Hacker News: JambalayaJimbo

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

JambalayaJimbo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:53:31 +0000

I absolutely feel like there has been an explosion of software since the release of AI tools. This is a subjective assessment anyway…

My company for example has gotten 500% better at creating productivity tools.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:20:12 +0000

Claude Code allows subsidized access to Anthropic's models! The product quality doesn't really matter, which is an argument FOR vibe coding sure, but only in cases where software quality does not matter.

You cannot extrapolate from Claude Code that software quality does not matter in all cases.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:14:13 +0000

I guess they weren't expecting a leak of the source code? It's very handy to have as much as possible available in the codebase itself.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:04:08 +0000

You need both to be a great software engineer. The "means to an end" people will happily slop out PRs and let the "craft" people worry about it.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:47:25 +0000

How do you even converge on the right data model without refining code? Elegant code and elegant data model are the exact same thing!

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:34:05 +0000

The banking industry absolutely does care about privacy of their business data btw. We do use tools like Confluence but they're all hosted in our own data centers.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:42:03 +0000

Once you get used to using claude as an abstraction layer you start getting pretty reckless with it.

My organization has the concept of "premium models" where our limits reset every month. I hit my limit pretty quickly last month because I was burning tokens doing things that would have been a simple bash loop in the past - all because I was used to interfacing with Claude at the chat layer for all my automation needs and not thinking any more about it.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "The case for becoming a manager"

JambalayaJimbo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:22:10 +0000

> The best engineering managers I've worked with didn't "become" managers. They were already doing the work - unblocking people, aligning priorities, having hard conversations - and the title caught up.

I have only been working for around 6 years now and have had 4 managers so far. That said this is the opposite of my experience. You need training on actually having reports vs. just leading a team. My current manager does not care about my personal growth or career goals whatsoever and he’s a bad manager for it. But he is good at delivering projects.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

JambalayaJimbo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:42:07 +0000

But the company can deploy economies of scale to make their AI chatbots defeat yours? Company A can still hire someone in India to continually change their chat bot protocol or whatever to make it difficult for you chat bot to succeed in getting support.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:06:33 +0000

Network effects on iMessage mean people buy iPhones

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Welcome to FastMCP"

JambalayaJimbo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:55:05 +0000

The MCP implementation is itself an agent right? Is that not just pushing the problem somewhere else?

Also, I run programs on my machine with a different privilege level than myself all the time. Why can’t an agent do that?

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

JambalayaJimbo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:07:20 +0000

This is both really cool and also fucking insanity - the lengths we’ll go just to avoid building better train service.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

JambalayaJimbo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:21:13 +0000

The problem with your DC beltway example wouldn’t be automated enforcement then, but with the speed limit itself.

A road without pedestrians and intersections in it should have a speed limit that reflects the reality of its use (70-80)

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

JambalayaJimbo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:17:47 +0000

>cars have gotten safer

For their inhabitants, maybe not pedestrians though. Speeding laws are in part for protecting pedestrians

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

JambalayaJimbo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:22:29 +0000

While contributing back to ffmpeg is great, this is insanely hyperbolic lol. Do you genuinely think Instagram and Facebook are positive contributions to society?

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Can coding agents relicense open source through a "clean room" implementation?"

JambalayaJimbo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:36:51 +0000

Is everyone here just ignoring the fact that the 12 year maintainer of this project performed the re-write? Companies cannot do this with relative ease unless they hire these OSS maintainers

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

JambalayaJimbo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:04:04 +0000

How do you know it didn’t look at the source?

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

JambalayaJimbo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:41:35 +0000

I graduated in 2020 and I took a circuit design class and was taught Nagles algorithm. I guess I could have learned more but I thought the degree was packed enough with enough when you consider all the different parts of it, from the math to systems programming to ML stuff.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

JambalayaJimbo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:53:52 +0000

That’s the Spotify model.

New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

JambalayaJimbo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:34:31 +0000

Management is salivating because their jobs are hard to automate, so they stand to benefit from not having to pay employees as much.