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4ndrewl··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
This is how every product manager feels every day.

If you're an LLM prompter shipping products, you're outputs are more akin to a product managers, not an software engineer's.

4ndrewl··on British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled
I'm not a USian but doesn't the first amendment apply to restrictions by the state?

It also doesn't protect from any consequences of your free speech of course.

4ndrewl··on What I self-host
Wanted their own postgres container or database? Why should the service know/care how postgres is running?
4ndrewl··on 4 Years of Ludicon
Most people at large corporates seem to use copilot daily (bundled with O365) to summarize Teams calls and assign actions, rewrite large documents and inflate them back out into PowerPoint decks.
4ndrewl··on Tiny Little Office
It looks like you can't host it locally as it relies on being hosted by Cloudflare.
4ndrewl··on Solar panels that plug into your wall
In the UK you can buy them _from_ your energy company.

https://octopus.energy/plug-in-solar/

4ndrewl··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Yes but MS are driving that growth so they should really have done some impact analysis.
4ndrewl··on Bitwarden Dual License Model
They don't?

"Some future components will be published under the commercial license and will exist only in that build."

(From that thread)

4ndrewl··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Nearly 50 percent of voters have been voting for him for a decade now. The non-voters don't care. Let that sink in.
4ndrewl··on A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
The comment was about the utility of the Gartner hype cycle.
4ndrewl··on Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age
And when they say 'Stone Age' they mean 'for most of our time on earth'
4ndrewl··on A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
How's that Metaverse looking? Bought any NFTs in it?
4ndrewl··on 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
This is amazing. Loved the emails! Thank you for making it.
4ndrewl··on Xbox for Sale: Don't Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied
Netflixbox

You heard it here first

4ndrewl··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
And he was probably very inquisitive too. Great story.
4ndrewl··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
Sounds amazing. How on earth did he go from shoeing horses to learning about the internal combustion engine? Seems quite the leap that not everyone would be capable of.
4ndrewl··on OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
Being bought by nvidia also probably helped...
4ndrewl··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
And yet this is somehow better?
4ndrewl··on Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
More like that content creators are psychopaths?
4ndrewl··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Never heard of them, but yes they are a lobby company. So they're biased and lobbying for their interests and OAI are biased and lobbying for their interests. That adds a lot of colour.
4ndrewl··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
"This is a lobby organisation using only the pieces and bits they like to push their own agenda."

Do you have any evidence of them being a lobby organisation (as opposed to OpenAI for example which spends millions of dollars hiring actual lobbyists)

4ndrewl··on Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
YMMV, but the value I get from producing a diagram is derived from the thinking. Thinking about what I'm trying to draw leads to understanding about where my/my team's knowledge is poorer, what assumptions we're making, etc.
4ndrewl··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
A terrorist organisation is whatever your government says is a terrorist organisation. Always has been always will be - there's no objective measure.
4ndrewl··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
the algorithm is programmed to deliver it. Better engagement metrics with misery and anger than joy and hopefulness. (yes I know that you will reply 'but I prefer the joy and hope', but that's not the case across the wider population)
4ndrewl··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
> We ejected one of the previous PMs for having a party during a lockdown

Weirdly that never happened, but that's how many people remember it.

He was ejected because he lost the support of his ministers (most of who resigned over a period of a few weeks) after he had made them to go out and lie to the public on his behalf in the case of Chris Pincher MP.

4ndrewl··on My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to leave the country
I'd just sell the companies?
4ndrewl··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
Well they proscribed PA, and showing support for a proscribed organisation _is_ a crime.
4ndrewl··on My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to leave the country
"I wanted to move to Thailand to live with my girlfriend. I own a few companies" seems like tiny violin territory...
4ndrewl··on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
Except that the most effective way of conveying facts _is_ through narrative and storytelling.

That and powerpoint, obviously.

4ndrewl··on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
I was really hoping that this would lead into a discussion about Big Tech, but it was just a (interesting) tease.
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