Hacker News: BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BoggleFiendHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:50:22 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by BoggleFiend in "Welcome to Gas City"]]>I listened to his podcast on Pragmatic Engineer. I don't think he specifically addressed what it solved, but he talked about shifting the Overton window in regards to what's possible with AI agents. I'm not arguing that he actually accomplishes this -- just noting that his goal seems to be less "create something useful" and more so "create something that gets people's attention and maybe gets them to thinking about AI in a different way".

Cynically, he published a book on vibe coding recently, so he may just be grabbing attention as some effort to boost book sales.

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:20:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015725BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015725https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015725<![CDATA[New comment by BoggleFiend in "I’m joining OpenAI"]]>He was recently interviewed on Pragmatic Engineer, a podcast whose guests almost always have very impressive technical careers (the episode before him was Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, the VP of Data and Analytics at AWS and the episode after him is Brady Gooch, the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM)

I agree that summarizing Peter as a "vibe coder" is unfair and disingenuous. The podcast paints his career as being interesting because we went from an impressive software developer, to an entrepreneur, to taking a significant break, to kind of obsessively creating Clawdbot.

Worth a listen https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-of-cl...

]]>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:25:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036948BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036948<![CDATA[New comment by BoggleFiend in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"]]>Interesting that very few (any?) people in the pictures are wearing helmets. In the US, I think it's a lot more common for cyclers to wear helmets. Maybe that comes with a fear of getting clobbered by a car.

]]>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:56:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206239BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206239<![CDATA[New comment by BoggleFiend in "Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)"]]>One thing not mentioned in the article is the use of pesticide. Were the peels organic, or do the pesticides naturally degrade in a harmless way?

]]>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:13:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636661BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636661https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636661<![CDATA[New comment by BoggleFiend in "Show HN: Flowery – Vocabulary builder powered by LLM and spaced repetition"]]>Congrats on adding a project supposedly using an LLM to you resume, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful. "fox" and "beta" both led to a small shake, which as a user I would think indicates they are not words in the English language. "Flowery" returned a definition of: "full of, re­sem­bling, or smelling of flow­ers—e.g., a flow­ery meadow, flow­ery wall­pa­per"

This app appears to be a limited but somewhat artsy front-end for an (incomplete) dictionary

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:38:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730533BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730533https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730533<![CDATA[New comment by BoggleFiend in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"]]>https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts Wild how much money we (US taxpayers) give them.

]]>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:02:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924930BoggleFiendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924930