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exe34 commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

dingnuts · 10 hours ago

I appreciate the vague negative takes on tools like this where it feels like there is so much hype it's impossible to have a different opinion. "It's bad" is perfectly substantiative in my opinion; this person tried it, didn't like it, and doesn't have much more to say because of that, but it's still a useful perspective.

Is this why HN is so dang pro-AI? the negative comments, even small ones, are moderated away? explains a lot TBH

exe34 · 9 hours ago

that wasn't a negative comment though. a negative comment would explain what they didn't like about it. this was the digital equivalent of flytipping.

exe34 commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

diego_sandoval · 10 hours ago

It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code.

Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.

exe34 · 9 hours ago

it makes me very productive with new prototypes in languages/frameworks that I'm not familiar with. conversely, a lot of my work involves coding as part of understanding the business problem in the first place. think making a plot to figure out how two things relate, and then based on the understanding trying out some other operation. it doesn't matter how fast the machine can write code, my slow meat brain is still the bottleneck. the coding is trivial.

exe34 commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

XenophileJKO · a day ago

LOL.. I was going to say after working in the tech industry.. half the time it is a rats nest in there.

There are excellent engineers.. but their are also many not so great engineers and once the sausage is made it usually isn't a pretty picture inside.

Usually only small young projects or maybe a beautiful component or two. Almost never an entire system/application.

exe34 · 17 hours ago

exactly, as smart engineers end up having to work with midwits and it's not going to be pretty.

exe34 commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

rvz · a day ago

It's quite simple.

I perfer building and using software that is robust, heavily tested and thoroughly reviewed by highly experienced software engineers who understand the code, can detect bugs and can explain what each line of code they write does.

Today, we are now in the phase where embracing mediocre LLM generated code over heavily tested / scrutinized code is now encoraged in this industry - because of the hype of 'vibe coding'.

If you can't even begin to explain the code or point out any bugs generated by LLMs or even off-load architectural decisions to them, you're going to have a big problem in explaining that in code review situations or even in a professional pair-programming scenario.

exe34 · a day ago

> I perfer building and using software that is robust, heavily tested and thoroughly reviewed by highly experienced software engineers who understand the code, can detect bugs and can explain what each line of code they write does.

that's amazing. by that logic you probably use like one or two pieces of software max. no windows, macos or gnome for you.

exe34 commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

exe34 · a day ago

> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

exe34 commented on Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN techdirt.com/2025/08/22/i... · Posted by u/BallsInIt

gameman144 · a day ago

Does it? There are loads of types of theft that don't remove the good or asset from the owner:

Identity theft, IP theft, theft of private digital assets (e.g. photos, writings, music)

exe34 · a day ago

these are deliberate attempts to shift the overton window.

exe34 commented on Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Volundr

paulddraper · a day ago

Depends on the state, but wage theft is a criminal offense (punishable by jail).

And generally, the scale of the damage affects the punishment.

exe34 · a day ago

can you name one director who went to jail for this?

exe34 commented on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism democracyjournal.org/maga... · Posted by u/nobet

somenameforme · 2 days ago

I wouldn't say this is entirely accurate. For instance there's some irony in that the reason Priests can't marry is, in part, because of draconian measures against priests abusing their power by essentially establishing fiefdoms composed of Church lands and property. Local priests would control such property and then pass it onto their heirs, appoint family members to important positions, and generally just treat it their own little demesnes.

The Church responding with 'you can no longer get married and shall have no heirs' was a very serious FAFO moment. Just think about how huge a deal that is, if you can even imagine it! The Church used to make much more effort to abide their values, very much in the way that e.g. Islam does today. The centralized nature of the Catholic Church means this (the pedo stuff) could easily be rectified by a single person, the Pope, but their failure to do so is also what I was alluding to with the dysfunction in the College of Cardinals (which is whom elects the Pope).

exe34 · a day ago

basically religion worked so well that it stopped working.

I think they got caught with their pants down due to progress in communications. there was a time they could suppress information and get away with it. they didn't realise soon enough that the world had changed. in fact secularism helped give a refuge to the victims - if the highest law of the land was the church, then the old ways would have worked just fine.

exe34 commented on DeepSeek-v3.1 api-docs.deepseek.com/new... · Posted by u/wertyk

pshirshov · 2 days ago

In my experience LLMs can do Nix very well, even the models I run locally. I just instruct them to pull dependencies through flake.nix and use direnv to run stuff.

exe34 · a day ago

oh yes they do nix very well, but I asked cursor to set up a firecracker vm with networking for exposing a port on the host, and use conda inside to install a certain version of python with some libraries. I asked for a firecracker-vm.nix, a build.sh, a run.sh and a close.sh. it kept trying to run code inside its own fhs-env, which would run, and then when I tried it outside of the fhs, it would fail. I'd paste in the errors and it would without fail say oh let's try the proper nix version of python - which I explicitly didn't want, because I wanted to run conda versions on other machines. I tried to guide it through conda-shell but didn't get very far. in the end I ended up using docker instead, which it did set up without fail.

but when it was failing on my original idea, it kept trying dumb things that weren't really even nix after a while.

exe34 commented on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism democracyjournal.org/maga... · Posted by u/nobet

somenameforme · 2 days ago

On that I would disagree. Had the Catholic Church chosen to take severe actions against the pedophiles, defrocking and even excommunication in severe cases, I think they would be in a far greater position today. By protecting the pedophiles, they have greatly imperiled their own authority and ability to persist into the future.

This gets back to the original discussion we were having about hypocrisy. Far lesser ails led to the Protestant reformation. In this case, alongside the dysfunction in the College of Cardinals, there will be no reformation but simply a decline.

exe34 · 2 days ago

they didn't know it was going to backfire. they were trying to save it using the same approach that worked for >1500 years.