Hacker News: bensonperry

New comment by bensonperry in "Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools"

bensonperry — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:15:24 +0000

super interesting, i feel like this is an extension of the "complain" skills some folks (including myself) use

New comment by bensonperry in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

bensonperry — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:44:22 +0000

Is "R. Axiom" inspired by "A. Bettik" from Hyperion? I love the name :)

New comment by bensonperry in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

bensonperry — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:47:37 +0000

i mean this is the same thing as self-driving cars and all sorts of technology - humans are our benchmark, being better than a human and cheaper immediately unlocks massive value everywhere. if i can hire a human-level programmer for ~$100 USD per month, that is an incredible upgrade from that costing me ~$10k per month!

New comment by bensonperry in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

bensonperry — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:44:42 +0000

_built on_? not built on the games they developed or the platform they built?

New comment by bensonperry in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

bensonperry — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:30:01 +0000

i mean, other smart people have famously delayed cancer treatment without needing poor guidance from LLMs! that's not at all new or unique to LLM chatbots

New comment by bensonperry in "Stuff I Learned at Carta"

bensonperry — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:51:29 +0000

Completely agree. And I think a lot of roles frame this as "part of the job", something always unavoidable. But if I was an exec and my team was spending half their time trying to read between the lines of my poor communication, fixing that would be priority #1; what an enormous waste of time for people who I (ostensibly) hired for their other skills!

New comment by bensonperry in "NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker"

bensonperry — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:10:21 +0000

License plate concealers are illegal in NYS. Being able to read license plates is critical for identifying vehicles involved in crimes. I hope you are eventually caught and punished!

New comment by bensonperry in "Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out"

bensonperry — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:41:35 +0000

you've seen numerous self driving cars plow into people? i'd love to learn more, could you provide some links?

New comment by bensonperry in "NYC Subway Will Disable ‘Feature’ That Leaked Trip History"

bensonperry — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:28:50 +0000

this feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. is this a common attack vector? frustrating that we sacrifice so much usability to prevent niche problems like this.

New comment by bensonperry in "Debate over 'fake work' and 'lazy management' in tech industry"

bensonperry — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:49:12 +0000

agree, but agree with another reply that it doesn't even seem like technical competency is the skill used outside of potentially engineering. feels like optimizing for "managing up" (which is code for "making people above you happy" and doesn't necessarily correlate with delivering any type of value) is what these managers do. in other R&D roles (design, product) most managers i've met aren't actually gifted at executing in an IC context

New comment by bensonperry in "CircleCI raises $6m Series A"

bensonperry — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:24:23 +0000

We've been using CircleCI for a few weeks and it's been a great experience. The product is great and their customer service was awesome - they got back to me almost immediately to help me fix a bug on my end. Great stuff!

New comment by bensonperry in "Show HN: usefulscience.org – one sentence summaries of journal articles"

bensonperry — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:25:09 +0000

great design! how are the headlines/summaries written?

New comment by bensonperry in "Why I'm Returning Google Glass"

bensonperry — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:13:03 +0000

This was my experience when I tried Glass - despite knowing it wasn't AR, I still expected it to somehow enhance my experience. This isn't the case - it's merely replacing the screen in your pocket with a screen above-and-to-the-left-of-vision. I'm hoping the Glass team (or someone else) will take notice and create an AR device that can grant this experience that seems to be widely desired.