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kaffekaka commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
jauntywundrkind · 2 days ago
In fact, contrary things are so very often both true at the same time, in different ways.

Figuring out how to live in the uncomfortableness of non-absolutes, how to live in a world filled with dualisms, is IMO one of the primary and necessary maturities for surviving and thriving in this reality.

kaffekaka · 2 days ago
Yes. Unwillingness to accept contradicting data points is holding many people back. They have an unconscious need to always pick one or the other, and that puts them at a disadvantage. "I know what I think." But no, you do not.
kaffekaka commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
apitman · 2 days ago
But you have to admit it loses a certain shine in the cases where you know that what you're doing is no longer solving a problem that could be solved simpler and cheaper another way.
kaffekaka · 2 days ago
But understanding _how_ it solves the problem, and knowing you found the solution yourself might/will be something to strive for.
kaffekaka commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
zeroonetwothree · 2 days ago
As you probably know, painting changed quite a bit after cameras became common. I wonder if handcrafted code will have a similar shift, becoming more "artistic" :)
kaffekaka · 2 days ago
It surely will.
kaffekaka commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
jryio · 2 days ago
These comments are comical. How hard is it to understand that human beings are experiential creatures. Our experiences matter, to survival, to culture, and identity.

I mourn the horse masters and stable boys of a century past because of their craft. Years of intuition and experience.

Why do you watch a chess master play, or a live concert, or any form of human creation?

Should we automate parts of our profession? Yes.

Should he mourn the loss of our craft. Also yes.

kaffekaka · 2 days ago
Very well put.

Two things are true at the same time, this makes people uneasy.

kaffekaka commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
zamalek · 2 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?
kaffekaka · 2 days ago
Is coding a passion only because other people appreciate it?

Is painting a passion because others appreciate it? No, it is a passion in itself.

There will always be people appreciating coding by hand as a passion.

My passions - drawing, writing, coding - are worthwhile in themselves, not because other people care about them. Almost noone does.

kaffekaka commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
croes · 2 days ago
> We're on the precipice of something incredible.

Total dependence on a service?

kaffekaka · 2 days ago
Yes this is the issue. We truly have something incredible now. Something that could benefit all of humanity. Unfortunately it comes at $200/month from Sam Altman & co.
kaffekaka commented on Software factories and the agentic moment   factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls
codingdave · 2 days ago
> If you haven’t spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement

At that point, outside of FAANG and their salaries, you are spending more on AI than you are on your humans. And they consider that level of spend to be a metric in and of itself. I'm kinda shocked the rest of the article just glossed over that one. It seems to be a breakdown of the entire vision of AI-driven coding. I mean, sure, the vendors would love it if everyone's salary budget just got shifted over to their revenue, but such a world is absolutely not my goal.

kaffekaka · 2 days ago
If the output is (dis)proportionally larger, the cost trade off might be the right thing to do.

And it might be the tokens will become cheaper.

kaffekaka commented on My AI Adoption Journey   mitchellh.com/writing/my-... · Posted by u/anurag
kaffekaka · 4 days ago
> Context switching is very expensive. In order to remain efficient, I found that it was my job as a human to be in control of when I interrupt the agent, not the other way around. Don't let the agent notify you.

This I have found to be important too.

kaffekaka commented on Claude is a space to think   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
kaffekaka · 5 days ago
Sure, ad free forever, until it is not.

Great by Anthropic, but I put basically no long term trust in statements like this.

kaffekaka commented on Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux   blog.senko.net/sandboxing... · Posted by u/speckx
mystifyingpoi · 6 days ago
`useradd` doesn't restrict network access.
kaffekaka · 6 days ago
I have used a separate user, but lately I have been using rootless podman containers instead for this reason. But I know too little about container escapes. So I am thinking about a combination.

Would a podman container run by a separate user provide any benefit over the two by themselves?

u/kaffekaka

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