I swear this is like the fifth time I've seen something like this on HN!

Is this a "everyone feels the need to reinvent the wheel" thing, or is it a "junior dev gets excited by an idea, builds an implementation ... and then realizes there are inherent flaws in the approach, and gives up ... until the next junior learns about the idea and ..."?

Really cool project!

I can't wait until it's formalized enough that I can just buy a $20 light bulb, update it wirelessly somehow, and then have my own little "light bulb library" server.

That's exactly what this project is. You can buy the same tasmota bulb I used and flash it over the wifi. No disassembly required.

I don't understand why the author doesn't just publish this himself. Linking a GItHub of Latex files is not the same thing!

Well that makes zero sense ... probably because it's a random email with *zero* context.

The photo of his monitor shows the kernel exec'ing his binary after 0.92 seconds.

The old man is absolutely pointing out a very real problem. It is too easy with LLMs to create crap PR:s.

I learned Flask from Grinberg, god bless the man.

nope, it's an old man yelling get off my lawn. And as a fellow old person with an open source lawn, I 100% sympathize.

My lawn == I'm not wasting any of my dwindling old man time on bullshit people vomit out. You want to do that, you fork and leave me out.

But, to be fair, we subsidize all of corporate America, not just AI companies.

I meant in the context of a software project, for example.

Was there a point to this article?

I sure couldn't find it: to me it read like "I time tracked, now I don't" with no actual insight or conclusion into why either might be preferable.

"Was there a point to this article?"

To tell us that he cannot focus.

Does there have to be a point? I had some feelings I wanted to share with the world.

That's cool and all, but I think the real question they're asking is "Why is it on the front page of HN?".

I believe this was the point they’re making.

> Turns out, the friction I felt around picking one thing may have actually been beneficial. Perhaps it was actually helping me stay focused. Even if it cost just a bit of extra time before I sat down and worked.

They regretted it.

It's point is highlighting a common issue that is becoming widespread due to AI tool proliferation. I have the same exact issues. I used to love sinking into deep work mode but now that's gone.

Very short, and I couldn't find an actual point anywhere :(