Hacker News: benjaminwootton

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Google Workspace CLI"

benjaminwootton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:07:14 +0000

They need something like this as it's hard and flaky to automate Google apps with AI. However, step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud. If they had a one click installer to automate Google Apps it would be an absolute killer use case for AI for me.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "ClickHouse Agentic Data Stack"

benjaminwootton — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:11:40 +0000

A demo of using an LLM/agent to analyse data stored in ClickHouse. This stuff is getting really good!

ClickHouse Agentic Data Stack

benjaminwootton — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:11:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQOsCfjMTI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013299

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by benjaminwootton in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

benjaminwootton — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:37:01 +0000

I’ve been saying the same and the same about data more generally. I don’t want to go and look, I want to be told about what I need to know about.

What's the Point of Clawdbot?

benjaminwootton — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:24:07 +0000

I personally don't get it.

I can interact with ChatGPT and Claude directly using apps on my phone.

I can already upload pictures and files from my phone to both the above.

Before long those apps will be able to access other data sources on my phone directly such as email, Google Drive with better integration.

I never need to work with files stored on my Mac mini remotely when I'm out and about. Most of my stuff is in the cloud anyway.

We already have Cowork, computer use, addons for Chrome for trying to connect AI to a browser.

All of these options are quite janky and unreliable even with the most useful use case for AI - email management and calendar management.

I personally see zero value or real use cases in this outside of a fun hack but the influencers are going wild.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780322

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

benjaminwootton — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:39:38 +0000

I wish I knew the difference. I’ve ran or been close to tens of businesses over the last 20 years and we’ve always paid the Google tax, but I’m not sure it’s ever had a positive ROI.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

benjaminwootton — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:35:36 +0000

The AdWords platform is extremely complicated nowadays, and try as I might I can’t get any impressions from it. I then went through a period with an AdWords specialist from their team who also couldn’t get any impressions. It’s like they don’t want or need my money.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

benjaminwootton — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:15:42 +0000

It’s yet another way for investors to screw early employees whose face doesn’t fit.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument"

benjaminwootton — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:04:42 +0000

The bigger issue is that LLMs haven’t had much training on Q as there’s little publically available code. I recently had to try and hack some together and LLMs couldn’t string simple pieces of code together.

It’s a bizarre language.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

benjaminwootton — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:05:17 +0000

There is some truth in this. I fit into a few of these buckets and I don’t think I could ever recommend their enterprise stuff after having my favourite consumer products pulled.

Note to My Present Self

benjaminwootton — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://yewjin.substack.com/p/note-to-my-present-self

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471038

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by benjaminwootton in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says"

benjaminwootton — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:29:47 +0000

The public markets are hitting all time highs every week. It’s going to be painful if that pops.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Why many young adults turn on TV or movie subtitles, according to a new poll"

benjaminwootton — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:36:54 +0000

This has pretty much ruined TV for me. I watch with a remote control and constantly turn it up and down. It breaks the immersion.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

benjaminwootton — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:14:08 +0000

You are correct but with Venmo or PayPal there’s a middleman charging fees who can lock your funds. A decentralised PayPal is appealing.

Comparing Claude and Gemini for SQL Analytics

benjaminwootton — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminwootton.com/insights/clickhouse-gemini-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004628

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by benjaminwootton in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

benjaminwootton — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:18 +0000

Try Claude Code. You’ll literally be able to automate 90% of the coding part of your job.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

benjaminwootton — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 02:01:18 +0000

I think there is a third and distinct model which is AI that runs in the background autonomously amd over a long period and pushes things to you.

It can detect situations intelligently, do the filtering, summarisation of what’s happening and possibly a recommendation.

This feels a lot more natural to me, especially in a business context when you want to monitor for 100 situations about thousands of customers.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again"

benjaminwootton — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 03:21:34 +0000

Yeah, I spent some time researching this crowd and most of the ones I found have the playbook of selling to indie hackers and talking about how successful they are with fake MRR screenshots.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

benjaminwootton — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:36:59 +0000

I’ve always dwelled over $5 a month subscriptions for iPhone apps due to subscription fatigue. I find myself signing up for $200 AI subscriptions without a moments hesitation.

Using Gemini and Claude for SQL Analytics – A Bake Off

benjaminwootton — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminwootton.com/insights/clickhouse-gemini-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553260

Points: 2

# Comments: 0