Hacker News: aaronrobinson

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:15:07 +0000

They look guilty in that picture

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

aaronrobinson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:28:00 +0000

The title makes it sound like they’re removing the remains of lost Lords gathering dust on the seats although that’s probably not too far from the truth.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

aaronrobinson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:26:34 +0000

You sound like an absolute nightmare to work for.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:09:40 +0000

Me too. I’m loving it.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:23:49 +0000

Why wouldn’t you ask AI to explain the architecture and code? It’s much better and efficient than any human.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Working on Pentagon Deal"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:34:19 +0000

I was thinking about cancelling my OpenAI subscription. This will do it.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "How will OpenAI compete?"

aaronrobinson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:28:03 +0000

Or using ads

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

aaronrobinson — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:36:14 +0000

We have no cure now but that may change and depend on early detection just as taking meds now can slow the onset. I don’t want to know makes no sense to me. You would plan your whole life differently and it would actually be quite liberating once you’d come to terms with it.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:35:17 +0000

5) US Gov uses a different law 6) Go to step 1

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:29:03 +0000

It’s not to feel important, it’s to make others feel they’re important. This is the definition of corporate.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more"

aaronrobinson — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:36:05 +0000

Rooibus. It’s not decaf, it just has no caffeine. I drink it all the time since giving up coffee.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

aaronrobinson — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:49:34 +0000

You need a mix of price, availability and trust. I just head for the nearest Sainsbury’s. They have. Reputation to protect, I can do my shopping at the same time and their prices are competitive. I just wouldn’t go to the cheapest place unless it was a hire car.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "He Leaked the Secrets of an Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive"

aaronrobinson — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:39:18 +0000

What a dude.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

aaronrobinson — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:57:10 +0000

I read that people just allow Claude Code free rein but after using it for a few months and seeing what it does I wonder how much of that is in front of users. CC is incredible as much as it is frustrating and a lot of what it churns out is utter rubbish.

I also keep seeing that writing more detailed specs is the answer and retorts from those saying we’re back to waterfall.

That isn’t true. I think more of the iteration has moved to the spec. Writing the code is so quick now so can make spec changes you wouldn’t dare before.

You also need gates like tests and you need very regular commits.

I’m gradually moving towards more detailed specs in the form of use cases and scenarios along with solid tests and a constantly tuned agent file + guidelines.

Through this I’m slowly moving back to letting Claude lose on implementation knowing I can do scan of the git diffs versus dealing with a thousand ask before edits and slowing things down.

When this works you start to see the magic.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

aaronrobinson — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:14:09 +0000

It can definitely feel like that right now but I think a big part of that is us learning to harness it. That’s why resources like this are so valuable. There’s always going to be pain at the start.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Sinclair C5"

aaronrobinson — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:57:54 +0000

What a strange response.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:04:11 +0000

You may have a point but you lost me citing Vance and Musk.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Sinclair C5"

aaronrobinson — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:52:52 +0000

This is the same guy that created the ZX81 (that I learned to code on) and the ZX Spectrum. He changed my life.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

aaronrobinson — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:26:04 +0000

This is a common misconception. I’m quite happy not being social and have absolutely no need to be needed.

I FIREd 3 years ago and don’t miss working one bit.

I think leaving work becomes more difficult for those who do need to feel valued and especially if they don’t have interests outside of it. There are many people like that.

New comment by aaronrobinson in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"

aaronrobinson — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:13:17 +0000

How do you decide what to immerse yourself in? Do you just search for things independently or do you have a way of selecting content based on your level?