rTX5CMRXIfFG (u/rTX5CMRXIfFG)

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on LLMs as the new high level language federicopereiro.com/llm-h... · Posted by u/swah

bonoboTP · 7 hours ago

This comment has even lower nutritional value. It's just a "dislike" with more words. You could have offered your counterarguments or if you're too tired of it but still feel you need to be heard, you could have linked to a previous comment or post of yours.

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 6 hours ago

I mean, are you gonna die on a hill defending every low-quality content in HN? Because I think it’s perfectly OK to call it out so that moderators can notice and improve. You seem to think that readers have an inherent responsibility to salvage someone else’s bad article.

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been jakequist.com/thoughts/op... · Posted by u/jakequist

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 4 days ago

This article is talking about the AI race as if it’s over when it’s only started. And really, an opinion of the entire market based on a few reddit posts?

Author spoke of compounding moats, yet Apple’s market share, highly performant custom silicon, and capital reserves just flew over his head. HN can have better articles to discuss AI with than this myopic hot take.

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker

aylmao · 4 days ago

> All software of comparable size and complexity have shortcomings that everyone learns to work around.

This is part of the issue IMO. Is this size and complexity warranted?

Rust for example; its a complex language, can target pretty much all platforms under the sun, and yet it's configured with just text files, builds with just terminal commands, and works great with any text editor.

I've seen people in big tech work on codebases millions of files big with everything from VSCode to a russian text editor from the 90s. Linus Trovalds is building Linux with MicroEMACS. Why do I need a behemoth like Xcode to build a To Do app? Why does it have to be this "big and complex"?

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 4 days ago

Practical answer? I don’t know, man. I’m just building a todo list after all. Heck, I build more complex apps than that but front-end work is at such a high level of abstraction that, realistically, I just never bother. I don’t mind a smaller download size, but it’s just a nice-to-have.

The point about Xcode being complex, I disagree with. Honestly I could think of so many additional features to make my workflow easier.

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker

ASalazarMX · 5 days ago

> I've been using XCode for 10 years. For me, it's only improved and I don't have any real pain points.

This means you've learned to work around its shortcomings. A decade ago I used to develop in PyCharm for websites, and Visual Studio .Net for desktop apps. Then I had to learn XCode for a mobile app.

It was a surreal experience, like going back ten years in UX, while at the same time dealing with a myriad of modern but artificial limitations and breaking changes that meant the app needed frequent housekeeping even when its features remained unchanged.

For a company that gets a huge part of its revenue on its oversized App Store tax, developers, and their tooling, should be one of their highest priorities IMO. Instead, we get Kafkaesque situations like "my app doesn't compile today... oh, I need to open my Apple Developer account in the browser and accept a new little change in their kilometric EULA that I always pretend I've read carefully". Things like this could be handled better.

Edit: I also had to learn Android Studio for another app, and the experience had less friction overall, but that could mean that I've also learned to work around the shortcomings of JetBrains IDEs. Google is undeniably more developer-friendly than Apple IMO, though.

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 4 days ago

> This means you've learned to work around its shortcomings.

All software of comparable size and complexity have shortcomings that everyone learns to work around. And a great many of those shortcomings are actually just highly subjective personal preferences. More than half of the complaints in this thread are, to me, a terrible idea.

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-sw... · Posted by u/behnamoh

atombender · 8 days ago

I've made a tiny SwiftUI app. It was really difficult to figure out the memory leaks. In fact, I have leaks that I still haven't been able to find. For some reason the heap is fine, but the app continues to allocate virtual memory.

I've thrown Claude and Gemini at the app to try to analyze the code, had them use vmmap and Instruments, asked them run all of the code in a loop to reproduce the leakage — and still it leaks, slowly, tens of megabytes per day.

I'm sure it's something simple starting me in the face. But the fact remains that Swift's sort-of-automatic-but-not-quite memory model still makes it much harder to reason about memory than Rust or even Go.

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 8 days ago

I agree, but I think that it's difficult to spot memory leaks in SwiftUI because it's such a high-level abstraction framework. When working with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch libraries, it's so much easier to find.

And of course, Apple's UI frameworks != Swift the language itself.

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/vismit2000

dude250711 · 9 days ago

> The job is learning...

I could have sworn I was meant to be shipping all this time...

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 9 days ago

Have you been nothing more than a junior contributor all this time? Because as you mature professionally your knowledge of the system should also be growing

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? · Posted by u/newbebee

w10-1 · 23 days ago

You're asking what's a defensible value-add, but without really framing current business conditions or issues.

Time - opportunity - matters a lot, perhaps more than anything. And to face that, one needs to ask better questions (even if you're just polling).

rTX5CMRXIfFG · 23 days ago

"Current business conditions or issues" -- I think that's because OP wants you to fill that in yourself, so that you might explain your assumptions or the market potential that you see, which might be wildly different from his (i.e. software having little to no moat)

rTX5CMRXIfFG commented on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/ValentineC

tjwebbnorfolk · a month ago

Sure -- but as far as idols go, you could do a lot worse than Mr. Buffett

rTX5CMRXIfFG · a month ago

It's OK to have someone to look up to and have an example to follow, but why do you need to have an idol?