Hacker News: MisterBiggs

New comment by MisterBiggs in "You're probably using Agent Skills wrong"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:24:10 +0000

Yup! I feel pretty strongly that every little nit pick and instruction you pass into your model is murdering your output. Having a hook that executes on tool calls is significantly better than telling your agent to follow your repos specific format/lint/style/test constraints

New comment by MisterBiggs in "You're probably using Agent Skills wrong"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:16:35 +0000

Skills for repitition are totally valid. Having a version control skill that explains that I use gitea works great. My point is that asking for a skill that tells us if our program will get stuck before taking on a halting problem won't get you any further than just starting the task with xhigh thinking

New comment by MisterBiggs in "You're probably using Agent Skills wrong"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:09:35 +0000

This is a pretty neat, I suspect that eventually every skill will have some sort of validation/verification loop like this

You're probably using Agent Skills wrong

MisterBiggs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:02:16 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.ansonbiggs.com/youre-probably-using-agent-skills-wrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624327

Points: 74

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

MisterBiggs — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:09:32 +0000

What happens once an agent can reliably get 100% on swebench?

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Agentic Software Engineering Book"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:21:35 +0000

For writing with an LLM you really have to be precise and honest with your AI usage and I don't think the disclosure here does a good job at that. If you sample a few random pages there are huge shifts in style and tone.

The future where your AI expands your sentence into a few paragraphs that my AI distills down into a sentence sucks just send me your rough draft

New comment by MisterBiggs in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

MisterBiggs — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:09:12 +0000

It has nothing to do with running models locally, its perfect because its incredibly cheap, capable, small, and quiet.

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:03:00 +0000

I was really hoping for a new form factor or new killer features. Its too bad that the general public can't behave themselves with simple tech like this

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

MisterBiggs — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:57:44 +0000

I feel like I made a mistake going with subdomains for each project instead of root folders, but here is my landing page https://ansonbiggs.com/

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:08:51 +0000

Cool to see that Anthropic and OpenAI are really diverging in their target customer. Anthropic seems much more focused on making tools for pros while OpenAI is aiming at consumers.

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:13:07 +0000

Shield AI | Autonomy Applications Manager | Full Time | ONSITE Washington DC

Shield AI's mission is to protect service members and civilians by creating intelligent systems.

My team needs a manager, its a very well positioned team at a rapidly growing company working with some really awesome people. Any autonomy or robotics experience is a huge plus https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/7952271c-8578-42d8-a587-4707c...

Contact info on my profile if you have any questions I'm happy to chat!

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:21:50 +0000

Shield AI | Autonomy Applications Manager | Full Time | ONSITE Washington DC

Shield AI's mission is to protect service members and civilians by creating intelligent systems.

Contact info on my profile if you have any questions I'm happy to chat!

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"

MisterBiggs — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:53:34 +0000

Shield AI | Autonomy Applications Manager | Full Time | ONSITE Washington DC

Shield AI's mission is to protect service members and civilians by creating intelligent systems.

Contact info on my profile if you have any questions I'm happy to chat!

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ollama Web Search"

MisterBiggs — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:05:50 +0000

I was hoping for more details about their implementation, I saw ollama as the open source // platform agnostic tool but I worry their recent posturing is going against that

New comment by MisterBiggs in "ChatGPT Pulse"

MisterBiggs — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:02:51 +0000

Great way to sell some of those empty GPU cycles to consumers

New comment by MisterBiggs in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

MisterBiggs — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:24:30 +0000

I was laid off this year and also saw a massive uptick in offers in July. Based in Colorado, but was looking nation wide and I got more interest out of SF than the rest of the country combined.

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:19:19 +0000

I think more worrying is devices mesh networking with devices owned by your neighbors.

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Android 16 Is Here"

MisterBiggs — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:01:24 +0000

Same experience. I hopped on the beta because I thought the current version was going to be really bad and I wanted to watch them move towards something more functional. Its definitely not perfect but the way that the UI reacts in real time to holding the phone and elements moving makes it work really well and isn't something you can capture in a screenshot or video.

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

MisterBiggs — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:29:04 +0000

  Location: Denver, CO
  Remote: Open
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, C++, Matlab, Rust
  Résumé/CV: https://ansonbiggs.com/resume
  Email: anson@ansonbiggs.com

I'm Anson, an Aerospace Simulation Software Engineer with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and 3 years of professional experience writing software for human-rated spacecraft. My experience ranges from doing data science on orbital debris to enable advanced characterization using Rust and Julia to developing high-fidelity models for GNC algorithm validation of rockets in C++ to creating highly extensible simulation orchestrators using Docker and Python. Open to working on hard problems in any industry.

New comment by MisterBiggs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)"

MisterBiggs — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:33:50 +0000

  Location: Denver, CO
  Remote: Hybrid Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Looking to relocate to another large city
  Technologies: Python, C++, Matlab, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker
  Résumé/CV: https://ansonbiggs.com/resume
  Email: anson@ansonbiggs.com

I am an Aerospace Simulation Software Engineer with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with 3 years of professional aerospace experience building simulation software for spacecraft, and 15 years of personal software experience. Space is definitely my passion, but I'm open to solving any problems that make the world a better place, specifically aerospace/physics/math heavy work.