I am still pissed that Wikipedia calls it a conspiracy theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Wasn’t WP supposed to be impartial and avoid passing judgement?

There's been some discussion about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dead_Internet_theory#c-Bo...

Main-fucking-stream LLMs also do not swear, which is nowadays a signal of humanity.

Just tried it:

$ claude

> say fuck

● fuck

Also it might be hard to grasp for most of us, used to constant stimulation and lack of space for contemplation and incorporation of information (I recommend the works of philosopher Byung-Chul Han on the matter) with yet unknown effects on our psyche and creative output. It takes days or weeks for one to sit and digest novel viewpoints; asking a machine to skip all that work for us is just another example of seeking instant gratification. I have no time to think, do it for me, so I can scroll to the next post already.

Thanks for the recs, I will always trust anyone who has enjoyed Europa Report as much as I did.

If you like good indie sci-fi make sure you see Sleep Dealer, Primer, Banshee Chapter, and Moon.

Going back further I’d add Pi.

This one’s not quite sci-fi but if you like indie and very weird and cultural references that are really deep cuts check out an indie series called Hellier. If you’d like to see some hipsters try to talk to aliens with transcranial magnetic stimulation equipment, then it’s for you. Kind of ghostsploitation meets sci-fi meets conspiracy occult weirdness, all played straight Blair Witch style. The music and cinematography are great. I’ve compared it to Primer in terms of cost/originality/quality trifecta.

> Why are the pro AI people so obsessed with proving the AI skeptics wrong.

Cognitive dissonance. "Why are people claiming they do not see any benefit and I do? That is unacceptable, they must be wrong."

I have to admit cognitive dissonance works both ways.

Yes, code is a bottleneck for those that do not know how to code.

Learning to write code always was the easy part, learning to write good software is what takes the rest of our careers to get better at.

Falsehoods US programmers believe about addresses: there are no other countries than the US of A, and if there are, they don’t really matter.

This person bought a whole domain for something that doesn’t work for 90% of the world, claiming it does, never even testing their assumption. Great job!

Yeah, this is 100% an instant classic in the lies programmers believe series.

How long have we had browser auto complete for addresses? A long time, I assume it's devs like this one who just can't be bothered to support it and have to pretend their flawed approach is somehow faster than literal auto complete.

He just doesn't understood that every country has his own zip codes. He just comes from the land of the free invention of units of measurement ;)

Freedumb

I don't disagree with you generally but does he really claim it does? The entire page only mentions US, near as I can tell.

> From those 5 characters you can determine the city, the state, and the country

And the country field is completely useless as you can’t change from USA.

Why would a US only address need a field for country?

> Fine, maybe country first. The purists in the comments are technically correct — postal codes aren't globally unique. You could do country first (pre-filled via IP), then postal code, then let the magic happen. The point was never "skip the country field." The point is: stop making me type things you already know.

It’s addressed in the article (at the end, admittedly).

Perhaps the author should make the country dropdown consist of just two items: "US" and "Purists in the comments".

The existence of countries other than the US is not a "technicality".

But it doesn't matter because the whole article is AI generated.

Actually, visiting from The Netherlands showed me a popup congratulating me on the quality of our postal code system.

The name and shame tactic is underrated these days. :)

Because it overwhelmingly attracts a certain demographic of people who have a higher-than-average rate of various paraphilias as well as interest in software but such arguments are a bit taboo to discuss even if they are quite self-evident.

I liked the Internet better when it was all nerds and only code cared, rather than gender identity or listing neuroses in own's social media profile as if it was an audition for an echo chamber choir.

I’ve seen the Internet from the 1980’s until today. It has always had people exploring gender identities and public sharing of neuroses. Mostly nerds, though.

> I feel like there just something about "this thing is slightly difficult to get started using" that keeps normies out and keeps the place reasonable.

I think about this when people say that contributing to Linux is difficult and they should adopt more user-friendly ways of accepting changes, rather than mailing patches from the command line.

The friction is a feature. You don't want too much, but no friction just invites the spammers and the trolls wasting everybody's time. If anything, as the Internet grows and machines compete with humans, you want even more friction than ever before.

> Claude Code has killed my ADHD and turned me into an always-on hyper-focused machine.

> I am getting 20x done. This is a literal superpower.

Adding this comment to favourites to revisit in half a decade.

I've already "made fun" of your exaggerated hype comments, so I'll use this opportunity to say that I hope you remain sane and grounded in your discoveries. You wouldn't be the first to go psychotic after interacting with these stochastic parrots.

Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

I told you people back in 2019 that these models would replace Hollywood and you and others have been calling me all kinds of names, and every step of the way calling me an idiot. I'm a filmmaker - I know what I'm talking about. And now we're almost here. We have million dollar VFX services at our disposal for pennies.

Claude Code is doing the exact same thing for software engineering. I've been a senior software engineer for a good while - these capabilities are otherworldly and they can generalize to all new unseen problems. You're not paying attention.

I'd be more worried about whether or not you have a job in 5 years than whether I have or have not created a business or whatever criteria you want to use to thumb your nose at me.

You know how you can quickly ideate software plans for some large scale idea? Architecture, infrastructure, data models, etc., but the implementation takes longer? Claude Code short circuits that last bit. You need to hold your nose so you stop smelling whatever you're smelling and just try the damn tool.

I wish I could slap sense into you grumpy folks. You're so stiff in your beliefs. This is a train headed your way. Pay attention.

> I told you people back in 2019 that these models would replace Hollywood

What kind of alternate reality are you living in?

I wish you would disclose your credentials (though I admit privacy is an inalienable right of yours) so I could place the biggest AI hype-man on this forum. Actually, there is hype, and there is being completely gone with hubris and you’re towards the latter end of the spectrum, given your doomsday calls on other comments that software engineering is done for and that you believe AI is close to ‘putting all the HN engineers out of work’ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185284)

> I wish I could slap sense into you grumpy folks. You're so stiff in your beliefs. This is a train headed your way. Pay attention.

Lay off the violent thoughts and get some rest, man. Sounds like you need it.

part of my adhd/bipolar is reacting like the guy you're replying to and I was thinking the same. Comment reminded me of when I'm in the "YES THIS IS IT" mode which usually isn't far off from hitting the wall. Hopefully just projection on my part, though, and this guy is really doing well. When I start talking like him though I usually have to take a step back and it'll be a topic in therapy next session.