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New comment by asdev in "Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design"

asdev — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:53:13 +0000

I think the issue with this type of product is it creates an N+1 source of truth for teams alongside their other tools. Inherently, this will get out of date as a project progresses. You could have an agent update based on changes, but that would likely degrade the design doc/artifact into unintelligible slop which wouldn't be useful in the future. This is a behavioral/structural problem of software design in general, which I don't think can be solved by software. Perhaps if this is mainly focused on collaboration at design time, but then that begs the question if teams will really want this tool versus using Notion, Linear, Google Docs.

Prediction: AI Will Collapse

asdev — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/wordgrammer/status/2095263188153401712

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552347

Points: 19

# Comments: 14

New comment by asdev in "Nobody Has Actually Built a Software Factory"

asdev — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:44:43 +0000

I think “software factory” just means automations where bots pick up tickets and spin up code changes. Maybe Stripe has that many well defined bugs but there’s no way it works if you’re building anything remotely complex. There’s just a lot of nuance that agents cannot pick up

Ask HN: What's the most thoughtful AI product you've seen?

asdev — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:03:33 +0000

What's the highest quality and best crafted AI product you've come across so far? Something with a great user experience, no jank or slop, that satisfies a purpose or goal seamlessly.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505429

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by asdev in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

asdev — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:04:28 +0000

show me an example and what do you mean by real money?

New comment by asdev in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

asdev — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:42:06 +0000

Depends what you mean by distribution, they are spending an arm and a leg on paid acquisition

New comment by asdev in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

asdev — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:52:23 +0000

This is just a bet that the models will get better and that all the half baked never seen production Lovable apps will be able to be brought life because of that. I am fading that bet personally and am bearish on non technical people building software

New comment by asdev in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

asdev — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:47:54 +0000

if you've tried to legitimately productionize LLMs to deliver a specific repeatable outcome, rather than human editable output(text, code), you know the models still aren't there yet and the whole product experience feels hacky

New comment by asdev in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

asdev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:55:43 +0000

Would Cursor tab assisted code be considered AI generated? I feel like that was the epitome of AI assisted but quality code

New comment by asdev in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

asdev — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:52:29 +0000

Everyone is building these same looking apps that look like Codex, Claude desktop. We don't need these. Slackbots work more than well enough to collaborate with agents.

New comment by asdev in "Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents"

asdev — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:05:00 +0000

Building from ground up using OpenAI Agents SDK. We already have custom in house Cloud Development Environment, so the effort is just to "agent-ize" though which is not small. That's why I feel any team with any sort of infra support likely won't buy your product, since they already have the tribal knowledge to set this up. Newer teams might. But overall porting people's dev envs into the cloud is a tarpit problem(IMO), I was interested in this space too but decided against it for that reason. Happy to be proven wrong though!

New comment by asdev in "Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents"

asdev — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:52:07 +0000

just a data point, at my company we are building this internally. if you're targeting people building from scratch it might work, but there's no way you can port any somewhat mature infra stack, nor will the org want to. you'll need to deal with the variable complexity of everyone's dev environment which already doesn't work locally for thousands of different reasons.

New comment by asdev in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

asdev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:42:41 +0000

No one is going to churn Slack for this just because it is "Agent First". Slack is more than good enough to tag Agents and will fill in the missing pieces slowly

New comment by asdev in "[dead]"

asdev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:13:13 +0000

This is an ad FYI

New comment by asdev in "Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website"

asdev — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:49:24 +0000

So basically web scraping as a service with an API on top?

New comment by asdev in "Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor"

asdev — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:13:01 +0000

They'll route traffic to Haiku or one of their cheaper models, not third parties. Overall cost will end up being cheaper than whatever you are doing

New comment by asdev in "Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor"

asdev — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:00:44 +0000

Large model companies will likely build this and make it better. It'll also be cheaper overall since they'll be subsidizing token cost if you use them directly vs third party router paying API costs

New comment by asdev in "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?"

asdev — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:48:51 +0000

Seems like over engineering just build an API in front of your agent, give the other agent the spec in a markdown file.

New comment by asdev in "SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses"

asdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:47:42 +0000

>Every important computing platform has been defined by what people built with it. The PC became meaningful because developers built software. The web became meaningful because developers built websites. Smartphones became meaningful because developers built apps. We believe augmented reality will be no different.

At a $2195 price point, it just won't be possible to have an ecosystem. All the other platforms mentioned were orders of magnitude cheaper. That being said, I do think AR has real utility, but the price discovery will take a while

New comment by asdev in "Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code"

asdev — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:31:53 +0000

Is this a bet that Computer Use models don't get better and cheaper?