org/... · Posted by u/muglug
I've loved pyright so far, what do you dislike about it?
When I last compared it to mypy a few months ago adding typechecking to an old project that had types but I had for some reason never actually run a typechecker on it:
* Was overwhelmingly slower than mypy
* Had a few hundred more false positives. I gather from reading their philosophy afterward that this was on purpose. Rigid dogma > doing the right thing in the circumstance in their opinion.
* Did not find any actual bugs, whereas mypy identified 3 errors that lead to fixing real issues AND had fewer false positives, due to its better understanding of python code.
* Comically overweight with its typescript dependency.
My first impression of it was of a very low quality, over engineered project prioritizing noise over signal. Looking forward to trying out the astral typechecker as well.
copperroof commented on Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/synthwave
Absolutely. All models ar terrible with Objective-C and Swift, compared to let's say JS/HTML/Python.
However, I've realized that Claude Code is extremely useful for generating somewhat simple landing pages for some of my projects. It spits out static html+js which is easy to host, with somewhat good looking design.
The code isn't the best and to some extent isn't maintainable by a human at all, but it gets the job done.
I’ve gotten 0 production usable python out of any LLM. Small script to do something trivial, sure. Anything I’m going to have to maintain or debug in the future, not even close. I think there is a _lot_ of terrible python code out there training LLMs, so being a more popular language is not helpful. This era is making transparent how low standards really are.
copperroof commented on Quick Primer on MCP Using Ollama and LangChain polarsparc.com/xhtml/MCP.... · Posted by u/bswamina
In the case of MCPs, this post is indeed a quick primer. But from a coding standpoint, and despite the marketing that Agent/MCP development simplifies generative LLM workflows, it’s a long coding mess that is hard to tell if it’s even worth it. It’s still the ReAct paradigm at a low level and if you couldn’t find a case for tools then, nothing has changed other than the Agent/MCP hype making things more confusing and giving more ammunition to AI detractors.
Yes, I read this post and was actually emotionally affected by a post about coding. I was surprised how sad I felt. I’ve been around for a long time but this truly feels like the best era if you like gluing trash to other trash and shipping it.
copperroof commented on You might not need WebSockets hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-n... · Posted by u/hntrl
I have only small experience programming with web sockets, but I thought the ping pong mechanism is already built into the protocol. Does it have timeout? Does it help at the application layer?
Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_...
You only need to implement it yourself if you’ve catastrophically fucked up the concurrency model on the client or sever side and they can’t respond out of band of whatever you’re waiting on.
copperroof commented on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o... · Posted by u/hahahacorn
Doesn't prevent it from hallucinating, only reduces hallucinations by a single digit percentage
Personally I’ve been finding that the more context I provide the more it hallucinates.