Before I clicked the article, I said to myself "The victim's gotta be Black", and lo and behold.
AI has inherited police's (shitty, racist, and dangerous) idea that any Black person is a dangerous monster for whom anything is a weapon.
Readit Newstwoquestions commented on Zed is now available on Windows zed.dev/blog/zed-for-wind... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on.
I'm really liking it thus far!
I just feel so discouraged reading this somehow. I used to have this hard-to-get, in-demand skill that paid lots of money and felt like even though programming languages, libraries and web frameworks were always evolving I could always keep up because I'm smart. But now with these people like Simon Willison writing about the new way of coding with these agents and multiple streams of work going on at a time and it sounding like this is the future, I just feel discouraged because it sounds like so much work and I've tried using coding agents and they help a bit, but I find it way less fun to be waiting around for agents to do stuff and it's way harder to get into flow state managing multiple of these things. It makes me want to move into something completely different like sales
People keep comparing LLMs to automated looms, but I find them more comparable to cruise control than autopilot.
I've been working on a character sheet application for a while, and decided to vibe-code it with Spec-kit to help me write up a specification, and for things I know it's been great. I tried using Claude to make it into a PWA (something I don't know very well) as an experiment, and I've found the nanosecond the model strays out of my experience and knowledge everything goes straight to Hell. It wraps my codebase around a tree as if I'm not paying attention while driving.
It's a tool you'll have to learn to use, but I can say with absolute confidence it's no replacement for actual skills, if anything it highlights the gulf between people who know what they're doing and people who don't, for better and worse. It sacrifices some of the 'code under your fingers' feeling for management tasks, which I personally really like, as I've always wanted to document/test/code review/spec things out better, and I now understand the pain of people who'd rather not do that sort of thing.
twoquestions commented on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy anthropic.com/news/update... · Posted by u/porridgeraisin
Trusting companies more than the government always feels strange. It's something I can't grasp.
I 90% agree with you, though Apple did stand up to the FBI some years ago. The US gov't at least is much more restricted on what data it can collect and act on due to the 4th Amendment among other laws, and as another commenter said Apple can't blackbag me to El Salvador.
Apple/FBI story in question: https://apnews.com/general-news-c8469b05ac1b4092b7690d36f340...
twoquestions commented on Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs nolanlawson.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/feross
I've fallen in love with using Vimium when browsing, and the real thing elements are much easier to use than JS substitutes.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbai...
twoquestions commented on Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career? · Posted by u/7402
Probably the same thing I'm trying to do as a side gig now, building software to help solo/small company artisans keep track of customers/payments/taxes.
Essentially, make tools for others in my position that are going to try selling pottery or soap until they can hopefully turn it into a full time thing.
Hardest possible concur with everything OP said.
Knitting and other fiber arts are the grandmother of computer programming, and I'd go so far as to say your CS education is incomplete without at least passing knowledge of fabric weaving and especially weaving machine history.
Ignorance is not your fault, unfortunately they can't teach you everything in college, and people tend to downplay the importance and history of "women's work", much to all our detriment.
https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stor...
When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke to make fun of vim fanatics, but once I installed and started using it, it fit my hands really well almost immediately. Amazing, good work!
https://zed.dev