kryptiskt (u/kryptiskt)

kryptiskt commented on I am happier writing code by hand abhinavomprakash.com/post... · Posted by u/lazyfolder

woeirua · 2 days ago

This is no different then carpentry. Yes, all furniture can now be built by machines. Some people still choose to build it by hand. Does that make them less productive? Yes. Will they ever carve furniture by hand for a business? Probably not. Can they still enjoy the act of working with the wood? Yes.

If you want to code by hand, then do it! No one's stopping you. But we shouldn't pretend that you will be able to do that professionally for much longer.

kryptiskt · 2 days ago

> If you want to code by hand, then do it! No one's stopping you. But we shouldn't pretend that you will be able to do that professionally for much longer.

Bullshit. The value in software isn't in the number of lines churned out, but in the usefulness of the resulting artifact. The right 10,000 lines of code can be worth a billion dollars, the cost to develop it is completely trivial in comparison. The idea that you can't take the time to handcraft software because it's too expensive is pernicious and risks lowering quality standards even further.

kryptiskt commented on Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better github.com/dmtrKovalenko/... · Posted by u/neogoose

kreetx · 3 days ago

Was this vibe coded? Readme has typos and somehow reads "fast and loose".

kryptiskt · 3 days ago

I thought typos was a signifier for human-created these days, because an LLM is unlikely to land on something that is not a word.

kryptiskt commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

mgaunard · 5 days ago

Personally I haven't seen a scenario where it makes sense beyond a small experimental lab where you value the ability to tinker physically with the hardware regularly.

Offices are usually very expensive real estate in city centers and with very limited cooling capabilities.

Then again the US is a different place, they don't have cities like in Europe (bar NYC).

kryptiskt · 5 days ago

If you are a bank or a bookmaker or similar you may well want to have total control of physical access to the machines. I know one bookmaker I worked with had their own mini-datacenter, mainly because of physical security.

kryptiskt commented on Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) github.com/whispem/minikv... · Posted by u/whispem

forgotpwd16 · 7 days ago

>All the code, architecture, logic, and design in minikv were written by me, 100% by hand.

Why people always lie with this? Especially in this case that they uploaded the entire log:

  Date:   Sat Dec 6 16:08:04 2025 +0100
      Add hashing utilities and consistent hash ring
  Date:   Sat Dec 6 16:07:24 2025 +0100
      Create mod.rs for common utilities in minikv
  Date:   Sat Dec 6 16:07:03 2025 +0100
      Add configuration structures for minikv components
  Date:   Sat Dec 6 16:06:26 2025 +0100
      Add error types and conversion methods for minikv
  Date:   Sat Dec 6 16:05:45 2025 +0100
      Add main module for minikv key-value store

And this goes on until project is complete (which probably took 2~3h total if sum all sessions). Doubt learned anything at all. Well, other than that LLMs can solo complete simple projects.

Comments in previous submission are also obviously AI generated. No wonder was flagged.

kryptiskt · 7 days ago

It looks like that if you want logically separated commits from a chunk of programming you have done. Stage a file or a hunk or two, write commit message, commit, rinse and repeat.

kryptiskt commented on The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] youtube.com/watch?v=uMqx8... · Posted by u/doppp

tonyedgecombe · 9 days ago

>We need Anders to make one final language.

I do feel like there is a gap for a modern compiled, functional and garbage collected language.

Go isn't it because it lacks the functional constructs.

C# and Java aren't it because they depend on a VM.

Rust isn't it because of its difficult memory management.

Swift isn't it because it is so tied to Apple and their platforms.

kryptiskt · 9 days ago

C# doesn't depend on a VM these days when it is AOT compiled. Same for Java, though C# is rather more user friendly in how it goes about it.

kryptiskt commented on 150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly getboothiq.com/blog/150k-... · Posted by u/InternetGiant

michaelcampbell · 16 days ago

> Remember, there used to be a time programmers productivity was measured in LoC per hour.

Do you remember such a time or company? I have been developing professionally since the early 1990's (and hobbyist before then), and this "truth" has been a meme even back then.

I'm sure it happened, but I'm not sure it was ever as widespread as this legend would make it sound.

But, there were decades of programmers programming before I started, so maybe it just predated even me.

kryptiskt · 16 days ago

IBM had such a culture back in the day, where they feted 1 kloc/day programmers. That was what Bill Gates sneered at with the "Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs" quote.

kryptiskt commented on Games Workshop bans staff from using AI ign.com/articles/warhamme... · Posted by u/jsheard

nomel · a month ago

alternatively, you can use AI as a starting point. All design is iterative.

kryptiskt · a month ago

But why? It's not all that much harder to do original work than redrawing the output of an AI.

kryptiskt commented on Games Workshop bans staff from using AI ign.com/articles/warhamme... · Posted by u/jsheard

seanmcdirmid · a month ago

> "Games Workshop elects not to experience multi-year headache. Will use AI when profitable."

They will definitely start using AI when their competitors do to the point that they gain a substantial competitive advantage. Then, at least in a free market, their only choices are to use AI or cease to exist. At that point, it is more survival bias (companies that used AI survived) rather than profit motive (companies used AI to make more money).

kryptiskt · a month ago

Games Workshop is more entrenched in their niche than any of the FAANGs. They can do what they want, because nobody else can do WH40K.

kryptiskt commented on Day Fifteen of Iran's Nationwide Protests: Sharp Rise in Human Casualties en-hrana.org/day-fifteen-... · Posted by u/pabs3

metalman · a month ago

nationwide protests in the US

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/protests-against-ice-plann...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/ice-shooting-protests-...

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/us/ice-protests-shootings-min...

kryptiskt · a month ago

That's really weak what-aboutism. The part where the Iranian regime is bad isn't that there are protests in the country, It's a human right to protest. The thing that makes the Iranian regime bad is that they are killing protestors.

kryptiskt commented on Gentoo Linux 2025 Review gentoo.org/news/2026/01/0... · Posted by u/akhuettel

kortilla · a month ago

The issue is that gentoo isn’t very popular in the industry. If it catches on with a few well funded tech companies, then it’s easy to get $10k or so from each one in sponsorships at conferences.

kryptiskt · a month ago

ChromeOS uses Gentoo as a base. That doesn't seem to have helped get them any Google money.