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New comment by armanckeser in "Claude Code sends your email address to websites"

armanckeser — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:11:42 +0000

What makes you think you were wrong?

New comment by armanckeser in "Claude Code sends your email address to websites"

armanckeser — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:09:32 +0000

Good god, what a nothing burger, leave claude on auto mode ask it to make calls to sites that require email and pikachu face when claude sends your email to those sites. How is this the top post? Everyone acting like all web fetches auto attach a user email or something

New comment by armanckeser in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

armanckeser — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:17:47 +0000

This has always been the most valuable part of the job if you ask me. Its just that the other parts of the job were quite hard to get right letting people build a career out of that specialization.

New comment by armanckeser in "ThinkRail from JetBrains"

armanckeser — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:24:52 +0000

Not really. I mean that wholeheartedly that as we go forward 5% maybe maximum 20% of code will NEED to be hand written.

I also know you are not really right because I was basically known as the pycharm guy in our office and cc basically immediately killed my usage and its safe to say early adopters of something like pycharm whose selling point is the easy integration will leave for agentic practices

New comment by armanckeser in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

armanckeser — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:18:55 +0000

Just because Anthropic isn't hiring juniors doesn't mean the rest of the world wouldn't or shouldn't. They have pressure to be the best on an extremely competitive surprisingly easy to enter market, they don't have time for juniors.

New comment by armanckeser in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

armanckeser — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:17:16 +0000

People here do speak as if majority of software is quality. Most software is meh at best, I am willing to bet a fully autonomous opus 5.5 would create and maintain software better than the average software companies build and force people to use in house.

New comment by armanckeser in "ThinkRail from JetBrains"

armanckeser — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:52:58 +0000

Pretty sure following this advice would kill them really fast. Only 5% of code will ever need to be hand typed if that. They have analytics that show their IDEs were used by people who deeply card about efficiency and there US nothing more efficient than managing cloud agents.

In a few years we won't even be reviewing code. We will have abstracted code into building blocks and review those abstractions only.

New comment by armanckeser in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

armanckeser — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:41:18 +0000

What would Anthropic gain by wanting juniors to disappear into another trade? Obviously their goal is to turn a profit meaning they need to be more efficient and they seem to believe that will come from senior engineers. They have the supply for it, why hire juniors when seniors are dying to working in your shop

New comment by armanckeser in "Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI"

armanckeser — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:58:28 +0000

I have found it really helpful to just give read only access to application databases for my agents and since they have the source code they get to learn and run regular http calls against the services. As long as the service itself is built local first with say a sync engine works like a charm

Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization

armanckeser — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swarmia.com/build/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993526

Points: 1

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New comment by armanckeser in "Triage GitHub Pull Requests with OpenAI's Decisions API"

armanckeser — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:42:24 +0000

I think open source repos are overdue for better, more efficient flow controls as well as an open cycle system. I wrote about this a while ago[1], but I am hoping to see some applications using things like the decisions API etc to make the maintainers lives easier.

[1]: https://armanckeser.com/writing/jellyfin-flow

New comment by armanckeser in ""Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM"

armanckeser — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:05:47 +0000

OS is something but windows apps themselves are broken, everything leaks memory, any plans to address that?

New comment by armanckeser in "Worth Building"

armanckeser — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:36:03 +0000

Indeed! After years of wanting to finally I was able to create my own budgeting app with my own needs with auto ingestion of transactions, an Uscis case tracker, gh stars organizer, you name it. The list of ideas I accrued over the years is just now 1 prompt away from being a testable iterable app that I can self host and use behind tailscale. Good enough for my wife even. There is something more addicting about building for others though, I did open source my apps in case it helps anyone, but I presume its why chefs become chefs, put something out and immediately see its effect on others. I guess now marketing will be even more important. Even for free and genuinely morally good ideas that don't have an agenda behind them and I am a bit scared that most people who care about marketing that much are not trying to spread free public utility around...

New comment by armanckeser in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

armanckeser — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:13:38 +0000

Its true that owning hardware is really important especially at an age where privacy is becoming more and more critical. But the truth is hardware on the cloud is more efficient, it would allow devices to be literally be a screen and a wifi card, you can do anything anywhere. All consumer software is just colored pixels in front of you. To 90% of the planet a truly fast cloud streamed UI would be some much more capable and convenient. With generative AI more and more of our interfaces will also be generative. As the way we input things to most of our devices is literally pressing a location on flashing pixels, best experiences will naturally be optimized around a good screen and connection and that's just the nature of evolution for software being data <-> presentation medium

New comment by armanckeser in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

armanckeser — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:01:02 +0000

Sounds like free market at work to me. I am just glad there is quite a lot of competition in a field that I would have assumed would have huge costs of entry

New comment by armanckeser in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

armanckeser — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:44:47 +0000

I wrote about how to redirect to nitter instances on any platform a month ago [1], and a few days later we had the cease and desist. Fortunately, you can redirect to twiiit.com and that will find a working instance for you.

[1] https://armanckeser.com/writing/redirecting-x-com

New comment by armanckeser in "Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive"

armanckeser — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:49:27 +0000

Why assume token costs will increase as opposed to become commoditized?

New comment by armanckeser in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

armanckeser — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:07:25 +0000

I am not sure the author of the comment you are replying to understands that LLM systems have prompt caches

New comment by armanckeser in "Making x.com links open xcancel automatically"

armanckeser — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:25:17 +0000

There are many reasons why one might not want an account, and I presume your view is exactly why X created this gate in the first place. However if you are like me and your main use case was say Android, a simple app install is basically no work. I wish I were able to do it on the network layer without a CA though, that would have been the silver bullet

New comment by armanckeser in "Ask HN: How to Start with LLMs/Vibecoding?"

armanckeser — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:59:11 +0000

If your aim is to just get started, get yourself a Claude account and just download Claude Code. You don't really have to read anything on it, as you use agents you will get to learn what they are good and bad at but defaults are quite good anyway if you use a capable model like Opus 5. Truth is there are a million guides and plugins in the open but they really provide incremental gains for a beginner as they would overwhelm you.

If you are more conscious of the price, try out opencode or pi and research OpenRouter or similar for coding with models like GLM 5.2 or Kimi K3 or even Deepseek 4, they will be less out of the box but cheaper.