Now I'm imagining some kind of timezone-like temperature unit that varies around the world, and a "100 things programmers should know about ___" post about all the intricacies and special cases.

Ooh, and it could shift seasonally so that summer temperatures and winter temperatures can both be in the convenient range. And every locality could shift a different amount and at different times of year according to their local climate.

Next, we can look into reforming those pesky mass and volume units…

I cannot wait for leap degrees.

Didn't expect to see the goalposts moved to "AI can fix bugs but do they even matter"

I'm surprised to hear this. I've found AI incredibly useful for optimizing queries. Give it the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output of your query and it will have no problem optimizing it

Same here, this seems like a setup issue.

If you give the LLM the ability to run queries against prod-like data and review the paths, you have a fully autonomous system that can correctly optimize your ORM/queries. Been doing this for months.

pgAnalyze is a great complementary tool for this and they offer MCP

I just downloaded and paid for Codex this week because I want to stay on top of the AI tools and understand their capabilities. I've had some good results using 5.6 Sol, although it tends to never want to write any comments (despite modifying the project rules to tell it it MUST), and also occasionally just does a bit of thinking and stops. It'll say "Working through the remaining work" and just ends the chat until I tell it "continue" or something.

This is very anecdotal evidence but I have to rant about it... I tried 5.6 Terra (high) earlier today to fix a bug with a slow page. It just... removed the part of the page that was slow, and made it a client side request (still slow, but not blocking SSR I guess). I tried with Sonnet 5 and it correctly found the issue where an unhandled case was continuing to retry and failing. I am always telling people how the frontier models are SO much more capable than what they may think but this one thing today had me scratching my head at why it would ever do that. It was the first time I experienced the "great, I removed the failing test case" kind of issue.

I got the complete opposite of what you get, sol ultra literally vibed the entire system out for me from one plan mode approval.

Immediately left before trying to figure out what is even going on here. Almost every single response is AI generated

I'm pretty sure the Google Play Store does require this. I remember a few years ago (no longer at the company) having to verify a phone number and maybe address that is posted publicly.

> a consumer should be able to contact a human and be made whole

Apple does not provide any mechanism for developers to issue a refund, or even look up or view your purchase or subscription - so there is nothing a developer can do here besides refer you to apple support.

(Although as a developer I would like to be able to do this, because customers are very confused by it)

Sounds like something Apples needs to be fix then.

I'm not sure why you are being ripped apart in the comments, especially for a lot of nitpicky things. It was an interesting article, I can resonate with it from years of doing customer support. Comment sections like this make you realize you should not be taking business advice from HN.

I asked Claude to check my post for spelling and typos, etc before posting, and it told me not to post it because people on hacker news are the same ones who email you about subscriptions, so it wouldn't be well received. Gotta hand it to the AI there!

I get the post was a little provocative, but I have posted a lot of content on the internet in the past and usually get like 1 comment if that, so I'd rather get feedback tbh and it seems like it resonated with a good number of people

To add to this, they should look at the Fable system card. It's 317 pages and it's clear how serious they are taking AI safety.

Page count is not a measure of how seriously something is being taken when you can easily generate pages and pages of slop

You'd have a point if the report was pages of slop, but it clearly is not.

If they called it 6.0 and it wasn't AGI, you'd see a lot of complaining here too

What is AGI? (I know what the shortcut expands to, I'm curious about your definition. Don't the current models fit?)