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Gabriele Renzi
Personal blog · riffraff.info · on HN as riffraffprogrammingai
Gabriele Renzi writes print "Me", a personal blog at riffraff.info about programming and ai. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “My 2c on the AI/GenAI/LLM bubble”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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- My 2c on the AI/GenAI/LLM bubble2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-24
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actually, it's my words[0] :) I wrote it many years ago, but if you think it's wrong I'd be happy to understand why. I have never been against Flash nor ActionScript(which I don't know enough to criticize) but my understanding was that ES4 was vastly more complex than even AS ever was, rather than being an incremental change as ES6 is. And please note I wrote """ ECMAScript 4 seems cool, I want to use a lot of those…
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on “Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart”Submitted My 2c on the AI/GenAI/LLM bubble as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not sure, but I think it boils down to accepting that some things we were attached to are no longer important or normal (not just software building). But specifically to your examples, the latter: I think the "brute force the program" approach will be more common that doing things manually in many cases (not all! I'm still a believer in people!). Edit: Well, I wrote a bad blog post on this some time ago, I might…
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on “I used AI. It worked. I hated it”Submitted Writing a Shakespeare interpreter with Parrot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://riffraff.info/ Been blogging on and off for 20 years. Most of the old stuff is on now deleted blogs (which I plan to import back one day!), so this one only has a few recent things, mostly short book reviews so I can remember what I read.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Hello, I am a Pythonista and a Rubyist. Both of my languages suck. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.riffraff.info It's a personal blog, I've run different versions of it for 15 years or so, and there's few pages cached in archive.org which I would like to bring back to the latest incarnation. Alas, never a priority.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted 'Member Gmail Goggles? as a story · 1 points
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