Hacker News: basepurpose

New comment by basepurpose in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

basepurpose — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:08:57 +0000

if native became easier to tackle with coding agents, react native would have been even more easier to scale. this decision doesn't sit well with me.

New comment by basepurpose in "Ask HN: What difficulties have you encountered when obtaining AI information?"

basepurpose — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:00:55 +0000

tbh, i don't want to keep up now. if it's that special, it will reach me, i'll know about it. the extreme hype around gen ai over the past 3-4 years kind of overdid it for me, it made me tired. i did want to once be at the top, follow twitter threas, newsletters. now i want what works. claude code for work, claude web for general tasks, chatgpt periodically when i want it to do some research. that's it. periodically i get to know a about a new advancement, i give it a try, if it sticks, cool, if it doesn't cool. i keep moving ahead.

Show HN: EM DASH DESTROYER 4001

basepurpose — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:59:27 +0000

a fun, industrial-strength machine that burns em dashes (—) and replaces them with commas.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736422

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New comment by basepurpose in "OpenAI announcing agent builder toolkit"

basepurpose — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:07:08 +0000

so this is not n8n but conversational.

New comment by basepurpose in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

basepurpose — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:35:06 +0000

if the author knows what they're doing and understand the model of the code at least, i don't understand the reason mentioning that it was vibe coded. maybe declaring something is vibe coded removes part of the responsibility nowadays?

New comment by basepurpose in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

basepurpose — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:32:46 +0000

yes. not that expensive.

New comment by basepurpose in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

basepurpose — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:31:07 +0000

vibe coding in my understanding is losing/confusing the mental model of your codebase, you don't know what is what and what is where. i haven't found a term to define "competently coding with ai as the interface".

New comment by basepurpose in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

basepurpose — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:22:22 +0000

i don't understand why do competent people need to mention that they vibe coded something.