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New comment by autoconfig in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

autoconfig — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:33:52 +0000

This line of reasoning will shut down practically any interesting conversation that has to do with wanting to change the system. Extremely unproductive.

New comment by autoconfig in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

autoconfig — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:42:40 +0000

The charitable interpretation here is obviously that the LoCs are equivalent in quality, in which case it is a very useful metric in the context that was presented. The inability to infer that should be embarrassing.

New comment by autoconfig in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

autoconfig — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:40:14 +0000

My initial experience with Opus 4.7 has been pretty bad and I'm sticking to Codex. But these results are meaningless without comparing outcome. Wether the extra token burn is bad or not depends on whether it improves some quality / task completion metric. Am I missing something?

New comment by autoconfig in "The only moat left is money?"

autoconfig — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:51:41 +0000

> When creation was hard, skill was the differentiator: you had to actually be good to make something worth showing. Now the barrier is near zero, so you need reach. Reach costs money or it costs years. Probably both.

Creation has progressively been getting easier since the invention of the computer, it is not a new phenomena. This naturally pushes the boundary on what needs to be delivered in order to find paying customers. In other words, creation still is "hard" if you want to succeed.

> I launched something last week. 14 people signed up — no ads, just a couple of posts. 14 real people who didn't have to. That number is tiny and it felt like something. Then I sat down to think about what it would take to grow it and I couldn't look at that math for very long.

This applies to 90+% of founders that have ever launched something. The hard part comes from continuing to push forward when you experience this (which you will over and over). It sounds like the author expects that what was hard suddenly should be easy.

New comment by autoconfig in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

autoconfig — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:30:58 +0000

"It never gets easier, you just go faster" - Greg LeMond

New comment by autoconfig in "The Codex App"

autoconfig — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:38:04 +0000

> This requires calling native APIs (e.g., Win32), which is not feasible from Electron.

That is not correct. One of the major selling points of Electron is precisely that you can call native APIs.

New comment by autoconfig in "Series C and scale"

autoconfig — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:43:00 +0000

This thesis has existed since Cursor first started, and the gap between them and VSCode has only widened since then. It’s worth spending some time thinking about why that may be before having such strong conviction about their demise.

Give your coding agent browser superpowers with Chrome DevTools Protocol and MCP

autoconfig — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://autoconfig.io/devtools-mcp-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174070

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New comment by autoconfig in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

autoconfig — Wed, 28 May 2025 22:36:06 +0000

Haven't touched Tauri because of the cross platform issues. The major appeal with Electron to me is the exact control over the browser. I'm curious about Rust integration though. I'm guessing they're doing something that provides better DX over something like https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs?

New comment by autoconfig in "LiveStore: State management based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine"

autoconfig — Wed, 28 May 2025 03:39:24 +0000

It’s beyond shameful that chrome on android doesn’t support shared workers yet. We decided to simply nix multi tab support on android because of it.

New comment by autoconfig in "Introducing deep research"

autoconfig — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:01:49 +0000

Either you care about being correct or you don't. If you don't care then it doesn't matter whether you made it up or the AI did. If you care then you'll fact check before publishing. I don't see why this changes.

New comment by autoconfig in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

autoconfig — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:09:44 +0000

I think the incorrect premise here was that engineers always know what a good product is. :) And I say that as an engineer myself. It's fully possible that the whole team was aligned on a product idea that was bad, it happens all the time. From my experience though, if there's any company where engineers don't just mindlessly follow the PMs and have a lot of agency to set direction, it's Meta. Might differ between orgs but generally that was my experience.

New comment by autoconfig in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

autoconfig — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 20:35:31 +0000

That is not at all how things work at Meta. The impact of the things you deliver as an engineer has a direct effect on your performance review. For better or for worse, that also means that engineers have a ton of leverage on deciding what to work on. It's highly unlikely that the engineers working on this were laughing at it while doing so.

Don't assume that you can simply pattern match because you've been at another big company. I've been at three, meta being one of them. And they have all operated very differently.

New comment by autoconfig in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

autoconfig — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:17:46 +0000

Aider operates on your file tree / repo and edits and creates files in place. So it at least lessens the copy / paste drastically. This is a very different experience than using chatgpt or Claude on web. Still not ideal UX compared to having it in the IDE though to be clear.

New comment by autoconfig in "TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'"

autoconfig — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:08:01 +0000

Where did I say that it's AGI? I was addressing the parent's comment:

> "Reminds me of autonomous vehicles a couple of years back".

I don't think any reasonable interpretation of "autonomous vehicle" includes the ability to change a tyre. My point is that sometimes hype becomes reality. It might just take a little longer than expected.

New comment by autoconfig in "TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'"

autoconfig — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:54:03 +0000

When you do something that is extraordinarily hard, sometimes it takes longer than you expect. But now we're here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/20/waymo-is-now-giving-100000...

New comment by autoconfig in "Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary transformers"

autoconfig — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:53:35 +0000

What's your point? Is it that one shouldn't attempt to enter a market just because it's difficult? Or are you trying to educate the founders about something obvious that they likely have already spent 1000x more time thinking about than you?

New comment by autoconfig in "Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism"

autoconfig — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:02:14 +0000

Extremely unlikely. Caffeine is one of the most studied substances on earth. It's not a secret that it causes a clear physiological response. There are tons of double blind placebo studies on this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480845/

New comment by autoconfig in "Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism"

autoconfig — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:54:14 +0000

It definitely is a stimulant:

> Caffeine is a stimulant, which means it increases activity in your brain and nervous system. It also increases the circulation of chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline in the body.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/caf...

I'm pretty caffeine sensitive and I get a crazy buzz from just one cup of coffee. It's not just not feeling tired, I literally get high.

New comment by autoconfig in "Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor"

autoconfig — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:27:25 +0000

Hi Alan. Our target audience is people that write long form content. In order for the product to provide a great user experience for that audience we feel that we need to build an opinionated editor and integrate AI in an opinionated way into that editor. It’s hard for me to see how that is a product inside GitHub or Atlassian.

Notion (and others) is undeniably an incumbent that as you say can’t be hand waved away. With that said we are already getting feedback from paying customers that feel we’re better at some things, including a snappier editing experience and a more natural way to interact with the AI portion. I also think our chat integrates in a way that sets us apart.

If you really think you are in the target audience I would encourage you to give it a chance. We’re very open to feedback and if there’s anything specific that you think other products are doing better, we want to address it.