Make the Easy Change Hard

11 todsacerdoti 3 8/25/2025, 8:40:04 PM blog.appliedcomputing.io ↗

Comments (3)

zahlman · 10m ago
> I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT.

I don't understand the mindset behind letting an LLM generate some text, acknowledging that you did so, acknowledging that there are serious issues with it, but then publishing it without taking action to fix it.

> Recall that in SimKube, there is

If you hope to get traction, it's important to write in a way that doesn't assume the reader has seen your previous work. At the very least, leave a link.

renewiltord · 2m ago
It's engagement bait technique. People will rush to explain that it is about "spaghetti code" etc. Joke is pretty obvious so it's a set up to create engagement.

Look at us. We are like puppet dancing on his rope. He bids us jump and we say "how high?". Embarrassing.

treetalker · 1h ago
Clearly this post was partially written with a proprietary local LLM that scrapes HN for recent data upon which it can base pertinent jokes and cultural references in order to boost readership. ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993159