parpfish

i'm not offended by the vulgarity. i'm offended by the fact that a professional comedian/podcast-doer is using SO MA?NY filler words (and it just so happens that those filler words are 'fuck' and 'shit')

i'm the same way, and my personal projects are being created in a similar way.

i'll have a specific technical architecture in mind -- API specs, a list of cloud services, a general idea about how code should be broken into modules. i'll write it all out and let the pieces get filled in by AI.

it's not really 'vibe coding' as the term was originally envisioned where you just describe a top-level goal (e.g., "make me a new version of minecraft. no mistakes please."). it's a different level of abstraction where the models are primarily doing implementation and not design.

for me this lets me do the fun parts of designing software BUT i don't have to slog through documentation and learn a bunch of DSLs to get it going.

invent new downtime. that's what i'm doing by writing this comment.

if you're code-golfing on a prod repo, i do not want you as my coworker. please add comments. make things readable.

> HN is 70% AI propagandists

really? i feel like the overwhelming sentiment in every comment section is staunchly anti-ai. it's far more common to see people lamenting their job prospects or complaining about having to review mountains of slop PRs.

i think a big part of the backlash isn't about math per se and it's about what 'work' or 'a job' are supposed to be.

when mathematicians complaining about losing the part of the job that they love, people think "if you love doing it, why is anybody paying you? you're describing a hobby."

i'd love a 'slow amazon' variant where i could shop for things as normal throughout the week, but it would hold them all until a single specified time where i could do a final review/approval of orders for the whole household the order and then have it submitted at once.

I'd win because I could remove the late-night impulse buys and de-duplicated things added by multiple family members.

They win because it simplifies shipping logistics/packaging and actually encourages more loose/impulse driven buying ("just add it to the cart, we'll review it later").

i'm happy to pay a convenience fee to not have to set up an account to order from each individual store. having my address and payment info in one centralized superstore is way better than having it spread around dozens of niche businesses

apples and oranges. (i know that this is totally "trust me, bro") but as of a few years ago a colleague with knowledge of these things told me that the "going rate" for a private coffee meeting with a member of the house was a donation of ~$5k.

that's not a crazy amount if you think about the potential ROI of a few of these meetings vs. blowing money on an ad campaign.

there's no way that its this cheap to buy our representatives, which is why im convinced that looking at on-the-books campaign donations is a red herring.

we're at a point in AI-driven automation where we've seen rapid progress on the 'easy' parts of many jobs, but we don't know whether this is an exponential trajectory (progress continues to accelerate and the singularity arrive) or a sigmoid/logistic trajectory (progress decelerates and and we have to spend more and more compute/time/money to eke out smaller relative gains).

if we're on the former path, you're right. if we're on the later, there comes a point where continued work in automation isn't cost effective and we keep the humans around to handle all the hard 'edge cases' like urban driving to the final warehouse

When you look at the actual dollar amounts for these campaign contributions, they are often fairly small. They are in the ballpark where any well paid individual (doctors, engineers) would be able to afford a 1:1 coffee meeting with their representative.

This either means that a) buying our elected officials is cheap or b) we’re not looking in the right place to see the actual transactions.

A much more likely (and hard to regulate) form of corruption is “back-door lobbying” where there isn’t a clear payment now but a promise of bigger payment in the future. Such as “you helped our industry do X, so once you retire from congress we’ll reward you with a high layer do—nothing consultant’ role”.

could we automate the predictable, tedious sections of long drives on interstates but let humans take over for the complex 'last mile' navigating through towns and to the final destination?

those drivers could spend their lives working locally (and sleepin at home), develop deep regional expertise, and be able to handle the hardest part of the job without the fatigue from a cross-country drive.

when left to my own devices without external time constraints (e.g., gradschool), i settle into sleeping from 4am-11am.

but there's a strong cultural bias to judge people that wake up at 11am as lazy. and people that stay up to 4am are reckless.

but somebody that slept the same seven hours from 11pm-6am is pragmatic and responsible.

going to bed early feels like i'm a child being punished.

staying up late rocks. its the funnest. why would i give that up? just to pay attention better at work? no thanks.