Hacker News: Benjaminsen

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5"

Benjaminsen — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:24:41 +0000

Really cool result, in your own assessment how much will you say you as a human provided the creative direction?

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Ask HN: What Should an Incumbent Do?"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:12:06 +0000

Double down on relationships and high quality costumer support. Nobody you want to work with is going to migrate away from your products if they know you well and you are awesome and responsive to work with.

When anyone can build anything it suddenly becomes important who does it. Build trust, build a history of success, build an industry specific brand.

Don't do stuff like squeezing margins by switching to subscriptions...

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Show HN: Just gave Claude Code the website and ad budget to see what it would do"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:59:58 +0000

Super interesting, I run similar experiments in terms of product exploration. For context I run a small one man innovation studio and have all my work happening in the same meta context with agents running in a custom orchestration harness.

Once a week on Friday I throw the following prompt. "Based on what you learned watching me build companies, come up with a unique idea for a startup and build it end to end including getting it live"

Seeing what it creates has been a great way to also help adjust alignment feedback to the overall system.

Here is the first 3 products it build to date:

1. https://whowasalive.com - because it would be good for SEO. (it was right) I gave the feedback that there was little commercialization opportunity.

2. https://everyhexcode.com/ - because it would be good for SEO in a valuable segment, developers and designers I gave the feedback that this was uninspired and built in a crowded space.

3. https://everymcpserver.com - because it would be good for SEO in a valuable segment and gives me an outlet to promote my own MCP servers. I gave the feedback that this is still too crowded a space.

Seeing it keep building generic sites in super crowded spaces I spend some time over this week fixing product and scope alignment. It's currently building today's startup. Will report back when it has figured it out.

Based on what you did here, i am totally going to add "Then build a marketing and self improvement plan you execute on weekly for a month" to that prompt!

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:45:34 +0000

Love the visual style!

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:39:57 +0000

Taking this to its ultimate final state, I think we will see a world where it's more important who created something than what was created.

This is already true in a corporate setting where a more favored employee will get more credit for the same work as a less favored employee. Or on TikTok where performing a dance will get more likes if the person dancing is pretty.

There will still be an advantage in being able to look at something and say "yes this is good", but everywhere humans are a judge of both the thing created and the person creating it is likely that the person part of the evaluation will be dominant.

So, assuming you work in a corporate setting and as a senior you're already good at the whole "yep this is good" part, spend as much time as you can on your people skills.

Anthropic and OpenAI can't steal your ability to interact with humans... yet?

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:07:47 +0000

While we can discuss if AI agents are tools or they should be anthropomorphized, I don't think the lack of credit applies only to AI agents. It's normal that the creative direction setter or even the person who pays for a project is the one to get credited.

Say I don't think Steve Jobs personally built the iPhone or Walt Disney built Disneyland. But that's still how we describe the human that was the core individual in making these things happen.

I would even argue that giving credits to the workers in movies or video games is the exception not the rule.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "SourceHut moves business operations from US to Europe"

Benjaminsen — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:42:03 +0000

South East Asia

New comment by Benjaminsen in "1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS"

Benjaminsen — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:47:43 +0000

You do it as a partnership where new employees buy into the company when they get hired.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:43:39 +0000

Compute costs on AI with the same roughly the same capabilities have been halving every ~7 months.

That makes something like this competitive in ~3 years

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

Benjaminsen — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:18:37 +0000

Zoom supports sharing only a part of the screen if you tab the advanced tab in the screen sharing dialogue.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:35:27 +0000

OpenAI whisper runs on iOS native on device, can't be just costs. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/407

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Automatically write AI prompts for problems with well defined inputs and outputs"

Benjaminsen — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:25:22 +0000

Very similar to prompt fine tuning but orders of magnitude cheaper and works with far less data.

Automatically write AI prompts for problems with well defined inputs and outputs

Benjaminsen — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:25:22 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminsen.substack.com/p/who-needs-prompt-engineers-anyway

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926616

Points: 2

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New comment by Benjaminsen in "Apple's macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position"

Benjaminsen — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:24:35 +0000

Margins can be turned off in settings.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

Benjaminsen — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:11:17 +0000

Pretty sure this will dynamically rewrite the code. No copy pasting needed. We have something very similar at FRVR.ai

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

Benjaminsen — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:10:15 +0000

Very close to the subsystems we build for FRVR.ai - Although their UX is way cooler than ours, we should get inspired.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking"

Benjaminsen — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:54:10 +0000

I’m preparing. Learning how to work with an AI is the only way to stay competitive. The AIs will become smarter much faster than I will.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)"

Benjaminsen — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:47:22 +0000

Even if that's the case, a sufficiently large hash table is indistinguishable from an intelligence by a lower intelligence.

New comment by Benjaminsen in "Memory and new controls for ChatGPT"

Benjaminsen — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:23:52 +0000

Really great article. Interestingly I have found that using the function call output significantly improves the coding quality.

However for now, I have not run re-tests for every new version. I guess I know what I will be doing today.

This is an area I have spend a lot of time working on, would love to compare notes.

The future of Programming will be AI first – Human readability is nice to have

Benjaminsen — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminsen.substack.com/p/the-future-of-programming-is-ai-first

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279145

Points: 2

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