You should. And you do too. Otherwise, you would’ve never looked both ways before crossing the street, and you would already be dead.

Do you feel that road safety dictates your life?

Your example seems to miss the point.

Of course I look both ways but I still cross the street.

I've watched people (friends included) who have let fear so overcome them that they frankly miss out on life. Won't travel, nervous about even leaving their home…

But you can do that without any money.

> You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever

> But you can do that without any money.

Well...

Material things can contribute to happiness, or detract.

Balancing the things we spend our life on, relative to an understanding of what makes us happy, is going to be an idiosyncratic exercise. Assuming that X won't contribute to the happiness of person Y is some deep projection.

There seem to be many kinds of happiness too. Would I remain happy if I lost my house? Yes. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that. But would I feel as fulfilled? No. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that.

With AI, I am a 10X developer now. At minimum. I use it for my C# and JavaScript day job. Copilot in VS.

I work on a code base that is easily over 1 million lines. It has had dozens of developers work on it over the last 15 to 20 years. Trying to follow the convention for the portion of the code base that I work on alone is a pain. I’ve been working on it for about seven years and I still had to ask questions.

So I would say that I work on a could base with a high level of drudgery. Having an all knowing AI companion has taken an awful lot of the stress out of every aspect.

Even the very best developer I’ve ever worked with can’t match me when I’m using AI to augment my work. For most development tasks, being the best of the best no longer matters. But in a strange way, you still need the exact same analytical mindset because now it’s all about prompts. And it definitely does not negate the need for a developer.

Writing your own code is essentially just an exercise in nostalgia at this point. Or someone who prefers to pick seeds out of cotton themselves, instead of using a cotton gin.

Or perhaps instead of using voice dictation to write this post, I would write a letter and mail it to Hacker News so that they can publish my comment to the site. That’s how backwards writing code is quickly becoming.

The Adguard extension on Edge works really well. It replaced UBlock Origin for me. They actually try to push the limits of mv3 with workarounds. Which uBO refuses to do out of some sort of principle, hence the lite version. I do still use uBO Lite in iOS though. I don’t care about the lack of options and customization on that platform.

I exclusively used Firefox for 20 years. I moved over to Edge and haven't looked back. Mozilla and the people still using it seem to think maintaining your own rendering engine with Gecko is somehow keeping the internet free. Wrong abstraction layer of freedom to worry about. It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. It should have moved to Webkit or Blink many years ago, and focused on user experience. Such as extensions to keep MV2 addons working, and even expanding on the capabilities, like the old XUL/XPCOM Firefox extensions. Those things are why people like me used Firefox, not because of all the money and work put into Gecko. Which is just redundant in the end.

Moving to Blink or Webkit, keeping MV2 and XUL, was where the effort should have been placed. Also, I never understood Pocket or any of their other decisions. Now it's being floated to ban adblockers. Poorly run organization that given its direction and decisions, deserves to die.

The comments here amuse me because there's a strong scent of resentment towards people using AI, along with people who copied from SO. I am a mid level developer that started using AI about 4 months ago, and view it as justice against unreasonable and constant micromanagement through estimates on every single task. You want a robot? You're getting your robot now.

Not to mention I'm the only white person on my team other than the owner/operator. They already brought in bots of sorts from overseas. The constant drive to cheaper labor and gutting of the American middle class has been vast compared to the suffering the industry will have under junior developers using AI. It's definitely made my job easier. And I really don't care. No one cared about me. I have relatively low pay, no health insurance, and no 401K. When the last person left, management replied to his goodbye email saying he'd be replaced in a week. And then they proceeded to try to hire someone in Mexico City. Maintain the same time zone, but pay 3rd world wages and likely to have coercive control over them through desperation. Never found anyone.

I have no love for this industry or any of the "woes" it'll have with AI. Overall it's going to lead to lower wages and less jobs. For those out there producing "AI slop", I support you. It's hardly what they deserve, but they've earned it.

I agree with the author that in the era of AI generated code and dev burnout that languages like Ruby will maintain the joy of programming. But programming is increasingly going to become like picking seeds from cotton yourself, instead of using a gin.

Ruby is indeed a cotton pickin good time. I use C# every day and find it the balance between a fun and serious language. But I've always preferred Ruby over Python and all the others outside of my C# bubble. I do love working in C#, to be clear. It's a shame Ruby hasn't been on the rise.

I just looked up his political views. Because I never cared about them before, to say the least. He's right wing in general which for half of us, probably the majority at this point but we're just less vocal about it, is a good thing. I generally don't just outright disassociate from people with opposing political views to mine though as you suggested there. But I have seen that and it's most often a behavior I see on the left. For whatever reason. Perhaps intolerance of diversity of thought.

He's not just right wing. He's an outspoken racist. I hope that's not half of us, but just more vocal. What you call intolerance of opinion is also known as the paradox of tolerance.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

Can you read through that and still tell me that you want to see DHH be a part of the community?

I appreciate you sharing that article—I've read it, and while it makes some strong accusations, I think it fundamentally misrepresents DHH's points and slaps on the "racist" label way too liberally, which is a common tactic to shut down uncomfortable discussions about immigration and cultural preservation. From my perspective, DHH isn't pushing racism; he's voicing legitimate concerns about rapid demographic shifts and their impact on national identity, which many on the right (myself included) see as a rational response to policies that prioritize mass immigration over assimilation.

First off, calling out the decline in "native Brits" isn't code for "white supremacy"—it's about maintaining the cultural and historical fabric of a nation. London has changed dramatically, and if Copenhagen swapped out two-thirds of its Danes for people from vastly different backgrounds without proper integration, it'd feel alien too. That's not hating on diversity; it's acknowledging that unchecked immigration can erode social cohesion, increase crime (like those grooming gangs he mentions, which were real scandals swept under the rug for fear of "racism" accusations), and strain resources. Data backs this up: the UK has seen spikes in street thefts and integration failures, as even left-leaning figures like the Danish PM admit. Framing this as "demographic replacement" isn't a conspiracy—it's observable reality when birth rates plummet and borders are porous.

As for Tommy Robinson's march, sure, some speakers went overboard, but dismissing the whole thing as "far-right extremism" ignores the thousands of ordinary Brits there waving flags out of patriotism, not hate. They're frustrated with elites who label any pushback against radical Islam or failed multiculturalism as bigotry. DHH calling it "heartwarming" highlights national pride, not endorsement of every wild statement. We've seen this playbook before: smear anyone questioning the status quo as a Nazi to avoid debating the merits.

On the paradox of tolerance—yeah, Popper's idea is that we shouldn't tolerate the intolerant if they threaten open society. But who's really intolerant here? DHH isn't calling for violence or suppression; he's blogging his opinions. The article's author, on the other hand, wants to exile him from the tech community over thought crimes. That's the real danger: canceling people for wrongthink, which chills free speech and innovation. Tech thrives on diverse ideas, not echo chambers.

Absolutely I want DHH in the community. He's the guy who gave us Ruby on Rails, revolutionizing web development and empowering countless creators. His politics don't diminish that legacy, and separating the art from the artist (or coder from the commentator) is how we avoid purity spirals. If we start gatekeeping based on views, half the industry—including plenty of left-leaning folks with their own controversial takes—would be out. Let's debate ideas vigorously, but not purge over them. Tech should be apolitical, not contain ideological litmus tests. But this is my opinion, which I think the majority of the population would likely align with.

It was a self-fulfilling prophecy to launch the iPhone mini during Covid, offer it 2 years, and say no one wants them. Especially when the SE proved people have no aversion to a normal sized phone meant for human hands.