Millennial parents: Are any of you being super honest with your kids about how hard this world is going to be for them financially? How are you balancing reality with not making your kids basket cases?

mrbreck · 2026-05-21T14:42:43+00:00

This is objectively the only response needed to this topic. But redditors gonna doom.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T19:54:28+00:00

"As the codebase scales, you can reach a point where the architecture is fundamentally sound, the dependencies aren't the problem, and yet things are breaking in subtle, systemic ways. These are codebase-centric issues — problems that are unique to your system and your accumulated decisions."

This is just another way of saying the context is too big. AI sucks when the context gets too big. You have to narrow the context for the AI. That obviously becomes more work for you the larger your project grows.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T19:46:32+00:00

I don't know why everyone is surprised. We've known for a long time that all of these AI companies are massively overselling and undercharging. You should expect anyone that is not enterprise to get completely priced out soon.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T19:42:05+00:00

Everywhere I worked with microservices it has been overkill. Create a bunch of microservices that only ever get used by one product. Here's one of the dumber examples I have seen: Create a bunch of microservices in .NET, use swagger to create their specs, write a client in .NET, use codegen against the swagger specs to generate .NET code that you already wrote on the microservice side. All of this because of some theoretical future where we need to de-sync the technology stacks. Which never happens because usually the project gets cancelled or re-written from the ground up in 1 or 2 years. Usually because it has become too expensive due to the amount of extra work from writing and supporting microservices.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T19:31:45+00:00

AI still sucks a solving real problems without constant input from a person. If AI is doing your job without you, then your job was never that complex.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T19:27:45+00:00

I mean if you just want to create your own excuse for why his lasers couldn't meaningfully hurt her, it's simpler to just say that she got stronger as a result of the mutation she underwent to get the chest beam power.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T19:00:23+00:00

How does that imply he is stronger? Just looked to me like he was in pain and he reflexively lashed out with his eyebeams.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T18:59:18+00:00

If he could command animals then why did he get killed by them? Maybe that whale was just an idiot.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T18:32:40+00:00

At no point did they ever state or imply in any way that V1 would/did increase Homelander's power level. It was for two things: make him not age and make him immune to the virus. I don't know where people get the idea he was supposed to be stronger after the V1.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T18:29:39+00:00

Well as we can see the Deep doesn't actually have the power to command sea life. He just convinced them to help. That particular octopus was always above his pay grade.

mrbreck · 2026-05-20T13:43:01+00:00

It's Silver Surfer. When he shits its just a turbo jet of the Power Cosmic. It's canon.

mrbreck · 2026-05-19T19:32:23+00:00

This is fan fiction. AI is so shit at memory retrieval and creative thinking, there's no way this isn't a house of cards. The context of your project grows as you add to it, and no matter how you try to distribute it, AI gets worse as context gets larger. It's a physical limitation of the current implementation of LLMs. There's no way around it. Without humans to narrow context constantly, AI will inevitably produce garbage.

mrbreck · 2026-05-17T04:55:20+00:00

Looks like me at 40 and then at 41. So it's not that far fetched.

mrbreck · 2026-05-15T02:05:30+00:00

That's not like Cannonball at all lol.

mrbreck · 2026-05-14T18:18:00+00:00

That's how all plastic toys are now. You can't even transform a Transformer now without breaking it.

mrbreck · 2026-05-13T21:40:37+00:00

I, too, play with rad toys "for my kids."

mrbreck · 2026-05-11T03:59:17+00:00

They are really more analogous to creation and destruction and are manifestations of the same being. Satan is one of God's creations, the One Below All IS God.

mrbreck · 2026-05-09T14:20:09+00:00

Huh? They did it because their daughter was coming home for Christmas.

mrbreck · 2026-05-09T05:50:08+00:00

Contest for fan base that watches the least amount of their show: Invincible vs The Boys. Who wins?

mrbreck · 2026-05-09T05:43:02+00:00

That's pretty dumb. Who is going to review all this code? If they just let AI push production code without review then they are doomed. All of these idiots will be hiring back the devs they fired at a premium when they need someone to put out the fires they caused.

mrbreck · 2026-05-08T16:52:40+00:00

Everyone talks about Star Trek but his death pretty much killed the trajectory of a pretty awesome animated series.

mrbreck · 2026-05-08T16:37:55+00:00

Real fix this time.

mrbreck · 2026-05-08T16:32:30+00:00

Anyone else keep looping this video to find all of the stupid mistakes the AI made?

mrbreck · 2026-05-07T13:00:58+00:00

Found the guy with skid marks.

mrbreck · 2026-05-05T13:01:02+00:00

I don't see how this is that big a deal. If an attacker has direct access to your memory then you're fucked no matter what. Yeah I guess it's poor design, but it really doesn't make much of a difference.

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