Hacker News: Kiro

New comment by Kiro in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

Kiro — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:56:18 +0000

Sure you're not misreading Metal?

New comment by Kiro in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

Kiro — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:57:57 +0000

What does "factor" do in battles?

New comment by Kiro in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

Kiro — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:13:36 +0000

"It's not X, it's Y" is a good way to illustrate a point. Same goes for many other common LLM phrases. It's used because it's effective.

New comment by Kiro in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

Kiro — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:35:11 +0000

If that's true you're equally out of touch and live in an echo chamber.

New comment by Kiro in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

Kiro — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:31:30 +0000

I don't agree and in my experience the rot happens way faster in handcrafted codebases with constant requirement ratcheting. You resort to shortcuts and code duplication to avoid breaking existing things. This is just the reality when you work under stress in a growing company. AI is much better at keeping up without deteriorating it.

New comment by Kiro in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

Kiro — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:09:17 +0000

Funny how you spend your days spreading this nonsense, like if someone would deny reality just because you keep repeating it. Everyone knows that what you're saying isn't true, so you're wasting your time.

New comment by Kiro in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

Kiro — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:12:14 +0000

> their judgment is, on average, better

I can only presume you work with talented people somewhere that is not representative of most companies. You're definitely overestimating the average programmer's abilities.

New comment by Kiro in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

Kiro — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:02:21 +0000

And humans produce 100% reasonable code or what? The kind of mess me and everyone I've worked with produces by hand is the inverse of that. Constant shortcuts and lazy slop through and through. Never worked anywhere where the code wasn't an entangled disarray.

As soon as requirements change the abstractions fall apart and everything gets shoehorned.

New comment by Kiro in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Kiro — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:16:45 +0000

It's not a popular opinion but I agree. I live in a country that has a very extensive principle of public records, and often times these leaks disclose much less than you would get by simply calling the authorities and ask. Now, whether that's good or bad is a different story.

New comment by Kiro in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Kiro — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:19:08 +0000

How is Discord mind-numbing?

New comment by Kiro in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

Kiro — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:04:55 +0000

"I've posited for a while now" and you post the most lukewarm and outdated take like it's an enlightenment. I've been coding for 20 years and can very well do everything the AI does, and so can all devs I know. We use it because it amplifies us, not because we couldn't otherwise. You've chosen a very ridiculous hill to die on.

New comment by Kiro in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

Kiro — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:28:42 +0000

Which is still false and not serious. It's one of the dumbest rationalizations I've seen. AI has many flaws but pretending that it's useless because of that is not it.

New comment by Kiro in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

Kiro — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:25:56 +0000

My experience is the opposite: AI takes too many edge cases into account and guard against even the most unlikely thing. The upside is that it often handles edge cases that I either didn't think about or was too lazy to implement.

I can with full confidence say that the code AI writes is more robust and safe than if I would have done it myself. The code definitely becomes more bloated though.

New comment by Kiro in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

Kiro — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:12:04 +0000

Not the same thing. You literally want to interrupt me randomly on the street for entirely selfish reasons.

New comment by Kiro in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

Kiro — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:10:10 +0000

No, it's on you. You can stop before you even begin by simply not interrupt and bother people for no reason. You're creating a problem and then blame me for not stopping it.

New comment by Kiro in "It’s Toasted"

Kiro — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:59:40 +0000

Doesn't matter. Just as addictive and many of the same hazards apply. We are no better than people doom scrolling Facebook.

New comment by Kiro in "It’s Toasted"

Kiro — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:44:39 +0000

Easier said than done. You're still here, which is understandable since Hacker News is by far the most addictive one.

New comment by Kiro in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

Kiro — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:52:24 +0000

The amount of unfunny reddit snark in this thread is embarrassing.

New comment by Kiro in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

Kiro — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:53:56 +0000

I don't think it has the effect you think it has. No-one takes a rejection personally anymore since it's so easy to just tell an AI to fix the comments. So a rejection does not make them rethink like it would have back in the day.

New comment by Kiro in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

Kiro — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:47:35 +0000

Do they? I haven't experienced models deviating from a spec in a very long time. If anything I feel they are being too conservative and have started to ask to confirm too much.