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dgritsko commented on If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?   claude.ai/share/5373cca0-... · Posted by u/JCW2001
utopiah · 9 days ago
Because AI doesn't think and apparently a lot of people using it don't think critically either.
dgritsko · 9 days ago
Exactly. LLMs at their core are just fancy autocomplete. Extremely fancy, to be sure, and the output that they predict can be very useful - but people who anthropomorphize them or ascribe higher significance to the generated output seem to be missing this.
dgritsko commented on The happiest I've ever been   ben-mini.com/2026/the-hap... · Posted by u/bewal416
dgritsko · 15 days ago
These blog posts are fascinating to read. I don't have a personal blog, but if I did I'm sure I would've written a very similar post as I've been wrestling with similar thoughts over the last few weeks. I have the distinct sense that I will look back on February 2026 as an inflection point, where AI crossed over from being an interesting parlor trick to something that fundamentally and irreversibly altered what I do day-to-day. It's bittersweet, for sure - it feels inevitable that the craft of software development that I've loved for years will be seen as an archaic relic at some point in the not too distant future. It may be several years yet before the impact is broadly felt (the full impact of today's frontier models has yet to be felt by the general public - to say nothing of models that will be released in the next few years) but this train doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. This post was a helpful reminder that who I am is not defined by the code I write (or don't write) - there's so much more to life than code.
dgritsko commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux   himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
condensedcrab · a month ago
Probably same reason most folks who are capable of running Linux don't stay on Ubuntu, etc.
dgritsko · a month ago
I'm genuinely curious as to what the key differences are (especially those that would cause someone to switch), as someone who is pretty tech savvy but whose use of Linux as a daily driver is admittedly pretty weak.
dgritsko commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux   himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
giancarlostoro · a month ago
This was me in 2022 or 2023. I have posted on HN about my shift a few times. I gave up with Windows 10 because you needed Windows Pro in order to make an "offline" account, I spent $2000+ for a gaming rig, and I couldn't add new users, one program told me to use the other program which brought me back to the original program... I had to go out of my way, buy a license just to make it work. I just went and installed Linux finally. I was on POP_OS! for a good year, but been on Arch Linux for one year plus now.

I know its a "meme" to talk about how great Arch is, but when you want the latest of something, Arch has it. I use EndeavourOS since it had a nicer simpler installer (idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro) and if you just use "yay" you don't run into Pacman woes.

Alternatively, I'm only buying Macs as well, but for my gaming rigs, straight to Arch. Steam and Proton work perfectly, if you don't sell your games on Steam or in a way I can run them on Linux I am not buying or playing them.

dgritsko · a month ago
What made you switch from Pop OS? I just installed it on a couple of old PCs I had lying around for my kids to play around with/learn from.
dgritsko commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now   dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
lagniappe · 3 months ago
This suffers from a common pitfall of LLM's, context taint. You can see it is obviously the front page from today with slight "future" variation, the result ends up being very formulaic.
dgritsko · 3 months ago
Surely there's gotta be a better term for this. Recency bias?
dgritsko commented on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need   bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit... · Posted by u/linhns
prmph · 4 months ago
You might laugh, but in years of serious development, I have not come across a better git UI tool than SourceTree.

If I want to be hard-core, I'd use the original git CLI. SourceTree is unmatched in how it makes using git so much more pleasant for when you need to do something relatively simple, but which would be quite cumbersome to do with the CLI and most other tools I've tried.

Its file status and history view is unmatched IMO. I can easily stage/unstage hunks and even lines. The whole UI is generally quite polished and pleasant to use.

It's a real shame there is not a version for linux. I've tried every other git interface under the sun and keep coming back to it. In the meantime, I tried lazygit the past weekend and I think it is one of the better TUI git tools out there, definitely better than GitUI.

dgritsko · 4 months ago
Fellow SourceTree apologist here. It remains one of the first things I install on a new machine. I'll do simple stuff directly in the CLI, but stick with SourceTree for anything moderately complicated (as you've mentioned).
dgritsko commented on Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once   conductor.build/... · Posted by u/Charlieholtz
Charlieholtz · 8 months ago
Got it! If you click the repository name in the left sidebar, you should see a field for setup script.
dgritsko · 8 months ago
FWIW, this is what I wound up with - keeps the original branch name but ensures that it's based on the latest from the "dev" branch:

orig_branch=$(git branch --show-current) && git checkout dev && git pull && git branch -D "$orig_branch" && git checkout -b "$orig_branch"

dgritsko commented on Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once   conductor.build/... · Posted by u/Charlieholtz
Charlieholtz · 8 months ago
Got it! If you click the repository name in the left sidebar, you should see a field for setup script.
dgritsko · 8 months ago
Ah, excellent - appreciate the help! I'm already getting a ton of value out of this tool, thanks for sharing!
dgritsko commented on Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once   conductor.build/... · Posted by u/Charlieholtz
Charlieholtz · 8 months ago
Ah yeah! Which IDE do you use?

> It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces. Yeah you can actually change this now! If you click the repo name you can make changes to the "setup script". If you added `git checkout -b "branch name"` it would run that on every new workspace instance.

dgritsko · 8 months ago
At the moment it's mostly Cursor or VS Code, but I was actually thinking of SourceTree. I'd like to look at the pending changes and manage the commits myself, and I could do that if I could add "open -a SourceTree ." as a custom command. I didn't see a place to edit a setup script, is that just on the filesystem?
dgritsko commented on Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once   conductor.build/... · Posted by u/Charlieholtz
dgritsko · 8 months ago
This is awesome. A couple of suggestions:

- It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces.

- I'd like the ability to add custom tools to the "Open in..." menu.

u/dgritsko

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