llm/0c2f997f-ee88-4da1-8587-79dca97bbc3f/batch-0-60eaf172-1e8f-49fd-b89c-21982575602f-input.json
You are a comment classifier. Given a list of topics and a batch of comments, assign each comment to up to 3 of the most relevant topics.
TOPICS (use these 1-based indices):
1. 24/7 Work Culture Concerns
2. Labor Union Organization
3. Work-Life Balance Boundaries
4. Alternative Mobile Coding Setups
5. Git Worktrees Parallel Development
6. Push Notification Systems
7. Tailscale VPN Security
8. LLM Productivity Claims Skepticism
9. Capitalism and Worker Exploitation
10. Code Quality Without Review
11. Terminal Apps for Mobile
12. Session Persistence with Tmux
13. Anthropic Marketing Suspicions
14. Cloud VM Cost Efficiency
15. Cognitive Effects of LLM Use
16. Vibe Coding Quality Concerns
17. Open vs Proprietary AI Models
18. Future of Software Engineering Jobs
19. Multi-Agent Orchestration Tools
20. Voice Input for Mobile Coding
COMMENTS TO CLASSIFY:
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{
"id": "46492419",
"text": "Pandora's box is open; we're moving towards a world where white collar workers will be working 24/7 and they'll be expected to do so.\n\nIt won't matter if I'm washing the dishes, walking the dog, driving to the supermarket, picking up my kids from school. I'll always be switched on, on my phone, continuously talking to an LLM, delivering questionable features and building meaningless products, destroying in the process the environment my kids are going to have to grow in.\n\nI'm a heavy LLM user. On a daily basis, I find LLMs extremely useful both professionally and personally. But the cognitive dissonance I feel when I think about what this means over a longer time horizon is really painful."
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"id": "46493611",
"text": "This technology should be liberatory, and allow us all to work less while enjoying the same standard of living. We've all contributed in its development by creating the whole corpus of the internet, without which it could never have been bootstrapped.\n\nThe only reason we can't expect this is that we live under a system that is arranged for the sole benefit of the owners of capital, and have been convinced that this is an immutable state of affairs or that our own personal advantage can be found in making a Faustian bargain with it."
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"id": "46496413",
"text": "> we live under a system that is arranged for the sole benefit of the owners of capital, and have been convinced that this is an immutable state of affairs\n\nWhat alternative do you propose?"
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"id": "46497140",
"text": "I would like to propose a cap on net worth.\n\nRealistically, if you have 300M, you and your direct family are settled for life. So, I want to propose 1B cap on net worth, if its more than that for 12 months straight, surplus goes to government, if your net worth is down after that, government obliges to return it partially to make it to 1B.\n\nPeople, who are eager building things and innovating, will keep building regardless, power hungry will try to find other ways to enrich themselves, but eventually they will give up (e.g. having 10 kids, each with 1B net worth)"
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"id": "46496769",
"text": "Not forcing a scarcity of necessities like housing would be a start.\n\nPeer competition is what makes everything work. You need scarcity of necessities to force people in to the system. Recent rulings allowing the criminalisation of homelessness are pushing this further. Your existence is default-illegal unless you work to outbid your peers for housing."
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"id": "46497576",
"text": "The same but less rigged would be a good start. I feel like people ask your question as a gotcha because they can't wrap their head around a system more nuanced than \"cancerous capitalism\" or \"potato famine communism\"\n\nSomething like we had in advanced western europe and the US between ww2 and the late 70s seemed much more balanced while not requiring a complete system change. Most people would be fine if we sprinkled a bit of socialism on top of the gigantic pile of capitalism.\n\nStuff like housing, energy, transportation, shouldn't make you live paycheck to paycheck forever. Just the fact that people are slowly starting to talk about 50 years mortgage should be a wake up call.\n\nMost people would be happy knowing there is something a tiny bit better coming, rather than knowing they will never make it out and will kept getting fucked a tiny bit more year after year. My grandparents had objectively a harder life than mine, but their life was improving every year, mine is stagnating at be"
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{
"id": "46496429",
"text": "Be realistic, demand the impossible."
}
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{
"id": "46497702",
"text": "A reference to France in May of 1968: \"Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible.\"\n\nSee for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68#Slogans_and_graffiti"
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"id": "46496667",
"text": "\"I demand a purple unicorn build the things I want to.\"\n\nNow what?"
}
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{
"id": "46497014",
"text": "Claude Code already is the purple unicorn. We're already there - the only problem is that regulatory systems are set up in a way that benefits a small minority of capitalists, rather than the majority."
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"id": "46496829",
"text": "It's always the same: workers need to unionize and form a political power bloc. Then, those most impacted—the majority—have an array of options, which are well explored in the annals of leftist and socialist political theory.\n\nThis is not at all to say that more conservative or reactionary theorists are wrong about how the world works. In fact, I think they're usually more right about what's really going on abstractly.\n\nBut, the working man doesn't need to know what's really going on. They need to win the war, and there's a ton of tactical advice written down—hard won lessons by those who built the modern world through the labor movement.\n\nThe place to start is with the usual suspects. Verso Books, The New Centre for Social Research, histories of the labor movement, and new political commentators like Josh Citarella."
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"id": "46497949",
"text": "Do the owners of capital work less?"
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{
"id": "46493889",
"text": "It would be a deep irony if LLMs ended up ushering in the social rupture that never arrived in the industrial era. When the pigs turn hogs and refuse to share even the scraps, they shouldn’t be surprised if the system they depend on becomes their undoing."
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"id": "46495564",
"text": "We should all hope so. It's clear that mass surveillance, the vast psyops architecture including social media platforms, autonomous drone warfare, Starlink & Neuralink, the whole Silicon Valley project in general is intended to have everyone eventually so discombobulated and \"interfered with\" that they can't even tell they're experiencing exploitation that should cause discomfort and radicalization (and quickly dispatch the few stragglers who can). It's either social rupture or total oligarch victory in the class war and a 10,000-year Thielreich."
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"id": "46497028",
"text": "> s intended to have everyone eventually so discombobulated and \"interfered with\" that they can't even tell they're experiencing exploitation that should cause discomfort and radicalization (and quickly dispatch the few stragglers who can).\n\nIt sounds like you have not read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut."
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"id": "46497794",
"text": "Yes, the real danger we face is that the sorts of special, gifted people who \"seek tax advice\" from Jeffrey Epstein might some day have all their brilliant, wondrous contributions to the world stymied by oppressive systems of control. Not sure what systems those would be, since they own and are building all the ones we can see around us today, but still: collectivism ooga booga!"
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"id": "46493570",
"text": "I’m a remote work from home employee who never ever works overtime.\n\nI do use Claude code for my personal projects and ping at them from coffee shops and micro moments during my free time.\n\nIt’s possible to engineer your own life boundaries and not be a victim of every negative trend in existence."
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"id": "46497673",
"text": "You can do it on a personal level, but when everyone else is overworking you, your manager will compare your output based on your peers, and based on it, you might be negatively impacted"
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"id": "46495836",
"text": "Yeah absolutely. It’s hardly things like Claude Code that are the problem, Slack (or other forms of communication) are much easier to slip into personal time and have been a trend since Blackberries were invented."
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"id": "46493804",
"text": "This is always the reason I'm interested in this exact workflow. Want to build something but never have the time without sacrificing significant amounts of sleep but now it's easier than ever to get things building."
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"id": "46495378",
"text": "Exactly. My main interest in remote Claude Code is to maintain state continuity from all client hosts. I have a\nlot of laptops and mobile devices and I don’t want to manage my git and cloud connections for each. Setup and rebooting are pretty disruptive to short bursts of inspiration or iteration."
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"id": "46493747",
"text": "This is a complete fantasy. If LLM's got to this point of sophistication there would be a total revolution in almost every industry. Society would be radically different. Since LLM's are nowhere near this, I'm not so sure we even have Pandora's box, let alone opened it."
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"id": "46496599",
"text": "Glad someone is rational. I believe this new wave of zeal is being somewhat driven by an Anthropic astroturfing campaign.\n\nThis AI fear wave has outed that many people have not even the most basic grasp of economics, or the ability to carry a thought to its natural conclusion.\n\nFor example, I'll often see people espousing: \"there will be no work left, better get rich now or you're screwed!\". What's the point in getting rich if there will be no work left? Money is merely a means to an end; in this world with no work everyone will have the ends (goods and services) for free, or else goods and services will still have value and therefore jobs will still exist.\n\nAnother equally silly argument \"only software will be completely replaced because it is verifiable\".\n\nI've never seen completely verifiable software, but let's presume it exists! If software engineering can be replaced (or some large part of it) I will simply say to my LLM \"please make me a piece of software that replaces my accoun"
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{
"id": "46496658",
"text": "> I believe this new wave of zeal is being somewhat driven by an Anthropic astroturfing campaign.\n\nYeah I've sort of noticed this on X for the brief time I was on there this weekend. The Claude Code creator was hyping it up to the moon, and when people called him out for it he said he would feel the same way if he wasn't making 1000 racks a year with it. Sure mate.\n\nWhat people don't realise is if tech progresses to the point where everything is automated, the marginal cost of everything will basically go to zero. It would be better to give away food and shelter for free if it keeps things peaceful. And if not, people have revolted for far less.\n\nThat being said it's a complete utopia and once this bubble pops we are basically going to be where we were, but with excellent natural language parsing and generation, with some useful code generation and introspection tools, writing assistants, etc. Which will be great, but not world changing."
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"id": "46496805",
"text": ">> only software will be completely replaced because it is verifiable\n\nthe thing most (especially non-devs) don't understand is that if software can be automated - 99% of all knowledge work will be replaced, as software is the ultimate automation.\n\nThere would be absolutely no issues automating accountants/lawyers/etc etc etc.\nSure few will be left but 99% can be automated when software is that advanced.\n\nNot only knowledge work, also a massive amount of blue collar jobs. AI already can guide you how to fix a lot of things or analyze issues with plumbing/electricity/you name it.\n\nSo if software goes down - everyone will go down."
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"id": "46493152",
"text": "> white collar workers will be working 24/7\n\nWhere we're going, there's no \"white collars workers\" anymore.\n\nOnly white collars Claude agents."
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{
"id": "46493452",
"text": "You still need humans to supervise them. Just a lot less."
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{
"id": "46493411",
"text": "Yeah, there's no way we have these careers in 30 years.\n\nThe best we can do is wrestle the control away from hyperscalers and get as much of this capability into the open as possible.\n\nStop using Anthropic products and start using weight available models. (I'm not talking ICs - I mean the entire startup / tech ecosystem.)"
}
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{
"id": "46498207",
"text": "Or, use the best tools to make the best products you can and stake your claim before all the low hanging fruit is picked"
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{
"id": "46496428",
"text": "I don’t think doing that will change anything. Only real options - without a career shift - that I’ve identified are to work for companies building something that’s never been built before, or building a SaaS that serves a niche."
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"id": "46493781",
"text": "Maybe you can recommend some of those models? I'm honestly bewildered - what is open and not?"
}
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{
"id": "46493530",
"text": "How stopping using hyperscalers models on their infra would \"get as much of this capability into the open as possible\"?\n\nEither \"we\" create models better than commercial state of the art (by using whatever means).\n\nOr we use open models AND fund organisations building such models (could be by purchasing service from these orgs or donations - in which case would these orgs be different than hyperscalers?).\n\nBut i dont see how just hosting the models on some private servers would give us an edge?"
}
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{
"id": "46493511",
"text": "Have fun trying to afford the necessary hardware to run open models acceptably. The big labs are trying to make sure we won’t be able to in short order."
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"id": "46492710",
"text": "It's utterly unreal to me to hear so little discussion about labor organization within software during these nascent moments of LLM deployment. Software engineers seem totally resigned toward reduced salary and employment instead of just organizing labor while still in control of the development of these systems.\n\nI really don't get it -- is it that people think these technologies will be so transformative that it is most moral to race toward them? I don't see much evidence of that, it's just future promises (especially commensurate with the benefit / cost ratio). When I do use this tech it's usually edutainment kind of curiosity about some subject matter I don't have enough interest in to dive into--it's useful and compelling but also not really necessary.\n\nIn fact, I don't really think the tech right now is at all transformative, and that a lot of folks are unable to actually gauge their productivity accurately when using these tools; however, I do not believe that the technology wil"
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"id": "46492867",
"text": "I've been writing software for 30 years, a part of it had success in the sense of being widely known and adopted for a long time. Writing software is difficult, consumes time and is difficult as you get older to focus the needed time away from other matters like a professional life and family.\n\nWith LLM, my productivity suddenly went up x25 and was able to produce at a speed that I had never known. I'm not a developer any more, instead feels like project manager with dedicated resources always delivering results. It isn't perfect, but when you are used to manage teams it isn't all that different albeit the results are spectacularly better.\n\nMy x25 isn't just measured on development, for brainstorming, documentation, testing, deployment. It is transformative, in fact: I think software is dead. For the first time I've used neither a paper notebook nor even an IDE to build complex and feature-complete products. Software isn't what matters, what matters is the product and this is what the "
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"id": "46492965",
"text": "What tool do you use, which languages? Could you give us an example of something you’ve built and how you did it 25 times faster?"
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"id": "46493721",
"text": "Using Claude code Pro with a maxed subscription and ChatGPT Codex with the business subscription.\n\nThe code is written in Dart and never wrote a line of DART in my life, I'm a veteran expert around Java, C++. The reason for choosing DART is simply because it is way readier for multi-platform contexts than Java/C++. The same code base now runs on Linux, Android, iOS, OSX, Windows and Web (as static HTML). Plus the companion code in C++ for ESP32 microcontrollers. It also includes a CLI for running as linux server.\n\nDon't ask me for a hard analysis and data proving x25 performance increase, what I know is that an off-grid product was previously taking me two years of research/effort to build in Android/Web and get a prototype running. Now in about a month went far above all previous expectations (cached maps with satellite imagery, bluetooth mesh, webRTC, whatever apps) and was able to release a product several times per day that works as envisioned. Iterating quickly and getting direct "
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"id": "46494534",
"text": "Would you describe this product as a whole application suite (blogging, calendar, commerce) plus its own backend infrastructure that is capable of serving these apps to the public internet and functioning offline via ad-hoc wireless peer-to-peer, with a cryptographic layer providing identity, security and censorship resistance, and that runs on phone, laptop or raspberry pi?\n\nQuite ambitious.\n\nIs this an LLM hallucinating? taking a break from coding? or leaking your personal desktop session?\n\nhttps://github.com/geograms/geogram/blob/main/.cli_history"
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"id": "46495769",
"text": "> Is this an LLM hallucinating? taking a break from coding? or leaking your personal desktop session?\n\nHa! In any case, I'm happy to see I'm not the only one compulsively \"ls-ing\" all over the place in every terminal I open :)"
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"id": "46495651",
"text": "You'd be surprised what you can do with Claude Code. Pick any mature programming language, including niche ones like Ada and treat the project seriously. Write detailed agent files, features spec files, start from the bottom with CI/CD and set up a test suite, coding guidelines, static analysis. Be careful to create a consistent architecture and code base early.\n\nYou'll get a lot further and faster than you'd expect.\n\nThings will probably plateau as you master the new tech, but it's possible you'll not write a ton of code manually along the way.\n\nOh, your general software development experience should help with debugging the weird corner cases.\n\nI imagine it's really hard to do this with 0 software dev experience, for example. Yeah, you'll build some simple things but you'll need and entire tech education to put anything complex in prod."
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"id": "46497551",
"text": "> It's utterly unreal to me to hear so little discussion about labor organization\n\nNever lived in the US, where I assume you are from. It's the same country that contrary to most countries, does not have May 1st as a Holiday. Same country that has states with at will employment, etc etc.\n\nunreal? nope, totally coherent and expected."
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"id": "46493037",
"text": "Unfortunately, it's futile to try to convince the median HN poster that labor organization could help them. They've drunk the entire pitcher of corporate anti-union koolaid.\n\nPeople could be directly in the middle of losing their own job or taking on the responsibilities of 5 other laid-off coworkers, and they would still ask \"what could a labor union possibly do for me??\""
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"id": "46494708",
"text": "Big tech laid off 150,000 people last year despite constantly beating wall st expectations and blowing more money than the Apollo program on a money losing technology with the stated goal of firing even more people. Totally insane that most people I talk to still don’t think they need a union."
}
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"id": "46492973",
"text": "If you think the profession has enough time to organize reasonable unions, you’re an optimist. Pessimists are changing careers altogether as we speak.\n\nEither way it’s been a fun ride."
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"id": "46493062",
"text": "Before I get into it: what careers do you think are most compelling? Especially if you think all white collar work is going to be undermined by this technology.\n\nI wrote this up a bit ago in my essay fragments collection. It's rough and was just a thought I wanted to get down, I'm unsure of it, but it's at least somewhat relevant to the discussion here:\n\nLLM or LLM-adjacent technology will never take over the execution of work in a way that approaches human where humans continue to guide (like PMs or C-suite just \"managing\" LLMs).\n\nThe reason is that spoken language is a poor medium by which to describe technical processes, and a well-enumerated specification in natural language describing the process is at-least synonymous with doing the work in skilled applications.\n\nFor example, if someone says to an LLM: Build a social media app that is like Tinder but women can only initiate.\n\n... this is truly easily replicatable and therefore with little real business value as a product. Anythin"
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"id": "46493833",
"text": "I'm curious how this seed/hash/prompt of an idea relates to ladders of abstraction?\n\nConsider \"Uber, but for X\"\n\nThis wasn't a thing you could deploy as a term pre-Uber.\n\nI'm not sure what this means for your analogy, but it does seem important. Somehow branding an idea reifies a ... callable function in? ???\n\nMaybe something like (just spitballing)\n\nThe specification-length needed for a given idea isn't fixed - it's relative to available conceptual vocabulary. And that vocabulary expands through the work of instantiation and naming things?\n\nWhich maybe complicates the value story... terseness isn't intrinsic to the idea, it's earned by prior reification work?\n\nHmm\n\nBasically it seems that \"Like Tinder but\" is doing a lot of lifting there... and as new patterns get named, the recombination space just keeps expanding?"
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"id": "46494681",
"text": "> Basically it seems that \"Like Tinder but\" is doing a lot of lifting there... and as new patterns get named, the recombination space just keeps expanding?\n\nYeah, this feels right. It's like a process of condensing: new ideas brought to life condense metaphors into more compact forms and so make language more dense and expressive. This idea reminds me of Julian Jaynes's description of metaphor condensation in Origin of Consciousness.\n\nA lot of hard work goes into novel products, but once that work has been proven, it is substantially more trivial for human or machine to copy. Groping around in the darkness of new, at the edge of what-could-be is difficult work that looks simple in hindsight to others who consider that edge a given now.\n\n> The specification-length needed for a given idea isn't fixed - it's relative to available conceptual vocabulary. And that vocabulary expands through the work of instantiation and naming things?\n\nYeah, I think that naming and grouping things, then cond"
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{
"id": "46493561",
"text": "If programmers think they can just learn a trade, they’ll bein for a rude awakening when Elon comes for their jobs next. Optimus will be doing your plumbing by the time you graduate from trade school and get your paper and internships."
}
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{
"id": "46495475",
"text": "Which suggests we should get into robotics. That was my conclusion too just yesterday while thinking about this."
}
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{
"id": "46498263",
"text": "Somebody needs to be able to repair our new overlords until they can repair themselves."
}
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