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Yes. Like the other commenter in OP's link said, I avoid AI like the plague.

I lose all interest once I find out that it's machine generated.

I feel that we're slowly reaching a turning point at which people will get tired of the averaged-out slop and crave something that feels eccentric, new and unforeseen.

And we'll (hopefully) have a new era of artists filling that demand.

At least, this is what I wish the future holds for us.

Why should I listen to AI slop that I could've easily prompted up myself on a rainy Thursday afternoon?

That's a very good idea, and exactly what HTMX (and similar implementations) do.

... Laravel uses Symfony components.

Also, this is very regional.

Here in Europe, actual, big projects that need to make money use Symfony, not Laravel.

In Germany, the search for an underground facility is ongoing. They hope to find a facility somewhere in 2046 [0]

In 2024, the cost for storing nuclear waste just up until 2100 was estimated to be 170 Bln. [1]

This cost is always, without exception, excluded in the calculation of the cost of generating a MWh. It's externalized, paid for by the next generations of taxpayers.

Gösgen's open data, just like all the other data, does not include waste management cost.

Gösgen is a perfect example for how brittle and outdated the technology is. The nuclear plant is off the grid since May 2025 and will remain down until at least February 2026 [2]

Just like the newly-built Flamanville 3 (12 years late, 10+Bln over budget), it's off the grid until further notice. [3]

The world is phasing out nuclear.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endlagersuche_in_Deutschland

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2024-08/atommuell-endlager-suche-...

[2] https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.akw-faellt-aus-ker...

[3] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...

It's the most expensive form of energy generation that needs to be subsidized by governments forever and ever, due to waste management.

ChatGPT wouldn't have set the apostrophe incorrectly in "it's customers".

Today, the vast majority of commercial PHP projects are developed enforcing the use of strong types by static analyzers like PHPStan in the CI pipeline, and having the strict_types declaration set.

As a community, we've seen enough untyped PHP spaghetti code in the early 2000s and never want to go back there.

If your team prefers not to use this new optional feature, just enable a PHPStan rule in your CI/CD pipeline that prevents code like this getting merged.

It's just SEO.

It's very common to have a CMS feeding images to an LLM that extracts the contents and gives image files a meaningful file name and alt tag.

OkCupid (the original one, before they sold out) had a great article showing how your perceived attractiveness changes significantly, based on the camera you're using to take your profile pictures [1]

[1] "Don’t Be Ugly By Accident!": https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/dontbeuglybyacciden... (mirror)

ME/CFS?

It's more about the 2 missing apostrophes and the 2 missing capital letters.

If you're bookmarking a directory, a list of things (e.g. the HN frontpage), you expect the content to change when opening the bookmark.

You bookmark a link to the directory so you don't forget the directory's entry URL.

The use case the author is talking about is a different one: You are configuring a complex item in a shop, and want to bookmark the URL so you can save it, recall it later, share this configuration with someone, or compare it with a different URL.

In this case, you also would expect little details to change (pricing, descriptions, photos) but the structure of the state should stay the same.

It's very frustrating when you share a link to a product detail page, only to discover that all your filters and configurations have been lost.

Again, that's just Bootstrap with extra steps.

> I don't know if picking up a minimalistic framework you know nothing about is faster

That's the whole point of HTMX: Going back to what works: trusty old HTML attributes, but giving them intuitive interactions.

Instead of learning the microframework du jour, you just add some attributes into your HTML templates, and get your desired result.

Just put any template rendering engine in-between.

Htmx is "bring your own backend", but you do have to have a backend, be it Haskell or Zig or Gleam, that talks to your API, and renders HTML.

Then what's the point of using HTMX?

If you're not sending just exactly the necessary HTML to replace the target's HTML; if you need to parse JSON, then even jQuery would be better suited.

The whole idea of HTMX is to get rid of the extra steps.

The differentiating factor is when the hype is justified with the implementation of the actual implementation. Then it's "hype", followed by adaptation and commoditization.

With "just hype" however, there is no such step. It's hype without the following implementation: NFTs, the "Metaverse", Blockchain and "smart contracts", and of course their ancestors (tulip bulbs, 3D VRML worlds, ...) weren't simply new technology: They were solutions in search of a problem; a Ponzi Scheme where it was clear that there will be no actual implementation following, because it wouldn't make sense.

If you have more than one display, and you want to be able to drag windows from one to another and want them to have a similar size after dragging, it's a hard problem.

If I get $1000 a month, I'll stop my grind job and open a car dealership, selling for pre-UBI pices, until I drive my competitors out of business.

It's a fantastic game theory playground.

Wait, what? Do you mean the mass layoffs during Covid, or the resulting state subsidies paid out?

Here in Europe, people moved to remote work, but nobody "stopped working".

None of that was universal, and none of that counts remotely as "income".

That's not UBI (the universal part), that's state subsidies, which already exist today all over the world.

Telegram introduced ads in 2021.

A compiler produces the same, deterministic output, every single time.

A stochastic parrot can never be trusted, let alone one that tweaks its model every other night.

I totally get that not all code ever written needs to be correct.

Some throw-away experiments can totally be one-shot by AI, nothing wrong with that. Depending on the industry one works in, people might be on different points of the expectation spectrum for correctness, and so their experience with LLMs vary.

It's the RAD tool discussion of the 2000s, or the "No-Code" tools debate of the last decade, all over again.

That's not how any of this works.

Those who make bold claims, need to back them up with evidence.

From following your other comments, you seem to be confused by Germany's version of what in the USA is known as Defamation lawsuits, and you're mixing it up with what is commonly known as "free speech", or the restriction of it.

I'm curious, do you have a source for your claims?

> German and UK citizens got canceled, fined or SWATTED for calling their elected rules stupid/corrupt on social media

Being "canceled" isn't a defined term. Being SWATted has nothing to do with state censorship, it's people abusing emergency services.

Getting a fine by the government for calling "elected rules stupid/corrupt on social media" would be the only thing you mentioned that would count as state censorship. Do you have a link to a case where this happened?

> in Germany you get a fine for downloading a song/movie

You don't get a fine for legally downloading movies.

There's an industry of lawyers profiting off of IP and copyright laws, yes.

Not being able to pirate movies isn't state censorship.

If you're working with text in an image, you'll have a vastly better experience using Inkscape.

> The biggest problem in my life is that all this work and productivity feels meaningless.

This is an entirely different, more high-level problem (like software architecture vs. specific algorithms)

Commonly, some may have a short-term goal (get a promotion / climb the next step of the career ladder / finish university) which gives them intrinsic motivation in such a way that they can't rationally explain why they are attracted to that goal.

Motivation might be derived from responsibility towards others: Trying to get more done to have more time for kids / elderly parents / partner / hobbies / side-project startup idea.

"Feeling no purpose" however is a very common problem. There are coaching programs, retreats, therapy programs and books revolving around this topic.

It tends to be complex, and could be a learned behaviour pattern where one neglects their true intrinsic interests; undiagnosed depression; being in a field your parents forced you into which you have no intrinsic interest in, or a mixture of those and some others.

I agree that generally, the low-level optimization of flow states only makes sense once you have found your true calling.

If the next 5 lines of code are so predictable, do they really need to be written down?

If you're truly saving time by having an LLM write boiler plate code, is there maybe an opportunity to abstract things away so that higher-level concepts, or more expressive code could be used instead?

It comes off as a low-effort question that seems to try to evoke a reply from a peer, while it's the kind of question that is best answered by an LLM, Google, or Wikipedia.