This and a lot of similar HN comments, often by fresh accounts, just read like viral marketing. Not least because of the capitalisation.

Claude Code sure is great. Claud Code and my Codex reignited my passion for programming. Codex and Claude.

Ugh.

140 year old here just to chime in -- Wowee Claude Code™® sure is magic and giving me back all the passion I've lost in my life now that I can Code Anything I want! It's not just a tool, it's a revolution!! Hell yeah brother let's go Code Some Stuff With Claude!!!!

It's really fucking absurd. This thread is such low quality garbage and it's somehow a top article with hundreds of bot comments all reading from the same template, what a joke.

Let's not forget No Man's Sky here. Or Elite Dangerous' planet-scale procedural generation using solar system properties to fuel the deterministic but procedural generation of tectonic plates that again seed how a planet's surface is deterministically generated, even down to impact craters over millennia, for a universe of billions of consistent deterministically generated full-scale planets you can land on. Something you couldn't do without proc-gen because there's not enough disk space to store it.

How do people keep track of all these versions and releases of all these models and their pros/cons? Seems like a fulltime hobby to me. I'd rather just improve my own skills with all that time and energy

Unless you're interested in this type of stuff, I'm not sure you really need to. Claude, Google, and ChatGPT have been fairly aggressive at pushing you towards whatever their latest shiny is and retiring the old one.

Only time it matters if you're using some type of agnostic "router" service.

> I'd rather just improve my own skills with all that time and energy

That's what I would recommend, it's time better spent. I use AI occasionally to bounce some questions around or have some math jargon explained in simpler terms (all of which I can verify with external sources) using the free version of chatgpt or gemini or whatever I'm feeling that day, without caring about whatever version the model is. I don't need an AI to write code for me because writing the code is not really the hard part of solving a problem, in my opinion.

For me it's simple. I did my research, settled on Anthropic and Claude and got the Pro plan at ~$20/month. That way I only have to keep track of what Anthropic are offering, and that isn't even necessary as the tools I use for AI-supported development (Claude Code for VS Code extension, Xcode Intelligence and Claude Desktop) offer me to use the newsest models as soon as they are released.

on a subscription you cant access all that many different options, so you just stay with whatever the newest is unless it doesnt work.

Same as when the EU puts a ton of restrictions on farmers within the EU countries -- Co2, fertiliser requirements, etc. -- making food so expensive to produce many go out of business and the remainder become practically luxury food, and then countries just end up having to import food from countries outside the EU _without_ those restrictions, simply offloading the environmental burden on "some other countries somewhere".

It's a farse.

Food is actually pretty cheap in the EU (in absolute prices compared to the US and relative to income compared to most other places), so I don't know what you mean.

You're not contradicting me. Read it again.

EU is a net food exporter and the only agricultural products the EU isn't self-sufficient in are animal feed, sugar, and tropical fruits & vegetables.

So, no, EU farmers are struggling at the moment because they aren't as competitive on the global markets as they used to. Not because Europeans aren't buying their food anymore.

Now why do you think they’re not competitive? Think about this more than one layer.

That's a feature

I would love to know why it's considered a feature for you.

I remember messing with bouncers and reading the backlog from a 3rd party page. Bots that would ping other members when they come online. It was cumbersome.

Because I prefer online conversations to work like IRL ones: Ephemeral. Sure each individual might keep their own log if they want but the server itself doesn’t and setting aside all the issues with modern datasets being used for training all sorts of algorithms, just the concept of stepping into a digital room without all the baggage of the last twenty hours of conversation is _mentally refreshing_. It also changes people’s behaviour for the better IME.

But on IRC you had your own log, and sometimes the server made the full logs public. It was just cumbersome to access. What I said and you said in my presets was still logged.

It's a muddy middle ground where neither you are I are satisfied. Far from perfect.

I wanted to disagree but I really miss IRC internet. Saving everything we ever said online was a mistake. We need to focus on ephemeral chat making a comeback.

IRC still exists at a semi large scale. If you're looking to return

Saving logs has been essential for work, in the past, because we were always to write real documentation when necessary. Mind you, this was local to our machine.

To a modern audience, it's definitely not.

Nitro cancelled, all boosts for my servers cancelled, have recommended my communities all do the same. It'll be a lot less smooth but we can go back to IRC + Mumble.

Enshittification and profit-maxing strikes down yet another decent piece of software. Rest in piss.

If you think net zero’s failures are a right wing talking point it might be you failing the Rorschach test

Bringing up net zero in a thread about semiconductor manufacturing is a complete non sequitur. Fabs run on electricity which is quite easy produce without emitting any CO2.

Only if you ignore supply chains, manufacturing, procurement of raw materials, grid balancing, and so much more.

You're, of course, misrepresenting what I was replying to. Here it is again:

> 'green everything, at all costs' and importing millions of unskilled people who don't share your values

Are you in good faith attempting to argue that those sentiments are not predominantly right wing talking points?

They may be but that doesn’t make them wrong. I don’t keep track of what everyone on any “side” tall about and how many percentages do what. That’s noise. The arguments are valid regardless of who says them.

Was there anything in my initial post that made a judgement as to the validity of these talking points?

Yeah but they didn’t have social media algorithms turning their brains into slush

They also didn't have nuclear weapons to use in global conflicts over resources.

> If an agent isn't running, I ask myself "is there something an agent could be doing for me right now?"

Solution-looking-for-a-problem mentality is a curse.

That tells me everything I need to know about this guy.

/ignore