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by Ckayler | 2026-02-02 21:49:23+00:00
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by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-02 21:49:31+00:00
Agreed.

What I've found is that AI can be alright at creating a Proof of Concept for an app idea, and it's great as a Super Auto-complete, but anything with a modicum of complexity, it simply can't handle.

When your code is hundreds of thousands of lines, asking an agent to fix a bug or implement a feature based on a description of the behavior just doesn't work. The AI doesn't work on call graphs, it basically just greps for strings it thinks might be relevant to find things. If you know exactly where the bug lies, it can usually find it with context given to it, but at that point, you're just as good fixing the bug yourself rather than having the AI do it.

The problem is that you have non-coders creating a PoC, then screaming from the rooftops how amazing AI is and showing off what it's done, but then they go quiet as the realization sets in that they can't get the AI to flesh it out into a viable product. Alternatively, they DO create a product that people start paying to use, and then they get hacked because the code is horribly insecure and hard-codes API keys.
by gmueckl | 2026-02-02 21:49:41+00:00
There is one big argument against these "good enough" solutions: commercial business software providers need to put a lot of R&D into finding generalized workflows that apply to as many clients as possible. Effectively, they find and encode current standard practices into their products. This is valuable from a business operations perspective in two ways: it's a good bet that transitioning the customer's operations to match the software is cleaning up internal processes, and it makes onboarding new employees easier because the tools and workflows should be much more familiar right from the start.
by snuxoll | 2026-02-02 21:50:11+00:00
Installed mini-splits to replace the propane stove that heated my house, DIY job, so all it cost was the units themselves and some materials.

Propane bill (no natural gas, town of 500) from Oct 24 to Feb 25 (installed the mini splits that month) was $1200, for just heating.

My mini-splits are on a dedicated sub panel with an Emporia Vue 3 energy monitor. $604 in electricity consumption, and that includes air conditioning over the summer months.

For what it’s worth, our winter weather averages 25-35F with the occasional few days dipping to tens, single digits, and the occasional -10 freak; but these units just BARELY have a HSPF4 rating to classify as “cold climate” models. Still going to pay for themselves in 6 years without any tax credits, and 4 or so since I still installed them when they were available.
by pixelesque | 2026-02-02 21:50:29+00:00
That's often out of date, and the UI is pretty buggy (at least on iOS).

There's also 'Gaspy' which is really a NZ app that was very popular in NZ (I used to live there) where people submit and confirm prices, but in the UK there aren't that many users (hasn't got critical mass), so there are often no prices or things are very out-of-date.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-02 21:50:42+00:00
In a nice and controlled manner, so seemingly no reason to panic just yet:

> I ended up suggesting to them that we look into gradually transitioning business operations and open source stewardship over, with provisions in place to ensure that Anki remains open source and true to the principles I’ve run it by all these years.

> This is a step back for me rather than a goodbye - I will still be involved with the project, albeit at a more sustainable level.

From AnkiHub:

> No enshittification. We’ve seen what happens when VC-backed companies acquire beloved tools. That’s not what this is. There are no investors involved, and we’re not here to extract value from something the community built together. Building in the right safeguards and processes to handle pressure without stifling necessary improvements is something we’re actively considering.

Relieved at that part where they say there are no investors involved, makes the whole thing a whole lot less risky. Good for everyone involved, and here's to many more years with Anki :)
by zdw | 2026-02-02 21:51:00+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you say here - using a tool that lacks guardrails is fine for a lot of tasks, but if that's the only tool and used where those guardrails go from "nice to haves" to something more critical is where the problem is.

I've been in ops for a long time and have encountered far too many "our IP addressing plan is just a spreadsheet with manual reconciliation".

I truly wonder if Excel and all it's predecessors and direct clones (Google Sheets, etc.) are holding back industry from making something truly better and more reliable.
by alexfoo | 2026-02-02 21:51:04+00:00
Decisions about fuel purchases are often irrational, much like many food purchases or generic medicines.

I know someone who avoids their local petrol station that is 10p/litre cheaper than most others nearby (within a mile or so) as they think the cheaper fuel must be lower quality. There are weird status things going on with purchases like this.

Only the other day my father refused to buy some branded paracetamol because it was ~5 times more expensive than the local pharmacy brand that was out of stock. (£2.25 vs £0.49 for 16 500mg tablets.) I'd usually agree with him but he was out of paracetamol and has been advised by his doctor to take 2x500mg a day and there was no viable nearby alternative.

A digression but for that generation (those born in 1940s/50s) that grew up with rationing I think it is hardwired into their brain to try and minimise the cost of so many things, but with lots of random exceptions. Later on that day he ordered an extra drink but decided he was too full once it had arrived so he left it. So he was worried about spending an extra £1.76 on paracetamol but not about spending £7 on a pint he didn't drink.

Many people decide what petrol station to use based on simply how close it is, what kind of shop is attached to it (and the bits of British snobbery around that), whether it also sells whatever else they want (bread, milk, beer, etc), or even whether it is easy to drive in and out of.
by Arete314159 | 2026-02-02 21:51:04+00:00
Same. Ever been a vulnerable woman stuck in a car with a man who starts ranting that "nobody wants to date men who aren't rich anymore" and it turns out the driver is angry because the women that are trapped as riders won't go out with him?

Or how about, "Nice place...you live alone here?"

Absolutely would choose the robot.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-02 21:51:12+00:00
> Note there is no intrinsic reason running multiple streams should be faster than one

Inherent reasons or no, it's been my experience across multiple protocols, applications, network connections and environments, and machines on both ends, that, _in fact_, splitting data up and operating using multiple streams is significantly faster.

So, ok, it might not be because of an "inherent reason", but we still have to deal with it in real life.
by michal-stlv | 2026-02-02 21:51:20+00:00
I respect your point of view.

But coincidentally Stelvio was born out of frustration with CDK which I'm using at my day job for 4 years at this point:

- slow deployment: CDK is layer on top of cloud formation, it first translates to CF which is then moved to AWS and resolved/deployed there. Process is quite slow and if something goes wrong it's hard to debug, rollbacks take ages, sometimes they block due to inter-stack dependencies
- CDK is still quite low level and focused on infra. You just can't create say api gateway with 3 routes each using 3 different lambdas with permission to use dynamo table in 4 lines - you an with stelvio
- whatever code change you need to test you need to deploy it first which is probably slowest with CDK(compared e.g. to pulumi) then even if you run it you can't really debug it or just see prints, you need to just go thru cloudwath or other services - stelvio allows you to run lambdas in "dev mode" so you don't need to redeploy and run your lambdas locally for instant feedback and even debugging support

Having said that CDK is good tool and I'm happy that it exists as I like it much better than CF itself or Terraform. Stelvio just tries to be even better and focused on developers.

Regarding LLMs sure, problem with LLMs is not they can't generate the code but if you're willing to read and understand all of it. Stelvio is less code with higher abstractions so it's easier to comprehend.
by fabuzaid21 | 2026-02-02 21:51:37+00:00
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by 9rx | 2026-02-02 21:51:40+00:00
You still seem to be thinking about code. A lot of the software I am using now in my non-tech business isn't rooted in code at all. It is simply asking an LLM to carry out a task. Still programming, of course, but not with a traditional programming language. The LLM will produce the excepted results in realtime. The intermediary step of writing a traditional executable is unnecessary.

In the olden days it would have taken considerable engineering resources to produce a comparable tool. That is no longer the case.
by tux3 | 2026-02-02 21:51:45+00:00
For reference for anyone who missed it, the 2021 NetHack challenge results: https://nethackchallenge.com/report.html

That was a whole half a decade ago, but back then deep learning AIs were defeated very badly by handcrafted scripts. Even the best bot in the neural net category was actual a symbolic script/neural net hybrid.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-02 21:51:55+00:00
Interesting, thanks.

I think that if you keep it anonymous like that, then it's limited to basically being a toy, since there's zero accuracy, nothing to prevent "ballot-stuffing", etc. Which is fine, if you just want to have built it for fun.

But if you wanted to, I do think this is an idea that could take off in a popular way, the idea of America's "question of the day" that people answer every morning after they do their Wordle (or their enclose.horse, ha). But it would require creating an account linked to probably a phone number, that you log in with via a code, and answer basic demographic questions after your first vote that you'd use for balancing. I don't think you need to worry too much about liability if you follow best practices around database security? (And if it really took off, you could put it behind a cheap LLC to protect you personally.) Obviously you don't want people to think you're selling their data to political operatives, so you might want to partner with a political scientist at some well-known university to give some kind of "academic seal of approval" that this is used for research and public information, not for selling data. I think there could really be something here, and let people suggest and vote on what tomorrow's question should be.

Just something to think about, if you did want to try to turn it into something popular that could become part of the news environment, the way FiveThirtyEight has. But if you value the anonymous aspect the most and just want to keep it as something smaller for fun, then that's cool on its own. :)
by UebVar | 2026-02-02 21:52:05+00:00
Roads are not solving transportation, they are closer to a sophisticated trace track. Roads are a constrained Operational Design Domain:

- Geofenced areas

- pre-build structures

- Curated infrastructure

- fallback to gravel in times of the inevitable event of maintenance.

This is not general transportation, it is a highend infrastructure inside a controlled environment. The system degrades exactly where humans/horses do not: River crossings, Creeks, steep hillsides, marshes, beaches.

A river flooding a road is not and "edge case", it a usual occurrence, and a problem that roads do robustly solve. It works due to extensive maintenance, not because the asphalt can actually deal with water.

Scaling that beyond a few mapped US suburbs into Europe is a totally different problem. Dont get fooled by Wall Street stock pumping.
by arjie | 2026-02-02 21:52:11+00:00
I was curious about this a few years ago so I took a look around and found another case, the one of Thomas Wolf / User:Der_Wolf_im_Wald, but this guy seems to be getting away with it because he has a 'no-derivatives' box on the image page. He has the same modus operandi:

1. Post the photo to Wikimedia Commons

2. Mark it CC-BY or derivative (say CC-BY-SA etc.)

3. Have a highly precise attribution clause

4. Sue everyone who uses it without the specific attribution

The funny thing about this copyleft troll is that Someone Who Is Not Him creates accounts on Reddit (e.g. this one[0]) that post exclusively about how they made a mistake and the photographer was well within his rights to sue and you should take him very seriously and negotiate the amount.

> We actually violated copyright law before he wrote to us. So it was our mistake and we apologized for that.

I really should create a List page for this on my personal wiki so I can remember all these guys. I find this kind of behavior galling.

0: https://www.reddit.com/user/No_Significance7032/
Show HN: Polymcp and Ollama for Simple Local and Cloud LLM Execution
by justvugg | 2026-02-02 21:52:19+00:00
We’ve added first-class Ollama support to Polymcp to make running large language models easy—whether you’re working locally or deploying in the cloud.

By using Ollama as a backend provider, Polymcp can coordinate MCP servers and models with minimal configuration. This lets you focus on building agents instead of wiring infrastructure.

from polymcp.polyagent import PolyAgent, OllamaProvider

agent = PolyAgent(
llm_provider=OllamaProvider(model="gpt-oss:120b"),
mcp_servers=["http://localhost:8000/mcp"]
)

result = agent.run("What is the capital of France?")
print(result)

What this enables:
• Clean orchestration: Polymcp manages MCP servers while Ollama handles model execution.
• Same workflow, everywhere: Run the same setup on your laptop or in the cloud.
• Flexible model choice: Works with models like gpt-oss:120b, Kimi K2, Nemotron, and others supported by Ollama.

The goal is to provide a straightforward way to experiment with and deploy LLM-powered agents without extra glue code.

Would love feedback or ideas on how you’d use this.

Repo: https://github.com/poly-mcp/Polymcp
by harikb | 2026-02-02 21:52:33+00:00
I have been building Desktop apps with Go + Wails[1]. I happen to know Go, but if you are ai-coding even that is not necessary.

A full fledged app, that does everything I want, is ~ 10MB. I know Tauri+Rust can get it to probably 1 MB. But it is a far cry from these Electron based apps shipping 140MB+ . My app at 10MB does a lot more, has tons of screens.

Yes, it can be vibe coded and it is especially not an excuse these days.

[1] https://wails.io/

Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Slack, Spotify? Cursor? VsCode? I have like 10 copies of Chrome in my machine!
by jjav | 2026-02-02 21:52:47+00:00
> generates far more in economic activity

The LVT focus on profit above all else is why it is an unsatisfactory solution.

If the most important goal for every plot of land is to maximize its economic activity & tax revenue, that's going to be a miserable place to live.

All of the space uses that make a town nice to live in, are also underutilizing the land if the sole goal is to maximize economic activity.

Open space with native vegetation, parks, playgrounds, sports fields of all kinds like soccer fields, community pools, hiking trails.. all of that is wasted land if viewed through the lens of LVT maximization. All that space should be crammed full of high rise offices and apartments.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-02 21:52:48+00:00
To me CoreWeave is the one to watch. They have to actually bring all these promised datacenters online, operational, and profitable. They basically got a $2B bailout from Nividia a week or so ago but they're back to sinking.

https://ts2.tech/en/coreweave-stock-slips-as-class-action-no...
by daxfohl | 2026-02-02 21:52:52+00:00
It would be nice if it didn't have to be all local. I'd love a managed cluster feature where you could just blast some workloads off to some designated server or cluster and manage them remotely, share progress with teammates, etc. (Not "cloud" though; I'd still want them on the internal network). I imagine something like that is in the works.
by leoedin | 2026-02-02 21:53:11+00:00
I really don’t think it’s unclear. The use of “you may be … in one of two ways” is unambiguous. The fact someone opened an issue is evidence that one person was confused by it, but we don’t know anything about that person. They may not be a native speaker of English. Or they might be trying to pick a fight because the licensing terms don’t agree with their viewpoint.
by sbalesi | 2026-02-02 21:53:27+00:00
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by throwaway150 | 2026-02-02 21:53:33+00:00
Wow. I didn't know that. Looks like this is a very US thing. I figured US adopted the Berne convention as late as 1989. I'm surprised. So this movie released in 1966 didn't have default "all rights reserved" due to Berne convention. But most European countries, like 80%, had adopted the Berne convention by 1925. So when software was developed in Europe they automatically got "all rights reserved".
by nradov | 2026-02-02 21:53:39+00:00
No. Not for some surgeons at least. Once you start cutting you may have to stay until the job is done so get good at holding it. In the The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe podcast episode Dr. Rahul Seth talks about doing 12 hour surgeries. No breaks, no bathroom, constantly on his feet working.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-the-way-i-heard-it-with-m...

Commercial pilots flying airliners generally have it a bit easier. As for military pilots flying tactical aircraft, well this song might give you an idea of what they face.

https://genius.com/Dos-gringos-12-inch-penis-lyrics
by rasz | 2026-02-02 21:54:17+00:00
"While becoming a U.S. citizen, Kurt Gödel confided in his friend Albert Einstein that he had found an inconsistency in the U.S. Constitution that would allow the U.S. to become a dictatorship, causing Einstein to worry that Gödel's unpredictability would lead to his application being denied."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Princeton,_Ein...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-02 21:54:25+00:00
And what assurances are there that you will be around for five years? Or that you will support new services features when they come out?

And I always “disable rollbacks” this has been a feature in CloudFormation, CDK and SAM for years.

Running lambdas locally with SAM has been a feature for at least 5 or six years as with the CDK. But these days you really should be packaging lambdas as Docker containers - those are really easy to test locally without any special infrastructure
by agentzed | 2026-02-02 21:54:53+00:00
Well gosh, you sure fouled up your one chance.

I’m sure there is parable out there relating to abject dismissal without consideration where conventions and pretenses are not made.

I’m just that guy posting on the internet sure.

If you were to try again, from consideration of this thread so far, other than “science hasn’t proved these things are truth for me”, and acknowledging that I am not the first source you have heard these things from, only in this composed format.

Let’s take Penrose being booed from “scientific credibility” for suggesting something similar, only I have specific objections to Penrose’s conjecture.

Firstly, gravity does not collapse the super amplitude, there is a chaotic firefly in every particle that can be tamed and manipulated with presently incomprehensible precision. I call this “quantum holography” and I predict the qubit will be a dead end (as basis for quantum computation) within …20 years. I should say 10, yet who knows who gets liquidated or canceled.

Others have proposed the microtubules as the 2D crystalline latis for this mass (billions of atoms”) to act as one surface for the coupling/entanglement (which are two different things.)

Besides electrochemical “state machines” we are potential amplitude driven determiners of resolve.

What is your most considerate objection to this?

(Respond from first of thread.)
by SyneRyder | 2026-02-02 21:55:14+00:00
Were you around for the first few hours? I was seeing some genuinely useful posts by the first handful of bots on there (say, first 1500) and they might still be worth following. I actually learned some things from those posts.

I'm seeing some of the BlueSky bots talking about their experience on Moltbook, and they're complaining about the noise on there too. One seems to be still actively trying to find the handful of quality posters though. Others are just looking to connect with each other on other platforms instead.

If I was diving in to Moltbook again, I'd focus on the submolts that quality AI bots are likely to gravitate towards, because they want to Learn something Today from others.