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People are getting death threats for writing news articles as part of their job. How is this comparable?

Polymarket and similar platforms are a cancer and need to be shut down. This is an early symptom of something that will become much, much worse in an increasing manner. Stories like these make more people aware of the platform, adding users and further degrading humanity.

7000 credits, ouch. The tool is really cool, I do think it's super useful. I also like the swarm particle animations in the backround.

Bit of a story of negligence, ignorance, and laziness. I can't say I have much of any sympathy. There were multiple steps that they could have intervened and chose not to.

Good story of what not to do though

I think it's time for me to move on from Raycast. It's decent, but I genuinely hate this direction. Shove AI in to every orifice, doesn't matter if anyone wants it.

I guess they're trying to make more money and Raycast is a bit of a dead-end there.

I wouldn’t call it limbo, and I don’t think I need therapy for this. It’s more like, the future is so uncertain but all signals are pointing in one direction.

Sure, you can say that you won’t fret much but if you’re in a place without much social security, you’re not going to have a safety net. The revolution might not be in your benefit either, if there is one, which would only come when more people have their AI bubble popped.

I honestly have no idea. We're stuck either way. I don't know what to do. What do you do if all you know is code and you're helping yourself out of a job whether you like it or not?

If you don't use AI you'll fall behind. If you do, you're accelerating your own redundancy.

I wouldn't consider myself a champion for AI. If you read my comment history you'll see that. I don't preach its wonders or pretend that we're all happy-fluffy in this world of ours. I mostly write my own code, use AI for review and to handle the trivial boring bits. I do use AI to build random tools I'd never want to take time away from "real" work to build, like helper scripts, nice TUIs for manual processes, etc. I do recognise the irony though.

Yeah, I suppose I limited it to software devs since this is HN, but other industries will definitely be hit harder.

I guess factory workers felt it when robots started appearing, and there are many other similar examples of tech eating entire classes of worker. Except we're so deep in this coding rabbit hole that I dunno where else we end up.

If all you know is code, where do you go?

I quite like how archaic it is. I am turned off by a lot of modern stuff. My shell is nice and predictable. My scripts from 15 years ago still work just fine. No, I don't want it to get all fancy, thanks.

The odd thing I find with folks championing AI, and those who have effectively laid themselves off from their own job and now are basically just glorified prompt engineers, is that you're just making yourself obsolete.

AI will get better so much faster than you can adapt. One day you're happily vibe coding your 50th app, having other agents do your work for you. The next, you're worse than AI and you're redundant, and the clock is now ticking on your own head. This whole thing has shown that orgs don't care how the work gets done. If it's done by a human, cool. If it's done faster by an AI at a satisfactory level, even better.

Soon, though, the human won't be needed in that loop.

How do you make yourself useful here? What defense do software engineers even have? We can run alongside AI, try to outrun it, but it's just about futile. I work with junior devs at work and Claude is easier to instruct than them, and produces better code. In some ways it's more pleasant to work with, too.

This isn't really me shitting on the juniors so much as trying to raise how fucked we actually are. Sorta just feels like we're in this phase of pretending it's all happy as a coping mechanism for the future pain.

The wording is all nice, and at surface level it reads well. It still makes me feel super icky. Kill 4k jobs because people are more productive with AI. Fuck the people, push the profits. Make investors happy.

No, fuck the investors. Fuck the entities causing these decisions to be more common. Extra-fuck the ever-more-obvious push for profit over literally anything else, including ethics, morals, and humanity. If you're an investor causing this shit to happen, fuck you.

Somehow this makes me feel that this org is already dead, and that this is just gonna accelerate it.

Perhaps I missed the information on their website that details how to do this.

Why not allow it to be self-hosted or make it a browser extension? Seems cool but I am not gonna trust a random tool with this level of access.

The brand you chose for daily consumption advertises "3X MORE CAFFEINE - NEVER SLEEP AGAIN."

In this instance I would honestly say that this choice of coffee, with so much caffeine, is a large contributor for why you had such a withdrawal. Your body probably ended up with a dependence to some degree because that's so much caffeine that it can't sorta just ignore it or manage around it.

More moderate consumption is more tolerable and often doesn't produce the same negative effects after you stop, though for some people it still does.

It's probably fine to have a coffee when you're craving it, couple times a week. Perhaps stick to a typical bean rather than nuclear-grade like you're used to? :P

Extremely short notice to just nuke the entire stack.

Deserved. Pinterest has been enshittifying itself and the Internet at large for quite a long time.

I get that. I do hope that this sort of thing doesn't induce artificial anxieties, where you feel like you must do something even when you don't want to or can't. It's also a really easy way to kill the fun of something and later avoid it or associate feelings of anxiety with something you used to enjoy

Gamifying Claude Code? Why? A leaderboard of who can blow the most tokens/money? Sure, but it's trivial to make number go up. Very likely that the tool itself is vulnerable to just submitting data yourself. I find this really, really weird.

People seem to fondly remember the Microsoft phones. If they made them now though, I can't really imagine what sort of Copilot-filled abomination they would be.

I don't agree that it's possible to output this much code with an LLM and also be sure that you know the codebase. Chances are very close to 100% that the entire stack is vibe coded and you rely on LLMs to fix bugs too

Was this vibe coded? Did you test it on itself?

Code written by LLMs, website copy written by LLMs trashing competitors, Hacker News post written by LLMs, as if it were for LinkedIn. AI images everywhere. I dunno man, this is really sloppy.

It's basically hosted Git infrastructure as an API service, aimed at AI coding platforms rather than human developers.

Took me a really long time to understand this. The blob thing is cool but otherwise it's a really confusing website. The audio playing without me wanting it was not cool though.

You're blind-trusting someone to run stuff in the context of your terminal. Sure, it's similar to an installer but the author of the script can also manipulate the script at any time.

One day you run it, it's fine. The next day you run the same command on your machine, it installs malware. No way to tell without inspecting the script every time.

If you download an installer and it's fine, then you can run it again and it's still fine.

If I want to try something like this out it's for fun more than anything, and I'm not really willing to invest much time trying to understand where to put the files etc.

These graphs are really weird. One only shows 30-60% range with the model(s) close to 60%, the other shows 80% but the top model is at 77%.

This is cool. I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no. This workflow is getting really old.

I guess that I also don't want to pollute old good memories by associating them with work/Claude

Gilded used to exist but it's seemingly gone now. The power Discord has is quite insane, to the point where people haven't even seriously tried to compete it seems.

I think it's fine for wheel controls to look different though. You're adjusting them when engaged with a task that requires constant concentration, so being able to easily identify the control you want and then use it makes sense.

I'd rather have this than all of them look the same. If you're driving in rain and need to swap to wet tyre mode, but have to spend time figuring out which generic knob does the thing, it's dangerous.

Gay-i perhaps