> wastes a ton of time

It wastes a ton of tokens as well and those are not cheap.

When I draft my idea for the implementation of a feature or bug fix, I don't even trust a _human_ to understand what I mean the first time. There are _always_ either errors on my part, or erroneous assumptions on theirs. Everything from "this accounts for X and Y, but not Z which breaks the whole thing" to "this part of the idea directly contradicts what with you said earlier, what do you want to do about it?"

I can't bring myself to trust that an LLM understands what I mean better than any human would, no matter how "good" people claim they are getting.

TFA seems to be advocating for regular old vibecoding. Code now and ask questions later. Which is their choice, and is perhaps even a valid choice in many cases. But at least call it what it is.

> I guess i'm not cut out for stock trading.

As it turns out, neither is anyone else, even people who do it for a living. (If we constrain the definition of "stock trading" to mean researching and picking individual stocks.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

Yes good point. A lot of it is gambling. Still, would be nice to have a win once in a while.

Thing is, in order to do that, you have to play the game, and if you do, you'll lose as well as win. Have the vast majority in index funds, but if you're desperate for a win, pick 100 stocks and put a dollar in each of them (by buying fractional shares), wait 6 months, and then simply ignore the losers.

I love KDE to bits and pieces, it's the best desktop I've had the pleasure to use in all my decades of computing.

I am fully behind the idea of continual improvement and experimentation. But if KDE ever decides _yet again_ to tear down and rebuild the whole experience from scratch, I swear, I am going to start paying more attention to the intrusive thoughts of my inner pyromaniac.

Cable had ads too, and you couldn't pay more for ad-free.

I mean that's just "cable pricing" as, unless I'm missing something, cable has ads.

I'm old enough to remember that the original pitch to get people to pay for cable TV (which was a big barrier in the 1960s/70s) was "Yes, there's a monthly fee - but no ads!). The only time I see cable TV is when I'm staying in a motel, and I'm just astonished by the ad load.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that cable didn't have ads.

You likely have no idea just how lucky you are.

Your experience is very atypical.

If you grew up in a house with smokers, you would not find the smell unusual.

Only the first 2-3 in your life are any kind of challenge to get through, after that it's smooth sailing, unfortunately. For most people.

Count yourself lucky I guess.

I don't know if that last line was meant to be funny, but it gave me a good laugh. We should all be so "lucky!"

I had a very different experience. I would start smoking again for various personal but uninteresting reasons and found that it was much easier if I went to vaping for a week or two before quitting completely.

For context, I vape because nicotine helps me focus. There's a lot more to it than that but I'm not going to elaborate because if I do, I'll get about a zillion replies from preachy, argumentative people who don't know anything about me and I just don't have the time for that today.

Anyway, one of those big 5% disposables lasts me about 6 weeks at the rate I use them. I deliberately seek out the high nic content because I don't want to ingest more glycol or whatever than is necessary. Nor do I want to sit there and chain vape all day like I used to back when freebase liquids were all you could get. I can limit my intake to 2-3 puffs every 1-2 hours and that's what works for me.

Of course it helps you focus. Thats a known fact. Its incredible you can do only few puffs every hour or two. No judgement from me.