Gaslight-Driven Development

22 theodorejb 15 7/17/2025, 12:26:56 AM tonsky.me ↗

Comments (15)

hamish-b · 26m ago
I like seeing what users are currently viewing the same page, but man the constant jostling of users coming and going made it hard to read the post.
consumer451 · 2m ago
Open dev tools, paste in this code, and press enter:

    document.getElementById("presence")?.remove();
HexDecOctBin · 16m ago
Reminded me so much of a game called Chess Royale that I used to play, the avatars and the flags (screenshot [1]). It was really good too; and then Ubisoft being Ubisoft, they killed it even though the game had bots and could have been made single-player.

[1]: https://game-guide.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Might-and-M...

krackers · 4m ago
isn't this the page that used to have cursors everywhere in the background? I think the distracting design is some intentional running joke at this point
JimDabell · 8m ago
I found Safari’s “hide distracting items” feature was necessary to finish the article.
cnnlives · 20m ago
Maybe if the background color on all pages was a heatmap of the current top line of the page, so that you could see where people were reading and how many were reading, it would be better?

Also, what if it played slow and brooding music when fewer people were reading and epic action adventure music when many people were reading it?

How about if the page mined bitcoin and the first person to enter a page made a percentage higher percentage of the next person’s bitcoin and less of the next one, like a multi-level marketing mining strategy?

Kapura · 13m ago
i literally opened the developer console to delete that element from the page. no surprise somebody who has no idea how to make a readable website is getting bullied by a chatbot.
promiseofbeans · 20m ago
It's pretty fun seeing what countries people are from. If you hover, it tells your their city as well!
lagniappe · 21m ago
Its the bottom 20px or so, with a lot of content above it. Move the window down slightly.
abtinf · 12m ago
> We see the same at Instant: for example, we used tx.update for both inserting and updating entities, but LLMs kept writing tx.create instead. Guess what: we now have tx.create, too.

Good. Think of all the dev hours that must’ve been wasted by humans who were confused by this too.

meepmorp · 3m ago
If it were somehow a human that was consistently and confidently handing out made up programming advice about one's products, would companies still respond by just adding whatever imagined feature and writing a vaguely bemused blog post about it?
jackwilsdon · 25m ago
revskill · 23m ago
Yes, but please separate plannning from reviewing, let alone real coding.
trhway · 27m ago
>Well, now there is a new way to serve our silicon overlords. LLMs started to have opinions on how your API should look

we have code review by LLM. There is no point or a way to argue. Just submit to the wishes of the overlord, resistance is futile.

readthenotes1 · 17m ago
For some reason this reminds me of the conversation I had with a guy who didn't like the lane keeping assist on his car.

He didn't like that it vibrated the steering wheel when he changed lanes without using the blinker.