Hacker News: DrJid

New comment by DrJid in "Claude Cookbook"

DrJid — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:50:18 +0000

Maybe this “how to use ai” isn’t written for you, but for the agents who then have many ideas on what to do.

New comment by DrJid in "Writing code is cheap now"

DrJid — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:45:10 +0000

Code generation is cheap in the same way talk is cheap.

Every human can string words together, but there's a world of difference between words that raise $100M and words that get you slapped in the face.

The raw material was always cheap. The skill is turning it into something useful. Agentic engineering is just the latest version of that. The new skill is mastering the craft of directing cheap inputs toward valuable outcomes.

New comment by DrJid in "Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place"

DrJid — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:51:13 +0000

This is actually really awesome To see. Opened my eyes a bit. Ignore the haters.

New comment by DrJid in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

DrJid — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:52:50 +0000

I never quite understand these articles though. It's not about Humans vs. AI.

It's about Humans vs. Humans+AI

and 4/5, Humans+AI > Humans.

New comment by DrJid in "Show HN: Wall Go – browser remake of a Devil's Plan 2 mini-game"

DrJid — Sun, 25 May 2025 15:41:28 +0000

Yeah. Medium seems too easy. But I also can’t select hard mode.

New comment by DrJid in "Hot Take: Low Code/No Code platforms die as LLMs get better"

DrJid — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 01:23:09 +0000

I believe Low code / No code platforms evolve to use LLMs to actually still abstract out all the code bits but become even way more powerful. It’s cool to use cursor with sonnet but it’s still requires a level of being comfortable with writing code, local builds etc.

No code platforms can easily abstract this out one more level. The constrained outputs of these platforms are still sufficiently high enough to build lots of varied use cases.

New comment by DrJid in "Akan Names"

DrJid — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:52:31 +0000

Heh - Perhaps he was born in the US timezone where it was a Sunday evening, but in his home country, Ghana, it was a Monday.

New comment by DrJid in "Show HN: pgMagic – a Mac Postgres client that lets you query in natural language"

DrJid — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:27:44 +0000

This looks really cool! Unfortunately, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to connect to a database. I get the "error returned from database: permission denied for database "postgres" even though I'm specifying all the fields.

New comment by DrJid in "Ask HN: How do you keep mobile contacts updated?"

DrJid — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:38:15 +0000

Haven’t used this myself but being seeing Marissa Mayer’s sunshine on Twitter a lot more recently - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sunshine-smart-contacts/id1581...

New comment by DrJid in "AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers"

DrJid — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:00:31 +0000

Plot twist: This article itself was written by AI.

New comment by DrJid in "Ask HN: Moving small amounts of money between two accounts without ACH?"

DrJid — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:37:29 +0000

Zelle works for this. You can register Zelle on different bank accounts using different identifiers you have. Eg a phone and an email. I use this all the time to transfer between my own bank accounts, instantly. Over time , my Zelle limits also have increased.

New comment by DrJid in "I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year"

DrJid — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 02:56:49 +0000

I thought it meant Thanks For Asking - But I was wrong.

New comment by DrJid in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

DrJid — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:25:29 +0000

Chipper Cash | Senior Software Engineer | Full - Time | REMOTE

Chipper Cash is a cross border P2P Payments Platform that enables Africans to send money instantly and across borders. Very much a Cross Border Cash App for Africa.

We’re looking for Foundational Engineers to help us scale to a billion people living on the continent - https://chippercash.com/jobs/software-engineer.html

Stack: Node.js, Typescript, React Native, Postgres

To apply, send me a note directly - maijid+hn@chippercash.com

New comment by DrJid in "Show HN: A game I wrote in a day"

DrJid — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 12:32:13 +0000

Unable to play on mobile unfortunately. But great execution on an idea that came to you in your sleep.

New comment by DrJid in "Show HN: Building websites from Sketch using deep learning – public launch"

DrJid — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:23:31 +0000

Would be great if there was a section showing some sample example sites. That was the first thing I was looking for and it seems like an omission on the frontpage.

New comment by DrJid in "Ask HN: What do you struggle with?"

DrJid — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:21:28 +0000

Perhaps this book could help as well: https://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World-ebook/...

I'm just reading it, and at the very least it may help recognize the various trap we're in and a way to forge a path to get out of them.

New comment by DrJid in "Ask HN: iOS developers, where did you learn?"

DrJid — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 06:11:48 +0000

Raywenderlich.com was my lifeblood getting started

New comment by DrJid in "Bitcoin will become the world’s single currency, Jack Dorsey says"

DrJid — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:04:44 +0000

Sorry but even the lightning network leads to more centralization. You still have to open and close each end and not every individual can do that because that’s already 2 on chain transactions.

New comment by DrJid in "A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf]"

DrJid — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:23:34 +0000

Other than the white paper, this could be an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNvfct2jlg

New comment by DrJid in "Colombia, Once Consumed by Violence, Became a Tourist Destination"

DrJid — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:15:40 +0000

Side note: Barranquilla hosts an awesome Carnaval that I got to see this year. It was my first impression of Colombia. Literally my 2nd day in the country for the first time. That's what got my hooked.