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Don’t worry, this is false and the article says so.

AcmeScript!

You aren’t addressing the argument, which is that the word Deno is not similar to the word JavaScript.

Also Deno is not claiming that trademarks are bad, they’re claiming that JavaScript is a commonly used term.

Think they meant their C++ bindings for Luau, not Luau itself.

That's fair.

I guess I've had various reasons to count time, and every once in a while check how well I count time, and if I didn't, perhaps I would start to count time faster. Thanks for the reference and clarification.

Seems counter-intuitive to me, because common sense tells us that old people think slower and therefore the world seems fast to them. So why would they be counting faster than actual time?

It also seems to contradict the thesis of the OP, as others pointed out. Years flying by is the opposite of counting time faster than the clock.

Oh well. Time is confusing!

> A study asked different age groups to mentally count 120 seconds. People under 30 averaged 115 seconds; those over 50 just 87. That's a 24% reduction in perceived time.

This seems bogus to me. I’m 51; I set a timer on my phone for 2 minutes, put it aside and counted to about 128 before it went off.

Why would your ability to count seconds change over time? A second has always felt a little slow to me, probably because my resting pulse is above 60.

(I think it’s also ambiguously described? Maybe they meant the opposite, in which case it took me about 114 seconds to count to 120.)

Who builds phones?

Upgrades and “collateral evolution” are very strong use cases for Claude.

I think the training data is especially good, and ideally no logic needs to change.

Originally it was based on HyperTalk, then it switched to ECMA later on.

How long would it have taken if you had written “the detailed specs, detailed commit log, and thousands of tests”?

I asked Grok and Gemini and they both said there have been reports that Google search has dropped below 90% for the first time, so it’s significant but it’s like a 1-2% drop.

I think it’s humanities slop and not AI slop but I’m not sure…

So describe your experience without being a booster

I ran into this too.

In my case it was exactly the kind of situation where I would also run into trouble on my own - trying to change too many things at once.

It was doing superbly for smaller, more contained tasks.

I may have to revert and approach each task on its own.

I find I need to know better than Claude what is going on, and guide it every step. It will figure out the right code if I show it where it should go, that kind of thing.

I think people may be underestimating / underreporting how much they have to be in the loop, guiding it.

It’s not really autonomous or responsible. But it can still be very useful!

AGPL suggests you are correct

I'd add, ask it to ask you questions! That way you can make sure it understands the problem.

Oh I've definitely seen that too, even with common front-end stuff.

I think people might be exaggerating how much they are out of the loop. Claude often needs to be guided away from stupid decisions, and it will absolutely delete code in order to "fix" a problem.

Still, it saves me work on tedious stuff, and makes it more pleasant. I wouldn't ask it to do anything I don't understand, unless I don't care about the result.

You're probably in an obscure niche domain, or asking it to do something creative.

Try like upgrading JS package dependencies, or translating between languages, limited tedious things, and you will be surprised how much better it does.

This is all stuff for private use. It's credible that the author built these things with LLMs, not that they are secure or robust.

Like anyone, it can always keep adding new code that “works”. The problem is that it’s causing other code not to work at the same time, and it doesn’t see that.

A thermostat is a cybernetic device.

Maybe there's some copying and pasting involved. ;-)

I’ve done this without AI. The thing was not as hard as I thought it would be.

I’ve used this productivity hack without AI!

Pretty common word online, especially on the site once called Twitter.

Don't worry, this script dangerously skips permissions (by default?) You don't need to press 'y'.

Harmonic analysis?

Says nothing about economic feasibility, but I guess they weren't asked.

Oracle purchased Sun, which purchased Netscape. I had to look it up.

Edit: more complete history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408760

> "The ontology of all of this is nebulous"