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theappsecguy··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
Do cameras work well in those conditions? Nope. Also cameras don't work well with certain answer of glare, so as a consumer I'd rather have something over-engineered for my safety to cover all edge cases...
theappsecguy··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
More jobs where? In farming? Is that why farming in the US is dying, being destroyed by corporations and farmers are now prisoners to John Deer? It’s hilarious that you chose possibly the worst counter example here…
theappsecguy··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
Everyone and I mean everyone keeps parroting this "inflection point" marketing hype, which is so damn tiring.
theappsecguy··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services
I thought AI was supposed to replace Software engineers by now?
theappsecguy··on GitHub is down again
What if you need to deploy to production urgently...
theappsecguy··on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
The crash and burn can't come soon enough.
theappsecguy··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Having seen how clueless the new generation is and the amount of brain rot they get from using LLMs over honing their own skills, I'd say it's the opposite...
theappsecguy··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
According to the CEO peddling AI, software engineers are about to be replaced by AI, how come AI hasn't fixed all of their atrocious software hmmm..
theappsecguy··on Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)
I love gh-dash, but like you said it's more in the realm of PR management rather than a fluid PR review tool!
theappsecguy··on Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)
Would love if this was something capable of doing PR reviews with comment threads, etc! Super tired of having to open up Intellij to get the only usable option for that kind of flow
theappsecguy··on Software Pump and Dump
Exactly this. Before crypto it was Big Data, before that it was Low-code platforms
theappsecguy··on Microservices for the Benefits, Not the Hustle (2023)
I am yet to see this mysterious phenomenon of AI working so much faster and better than high performing teams. What I see so far, is sloppy code, poor tests and systems that do not scale in the long room.
theappsecguy··on Junior Developers in the Age of AI
If you’re only coming in at 20% above a complete junior you’re a slightly experienced junior elsewhere. You’re telling me your experience dealing with SDLC, incidents, abstractions, ubiquitous technologies like databases, CI/CD, k8s, etc only put you 20% ahead? Thats an absurd undersell.
theappsecguy··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
I think the problem is the techno fascist oligarchs that are peddling the snake oil that LLMs will wipe out all white collar jobs tomorrow. Managers usually answer to C suite, and the C suite is salivating at the idea of laying off 80% of staff
theappsecguy··on The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)
Not sure homicide fits into “small crime” category.
theappsecguy··on SQL Studio
People are outsourcing even basic sql to AI? Do you do any thinking for yourself still? I’m super curious what the AI brain rot will look like even 5 years from now when some senior dev can’t do a join without AI
theappsecguy··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Or quality
theappsecguy··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
It’s incredibly tiring to see this narrative peddled every damn day. I use opus 4.5 every day. It’s not much different than any previous models, still does dumb things all the time.
theappsecguy··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
What is bad exactly about the trajectory? They are constantly adding features and none of feels like bloat, it just happens to be a much younger editor so iteration is rapid. I welcome it compared to the monstrosity that Jetbrains has become.
theappsecguy··on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)
I find the mental gymnastics like this around AI discourse really confusing. Taking a still video of the ocean isn't "creativity". And if a video of an ocean is truly creative it's likely not attributed to "nature".
theappsecguy··on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
How do you determine that a typical job is busy work? While there are certainly jobs like that, I don’t really see them being more than a fraction of the total white collar labour force.
theappsecguy··on [dead]
I genuinely despise READMEs that are just AI slopped emoji hell. Can we not put some thought and effort into things anymore...?
theappsecguy··on Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
Well by not opening the blog post or whatever page that nicely explains the JavaScript sort with examples, you just deprived them of page views and probably income. So what will happen in 5 years when you’re searching for human written and thoughtful content on something more complex and all you get is slop?
theappsecguy··on Magit Is Amazing
I would love to use magit buuuut I don’t want to have to learn emacs… is there any alternative path?
theappsecguy··on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
The gem ecosystem and hiring pool is much better. Otherwise, as raw tech it's worse
theappsecguy··on Cursor 1.7
I'd love in-terminal autocomplete support with Vim or Helix. I can't stand VSCode but cursor autocomplete is 95% of my cursor usage.
theappsecguy··on Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
This is so fantastic. I want something like this for slack...
theappsecguy··on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
I mean have you seen some of the valuations for VSCode forks with some AI slapped on haha. I agree that this seems a lot for what I assume is a product with no solid revenue stream
theappsecguy··on RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
Shockingly, there are still no better options out there for Ruby than Rubymine, nothing even comes close.
theappsecguy··on A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation
Tridactyl is only available for Firefox unfortunately
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