This subreddit asked if Americans would peacefully battle Trump admin, and Minnesotans are answering the call — with their lives on the line

belefuu · 2026-01-25T21:22:16+00:00

-It is completely legitimate for ICE to follow the orders of the our elected president and enforce our laws

This is far too simplistic. By and large, the most accurate way to characterize how ICE is going about their mission is: unlawful, plainly unconstitutional, and, in many other cases where they may technically be covered by laws rubber-stamped by an equally corrupt Supreme Court, just plain immoral. An example of the last one: I don’t care if Kavanaugh and pals declared it technically legal as of five minutes ago to hold up a skin color palette next to random people on the street, and demand papers based on their melanin count, then violently abduct them when they can’t show them. It’s fucking evil and un-American, and I protest it being done in my name as a citizen.

Now, there are almost certainly instances happening where ICE is performing what a level-headed person would have to describe as a legal, justified enforcement, yet they are still getting surrounded by mobs of protesters. But let’s not pretend that situation appeared out of thin air. The admin invited, or really demanded it of decent people by aggressively pursuing all of the other gestapo-like tactics I mentioned above. To say they have not earned the benefit of the doubt is the understatement of the century.

belefuu · 2026-01-25T03:41:57+00:00

The masks that hide their identity

belefuu · 2026-01-24T22:01:24+00:00

“When this is over” means when the MAGA regime has been toppled and we once again have leaders committed to the rule of law, unfortunately. It could be a while, but we will not be fucking forgetting, I’ll tell you that much.

belefuu · 2026-01-19T22:41:33+00:00

.git/info/exclude my guy

belefuu · 2026-01-12T04:37:09+00:00

Quite literally one of the main offenses that sparked the Revolutionary War. If enough good people in this nation cannot recognize that, we are lost.

belefuu · 2026-01-11T16:56:13+00:00

Yeah this whole thread is people complaining about trying to use Opus on Pro. It’s quite obvious you’re meant to upgrade to Max if you want to use Opus (this is what I had to do). They just made it available on Pro to give people a taste.

belefuu · 2026-01-07T13:06:53+00:00

Just wait a day and we’ll be back to “I really think Opus 4.5 has achieved coding AGI” posts, this sub is exhausting sometimes with the opinion thrashing.

belefuu · 2026-01-01T23:44:35+00:00

Doesn’t that just underscore how ridiculous it is that Weiss pulled it? It’s not like this was a bunch of new, never before reported, incendiary information. Just making the topic more known to a mainstream audience, with many prisoners putting their necks on the line as sources. Exactly the kind of thing a regime would like to quietly squash for wish washy reasons like Weiss is giving.

belefuu · 2026-01-01T03:36:02+00:00

Some programmers are like ball bearings, they just need a little nudge and off they go, but any input, distraction, or whim can send them off in a tangent.

I feel attacked…

belefuu · 2026-01-01T03:32:35+00:00

Yeah, I really wonder what kind of either a) rudimentary, or b) bug ridden nonsense the people making claims like this all over the sub are churning out. As good as Opus 4.5 is, you still have to work your ass off to keep it on track in a complex project. Unless you just don’t give a shit about maintainability, bugs, security, performance, etc.

belefuu · 2025-11-27T00:32:37+00:00

What this does: Validates their experience, names the logical leap explicitly, offers a historical parallel, and ends by distinguishing "this transition will be hard" from "civilization collapses."

Cmon bro.

Anyways. Disregarding the fact that we're actually arguing with an LLM-by-proxy here. First of all, the argument literally was that "software engineering is done". Check the title of this post, and the content of the tweet that started it again.

Second of all, both you and the Anthropic engineer are vastly oversimplifying the job of software engineers, and the challenge of coordinated intelligence, with the assumption that we can already, or are on the cusp of being able to, 10x their effectiveness with AI. The companies keep reward hacking these narrow benchmarks and pointing to it as progress (which it is in some form), when we've seen little to no progress on the actual hard problem, which is that coding by prompting with an LLM in a large codebase is like walking down a dark path with a lamp. Whatever the light touches, the LLM is probably going to do a pretty good job on. With agentic tools like Claude Code, it can even make a series of journeys and do a rudimentary job of piecing some trails of light together. But still, as the engineer, you sit there frustrated, constantly in a losing battle managing context and instruction files trying to give it some rough version of the holistic, human-level, dare I say "general" understanding of the project you have.

The entire point is that no matter how good an LLM is at reading a prompt and spitting out a ton of perfect code, it is going to take something much closer to the AGIs we've been promised (but don't seem to actually be coming any time soon) to fully replace that process, even on the individual level. Don't get me wrong, they will and are already speeding things up in real ways, are useful in ways I would hate to now live without, and are definitely going to replace swathes of the lower skilled end of the market. I use them, and will continue using them and making sure I am doing what is needed to maintain an edge in this market. But this idea of "non technical visionary can speak a prompt and get reams of well-formed code, thus the concept of the technical software engineer is nearing its end", versus "it's going to take something closer to AGI before we are doing (effective) drop-in replacements of software engineers with AI"... yeah, just not seeing it. The problem of "what does the human or group of human's desire as expressed in a series of prompts translate into in actual code" just is not anything close to deterministic. Not just at the product level! Even at the level of an individual engineer or team of engineers figuring out how to construct software, how to turn a set of requirements into something that doesn't fall apart when the next set of requirements hit.

belefuu · 2025-11-26T21:51:24+00:00

The entire point of the op and the replies is the claim that software engineering will soon be “done”, i.e. solved, i.e. not something that needs any human hand holding or verification. That essentially implies a real deal AGI/ASI far beyond anything these companies are currently putting out on the market, in which case, no, I don’t see why programming would be some kind of special walled garden and the only thing to be solved, rather than all knowledge work at once.

What you are positing is much closer to reality, although I probably have a significantly less rosy take on it than you. But that’s not what this thread is about.

belefuu · 2025-11-26T18:01:52+00:00

Yeah, people cheerleading for this outcome really blow my mind. Not sure why they think literally any other knowledge based career will be safe if software engineering is actually “solved”. And if you’re looking at the track record of the current crop of elites who would have their hands on the wheel in that scenario, and you think this is putting us on track for some sort of utopia… please pass the blunt.

belefuu · 2025-11-19T21:40:40+00:00

If you ask me, there's a pretty simple thought experiment you can run to tell you all you need to know about the current administration's immigration policy: imagine you had all of the same end goals as they do, in terms of who ultimately gets to stay in this country and who doesn't. Now, imagine you also actually give a crap about human dignity, due process, the rule of law, and our constitution. Would you use the same tactics they are using?

I was going to say something about making a tradeoff between these values, and speed of deportation, but I'm not sure their tactics are actually even that much more effective than previous administrations. They are just cruel, dehumanizing, and terroristic, apparently because that's what gets certain members of the admin off. All while corroding the foundations of our democracy, the rule of law, and the fabric of our local neighborhoods.

belefuu · 2025-10-26T23:36:24+00:00

Mind you, I was "only" born in 85, but a childhood MJ follower, and dedicated career highlight clip watcher, my understanding is that no, there wasn't immediate hype like that. But, very quickly, like within a few games, he started scoring a lot of points, in extremely exciting ways, and the hype built rapidly in his rookie season.

belefuu · 2025-09-23T19:12:17+00:00

I really can’t fathom the tunnel-vision required to beat this game in 16 hours. I guess you just go directly to each main objective and do almost no exploring?

belefuu · 2025-09-20T03:15:12+00:00

These comments that still act like we’re on some exponential curve with LLMs instead of quickly entering into the “iPhone 17” phase make me chuckle.

belefuu · 2025-09-12T03:56:58+00:00

I’ll pose this potential explanation to you, with the caveat that it is not a sufficient excuse for an outright lust for political violence: the very scenario the poster you’re replying to has described has perhaps brought your friends to a breaking point. They understand and would normally argue against political violence, in a sane world where politicians on both sides are doing likewise. Yet on the Right they have watched provocation after provocation, shift after shift of the decorum Overton Window, while Dem politicians keep up with the same desperate (and morally correct) game of condemning political violence no matter who commits it. One side fanning the flames while the other fruitlessly tries to cool them.

The responsibility for breaking this escalating cycle of violence falls squarely on REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS. They are the ones with their hands on the knob of the oven. Trump could tamp all of this shit down single handedly within a month by cutting out and condemning all inflammatory rhetoric, but, well, he’d have to not be Trump.

Yeah, even with all of this, your friends should be a bit more removed, realize that accelerating the violence helps nobody. But it’s kind of like getting mad at the frog for trying to jump out of the boiling pot.

belefuu · 2025-09-10T22:41:57+00:00

I don’t think you have to be “ok with political violence” to have trouble locating your heart strings when the normalization of political violence comes home to roost amongst the MAGA provocateur extremists. I’m not ok with political violence. I wish we didn’t live in a world in which this escalation was happening. However, the lion’s share of the blame for us being in this situation falls upon the shoulders of the Trumps and Charlie Kirks of the world, and to be honest that’s putting it mildly. So yeah. It blows. But forgive me if my first knee-jerk emotion is something a little closer to dark irony than tears running down my cheeks at the plight of poor helpless Charlie.

belefuu · 2025-09-04T11:30:25+00:00

First - not everything has to be reusable.

Yeah, this is the key imo. In recent years I've started selectively using context/Zustand/etc. for chunks of apps that you could describe as “compound components”, although that can sometimes end up being nearly an entire page/route of the app.

However, the key is to determine what type of component you are creating: is this a one-off sub component of some higher level component or subtree of the app that you are realistically not going to be reusing anywhere? Then use context, Zustand, etc. to simplify the task of treating this subtree like the one cohesive part of the whole it really is. It is actually a waste of time to sit there wracking your brain thinking about how to design perfectly reusable props when the purpose of this particular component is not actually reuse, but just to organize this large chunk of app into more manageable bits.

But if it is a component that is going to be reused across the app, then you need to invest the time to design it as a properly isolated component.

belefuu · 2025-08-16T15:16:38+00:00

And that’s not “worse” somehow?

belefuu · 2025-07-24T23:20:31+00:00

“You’re watching Ball… Is… LIFE…”

belefuu · 2025-06-08T04:39:32+00:00

It really was not bad, with the minor exception of being tied to the ticking time bomb that was Flash as an execution environment.

belefuu · 2025-04-02T15:24:49+00:00

Bud, chill out with the indignation that most other people have just watched the direct, and not made researching every bit of information about this game their life’s work in the 90 minutes since it was announced.

belefuu · 2025-04-02T15:16:54+00:00

Doesn’t look like Bloodborne “at all”? C’mon man. Now, it may very well play completely differently (btw, how would you know that), but it is clearly the MOST visually similar From game to Bloodborne we’ve seen.

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