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A Claude Code engineer floated killing plan mode on X and drew 3,122 replies and 1.6 million views. We ran plan mode in a scratch repo: it blocked a file write and let a sqlite DELETE straight through.
Armin Ronacher spent $1,200 and 35 hours on a GPT-6 Astra experiment that produced 75,000 lines of code he called worthless. A researcher measured AI code as twice as verbose as human code. Hacker News hit 746 points asking to limit AI news. The backlash has numbers now.
A claim that 89.6 percent of CDN-using European companies sit behind Cloudflare drew 242 points and 205 comments in a day. We fingerprinted 24 large European company sites ourselves and found Cloudflare on exactly one of them.
Terence Tao's 6 post thread on AI-generated proofs drew 126 favourites. The Hacker News thread that followed it ran to 94 comments, most of them about whether orchestral musicians have side gigs.