Hacker News: MattGaiser

New comment by MattGaiser in "New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows"

MattGaiser — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:19:23 +0000

A lot of them just plug into a wall outlet.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Your codebase doesn't care how it got written"

MattGaiser — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:01:19 +0000

This cohort has always existed though. Users of Notepad and Vim still exist.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage"

MattGaiser — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:44:34 +0000

I see the error is for the website, but that seems to be working?

New comment by MattGaiser in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

MattGaiser — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:02:09 +0000

A lot of that can be overcome by including the need to be able to put more floors on top as part of the spec. Whether it be humans or agents, people rarely specify that one explicitly but treat it as an assumed bit of knowledge.

It goes the other way quite often with people. How often do you see K8s for small projects?

New comment by MattGaiser in "Ask HN: What is the most annoying part of scheduling meetings?"

MattGaiser — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:54:15 +0000

I end up accepting as it’s far easier to just turn it on low volume and listen for my name.

New comment by MattGaiser in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

MattGaiser — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:12:47 +0000

In general, there’s very little info that costs much to learn nowadays. The human standing in the front is a disciplinarian to force you to learn it.

New comment by MattGaiser in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

MattGaiser — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:19:27 +0000

A lot has to do with the story. Nobody would likely listen to this as pure music.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Ask HN: What is the most annoying part of scheduling meetings?"

MattGaiser — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:19:33 +0000

No easy way to fight against them happening. Can I spend $40 on my productivity? Not easily. Can I spend $1000 on a meeting? Trivially.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs"

MattGaiser — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:35:14 +0000

Millions of people using Claude code couldn’t write hello world in the language they are using, if they even know what it is.

I am anecdotally aware of at least one project where the author can’t recall off the top of his head what the stack is.

New comment by MattGaiser in "The AI Productivity Lie"

MattGaiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:01:05 +0000

> If so, why is the pace of innovation and updates in their AI development products (Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity) so pedestrian?

Claude seems to be pumping out features fairly rapidly?

New comment by MattGaiser in "Is a Human Cheaper? Devs or AI Agents Decision Tool"

MattGaiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:57:31 +0000

AI is apparently cheaper for cleaning my feet and cutting my hair.

New comment by MattGaiser in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

MattGaiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:16:20 +0000

A lot of it is simply that they are far more open to the idea of curiousity as having value than most people.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Show HN: We scored 495 real SoC 2 audit reports – nearly all got a D or F"

MattGaiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:13:56 +0000

Aren't all of these Accorp/Delve reports?

New comment by MattGaiser in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

MattGaiser — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:01:34 +0000

That is probably the most notable example and in the end, those few still lost.

New comment by MattGaiser in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

MattGaiser — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:09:56 +0000

What has the tech industry ever resisted on moral or reputational grounds?

New comment by MattGaiser in "Is this the end for data analysts? AI agent, 500GB, 100 rounds, 134.9s, $1.66"

MattGaiser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:45:55 +0000

I do some AI training work. I haven’t seen data analytics tasks in over a year. That seems to be solved as far as the AI people are concerned.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Tell HN: I think my colleagues are just piping my replies into an LLM"

MattGaiser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:14:33 +0000

> They were hired on the expectation that they'd do their own work.

Is the company opposed to LLMs? As this is a very specific expectation in this day and age and companies seem to be going the opposite way.

New comment by MattGaiser in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

MattGaiser — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:17:52 +0000

And I would bet he judges your work with AI, assigns you work generated by AI, and perhaps evaluates whether you yourself use enough AI.

New comment by MattGaiser in "Stop Pushing AI Generated Code to Git"

MattGaiser — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:58:33 +0000

> You wouldn’t commit a binary.

If a binary was as expensive to generate as some AI projects, I suspect that we would. We do not commit a binary because a binary is cheap to produce locally.

Maybe we get to the point where a conversation can reasonably be used to reproduce software, but that is way too costly at the moment.

New comment by MattGaiser in "'Everyone now kind of sounds the same': How AI is changing college classes"

MattGaiser — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:44:31 +0000

> Students’ reliance on AI “ has paradoxically raised the floor of class discussion to a generally better level in courses with difficult concepts, but has also tended to preclude stranger, more eccentric and original thoughts,”

The challenge is that this is overwhelmingly the reason people go to college in the first place. They want to raise the economic floor of their lives and have greater certainty in the outcome. Precluding strange and eccentric outcomes is certainly acceptable or even desirable with respect to that goal.