Faster development speeds make people implicitly believe they won't be accountable for the results of their actions.

It's grifting, plain and simple. And that blog is atrocious, high noise-to-signal and repulsive, AI-generated everything.

Small suggestion: It might be best to avoid responding to these “trolls” because some of us who appreciate the work you do might be put off by your off-hand attempting-witty responses. It doesn’t really help you and can only hurt you to respond.

Oh, I'm not trolling at all.

Fair

Front-paging Hacker News is no longer something bragworthy, sadly.

Very cool website! I like the theme picker and the extensive but easily navigable articles and tags.

Try RimWorld only if you're sure it won't nerd-snipe you.

RimWorld is a game that makes me want to fuse with an LLM. It already has an incredibly sophisticated backstory and memory and motivation system; it can't be too much work to hook up an LLM to get the pawns to speak and act in novel ways.

RimWorld, also known as War Crime Simulator.

You are no longer your handwriting.

IIRC you can use the -p flag to open that menu on launch. It also opens when you haven't set a default profile. And it's possible to access other profiles via about:profiles.

Great tool! I'm always impressed by how versatile a tool Transient is. I use it extensively as well and there's nothing like it anywhere else.

Transient is indeed very nice, even though I wish its programmable API was simpler and made more sense, sometimes it feels annoyingly quirky and unreasonably complex.

Shameless plug for further ideation and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025635 - it's a long video - ~1hr, it's unscripted and unedited. I guess I just couldn't fit all my Transient use cases in a smaller one. I have a lot of these bad boys in my Emacs.

Babashka is the best scripting environment out there. You just need that one executable and it runs flawlessly. The bundled libs are also very useful.

Because purporting to be extra-rational about decisions is effective nerd-bait.

I only use LLMs as a substitute for stackexchange, and sometimes to write boilerplate code. The free chat provided by deepseek works very well for me, and I've never encountered any usage limits. V3 / R1 are mostly sufficient. When I need something better (not very often), I use Claude's free tier.

If you really need another model / a custom interface, it's better to use openrouter: deposit $10 and you get 1000 free queries/day across all free models. That $10 will be good for a few months, at the very least.