HN is "professional" 4Chan. If you ever spent any time on both sites it's obvious that there's a ton of overlap in the userbase. The only difference is moderation.

So going there for anything but focused technology discussions is a bad time. Now that that era is dead, there's no reason to visit unless you want a safe space where you can be a discrete racist/bigot and/or a flamboyant billionaire bootlicker.

Yes. I still have the muscle memory of typing 'H' then enter on my phone browser whenever I'm bored, but lately I've been catching myself before hitting enter. I need to find another site that starts with H to take priority in my autocomplete.

I also stopped using this site long ago, and only rarely check back in, although that's due to all the obnoxious Redditisms rather than AI. There ain't no "expert tech discussions" happening here.

At this point I feel like a hermit, since there's no social media I regularly use. It's honestly pretty great, and I feel like I'm better at focusing on my work and enjoying real life in general.

I hate these kinds of comments that have no other purpose than to sling shit and start arguments.

Since this is a programming community (and giving you the benefit of the doubt, I assume you're not a vibe coder), you know your argument is nonsense. Writing something in Python doesn't automatically make it slow or use a lot of RAM or whatever. Synapse is shitty because Synapse is shitty. You can write slow and inefficient software in any language, and it feels really tedious to type this out because it's obvious and common sense.

In a decade, all the current seniors will be a decade older and burning out and there won’t be any new ones to take their places.

That's by design. Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc will fill that void.

These coding LLMs are essentially like a vacuum that sucks your brain dry. Anything you do with it is used to train: those comments you leave in a PR, the instructions you give within the chat thread, the manual fixes you make to the broken output, etc. So you lose ability, while the models gain ability.

The logical extreme here is that, in the future, the only way humanity will be able to code/write/design/whatever is through LLM products, because everyone forgot and stopped learning.

Whether or not you think that's progress, I think everyone can agree that what is definitely bad is that those models are centralized and controlled by a small group people (who also happen to be the worst people). It is the ultimate tech bro monopoly strategy, to win complete control over 100% of the high skill sectors of our economy. Any child not born to a billionaire family circle will only be able to make a living from physical labor.

"programming is hard"

The only ending on our current course is monopolization of all intellectual labor into the hands of a few billionaires, and everyone else is forced to work building data centers or mining resources needed for construction (and of course police/military to suppress rebellion)

It is the ultimate billionaire power fantasy.

Yeah, tbh it'd be pretty immoral if someone gets lead poisoning just because they shot up an elementary school. Big Gun really needs to be taken to court over this scandal.

At least it's accurately named. "Microsoft Defender" is designed to defend Microsoft from competitors. All those EU orgs switching to Linux are now just one short sales call to the right idiot away from falling back into Microsoft's ecosystem.

There is absolutely no evidence that he actually submitted any kernel code written by an LLM.

The person you replied to never made such a claim.

Does it make you feel better to turn the truth into a cartoon with no nuance and obvious villains?

No, it's just an app that serves as an alternative youtube frontend.