Gaslight-Driven Development

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

Comments (12)

hamish-b · 20m 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.
JimDabell · 1m ago
I found Safari’s “hide distracting items” feature was necessary to finish the article.
HexDecOctBin · 9m 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...

Kapura · 7m 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.
cnnlives · 14m 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?

promiseofbeans · 14m ago
It's pretty fun seeing what countries people are from. If you hover, it tells your their city as well!
lagniappe · 15m ago
Its the bottom 20px or so, with a lot of content above it. Move the window down slightly.
abtinf · 6m 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.

jackwilsdon · 19m ago
revskill · 17m ago
Yes, but please separate plannning from reviewing, let alone real coding.
trhway · 21m 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 · 11m 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.