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I don't think that's necessarily true, though. Claiming something has been written with an LLM is certainly peak 2026 Hacker News, though.

In order for what you're asserting as true to be so, someone would have to specifically prompt for an uncomfortable level of Mad Men style casual male grossness. I just don't see it, sorry.

I'm not suggesting for a moment that many/most men - or people, period - don't objectify everyone they see on a conscious or subconscious level. But very few people write it down for public consumption in the modern era.

Whether that comes from tact or just understanding the boundaries between inside thoughts and outside thoughts, I can't say. I'd have to ask an LLM what to think.

Wait, what are you saying here?

I understand why you think that this is a valid point in this context, but 95% of what's hard about creating a thing you can hold in your hands does not happen in KiCAD.

It might be 98%.

I don't need your permission to say words.

I'm really sorry to hear that you're going through this. Any company would be lucky to have you on their team.

My strong suggestion to you: pivot to hardware. I still use Ruby but most of my development efforts are ESP32-P4 and RP2350-based these days.

Learning CAD and mastering various additive and subtractive fabrication techniques, getting PCBs made to make ideas real... it's been a roller coaster but LLMs are remarkably good as engineering mentors these days.

And yes, as several others have already said, this might be the time to learn woodworking and/or video production skills.

You'll find that you still need your programming brain, instincts and intuitions. You just deploy them in a different way in support of creating a device instead of an experience [or yet another CRUD form].

Ryan is a big deal in the Ruby community. He's not imagining his accomplishments and not long ago it's reasonable to say there would have been several companies fighting for the opportunity to have him on their team.

I didn't call you an idiot. And yet...

Absolutely nothing you're saying is in good faith. You're just arguing for the sake of arguing.

So, no: you don't have my permission. You haven't earned it.

It's extremely obvious to everyone else here that they were not talking about literal enterprise software. Perhaps they could have chosen different terminology, but the fact that you've clearly latched on to this relatively minor word choice as some kind of smoking gun says infinitely more about your perspective and motivations than it does about whether some guy is building big-to-him projects or Enterprise Projects.

Tell me: when someone says that the shit hit the fan, do you furiously start looking around for actual shit?

It's been freaking amazing for me. I genuinely love it.

Nobody owes you evidence.

Ladies and gentlemen, the cuck chair is going to be occupied tonight!

Sometimes we make art.

Sometimes we have work to do.

I actually have a fairly simple answer to that: if it doesn't come up in the list of LLMs that Cursor supports, it effectively doesn't exist.

I'm well aware that there's nearly infinite opportunities to yak shave "perfect" OpenRouter setups and some people appear to enjoy bouncing from IDE to IDE as though change costs aren't a thing, but I discovered that I genuinely like Cursor and at least right now it's insanely subsidized by Auto clearly defaulting to whatever Grok's most powerful model is.

I dropped my $200/month subscription to $20/month and stick to Auto for all but really important Plan tasks, and I have basically zero chance of using up my monthly credits even using it 6-10 hours some days.

No, that's not what happened in this thread at all.

There's a recurring pattern on HN where any time someone talks about knocking dozens of personal projects off their list - things that almost certainly would never have actually been addressed in the finite span of a normal life, the way things go - and you AI doomers show up and demand receipts as though that's a total reasonable and definitely not obnoxious request.

It's like if you tell someone that you love your partner and they demand to sit in the cuck chair or else you're obviously lying. I keep hoping people will move past this "prove that you're actually productive" reflex, but it just keeps happening in basically every AI thread.

In reality there are many reasons not to list out projects that you've worked on with LLMs, and while "none of your damn business" is always going to be at the top, the simple truth is that I want my products and projects to be judged by what they do and how well they work, not by how they were made.