For one thing comments here appear to apply to the quality and issues today not potentially going forward. Quality will change quicker than anyone expects. I am wondering how many people at HN remember when the first Mac came out with Mac Paint and then Pagemaker or Quark. That didn't evolve anywhere nearly as quickly as AI appears to be.
Also I am not seeing how anyone is considering that what a programmer considers quality and what 'gets the job done' (as mentioned in the article) matters in any business. (Example with typesetting is original laser printers were only 300dpi but after a short period became 1200dpi 'good enough' for camera ready copy).
Have been following Trump since the 1970's. This is a negotiating tactic of his and actually it's a somewhat common negotiating tactic that many people follow when in a negotiation for something they want. Behaviorally anything less than the original demand seems more acceptable. Think of if you were diagnosed with a dreaded disease and then found out you had a lesser disease. The lesser disease by contrast seems less threatening.
I don't know what the angle is (haven't thought that much about it) but there is an angle he is pursuing with this. Trump is a master of FUD and also you can't typically tell what things he says he'll do that he does vs. those that he decides not to pursue further (and tha tis part of the magic of how he gets what he wants the unpredictability).
To answer your question of course it's an over reach happening in plain site but people tend to be numb to it at this point since it doesn't directly impact them day to day.
I fear that there is no other angle to this. He just wants the 'added land to the US' and 'won a Nobel peace prize'-accolades next to his name as one of the few presidents.
It's going to be difficult to explain to anyone looking back on this time how they managed to keep up the pretense that this was a functional adult with his faculties intact.
Here you are imbuing a "master of FUD" angle to a letter that might as well be written with crayons.
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths some people will go to in order to sane wash the batshit crazy things that the President says and does. And just like all the other rationalizations before this, this one is no different: "negotiating tactic" (aka 4D Chess)
> I don't know what the angle is (haven't thought that much about it)
You don't? It seems pretty clear to me. He states it in the first sentence of his letter:
"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace..."
That's it. That's the reason. It's not very complicated and it doesn't require any thought. Childish? Sure. Unbecoming of an elected official in any capacity? Absolutely. But this is who he is and this is how he operates. I can't think of any President before Trump that required special whisperers to translate everything he says and tell us what he really means.
The issue here with the negativity is that it appears to ignore the potential tremendous upside and tends to discuss the downside and in a way that appears to make as if it's lurking everywhere and will be a problem for everyone.
Also trying to frame it as protecting vulnerable people who have no clue about security and will be taken advantage of. Or 'well this must be good for Anthropic they will use the info to train the model'.
It's similar to the privacy issue assuming everyone cares about their privacy and preventing their ISP from using the data to target ads there are many people who simply don't care about that at all.
> I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN.
Very generally I suspect there are many coders on HN who have a love hate relationship with a tool (claude code) that has and will certainly make many (but not all) of them less valuable given the amount of work it can do with even less than ideal input.
This could be a result of the type of coding that they do (ie results of using claude code) vs. say what I can and have done with it (for what I do for a living).
The difference perhaps is that my livlihood isn't based on doing coding for others (so it's a total win with no downside) and it's based on what it can do for me which has been nothing short of phemomenal.
For example I was downvoted for this comment a few months ago:
"HN is all about content that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity, so if you are admitting you have lost the desire to learn, then that could be triggering the backlash."
(HN is about many things and knowing how others think does have a purpose especially when there is a seismic shift that is going on and saying that I have lost the desire to learn (we are talking about 'awk' here is clearly absurd...)).
Your website (luniv.tech) is (for lack of a better way to put it) 'all over the place'. You are (from what I can tell) a 1 person operation. Nothing wrong with that. But you should try to focus on at most 3 things that you can do well and cut your site down to talking about those 3 things. Then (despite what everyone here seems to be telling you) you should cold outreach to people who can use those items and learn from the failure (and rejection). If you keep at it you will get results (and you will learn).
Also register and use lunivtech.com as your website (it's open now). Don't use .tech as your primary domain.
I recognize that this wasn't your decision but I would say having that HN Christmas banner (or any religious holiday banner) is a form of proselytizing. (Not disagreeing with what you said in reply btw.)
I feel that having a banner like that shows a sense of entitlement that people who celebrate (or have been raised to believe in Christ or another religion) have with this entire time of year.
(This is irrespective if the same is done for other holidays which apparently it is but HN history doesn't show this (when searching for stories from a particular day)).
Could be crackpots or could be regular people who are so frustrated they express themselves that way.
And the truth is if the 'Bill Gates' had to deal with this frustration himself (most likely let's say he doesn't he has people who deal with it for him when he needs something from another company or his own) he'd implement changes to keep users happier. Noting of course that you are always going to have a segment of people that will both get angry and have edge problems.
Did or does 'Bill Gates' ever actually try to be a regular user of Microsoft support actually waiting in the call queue on hold for 10 minutes to an hour and even getting disconnected?
Does anyone at the company (in a position to order improvements) ever do this?
(This applies to many companies obviously 'bill gates' and 'microsoft' are just placeholders.)
I think it's underestimated the amount of psychological pain that some of the software (of Microsoft and other companies) has caused people over the years.
There is this tendency to phrase questions (or statements) as
"when did 'we' ".
These decision are made individually not centrally. There is no process in place (and most likely there will never be) that will be able to control and dictate if people decide one way of doing things is the best way to do it. Even assuming they understand everything or know of the pitfalls.
Even if you can control individually what you do for the site you operate (or are involved in) you won't have any control on parts of your site (or business) that you rely on where others use AWS or Cloudflare.
I am not a programmer, but I have used awk since the 1980's. And normally I would read this type of info or really many things about typical unix tools. I've done a small amount of helpful things with awk (again dating to the 1980's). (Wrote an estimating system using awk and flat txt files as an example).
However given what I've been able to acomplish with Claude Code, I no longer find it necessary to know any details, tips, or tricks, or to really learn anything more (at least for the types of projects I am involved in for my own benefit).
Update: Would love to know why this was downvoted...
Obviously, you won't understand or agree with the reason once explained, so really what's the point?
The reason is (yes I will be so bold as to speak for all on this one) both using ai to do your thinking for you, and essentially advocating to any readers to do the same simply by writing how well it works for you. Some people find this actively bad, of negative value, and some find it merely utterly uninteresting, of no value, and both responses produce downvotes.
But it's automatic that you can not see this. If you recognized any problem, you would not be doing it, or at the very least would not describe it as anything but an embarrasing admission, like talking about a guilty pleasure vs a wholesome good thing.
So don't bother asking "What's wrong with using this tool that works vs any other tool that works?" If you have to ask... There are several things wrong, not just one.
Or for some it could just be that "I used to use awk but now I just use ___" just doesn't add anything to a discussion about awk. "I used to use awk a lot but now I just use ruby". Ok? So what? Some people go as far as to downvote for that.
Also now that you whined about downvotes, I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't the cause of some itslef, because it absolutely does deserve it.
There might possibly also be at least some just from "I'm not a programmer but here's my thoughts on this programming topic" though that isn't very wrong in my own opinion. You even say you've actually used awk a lot so as far as I'm concerned you can absolutely talk about awk and probably don't need to be so humble as to deny yourself as a pragrammer. It's admirable to avoid making claims about yourself, but I bet a bystander would call you at least a programmer, even if we'll leave the actual level of sophistication unspecified.
Since I wrote this comment, I did not up or downvote myself. But for the record, I would have downvoted for the ai.
HN is all about content that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity, so if you are admitting you have lost the desire to learn, then that could be triggering the backlash.
Also I am not seeing how anyone is considering that what a programmer considers quality and what 'gets the job done' (as mentioned in the article) matters in any business. (Example with typesetting is original laser printers were only 300dpi but after a short period became 1200dpi 'good enough' for camera ready copy).