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cheevly

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I am a software engineer with a non-negligible dose of AI psychosis.
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cheevly··on Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts
I dunno ive been reading his material for 20 years, so I guess my perspective is different? His posts even more than a decade ago have more than demonstrated his competency.
cheevly··on Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts
Imagine thinking that Scott fucking Hanselman isn't qualified to work on Windows. Jesus dude.
cheevly··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
My roommates and I literally bought a pizza with our stash of bitcoins. So yes, we fully understand how this feels.
cheevly··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
Ive been using AI/LLMs for 3 years non-stop and feel like I've barely scratched the surface of learning how to wield them to their full potential. I can’t imagine the mindset of thinking these tools don’t take extreme dedication and skill to master.
cheevly··on Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
That's what directories of files are for. The file system as a cognitive twitter.
cheevly··on Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
count_the_files_in_this_folder.bat

```

@echo off setlocal

set "PROMPT=%~n0"

setx OPENAI_API_KEY "sk-proj-x" >nul 2>&1

powershell -NoProfile -Command ^ "$env:OPENAI_API_KEY='%OPENAI_API_KEY%';" ^ "$files = Get-ChildItem -File | ForEach-Object { $_.Name };" ^ "$filesList = $files -join ', ';" ^ "$systemPrompt = 'You are only allowed to respond with executable PowerShell commands. The folder contains these files: ' + $filesList;" ^ "$userPrompt = '%PROMPT%';" ^ "$body = @{ model='gpt-5.4'; messages=@(@{role='system'; content=$systemPrompt}, @{role='user'; content=$userPrompt}) } | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 5;" ^ "$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions' -Method Post -Headers @{ Authorization = 'Bearer ' + $env:OPENAI_API_KEY; 'Content-Type' = 'application/json' } -Body $body;" ^ "$psCommand = $response.choices[0].message.content;" ^ "Write-Host '---AI OUTPUT---';" ^ "Write-Host $psCommand;" ^ "Invoke-Expression $psCommand"

pause

```

cheevly··on Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
Generating 3000 lines of esoteric rendering code within minutes, to raster generative graphics of anything you can imagine and it just works? From natural language instructions. Seriously think about that my dude.
cheevly··on Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
I hear this constantly. Can you produce something novel, right here, demonstrably, that an LLM couldnt have produced? Nobody ever can, but it’s sure easy to claim.
cheevly··on AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately
Such an epic self-burn. Nice!
cheevly··on Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP
Imagine believing humans don’t make the same mistakes. You live in a different universe than me buddy.
cheevly··on Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing
It sounds like you’re saying that to distract yourself from reality. I care about how people look. I think it would be quite irrational to assume im the only one that cares.
cheevly··on Ask HN: Are there any CS niches safe from AI?
It takes significant skill to generate huge apps.
cheevly··on Levels of Agentic Engineering
Software that is otherwise not feasible for humans to build by hand.
cheevly··on GPT-5.4
Try improving your attention to detail / reading skills.
cheevly··on Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
It's best to avoid using tools and innovations that maximize your productivity.
cheevly··on We mourn our craft
Oh no, my engineering profession requires me to use new engineering techniques due to advancements produced by engineering. Quality cringe.
cheevly··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
A company with 5 developers could potentially downsize to 3 developers using AI, while improving overall velocity. Would you agree?
cheevly··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
What about the type of user that uses thinking/reasoning to produce more advanced tooling in order to outsource more and more of their thinking and skillsets to it? Because I myself and many others that I know fall into that category.
cheevly··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Today I learned all you need is some random 3d assets to solve for 'games need assets' problem.
cheevly··on Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld
Do you not see the repetition here? You're literally proving my point. Yes, I know you can apply token penalties.
cheevly··on Best of Moltbook
For one, because they can implement large-scale software engineering tasks in seconds, which I believe requires intelligence.
cheevly··on English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
Compare models from one year ago (GPT-4o?) to models from this year (Opus 4.5?). There are literally hundreds of benchmarks and metrics you can find. What reality do you live in?
cheevly··on English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
Yes, just buzzwords, totally no backing behind any of this. Your original comment makes so much more sense now.
cheevly··on English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
Only if you naively throw AI carelessly at it. It sounds like you havent mastered the basics like fine-tuning, semantic vector routing, agentic skills/tooling generation…dozens of other solutions that robustly solve for your claim.
cheevly··on English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
This is so objectively false. Sometimes I can’t believe im even on HN anymore with the level of confidently incorrect assertions made.
cheevly··on Ask HN: Can a MMO be vibe coded?
Assets are the main bottleneck.
cheevly··on Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
This post is grossly misaligned with the current state of the art. Sounds like they're talking about LLMs from a year ago.
cheevly··on Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld
Bro, go try GPT-3 right now. You are off your rocker. Good luck even getting it to stop repeating the same word indefinitely.
cheevly··on Looking at the numbers, I'm less productive using AI
You need a year of practice.
cheevly··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Assets are very hard to produce and largely unsolved by AI at the moment.
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