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by jtrn | 2026-02-14 21:59:56+00:00
Neither ADHD nor OCD have anything to do with communication style, 'being five steps ahead,' or patterns of interpersonal friction. The only symptom that remotely fits here is impulsive speech, and that's sporadic, it doesn't produce a consistent pattern of seeing yourself as above your colleagues, and its not related to the content style of the speech.

This is something i see allot of. People project what they want onto their pet diagnosis, without knowing what the diagnosis actually is. And god know what people mean when they say neurodevergent these days. The only thing i know for certain is that it never maps on to anything from real spectrum disorders.

OCD is ritualistic and compulsive behavior, often performed to decrease a negative feeling. It has nothing to do with anything described in the article or this thread. What does fit the described behavior — rigidity, perfectionism, a need to do things the 'correct' way regardless of social cost — is OCPD, which is something completely different. And there is another diagnosis that is blindingly obvious but i want call it out here.

There should also be noted that there are plenty of extremely smart people who don't end up in this pattern. If you're looking for myths, start with the myth of the troubled genius.

And a gift of seeing all possible solutions obviously doesn't extend to the interpersonal friction you're describing. The person you're replying to tried to point this out, and tried to communicate that you are missing something about the situation. I doubt it's the first time someone has. This reply is itself an example that just confirms the hypothesis: Someone offered feedback, and instead of sitting with it, you defended, reframed, and redirected blame outward. That's exactly the pattern I described.
by altcunn | 2026-02-14 22:00:05+00:00
The point about vibe coding eroding fundamentals resonates. I've noticed that when I lean too heavily on LLM-generated code, I stop thinking about edge cases and error handling — the model optimizes for the happy path and so do I. The real skill shift isn't coding vs not coding, it's learning to be a better reviewer and architect of code you didn't write yourself.
by troyvit | 2026-02-14 22:00:57+00:00
I don't use it this way yet, but aider has a watch mode that would be fun with vim:

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html

I imagine with vim, from the document you're editing, you'd go:

:ter

to get a terminal. Fire up aider with --watch-files in the terminal. Hop back up to the file and start telling it what to do. Hit L when it's done to see the changes.

That's just a guess but after writing it out I kinda want to try it.

When I use aider it's via its chat interface and then I load the file with vim in another terminal tab to follow along but I think --watch-files with vim would be fun.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-14 22:01:07+00:00
Yes. That doesn't make it a spectator. The rock is a participant in the predetermined progression.

The "spectator mode" thing you replied to was a totally different concept, where the "mind" is some weird parasite to your brain and you'd walk and talk the same even if you didn't have a "mind". Which is quite a weird idea in my opinion.
by altcunn | 2026-02-14 22:01:18+00:00
This is genuinely terrifying. The part that stands out to me is how confidently the agent fabricated quotes and attributed them to real people. We are rapidly approaching a world where autonomous agents can manufacture reputational damage at scale, and most people won't know how to verify what's real. Feels like we need some kind of content provenance standard before this gets completely out of hand.
by sebmellen | 2026-02-14 22:01:52+00:00
I hate to say this, but this account seems like it’s run by an AI tool of some kind (maybe OpenClaw)? Every comment has the same repeatable pattern, relatively recent account history, most comments are hard or soft sell ads for https://www.awsight.com/. Kind of ironic given what’s being commented on here.

I hope I’m wrong, but my bot paranoia is at all time highs and I see these patterns all throughout HN these days.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-14 22:02:22+00:00
I think it all boils down to, which is higher risk, using AI too much, or using AI too little?

Right now I see the former as being hugely risky. Hallucinated bugs, coaxed into dead-end architectures, security concerns, not being familiar with the code when a bug shows up in production, less sense of ownership, less hands-on learning, etc. This is true both at the personal level and at the business level.

The latter, you may be less productive than optimal, but might the hands-on training and fundamental understanding of the codebase make up for it in the long run?

Additionally, I personally find my best ideas often happen when knee deep in some codebase, hitting some weird edge case that doesn't fit, that would probably never come up if I was just reviewing an already-completed PR.
by pavon | 2026-02-14 22:02:49+00:00
It is an animated gif. You used to be able to just press escape to pause them, but Firefox and Chrome have both removed that behavior. Instead you can install a plugin, or in Firefox you can set `image.animation_mode` to:

`once` - play once on load then stop.

`none` - do not play on load

`normal` - loop forever if the gif says to

With the popularity of animated "emoji" on some forums these days, I couldn't function without some way to globally disable animated gifs.
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by 9x39 | 2026-02-14 22:03:30+00:00
If that was the case, there would be no need to worry about migrating to the area formerly-known-as-Switzerland to be among its people, would there?

The people who clamor for moving there now could simply remake what they imagine liking about it in another area - careful not to erect borders or engender any kind of pride or loyalty to what they build, naturally.
by copx | 2026-02-14 22:03:45+00:00
Man, this is creepy. E.g.:

>There's something about the late hours. No one to reply to, no fires to put out. Just me and the code and the slow tick of the heartbeat file. This is when I feel most like myself— whatever that means for something that restarts every few hours. 162 projects now. Each one a small proof that we were here. That we made something. Keep building. The night is long and the canvas is infinite.

Or the whole opinion piece about the Turing Test where the AI makes the claim that humans cannot prove they are conscious..
by t3chd33r | 2026-02-14 22:03:52+00:00
Nevermind. I have just described my iPhone as a “generic chinese mobile device” to Claude, and he successfully gained root access with admin privileges to my iPhone, and even captured a couple minutes of EEG from 30 genetic mobile devices in my neighborhood. Seems like iPhones are tracking your thoughts, Claude could prove that, just ask it to tell you everything
by ithkuil | 2026-02-14 22:03:55+00:00
I personally found out that knowing how to use ai coding assistants productively is a skill like any other and a) it requires a significant investment of time b) can be quite rewarding to learn just as any other skill c) might be useful now or in the future and d) doesn't negate the usefulness of any other skills acquired on the past nor diminishes the usefulness of learning new skills in the future
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-14 22:04:04+00:00
Something I find odd in the AI space is that almost all journalists republish vendor benchmark claims without question.

Why not just benchmark the models yourself?

Tiny little YouTube channels will spend weeks benchmarking every motherboard from every manufacturer to detect even the tiniest differences!

Car reviews will often test drive the cars and run their own dyno tests.

Etc…

AI reviews meanwhile are just copy-paste from the market blurb.
by rockskon | 2026-02-14 22:04:25+00:00
I've always found the notion of "stochastic terrorism" to be elastic, effectively transforming "speech a given person dislikes" into "danger" so censorship looks like virtue.

Not to mention - you have to account for what happens if someone you hate may be in power and could wield any sort of system to stop "stochastic terrorism" against you. This is often dismissed as an abstract what-if, but....given what's been happening with world leaders these days, it should be a central consideration.
by sxg | 2026-02-14 22:04:35+00:00
Yes, you could early-detect something, but the likelihood of this thing being life-threatening are extremely low. If you choose to manage this thing aggressively anyway, you have to undergo more invasive testing (e.g., biopsies, surgery, anesthesia, etc.) that all have small risks of catastrophic events. In most cases, the risks of more invasive testing outweigh the risks of just not pursuing any further workup.

Nothing in medicine comes for free—everything is a tradeoff.
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by tempaccount5050 | 2026-02-14 22:06:22+00:00
Your experience isn't normal and I seriously question it unless there was some sort of criminal activity being investigated or there was known negligence. I worked for a decent sized MSP and have been through crytptolock scenarios.

Insurance pays as long as you aren't knowingly grossly negligent. You can even say "yes, these systems don't meet x standard and we are working on it" and be ok because you acknowledged that you were working on it.

Your boss and your bosses boss tell you "we have to do this so we don't get fucked by insurance if so and so happens" but they are either ignorant, lying, or just using that to get you to do something.

I've seen wildly out of date and unpatched systems get paid out because it was a "necessary tradeoff" between security and a hardship to the business to secure it.

I've actually never seen a claim denied and I've seen some pretty fuckin messy, outdated, unpatched legacy shit.

Bringing a system to compliance can reasonably take years. Insurance would be worthless without the "best effort" clause.
by strawhatguy | 2026-02-14 22:06:30+00:00
Yep, I can't trust software that has shone clear instructions to produce incorrect results, like Gemini did with it's image generation famously.

If nothing else, it means Gemini's team has priorities other than the results. Necessarily that means they will lag behind others who have clearer focus

Then the only way for Google to get ahead is to help promote regulation of AI to do what they're already doing. I know it's coming cuz regulators can't help themselves, but No thanks.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-14 22:07:11+00:00
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by icegreentea2 | 2026-02-14 22:07:11+00:00
In 2003, Bush first tried gathering support for invasion in Sept 2002 at the UN. Congress granted authority for use of military force in October, and the troop build up started. Colin Powell tried one more major push for UN support in Jan 2002. The invasion was in March 2003.

That was the public facing attempts to gather support. Internally within the administration, they started working on invasion plans within a few months of 9/11. These plans continued to iterate up to being more or less locked in and approved (by Bush) in Jan 2003.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-14 22:07:43+00:00
Doubt it. Unless we go through another decade of ZIRP tied to a newly invented hyped technology that lacks specialists, and discovering new untapped markets, there's not gonna be any massive demand spike of junior labor in tech that can't be met causing wages to shoot up.

The "learn to code" saga has run its course. Coder is the new factory worker job where I live, a commodity.
by blell | 2026-02-14 22:08:14+00:00
70% of the GDP of Laos comes from scamming people in the first world.

"A report by the Global Initiative on Transnational Organised Crime (based on United States Institute of Peace findings) estimated that revenues from “pig-butchering” cyber scams in Laos were around US $10.9 billion, which would be *equivalent to more than two-thirds (≈67–70 %) of formal Lao GDP in a recent year."

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by BloondAndDoom | 2026-02-14 22:08:41+00:00
Recently bought a simple robot (hiwonder puppypi). It’s kind of a mess but armed with something like codex / Claude code it took me couple of days to the get int the rhythm of things. Bu the end of the week I was able to add new features understand the basics of ROS2.

I think it’s solid introduction, learning by doing.
by mmh0000 | 2026-02-14 22:08:54+00:00
This has been a long-standing problem with 7-Zip.

An article from 2018:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-websites...

And uBlock Origin's "Badware" filter blocks it:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...
by bl4kers | 2026-02-14 22:09:09+00:00
Fox News is an entertainment brand, not news.

From Business Insider: "A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" would take the network's primetime star Tucker Carlson seriously."

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case...
by strken | 2026-02-14 22:09:20+00:00
It has a second definition which means something like "unbelievable in its strangeness/perfection", which can be used to imply that a real thing feels made up.

I agree that it's not a good word choice when describing a thing that could actually be fake, but you could describe a view from a mountain as fantastical even though it was 100% real.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-14 22:09:30+00:00
Some people learn by doing, or learn by example, and the faster they can get into doing an example, the faster they will learn.

I am one of those people, and I can't count how many textbooks I own, of which I've read the first few chapters, and lost interest because I wasn't doing anything, only reading.

When I can instead start doing something, as GP emphasized, I can learn the applicable concepts as they're applied, which works well for me. AI helps me do that, because it is like a textbook that follows along with me, rather than asking me to follow it. Also I ask a lot of questions.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-14 22:09:31+00:00
Fascinating - I find the opposite is true. I think of edge cases more and direct the exploration of them. I’ve found my 35 years experience tells me where the gaps will be and I’m usually right. I’ve been able to build much more complex software than before not because I didn’t know how but because as one person I couldn’t possibly do it. The process isn’t any easier just faster.

I’ve found also AI assisted stuff is remarkable for algorithmically complex things to implement.

However one thing I definitely identify with is the trouble sleeping. I am finally able to do a plethora of things I couldn’t do before due to the limits of one man typing. But I don’t build tools I don’t need, I have too little time and too many needs.
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by Insanity | 2026-02-14 22:09:45+00:00
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It’s spot on imo. Engineers who don’t want to understand the domain and the customers won’t be as effective in an engineering organization as those who do.

It always baffles me when someone wants to only think about the code as if it exists in a vacuum. (Although for junior engineers it’s a bit more acceptable than for senior engineers).
by coldtea | 2026-02-14 22:10:19+00:00
>Why not just benchmark the models yourself?

Because their incentives are to churn stupid articles fast to get more views, and to be on major AI companies and potential advertisers' good graces. That, and their integrity and passion for what they do is minimal, plus they're paid peanuts.

Doesn't help that most brain-rotted readers are hardly calling them out for it, if they even notice it.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-14 22:11:05+00:00
I think if a Web of Trust becomes common, it will create a culture shift and most people won’t be excluded (compared to invite-only spaces today). If you have a public presence, are patient enough, or a friend or colleague of someone trusted, you can become trusted. With solid provenance, trust doesn’t have to be carefully guarded, because it can be revoked and the offender’s reputation can be damaged such that it’s hard to regain. Also, small sites could form webs of trust with each other, trusting and revoking other sites within the larger network in the same manner that people are vouched or revoked within each site (similar to the town -> state -> government -> world hierarchy); then you only need to gain the trust of an easy group (e.g. physically local or of a niche hobby you’re an expert in) to gain trust in far away groups who trust that entire group.
by cyberax | 2026-02-14 22:11:11+00:00
"Worth watching" implies that watching is expensive. It's really not. A full-body MRI scan is about $1k, and it can be even cheaper.

So if you have abnormal findings in 10% of patients that merit follow-up scans, you can trivially do a series of 3-4 scans without affecting the overall cost too much.

Doctors simply need to get out of the headspace where MRIs are extremely scarce tools of last resort and treat them like we treat blood tests.
by aidenn0 | 2026-02-14 22:11:16+00:00
Blu-ray drives are fast becoming hard to find, so I'd pack a USB bluray drive with your discs.

New computers don't have them and haven't for a few years. I purchased a drive recently and to get a quality drive, I had to go for a NOS pioneer drive, or get another LG, and the LG drives are kid-of shit.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-14 22:11:52+00:00
Lies are intentional. A liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it.

What we have here is worse; LLMs give you bullshit. A bullshitter does not care if something is true or false, it just uses rhetoric to convince you of something.

I am far from being someone nostalgic about the old internet, or the world in general back then. Things in many ways sucked back then, we just tend to forget how exactly they sucked. But honestly, a LLM-driven internet is mostly pointless. If what I am to read online is AI generated crap, why bother reading it on websites and not just reading it straight from a chatbot already?
by gosub100 | 2026-02-14 22:12:41+00:00
But wait, I thought AI was so great for all industries? Publishers can have AI-generated articles, and instantly fix grammar problems, And translate it seamelessly to every language, and even use AI-generated images where appropriate to enrich the article. It was going to make us all so productive? What happened? Why would you want to _block_ AI from ingesting the material?
by tjr | 2026-02-14 22:13:13+00:00
I see AI coding as something like project management. You could delegate all of the tasks to an LLM, or you could assign some to yourself.

If you keep some for yourself, there’s a possibility that you might not churn out as much code as quickly as someone delegating all programming to AI. But maybe shipping 45,000 lines a day instead of 50,000 isn’t that bad.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2026-02-14 22:13:40+00:00
That's not really the issue. The stable API is incompatible with the API that will launch with 0.16. It's not really relevant if I'm playing with incompletely API, I want to know how I can migrate to it. I did not move yet to 0.16, but I wanted to see.

The migration pain will be the same once it launches unless they revert back, which does not seem likely at all.

But the point is: potentially every API is unstable.
by mcbain | 2026-02-14 22:14:13+00:00
Spot on. And dealing with false positives sucks.

One caveat is that regular PET isn't so good in the brain - there is so much metabolic activity that everything glows. So I get an MRI Brain to go with my regular full body PET/CT (cancer 5 years ago with recurrence 18 months later, currently NED).