Hacker News: JodieBenitez

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?"

JodieBenitez — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:40:05 +0000

I asked pretty much the same question in another thread and someone told me abstractions allowed for better use (less) of tokens.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

JodieBenitez — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:04:28 +0000

thanks, I just removed all the old stuff.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Atari Falcon"

JodieBenitez — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:03:40 +0000

I had to get the screen from internet archive, I gave my STE to a collector long ago :)

New comment by JodieBenitez in "There's little that's "inevitable" about AI"

JodieBenitez — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:00:43 +0000

I know some colleagues that refuse to use AI, even for security review. They're piling up security issues, commit after commit.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Atari Falcon"

JodieBenitez — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:00:49 +0000

A lot of musicians (outside the demo/tracker world) had atari 520/1040ste/f because it had midi sockets and cracked Cubase. This version precisely: https://ibb.co/bjFWjmD0

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Yes, and"

JodieBenitez — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:10:20 +0000

Reading code was always much harder than writing it and it's certainly the root of many NIH syndrome disasters. Writing helps, but you're right that these are two seperate and related skills.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser"

JodieBenitez — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:43:10 +0000

Makes me think about Make Noise MATHS: https://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/maths/

New comment by JodieBenitez in "A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over"

JodieBenitez — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:21:06 +0000

That's like being the amish of web workers. Good for you if you can, you may very well fit a useful niche. But most of the developers probably don't even want this.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

JodieBenitez — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:48:29 +0000

Damn... brings back memories...

New comment by JodieBenitez in "SvelteKit 3"

JodieBenitez — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:29:01 +0000

I get that, seeing what a model can do with a Django codebase. Out of the major frontend frameworks, Svelte(kit) is actually the only one I would consider now as it seems to produce smaller packages.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "SvelteKit 3"

JodieBenitez — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:01:55 +0000

Are frontend frameworks even relevant ? Granted, I'm no frontend engineer, but I have toy projects where I only have "vanilla" JS written and read by agents. Works a breeze, no dependency hell. It won't work everywhere but I'm pretty sure a fraction of existing apps don't need frameworks anymore.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Don't couple your Go code to GitHub"

JodieBenitez — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:35:39 +0000

go mod vendor... works for me. Also it makes sense for an ecosystem like Go with strong standard lib and strong backward compatibility commitment.

Also: https://proxy.golang.org/

New comment by JodieBenitez in "10 Tells of a Slop UI"

JodieBenitez — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:03:32 +0000

Another blog post for which I had a better reading experience using Firefox reader view. Thank you Firefox.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors"

JodieBenitez — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:17:55 +0000

And they did not stop at England: https://www.understandingitaly.com/normans-in-italy.html

New comment by JodieBenitez in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

JodieBenitez — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:24:09 +0000

Sure, but it had a catastrophic impact on the german opinion.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

JodieBenitez — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:53:23 +0000

Maybe... but let's not forget the 1986 event.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "AI Is Antithetical to Learning"

JodieBenitez — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:33:23 +0000

Ever heard of sudoku ? Crosswords ? Puzzles ?

New comment by JodieBenitez in "AI Is Antithetical to Learning"

JodieBenitez — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:24:33 +0000

Another day, another click-baity title about AI. Of course the article is more nuanced than its title, but still... I now learn much more than ever and it's all because of agents. There's something great for learning about a machine that can explain in various ways without getting tired of repeating and without ego.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"

JodieBenitez — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:02:58 +0000

Whatever is the default in Codex CLI.

New comment by JodieBenitez in "If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code"

JodieBenitez — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:39:14 +0000

Yeah... like we all get to start green field projects and write all the code we should understand. Many of us cut our teeth on bad legacy stuff with no proper documentation made by "engineers" long gone. At least a LLM can easily make sense of this mess.