Hacker News: ManuelKiessling

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

ManuelKiessling — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:46:25 +0000

What if software shipped with a software engineer?

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shi...

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

ManuelKiessling — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:31:36 +0000

Just bought this one from a Japanese eBay dealer with many very good reviews, so fingers crossed no scam:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/147282358614

Yes, you will pay more than the original price. But once every 30 years or so I don’t give a fuck, I want this because the video showed a man working on it who cared.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

ManuelKiessling — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:32:02 +0000

You probably have other stuff on your mind right now, thus I can understand if you are not in the mood for answering, but I‘m too curious to not ask:

According to the Reuters article, AI use has increased 6x over only three months. How did that feel from the inside? I’m especially curious because Cloudflare is not a toy company, and this is not about some influencer trying to sell me their latest „this changes everything“ bullshit.

So, shifting a company significantly towards agentic AI, and I assume this isn’t simply about „install Claude Code on every desk“: would you say it actually works? Or would you say it’s still more of a bet, and still needs to prove itself as a sustainable long-term strategy?

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2"

ManuelKiessling — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:15:50 +0000

This is only a tangential question, but anyway: I‘ve read several years ago that since around Photoshop version 4, 99% of the work is about keeping the application UI usable with all these new features, and not about „hard“ technical challenges within the features themselves. Is that true?

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

ManuelKiessling — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:54:01 +0000

Reading only the parts of the post that are not about AI does not instill the sense that Mr Armstrong is the kind of person who would hesitate to say that people are let go because the company wants/needs to save money.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

ManuelKiessling — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:34:50 +0000

You‘ve got mail.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"

ManuelKiessling — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:45:22 +0000

Yeah but imagine yourself lying on the floor with your vision being your only sense, plus an info floating in your mind: „fyi, you are no longer upright“.

That’s all, you feel nothing else. Now your job is to move all parts of your body in just the right way.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"

ManuelKiessling — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:23:17 +0000

What was eye-opening, or rather, sobering for me was when I read an interview with an engineer who explained how incredible difficult it is for a robot to orient itself when it is lying on the floor and wants to stand up.

Yes, it can do the required motions just fine, that’s not the point. But think about yourself when you are lying on the floor: it’s really easy to determine if this is safe, if you are lying underneath something and so on. You just feel that.

A robot cannot do that; all they can do is look around as good as possible and visually determine their situation.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

ManuelKiessling — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:10:41 +0000

Would you mind sharing what you can and want about how the sausage is made? I would love to hear concrete cases where actual leverage is measurable. I‘m asking in good faith, not to attack your standpoint.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud"

ManuelKiessling — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:36:32 +0000

I‘ve built https://github.com/dx-tooling/productbuilding-orchestration for more or less the same use case as Broccoli, but in my case a) the „frontend“ is Slack, not a ticket system (but the agent people talk to in Slack manages the ticket system under the hood), and b) everytime there is a new commit on a PR, a preview system is bootstrapped or updated, and the codebase that is to be previewed explains how it wants to be deployed for preview.

This works really well.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

ManuelKiessling — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:46:24 +0000

(I‘m saying this as someone who uses AI for coding a lot and mostly love it) Yeah, but is that really the same? Compilers work deterministically — if it works once, it will work always. LLMs are a different story for now.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol"

ManuelKiessling — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:44:00 +0000

I think you are on to something here. But it would mean that sentiment could change on a whim: a serious blackout somewhere in Europe that makes continent-wide headlines, and EV demand might crash.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol"

ManuelKiessling — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:20:01 +0000

Global copper reserves are about 980 million tonnes, with 1.5 billion tonnes of identified resources and 2024 mine production of about 23 million tonnes.

A conventional car uses about 23 kg of copper and a battery-electric car about 83 kg, a difference of roughly 60 kg per vehicle.

With more than 17 million EVs sold in 2024, that implies about 1.4 million tonnes of copper embodied in those vehicles, or about 1.0 million tonnes more copper than comparable conventional cars would have used; applying the same assumptions to the current global passenger-car fleet implies roughly 120 million tonnes total or 87 million tonnes incremental copper for an all-BEV fleet.

Separately, the IEA says that under today’s policy settings and announced projects, copper faces an implied 30% mined-supply shortfall in 2035, while expanded recycling could reduce new mine needs for copper by about 35% by 2050.

USGS copper reserves / resources / mine production https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2025/mcs2025-copper.pdf

USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 landing page https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/mcs2025

IEA Global EV Outlook 2025 – trends in electric car markets https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in...

IEA Global EV Outlook 2025 – full report page https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025

IEA Global EV Outlook 2025 – PDF https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/7ea38b60-3033-42a6-...

IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 – overview for copper shortfall / recycling https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook...

IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 – executive summary https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook...

IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 – PDF https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ef5e9b70-3374-4caa-...

International Copper Association – copper intensity in electrification of transport https://internationalcopper.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2...

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol"

ManuelKiessling — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:01:01 +0000

I say this as someone who owns two EV cars, zero ICE cars, and loves everything about owning and driving EVs: it baffles me how quickly and noticeably consumers shift their preferences; I think I read something along the lines of „for the average German commuter, the petrol price spike means 6 euros plus per week in spending“ — and that is enough for so many people to go „okay screw it I’m switching to new technology for my planned purchase“?

I mean, great that it happens, but yeah, I‘m baffled.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

ManuelKiessling — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:56:54 +0000

These days, all dev tooling of my projects lives behind mise tasks, and the runtime for my projects is Docker.

This means that getting a project in shape for development on a new system looks like this:

- clone project

- `mise run setup`

I have zero dev tools on my host, projects are 100% self-contained.

Pure bliss.

See https://github.com/dx-tooling/sitebuilder-webapp for an example.

Product OS – Self-hostable agentic PM platform (open source)

ManuelKiessling — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:58:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/andreaswissel/product-os

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576820

Points: 2

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New comment by ManuelKiessling in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

ManuelKiessling — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:00:37 +0000

Nearly same story here. AMD and MSI will forever hold a special place in my heart.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide"

ManuelKiessling — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:06:29 +0000

Better yet, post about it on LinkedIn and explain what it taught you about marriage proposals!

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

ManuelKiessling — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:23:38 +0000

My current assumption is that the interfaces and workflows that stakeholders and product owners use today to manage software engineering resources are the future interfaces and workflows towards agentic engineering systems.

New comment by ManuelKiessling in "I don't use LLMs for programming"

ManuelKiessling — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:49:01 +0000

Well, I‘m still using my brain from morning to evening, but I‘m certainly using it differently.

This will without a doubt become a problem if the whole AI thing somehow collapses or becomes very expensive!

But it’s probably the correct adaptation if not.