heliumtera (u/heliumtera)

heliumtera commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw

andy99 · 7 hours ago

Only if leadership lets them. Right now (anecdotally) a lot of “leaders” don’t understand the difference between AI generated and human generated work, and just look at loc as productivity so all incentives are on AI coding, but that will change.

heliumtera · 6 hours ago

It will never change. Managers will consider every stupid metric players push to sell their solutions. Be it code coverage, extensive CI/CD pipelines with useless steps, "productivity gains" with gen tools. The gen tools euphoria is stupid and will cease to exist, but before this was bdd,tdd,DDD, test before, test after, test your mocks, transpile to a different language and then ignore the output, code maturity, best practices, oop, pants in head oriented programming... There is always something stupid on the horizon this is certainly not the last stupid craze

heliumtera commented on AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating msanroman.io/blog/ai-cons... · Posted by u/firefoxd

embedding-shape · a day ago

Is this like your belief? Transformers et al were invented by researchers with the explicit goal of surveillance and mass profiling? You think maybe that could have been an unintended effect of something/someone else? Or it's all the researchers fault?

heliumtera · 18 hours ago

i do not believe transformers were created by independent and autonomous researchers. will not blame individuals, no. but yeah, pretty much, I maintain the original point. if the question is what are the incentives in place and funding mechanisms to pursue such technology...surveillance and mass profiling. 'we want to serve YOU as well as we can, and we want to know what YOU stands for' kind of profiling and surveillance, not necessarily the all knowing god government kind.

heliumtera commented on The State of AI Coding Report 2025 greptile.com/state-of-ai-... · Posted by u/dakshgupta

scuff3d · a day ago

It shouldn't be taken with a pinch of salt, it should be disregarded entirely. It's an utterly useless metric, and given that the report leads with it makes the entire thing suspect.

heliumtera · a day ago

Every single metric inferred from code itself should be discarded. Opinions derived from this metrics should be entirely discounted as well,they are doomed, no point in listening.

heliumtera commented on The State of AI Coding Report 2025 greptile.com/state-of-ai-... · Posted by u/dakshgupta

heliumtera · a day ago

Create an automated tools that inserts comments and line breaks wherever it's possible. Productivity multiplied by 10^23. With humans being this stupid, I'm not that impressed they confused llms to human cognition. Maybe it truly is a replacement.

heliumtera commented on AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating msanroman.io/blog/ai-cons... · Posted by u/firefoxd

heliumtera · a day ago

Not really surprising that a tool created for surveillance and mass profiling turned out to be pretty good at surveiling and profiling

heliumtera commented on AI will make formal verification go mainstream martin.kleppmann.com/2025... · Posted by u/evankhoury

heliumtera · 2 days ago

Will formal verification be a viable and profitable avenue for the middle man to exploit and fuck everybody else? Then yes, it absolutely will become mainstream. If not, them no, thanks. Everything that becomes mainstream for SURE will empower the middleman and cuck the developer, nothing else really matters. This is literally the only important factor.

heliumtera commented on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres planetscale.com/blog/50-d... · Posted by u/ksec

wackget · 3 days ago

If anyone from Planetscale is reading this, please know I hate what you did to your website. I previously had it bookmarked as an example of excellent, usable website design. About a year ago it turned into a plaintext nightmare. The first time I saw the new design I genuinely thought that a CSS file had failed to load in my browser. It's awful.

*Edit:* It also fails to load other pages if you have JavaScript or XHR disabled.

heliumtera · 3 days ago

Can you provide an example of a website you approve?

heliumtera commented on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? · Posted by u/hussein-khalil

heliumtera · 3 days ago

I think yes. If you don't create an obvious avenue for the user to infer his development, he won't be able to do it. You have to confuse the audience to bring in the sense of progress. People learn by being challenged, confused, and by building something. Nobody learns by interfacing with an application that promises it. But besides learning nothing, they can feel good about being engaged, by completing tasks, seeing progress bar moving, seeing number go up. Someone that decides to interface with a learning app instead of learning the damn thing is doomed, will never learn anything at all. Just give them a sense of accomplishment so they can feel good about it. Without gamification what would the platform give them? If don't help them cope with their inertia, there really is nothing you could do. Maybe you are equating gamification with dark patterns? Gamification is not necessarily a bad thing. It is a powerful psychological trick. Can definitely be used for good. Working on performance often feels amazing because we can profile, identify clear bottlenecks and work to reduce them. When you manage to make number go down, you have a clear indication something went right. Maybe you didn't absolutely improve de code, but you made it better in a very specific way under a very specific lens. People like it because of this aspect, and it does feel a little bit like a game. There is a clear requirement and a clear specification. The game aspect makes it very enjoyable. I suppose development against a test suite provides a similar experience. Feels good in a game-ish way. Gamification is more related to the feels good than dark patterns, but obviously, the whole industry will ONLY be interested in exploiting practices. There is no incentive to make the user feel good, at all, without being pervasive. If you care about your user, you should design around the user. Inevitably, you will think a bunch about what feels good. If all you care about is the user learning, developing competence, you will offer no platform at all. The platform will tell them to close it and go do the thing. If you want to motivate them, another story. If you want them to feel accomplished, another story. You're building a feels good, want to feel accomplished want to fool myself into learning app.s gamification is the whole point.

heliumtera commented on Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/tamnd

heliumtera · 4 days ago

Just vibe it to recover the home directory as it once was, problem solved.

heliumtera commented on Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022) edutopia.org/article/do-d... · Posted by u/CharlesW

heliumtera · 4 days ago

They don't. You wanna know what really really works? Not overriding my preferred font and colors scheme.