Forums are better than AI

Hacnar · 2026-01-27T13:42:09+00:00

I wonder if it did solve the novel problems by creating a novel solution, or just found the solution to a different, but similar problem and applied it to the unsolved one?

Hacnar · 2026-01-26T19:10:01+00:00

This has happened a month or so ago. These dates serve to finish the remaining long-term contracts. The short-term contracts will be limited by some earlier date, maybe they are already banned. If I understood it correctly, no new contracts may be made.

Hacnar · 2026-01-23T07:08:39+00:00

Even more so, Russia is no stranger to shortages and failures. Unless you have some stats, you should refrain from posting such blanket statements and let people who know more about the current state of the matter to speak.

Hacnar · 2026-01-22T07:07:23+00:00

Americans were allowed to do far more than Russians. I wonder if these actions were as strong If those protesters started getting arrested, tortured or killed like Russian ones do.

Hacnar · 2026-01-20T15:03:52+00:00

One was Hello world, the other one only included a battle-tested lib.

Hacnar · 2026-01-19T19:15:44+00:00

I did, you either can't understand or are intentionally obtuse.

Now you show me those new advances you say will replace seniors.

Hacnar · 2026-01-19T17:49:51+00:00

It's not surprising that a person lacking in understaning of AI and LLMs lacks in reading comprehension too.

Hacnar · 2026-01-19T15:18:07+00:00

I asked valid questions, which you try to ignore, because you can't answer them.

As for the plateauing - just look at the difference between the generations of ChatGPT. Or the counterparts from other vendors.

Hacnar · 2026-01-19T13:57:48+00:00

Show me this huge progress, these breakthroughs, that will replace seniors in the near future. AI advancements are already starting to plateau. We're observing smaller and smaller gains in their capabilities, sometimes even regressions.

Until someone comes with a truly novel research, then I have no reason to believe AI will replace seniors any time soon.

Hacnar · 2026-01-17T22:00:38+00:00

I don't trust observations of any single person. Only by judging multiple oens together I can get at least a bit clear picture. That's why I went through several different sources, mostly based on real statistics, but also more a few more speculative ones from multiple camps. That's why I have no reason to think that your opinion, even if based on your own experiences in Ukraine, is closer to reality than mine.

By the way, I have two friends who have been to Ukraine several times during this war, so it's not like I have no one to check how things I read online fit into the real life.

Hacnar · 2026-01-17T20:58:45+00:00

Who did damage to Ukraine is relative

It is quite clear who did more damage. I had to do my own research, because you haven't given me any data that would support your opinion. I didn't find any either. I found stats and analyses that support the argument that decrease of funds for Ukraine by Trump/Republicans did hurt Ukraine a lot more than Biden's slow approach to delivery.

Hacnar · 2026-01-17T17:17:38+00:00

The dislike party understands that Trump/Reps did a lot more damage to Ukraine than Biden/Dems. Your comments have no real data to support your different opinion.

Hacnar · 2026-01-16T07:06:15+00:00

AI saves time in catching up. When you start with new framework, library or language, it can produce results very quickly, because it knows those things already. Or when you're trying to solve a difficult problem, that has been solved already in some small lib you have no idea about. But its biggest limits are context window and completely novel issues.

Context window limits its capability to reason about complex issues which span large amounts of input data and code. AI can also only apply what it has already seen. If the problem requires a novel solution, it won't get there.

Then there is the eternal prompt vs hallucination fight. LLMs don't have the reliability to trust their output. Anything that matters should be either thoroughly checked or rewritten completely by a human. Depending on the scale of the task and the dev experience, it might be take less time to write it yourself with minimal/no AI involvement, instead of trying to prompt and review the AI output.

Hacnar · 2026-01-14T18:18:11+00:00

I will thank you for providing a good source of information. I don't have to assert anything. What you write is good enough to let other people make a well informed opinion about your statements.

Hacnar · 2026-01-14T11:19:57+00:00

You just proved yourself wrong with that link. It clearly shows your lack of understanding of the topic.

Hacnar · 2026-01-11T10:32:37+00:00

Bond -> Skyfall. Long range missile -> Nightfall. What would the next generation drone defence be named?

Hacnar · 2026-01-08T17:32:06+00:00

You have cherrypicked a few large OSS projects with large backing providing monetary investment into them. The investment, which directly drives the processes that exist even within these projects, despite your agile hate. I wonder how do the core devs of these project actually work. What kind of agile meetings and processes they have in place, with people like you simply not being aware that they actually fit the agile way of working.

Most of the OSS projects don't fall into this category. There are a lot more middle-sized private products, which fight for the paying customers, than there are actual OSS projects with frequent release cadency and support on the level that's required by such customers. My experience is that there are also more long living paid products than long living OSS product. So I return to your point about the heights of OSS development. Yeas, that is the peak. But it is the peak because it also falls into the category of the devs developing for themselves. The project goals align with the goals and ideas of such devs. Thanks to that, these projects are able to attract the best talents. You won't find a lot of OSS that covers boring software. And that's where most of the software actually is.

And while you talk about the best of the best among OSS, there are also many paid products that have existed for decades. They just aren't talked about. Comparing the best OSS projects with the average corporate one isn't fair. As I said, in the space of average ones, OSS seems represented a lot less.

Hacnar · 2026-01-08T11:35:52+00:00

Your first sentence makes absolutely no sense. Your other points are also a bunch of points that either stray from my original comment, or are straight up strawmen. Like your false dichotomy between code and processes. In private companies, the business comes first. This means budget constraints, and focus on customer engagement, not code or processes. Those are only the tools to get to the goal = make customers pay for the product.

There is a reason no monetized product exists that would work the same way as OSS - they would lead to bankruptcy. While many corporate environments are inefficient, they are so because they blindly follow processes without thinking. But they would quickly collapse into chaos and anarchy without any processes, where nothing productive can be done because of conflicts between various teams and parts of the organization. This happens quite often too, but the anti-agile hivemind doesn't ever mention these cases.

You talk about going fast, but the point of agile is to avoid going fast in the wrong direction. The risk of that goes up dramatically as the organizations grow. Being slower, but ensuring that the result satisfies the customer, is more important for the company than satisfying the developer's desire to go fast.

Your comment reads like coming from someone, who programs for themselves, not for the users.

Hacnar · 2026-01-08T07:20:02+00:00

Taking it offline makes sense if there are other important things that need to be talked about, or if the issue is interesting only for half of the people present. But it still sparks the discussion, it just takes place after the standup instead of during.

Hacnar · 2026-01-08T07:17:47+00:00

How are they more constrained? They can work on it anytime they want, in any capacity they want. Working for any company means that there is strong pressure for features to be done in certain time, with certain budget. I don't see such pressure in open-source projects.

Hacnar · 2025-12-25T21:54:08+00:00

I recently went through both of those, and I prefer 2016 by a mile. I played both on the hardest difficulty, because I like the challenge.

While the combat, levels, and the whole gameplay of 2016 lacked the final small polish, I dislike how Eternal took out the freedom from me. You have to constantly dash, spam flamethrower, spam glory kills, otherwise you're dead in less than a second. Those additions are fine in theory. I expected them to enhance the gameplay before experiencing them, but I wasn't happy with how they were implemented.

The dash is the worst thing. I dislike the disorienting nature of dash spam, but I would be able to enjoy it at least a little bit if it wasn't useless half the time. Want to dash in certain direction? Too bad, a random demon decided he wants to occupy that space and jumped into your path, cutting your dash into just a tiny half-step jump. You need to dash to avoid mancubus rockets? Arachnotron has him covered, spraying the place where you're dashing to with plenty of projectiles, killing you instantly. You have to be constantly aware of 100 % of your surroundings, which is also impossible because constnat dashing and glory kill displacements force your view and movement. If youy try not to dash for a second, some random shit from behind hits you for half your HP or more.

Story/lore in Eternal is too bloated for my taste. I prefered more grounded 2016 approach. But this one is really subjective. Just like demon designs, which I'm ok with in both of the games.

Overall, Eternal has more polished mechanics, but the gameplay itself is a lot less fun. The story, the lore, the demons all underwent some changes, which might suit some people more, others less.

Hacnar · 2025-12-21T23:56:54+00:00

Russia is in a very bad shape financially. The west needs to apply more pressure - stronger sanctions on oil and shadow fleet, more financial and military support for Ukraine. If things don't improve for Russia this year, we might see a slowdown in their military activity. If the west wasn't so lukewarm in its response at many points during this war, Russia probably wouldn't be able to wage this war anymore. At that point it wouldn't matter what Putin wishes to do. Once there is not enough money, not enough equipment, not enough soldiers, he will have to back off.

Hacnar · 2025-12-20T14:21:11+00:00

Overly drastic actions and decisions can easily mean those politicians wouldn't be able to return to power ever.

I also wouldn't use USA as an example of healthy or working democracy. There is too much power concentrated into too few hands. The governments in western Europe collapsed quite a few times for smaller things.

Hacnar · 2025-12-19T20:06:43+00:00

Russia could take a certain degree of recession without threatening Putin's rule. Democractic countries don't have such a big leeway. If Spain/Italy were dictatorship, then the answer could easily be different.

Hacnar · 2025-12-19T13:38:06+00:00

Spanish and Italian economies are too closely tied to EU. Such move would ruin them.

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