robby_w_g

> It's dramatically reduced the value of code, which has derailed a lot of careers who have built their entire adult life around the idea that code would remain valuable

I just don't relate to this sentiment. I wasn’t the fastest typer or the quickest at designing a solution pre-AI, but I was able to learn, build, and maintain systems. My value wasn’t in how fast or how much code I could write, it was in my ability to understand what the hell is going on and do something with that knowledge.

That’s still the case now, even though Kent from Accounting could theoretically one shot some of the software I build. He wouldn’t know what to do with the software, and he wouldn’t want it because now it’s his problem.

The tech industry oversees invisible Rube Goldberg’s machines of flowing electrons. Most people don’t want to learn or deal with its issues. And since AI is yet another complication piled on top of the machine, I feel confident that my career will still have value.

I like Strange New Worlds. It’s the closest thing we have to modern TNG and DS9

Add in Claude for some extra CYA:

> Dear Claude, please investigate the culprit of the attack and make no mistakes.

I agree. There's nuance to it. I believe the CVE was overblown, and I also believe that it is a severe vulnerability that should be addressed ASAP. 2 things can be true at once.

It was OpenAI's marketing that hyped up the vulnerability to the point that guys on my hockey team saw it in the news and were asking about it. There doesn't need to be mainstream articles about it, these kinds of vulnerabilities happen every year. Just patch and move on.

Apple makes incredible hardware and could easily be the best development machine on the market. But I ultimately prefer Linux because I own the maintenance story and it's simple + fast. System packages and xcode are horrible experiences, and there's no reason for this to be the case in 2026.

Compared to what time frame? The annual sports games have been terrible for over a decade. Basic open world games have been around for just as long, though they’re more prevalent now.

From my perspective, there’s been a small but steady trickle of good games for decades. Recent AAA games that pushed the boundaries are Elden Ring and Baldurs Gate 3, and they would not have been possible at their scale back in the day.

Wait, this is terrible news. I was planning to migrate off of Gmail using that feature

Ah but then the murder weapon would melt!

Nothing to be ashamed of? The behavior in that issue is petulant and embarrassing.

And it’s not bad faith to call out bad behavior. That’s some twisted logic.

The cliche “AI solves that” response to everything is even more annoying when it’s a problem that AI created.

This is the conventional wisdom, but there are some new distros that shake things up imo. For people who are migrating from Windows to Linux Desktop, I'd recommend the following:

* Low maintenance + most familiar to Windows Users => Linux Mint

* Low maintenance + don't want custom packages => Aurora (or any immutable distro)

* Low maintenance + gaming => Bazzite

* You want the ability to install or customize whatever you want => Arch Linux

Maybe there's a middle ground between the low maintenance distros and Arch Linux, but for me I'd rather go all in on low maintenance or all in on customizability.

> What matters more is that what will happen to us when we find the answer.

I'd imagine that it'd be like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when the answer is 42. The answer itself is not sufficient, we need to understand to appreciate.

There is definitely a balance between utility and security/privacy gates. I think people are enjoying the freedom of YOLO for now until the consequences of gate-free agent use become too severe.

> And I also like pi, but it's probably one of the worst in terms of sandboxing as it's yolo by default.

Agreed, but the nice thing about pi is the plugin system and how configurable it is. I can easily hack on the pi harness, whereas a more opinionated one like opencode is more difficult

I think sandboxing could be solved if effort was put into it. Webassembly seems like a great way to enforce data and execution boundaries for an LLM, for example.

I think the problem is that LLM providers are dis-incentivized from pursuing it because their ethos is gobbling up any and all data they can get.

> Oops, we accidentally yoinked your personal documents, photos, and videos and they’re now swimming in our model’s data ocean! We’re sorrrry, oh well let’s move on.

It’s up to the users to use tools that enforce security/privacy. Open source harnesses like pi.dev seem like a good path forward to me

Yeah, I don't buy the premise that branchless code is intrinsically easier to understand. Maybe OP's point is that adding unnecessary branches makes code harder to read? But that's generally the case for any unnecessary code.