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jhickok commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright

zamalek · 9 days ago

This article isn't really about losing a job. Coding is a passion for some of us. It's similar to artists and diffusion, the only difference being that many people can appreciate human art - but who (outside of us) cares that a human wrote the code?

jhickok · 9 days ago

I disagree a bit. Coding can remain an artistic passion for you indefinitely, it's just your ability to demand that everyone crafts each line of code artisinally won't be subsidized by your employer for much longer. There will probably always be a heavily diminished demand for handcrafted code.

jhickok commented on Why Normativity Remains Challenging for LLMs link.springer.com/article... · Posted by u/teew

jhickok · 10 days ago

Interesting article! I think I get what the concern is, but I think your view of human cognition is going to heavily color what you think the limitations of an LLM are. For example, if you think that broadly speaking, the human learning process (concept acquisition, inference and concept revision, etc) is modeled by modern LLM training, these limitations might apply to humans in the same sense they do to LLMs.

Systematicity is a really powerful concept that can drive a wedge between classical cognition folks and connectionists/associationists, but it has never been clear to me that we actually instantiate systematic cognitive patterns, only that in some arenas we should.

jhickok commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr

lijok · 12 days ago

FUCK NO. Who in their right mind would let an LLM connect to prod?

jhickok · 12 days ago

why does it have to connect to prod in order to be useful?

jhickok commented on Claude is a space to think anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ptx · 12 days ago

So they have "made a choice" to keep Claude ad-free, they say. "Today [...] Claude’s only incentive is to give a helpful answer", they say. But there's nothing that suggests that they can't make a different choice tomorrow, or whenever it suits them. It's not profitable to betray your trust too early.

jhickok · 12 days ago

I can't really imagine any statement they could give that would ease concerns that at some point in time they change their mind. But for now, it is a relief to read, even if this is a bit of marketing. The longer it goes without being enshittified the better.

jhickok commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

SomeHacker44 · 19 days ago

HP Zbook Ultra G1a, 128GB RAM. Add SSD to taste. HP supported (Canonical OEM) Ubuntu with KDE. Works great as a daily driver with a UGreen GAN charger.

jhickok · 19 days ago

Interesting, I had never even heard of this laptop! Thanks for the tip!

jhickok commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

aljgz · 19 days ago

I'm on frame.work with AMD, 96GB RAM. Using it with fedora+KDE Absolutely love it

jhickok · 19 days ago

Do they still use a paddle trackpad? Framework seems like its nearly perfect for me, even if I would miss Apple's displays on the MBP.

jhickok commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

reconnecting · 19 days ago

Apple forced me to switch to Linux!

Linux should consider paying Microsoft and Apple for new customers. Perhaps the customer acquisition funnel is quite long, at least it took 20 years of using Apple in my case before switching to Debian (Xfce), but it was worth it!

jhickok · 19 days ago

I am good laptop hardware away from making the move.

jhickok commented on Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you' sciencealert.com/scientis... · Posted by u/mikhael

bamboozled · 21 days ago

I once read “The Joy of Living” by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. It should come with a warning. It broke me for a year. I’m actually grateful for the existential crisis it caused me. But it was a brutal experience at first.

jhickok · 21 days ago

I had a similar experience with Derek Parfit's "Reasons and Persons", but he offers some solace:

‘When I believed [that personal identity is what matters], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.

When I believed [that personal identity is what matters], I also cared more about my inevitable death. After my death, there will be no one living who will be me. I can now redescribe this fact. Though there will later be many experiences, none of these experiences will be connected to my present experiences by chains of such direct connections as those involved in experience-memory, or in the carrying out of an earlier intention. Some of these future experiences may be related to my present experiences in less direct ways. There will later be some memories about my life. And there may later be thoughts that are influenced by mine, or things done as the result of my advice. My death will break the more direct relations between my present experiences and future experiences, but it will not break various other relations. This is all there is to the fact that there will be no one living who will be me. Now that I have seen this, my death seems to me less bad.’

jhickok commented on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com/clawdbot/clawd... · Posted by u/IndignantTyrant

mentos · 22 days ago

What’s the main use case for you or feature with the greatest promise?

jhickok · 21 days ago

It's only been a few days and I am still exploring, but my household has two adults and three kids all with very busy, individual schedules, and one of the nicest features was setting up a morning text message to everyone with reminders for the day. It checks school schedules, test reminders, sports events, doctor's appts (I am in PT), and adds personal context assuming it has access to it (it usually does). I understand much of this probably could have been done for a while, but this seems like the nicest packaged up assistant that I have tried.

jhickok commented on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com/clawdbot/clawd... · Posted by u/IndignantTyrant

1-6 · 22 days ago

I see this posted everywhere this week. Is it really that good? I understand this runs on any hardware (not limited to Mac Minis) as long as you have an API key to an LLM (Preferably to Claude). People online make bold promises that it will change your life...

It sounds interesting to me, I might install it on a cheap Mini PC with Ubuntu. This can't come at any worst time as storage and RAM has gotten astronomical. I feel bad for people who are just starting to build their first rig and an alt rig for this.

jhickok · 22 days ago

I thought the same thing. I had a spare iMac sitting around so I thought I would kick the tires on it. I realize I could have used something else, but I wanted to give it iMessage access. I have to say, it's just better enough than a few things I have tried to really give me a glimpse of what is possible and make me excited. I am nervous about handing over a computer, my accounts, data, etc to a tireless bot that can destroy my life for a year on accident, but regardless I think this is startling good and fairly polished.