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preommr commented on This is not the future   blog.mathieui.net/this-is... · Posted by u/ericdanielski
preommr · a day ago
> Juicero was not inevitable.

Yea, I remember the time when trillion dollar companies were betting the house on Juicero /s

preommr commented on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?   world.hey.com/joaoqalves/... · Posted by u/joaoqalves
commandersaki · a day ago
That Spotify squad tribe diagram makes me want to vomit.
preommr · a day ago
I did a reverse image search on it, and it brought up 'vietname board game' and other war-themed images. Who thought it would be a good idea to have a corporate productivity diagram where the workers look like they're prisoners, there's shooting targets plastered all over, and the "coach" looks like a warden that's flashing danger signs (all the colors, and they choose red?). And that's not even including all the poor spacing, text formatting, color scheme, etc.

Honestly, the more I look at it, the worse it gets.

preommr commented on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?   codemanship.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
bccdee · 3 days ago
Sure, but I think the argument they're making is, if AI can produce good, non-slop applications at high speed, why isn't there a glut of new, high-quality software? Slop kinda proves their point.
preommr · 3 days ago
Why do companies have games with crap performance if the underlying hardware is so good? Why did the avro arrow get scrapped? Why are there countries with energy prices much higher than what nuclear offers?

There's a world of difference between the technical capabilities of a technology, and people actually executing it.

preommr commented on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?   codemanship.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
callc · 3 days ago
preommr · 3 days ago
Those charts are horribly misleading. There's random articles you can find [0], or just use steamDB to see that (now that steam requires games to disclose ai usage) there's like 10k+ games made that use AI. Also you can see that there's jump in the number of games released from 2023-2024.

Companies like lovable are reporting millions of projects that are basically slop apps. They're just not released as real products with an independent company.

The data is misleading - it's like saying high-quality phone cameras had no impact on the video industry. Just look at how much of network tv is filmed with iphone cameras. At best you might have some ads, and some minor projects using it, but nothing big. Completely ignoring that youtube or tiktok are built off of people's phone cameras and their revenue rivals major networks.

I am sorry, I just don't want to have this conversation about AI and it's impact for the millionth time because it just devolves into semantics, word games, etc. It's just so tiring.

[0] https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/pc-gaming/steams-slop-p...

[1] https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/

preommr commented on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?   codemanship.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
preommr · 3 days ago
Not only is this wrong on multiple levels (there are lots of new ai-slop apps flooding the internet, and marketplaces e.g. steam has ~10k games marked as using ai), but it's always cringe when someone names something after themselves like this.
preommr commented on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/signa11
preommr · 5 days ago
I had no idea this was a real thing - I always thought that xkcd comic[0] was just a random joke.

[0]https://xkcd.com/378/

preommr commented on Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning   anildash.com/2025/12/02/v... · Posted by u/zdw
throwaway150 · 10 days ago
> You can’t make anything truly radical with it. By definition, LLMs are trained on what has come before. In addition to being already-discovered territory, existing code is buggy and broken and sloppy and, as anyone who has ever written code knows, absolutely embarrassing to look at.

I don't understand this argument. I mean the same applies for books. All books teach you what has come before. Nobody says "You can't make anything truly radical with books". Radical things are built by people after reading those books. Why can't people build radical things after learning or after being assisted by LLMs?

preommr · 9 days ago
> Why can't people build radical things after learning or after being assisted by LLMs?

Because that's not how this is being marketed.

I agree with you completely - the best use case I've found for llms (and I say this as somebody that does generate a lot of code with it) is to use it as a research tool. An instantaneous and powerful solution that fills the gap from the long gone heydays of communities like mailing groups, or Stack overflow where you had the people - the experts and maintainers - that seemingly answered within a few hours on how something works.

But then that's not enough for all the money that's being fed into this monster. The AI leadership is hell-bent on trying to build a modern day tower of babel (in more ways than one), where there is no thinking or learning - one click and you have an app! Now you can fire your entire software team, and then ask chatgpt what to do next when this breaks the economy.

preommr commented on Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding   github.com/addyosmani/gem... · Posted by u/ayoisaiah
preommr · 21 days ago
I am not doing any of this.

It becomes obsolete in literally weeks, and it also doesn't work 80% of the time. Like why write a mcp server for custom tasks when I don't know if the llm is going to reliably call it.

My rule for AI has been steadfast for months (years?) now. I write (myself, not AI because then I spend more time guiding the AI instead of thinking about the problem) documentation for myself (templates, checklist, etc.). I give ai a chance to one-shot it in seconds, if it can't, I am either review my documentation or I just do it manually.

preommr commented on Several core problems with Rust   bykozy.me/blog/rust-is-a-... · Posted by u/byko3y
claudiug · 24 days ago
the issues with Crystal, nim, zig, is that they have zero changes to be bigger.
preommr · 24 days ago
crtystal and nim, probably not.

Zig... is surprisngly used a lot given how rough the state of the language is. It makes me think that if it ever reaches v1.0, it has a very good chance of being at least a "Kotlin", probably a "elixir"/"haskell", and a decent enough shot of "typescript".

preommr commented on Racket v9.0   blog.racket-lang.org/2025... · Posted by u/Fice
shakna · 24 days ago
Arc was ported to Common Lisp last year, but before that was Racket.

And HN is written in Arc.

So does the website you're on count as popular software?

preommr · 24 days ago
Six degrees of "Kevin..", I mean, Racket

u/preommr

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