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itmitica··on Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
Malware behavior. Broken functionality.
itmitica··on Token Salary
Where would cheaper-region engineers could possibly be found? North Korea or maybe Russia or maybe China. Iran?

This is one thing no nation would want to do. This is one thing no business would want to do. So yeah.

I'm not seeing the open internet as it once was. A new Claude model too capable to be released since the guardrails can't be guaranteed, this means walled gardens are coming up.

Local inference. Closed circuit inference. Trust me. The walls are being built as we speak.

On the other hand. SWE UNITE! If big companies eject them, SWE could federate into bigger companies. They certainly got the skills. Dump enough talent on the market and you are feeding the competition at a faster rate then ever. Nerd revolution 2.0. Big companies will be left in the dust, after the initial boost.

And this only if, and only if, no bubble will be burst :)

itmitica··on Linux, Finally for Everyone
Zero shell? Where's the fun in that! I live for my shell, in my shell! No kidding.

But, isn't the chat window a shell?

itmitica··on LLMs Can Write Production Quality Code
This matches my experience so far. Good write up.
itmitica··on The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
You are here. You know what you want. You know what are the correct rules and constraints. You know what the correct path looks like. You are able to spot drifting. You are able to objectively review the outcome. AI is the tool to go from here to where you want to arrive. There.

If not. AI is the tool to get "here" faster. And then go from here to there.

All you need is to take a little time to learn how to use this new tool: AI.

Take time to learn.

Have you taken the time to document what mathematicians were able to do with AI? What researchers were able to do with AI? They took the time to learn the AI tool. Then they used it with great results.

What are you waiting for? Learning is something you should also do. Go do it.

No mystery here.

itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
Should we go into how much tech is involved with making soap? Or how much tech is involved with running water facilities? Or how much tech is involved with transitioning from outside toilets to modern toilets? Cultural phenomenons are helping none, without the tech to back it up. In fact, cultural phenomenons not backed by tech are the ones making our society a regressive one.
itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
AI is expanding my thinking possibilities.

Mastering a certain form of internet search does not mean you are learning, it means you are mastering, to some degree, a tool to search. Shortcuts are OK here, per me. Learning comes when you actually go beyond tool-use skills.

To be more explicit, the time learning a tool is not time used learning, it's time used preparing for learning. AI cuts that, if you want, and you get straight to actually learning something instead of tripping over tools and infrastructure, becoming too overloaded to be able to see the forest from the trees.

itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
I'm going to comment on two subjects.

One, if cognitive overloading is not in the article, then it's good, it means I actually put some thought in the responding effort.

Two, AI expands possibilities for those that want that, and offer shortcuts for those that want that. No different from any other learning process: you could actually learn something or you could just do it. It makes sense, not all humans seek learning, but most humans look for results and answers.

itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
You are willfully evasive, so I'm going to take this as a sign not to waste any more time.
itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
More details please.
itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
You are over simplifying and sending confusing signals.

There was/is constant progress that constantly demanded/demands more tech. Without more tech, the progress would have/would stalled.

itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
If you have meaningful commentaries, I'm ready to learn from them.
itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
You are assuming slop is only an AI feature. You know the anecdotal aunt in the old days, confidently hallucinating answers? One had to carry half-truths all the time, and things are still the same now. Only now, the mitigation can come sooner than later. From an AI model near you.
itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
I always am open to learning, even by antithesis.
itmitica··on Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
Why would cognitive overload work better?

AI is a tool to help you see the forest from the trees.

You reading articles the old fashion way can be akin to seeing the trees but not seeing the actual forest.

Young minds tend to learn. How they do it, the old fashion way, the new AI way, they will learn.

Many blank out in school on different subjects and the cognitive overload byproduct follows them all their life making them wary of new things.

And finally, maybe you, personally, are reaching a limit in your comprehension of the modern world, and you show it by fighting the wrong battle with the wrong arguments.

Or maybe you are onto something.

itmitica··on Should QA Exist
Applies to making bread or brain surgery. Sometimes things go wrong and people are accounted for.

But since CEOs, or any other bosses, need to make a living, they will eat the liability in exchange for wealth, and leave engineering in the dust.

itmitica··on Should QA exist?
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

If engineering owns quality, then engineering own all, up the chain. No need for anything and anybody.

Which is the AI pipe dream, really.

You are, in fact, with using AI, QA or coding or otherwise, externalizing services in hope the services will improve and costs will drop.

Let me know how that goes without HITLs.

itmitica··on I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
Interesting food for thought for the HITL.
itmitica··on A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Good engineering has one loop. Hand coding and codegen are just different workers inside that loop.
itmitica··on You can turn Claude's most annoying feature off
Is this a nitpick definition attempt?
itmitica··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
It should be, right? DX has other context.
itmitica··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
And now programmers experience what is like to be a user, trying to comprehend the system on their computer screen.

I propose a new paradigm: programmer experience, PX.

So, code generated by AI ideally would follow the rules of PX. Whatever those may turn out to be.

itmitica··on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
The only trap is the article.
itmitica··on Creating momentum when an employee is stuck
Yeah, let's go ahead! Let's advance! We will probably miss the actual talks we now paint as controversy, later on, when we hit wall after wall. But who cares! We are advancing towards a cliff or towards a junction full steam, why don't we! Leadershit!
itmitica··on Layoffs at Block
Is this it? Is he trying to pop the AI bubble?
itmitica··on Show HN: Stop reviewing AI-generated code during a PR, move it in the edit cycle
Then Mesa is the bottleneck, only swiped under the rug. Right now you show you are confident enough in Mesa role, but can't prove its actual quality impact, only its quantitative impact.
itmitica··on Startups Are Sequencing Problems
Currently, A-C, A-D routes are not making any sense to me.

If the goal was to complete the circuit, arriving at start point A, that means you have to travel both tundra and hike the mountain, no matter the order.

If B was the goal, then yes, it makes sense to choose C over D or vice versa.

itmitica··on Show HN: Usplus.ai – Build a company of AI agents and execute work autonomously
Stop wondering.
itmitica··on Show HN: Stop reviewing AI-generated code during a PR, move it in the edit cycle
The question remains: no quantization of the confidence level Mesa is adding or subtracting.

Mesa enforced rules may well be ignored, is this true?

Mesa is yet another exercise in passing the responsibility to a magical system.

Tests and human review vs. Mesa: battle grounds.

itmitica··on Show HN: Usplus.ai – Build a company of AI agents and execute work autonomously
How does it stack up?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-study-company-run-...

https://kpmg.com/nl/en/home/media/press-releases/2025/11/ai-...

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