Hacker News: alunchbox

New comment by alunchbox in "Gemini 3.6 Flash"

alunchbox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:11:24 +0000

I've heard almost nothing about Gemini in my circles, are they still in the race to build AGI?

New comment by alunchbox in "How to read more books"

alunchbox — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:32:32 +0000

wait audiobooks is = reading? Do you find the retention of info as valid? I have a hard time focusing at least in my experience haven't tried audiobooks in a long time.

At least for me the effort of scanning, reading, and thinking about the authors perspective and the grind is where the knowledge sinks in for me.

New comment by alunchbox in "$85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable"

alunchbox — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:48:47 +0000

It depends I imagine. Core bankend bank system, database, transactions and such sure, but what about the web and mobile client? I'm down to get better customer experience if they can ship faster without breaking the bank.

What about fraud detection and prevention? I hope to think I'm not alone in that perspective that it's acceptable in those cases.

New comment by alunchbox in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

alunchbox — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:12:40 +0000

can't have both can we?

New comment by alunchbox in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

alunchbox — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:08:49 +0000

On the flip side, IS this a good thing for senior engineers?

New comment by alunchbox in "Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+"

alunchbox — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:27:29 +0000

wut

New comment by alunchbox in "Claude Design"

alunchbox — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:01:19 +0000

I don't really care about the web builder, a better slide deck creator I'm down for with MCP capabilities, pulling in things like Atlassian & Dyantrace metrics for slides would be nice including github issues etc.

New comment by alunchbox in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

alunchbox — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:52:48 +0000

if you loose an edit jj op log is incredible, I've saved a ton of work more-so now with AI's making mistakes. Also workspaces are super fast compared to git worktree's - same concept, different implementation.

I agree, that was a bit of an interesting approach but more-so than not it's been better in DX even though you have to 'unlearn' long term it's been a benefit IMO, but a soft one, not something you can measure easily.

New comment by alunchbox in "What is jj and why should I care?"

alunchbox — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:50:25 +0000

So glad to see this on HN, here to support it. JJ is amazing, the hardest hurdle was not the tool but the toolchain and ecosystem when I started ~ 2 years ago. It's grown rapidly and is incredible to see the community grow!

New comment by alunchbox in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

alunchbox — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:17:36 +0000

Preach brother

New comment by alunchbox in "I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

alunchbox — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:18:19 +0000

YES YES YES! Excalidraw is amazing, I recently embedded it into my vibe coded project to add version control integration with it. Honestly one of highest quality tools I've used for my workflow, does what it needs to do and doesn't get in your way.

New comment by alunchbox in "The future of version control"

alunchbox — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:39:20 +0000

Jujutsu honestly is the future IMO, it already does what you have outlined but solved in a different way with merges, it'll let you merge but outline you have conflicts that need to be resolved for instance.

It's been amazing watching it grow over the last few years.

New comment by alunchbox in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

alunchbox — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:39:55 +0000

Just use Jujutsu

New comment by alunchbox in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

alunchbox — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:04:28 +0000

why would they want this type of check? Like what could it possibly be doing for the end customer or features available?

New comment by alunchbox in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

alunchbox — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:21:53 +0000

This is the answer; Diamond hands baby

New comment by alunchbox in "Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer"

alunchbox — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:45:46 +0000

I get your points here; I've had a similar discussion with my VP of Engineering. His argument is that I'm not hired to write `if` statements, I'm hired to solve problems. AI can solve it faster that's what he cares about at the end of the day.

However I agree there's a different category here under the idea of 'craft'. I don't have a good way to express this. It's not that I'm writing these 'if' statements in a particular way, it's how the whole system is structured and I understand every single line and it's an expression of my clarity of the system in code.

I believe there a split between these two and both are focusing on different problems. Again I don't want to label, but if I *had to* I would say one side is business focused. Here's the thing though - your end customers don't give a fuck if it's built with AI or crafted by hand.

The other side is the craftsmanship, and I don't know how to express this to make sense.

I'm looking for a good way to express this - feeling? Reality? Practice?

IDK, but I do understand your side of it; However, I don't think many companies will give a shit.

If they can go to market in 2 weeks vs 2 month's you know what they'll choose.

New comment by alunchbox in "Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes?"

alunchbox — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:24:57 +0000

Whatever happened to that Microsoft project that would use a lazer to destroy the wings off female mosquitos?

New comment by alunchbox in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

alunchbox — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:42:30 +0000

Honestly the M$FT thing might be the greatest thing to happen to the Linux community, so much fresh blood and hopefully far more curious tinkers will continue to make the ecosystem better.

I believe 2026 will finally be the year of Linux desktop.

New comment by alunchbox in "Microsoft 365 costs are too much"

alunchbox — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:49:23 +0000

Legit is there any reasonable cost alternative solutions, because I'd use that in a heart beat.

That still have enterprise/business level support?

New comment by alunchbox in "Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)"

alunchbox — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:15:08 +0000

A book I read 'spark' by John J Ratey, discussed this in a few chapters. Cardio/Running at 70% maximum heart rate lead to brain plasticity and even allowing new synapses to make connections and grow. However, he did argue an exercise that also required concentration e.g dancing, basketball, skateboarding would have better results.

It's absolutely crazy, that we misunderstand how our brains are intended to work in the old world. Our brains are for movement, the ability to think, plan and utilize tools appears to have been a happy accident that allowed our ancestor an advantage in survival.

brains be braining.