Hacker News: bg24

New comment by bg24 in "OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs"

bg24 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:51:03 +0000

While Anthopic has the best model and a focussed (no disturbance, lawsuits) leadership, they got a lot of enterprise access due to AWS. It is mutual no doubt, with both sides benefitting. The culture of feedback loop of AWS customers would have helped them in getting to enterprise-ready faster. Just my hypothesis.

New comment by bg24 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

bg24 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:07:24 +0000

It is a net positive to have a technologist and hardware leader at the helm. In this era, Apple can hire the right people to build software faster. but they need a strong hardware leader at the helm to differentiate themselves. In local AI, they have a unique opportunity, but limited window of time.

New comment by bg24 in "Claude Code Routines"

bg24 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:26:52 +0000

Think another way, these product features are easy to build in other harnesses too. And as the open source models and the other models which are much lower cost are getting better, there will be a time when it will be justified to have a harness that can work with many models and optimize your cost and efficiency.

New comment by bg24 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

bg24 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:30:58 +0000

I read all 6 posts. OP is genuine and very talented. Unfortunate how foundational issues fall through the cracks in orgs.

New comment by bg24 in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

bg24 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:47:47 +0000

I think it depends on the company. In large companies, the role of PM probably won’t change that much. However, PMs who are technical and hands-on can bring significantly more value by leveraging AI tools.

There’s another path for PMs that the article and most of the comments don’t seem to mention.

Technical PMs are now in a great position to start their own companies. In the past, many were blocked or handicapped by the inability to code. With AI-assisted development, that barrier is much lower, which gives them a lot more leverage to build products themselves.

New comment by bg24 in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

bg24 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:10:15 +0000

Lot of skepticism about OpenAI's survival. I am a user of both Claude (max) and Codex (plus). Some neutral points.

- Anthropic owes to AWS for their enterprise growth. Yes, their own talent as well.

- AWS investing for a purpose - solving problems with multi-agent systems - "exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier, which enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents.". I think the multi-agent landscape will be production-ready in 2026 for solving really complex problems. AWS saw something in Codex and OpenAI's models.

- On Circular investments - if you make $100B of your revenue from ecosystem of players who spend $50B on your infra... where else would you go?

I work for another cloud provider, not AWS.

New comment by bg24 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

bg24 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:37:38 +0000

If Codex 6.0 is better than Opus 4.9, things will flip. While OpenAI has too many common enemies and trying to box them into a consumer company, they are equally enterprise focused. They need to absolutely do well with foundation model - everything else depends on that.

New comment by bg24 in "Claude Code Remote Control"

bg24 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:23:07 +0000

Same here. So I have to resort to speaking elsewhere (notes app) and copying/pasting.

New comment by bg24 in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

bg24 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:16:33 +0000

Would be nice to see an OCI runtime and if it can give high-performant I/O as opposed to other we have today (eg. Gvisor).

New comment by bg24 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

bg24 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:16:48 +0000

Need to try OpenCode. Thanks.

New comment by bg24 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

bg24 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:16:18 +0000

You are correct :-) I am turned off by the fact that I will hit the limit if I used more. But you gave me confidence. I guess $20 can go a long way. I think only once in the last 3 months I got rate limited in Codex.

New comment by bg24 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

bg24 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:17:16 +0000

I am on a max subscription for Claude, and hate the fact that OpenAI have not figured out that $20 => $200 is a big jump. Good luck to them. In terms of model, just last night, Codex 5.2 solved a problem for me which other models were going round and round. Almost same instructions. That said, I still plan to be on $100 Claude (overall value across many tasks, ability to create docs, co-work), and may bump up OpenAI subscription to the next tier should they decide to introduce one. Not going to $200 even with 5.3, unless my company pays for it.

New comment by bg24 in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

bg24 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:54:20 +0000

Yes. Also you can have these replicas of Postgres across regions.

New comment by bg24 in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

bg24 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:47:02 +0000

With a little bit of experience, I realized that it makes sense even for agent to run commands/scripts for deterministic tasks. For example, to find a particular app out of a list of N (can be 100) with a complex filtering crietria, best option is to run a shell command to get specific output.

Like this, you can divide a job to be done into blocks of reasoning and deterministic tasks. The later are scripts/commands. The whole package is called skills.

New comment by bg24 in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

bg24 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:24:56 +0000

There are one-off things, and then there is exponential improvements - both in guardrails, and ChatGPT's ability to handle these discussions.

This type of discussion might be very much possible in ChatGPT in 6-24 months.

New comment by bg24 in "Claude for Excel"

bg24 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:05:03 +0000

"I don't trust LLMs to do the kind of precise deterministic work" => I think LLM is not doing the precise arithmetic. It is the agent with lots of knowledge (skills) and tools. Precise deterministic work is done by tools (deterministic code). Skills brings domain knowledge and how to sequence a task. Agent executes it. LLM predicts the next token.

New comment by bg24 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

bg24 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:30:55 +0000

Maybe yes. If so, that is great. But then why do we not see any damage to those countries either due to misinformation or any other hacks. On a related note, Snowden incident shows the depth of our ability.

New comment by bg24 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

bg24 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:28:35 +0000

I find it difficult to comprehend if the billionaires do not know this. That if the Government slowly turns into an oligarchy with their help, the Government will eventually turns against them too. They cannot escape the punishment.

Humans (our leaders) have behavior that shows up when under stress or things do not go per their plan. Other countries are already noticing this about USA leaders and will not hesitate to exploit.

My prediction for the future, with a heavy heart.

- Feb/2026: China becomes #1 in technological progress. And America's relationship with former allies is irreversibly bad.

- 2027-29: Russia continues to pamper President Trump for another term. Their goal is to create anarchy in America. They succeed.

New comment by bg24 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

bg24 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:17:21 +0000

The amount of incompetence, incomprehensible ideology and red-tape slows everything down. NSA and CIA still look powerful because of huge amount of funds that flow in. Other countries happily hack into our infrastructure. You hardly hear NSA doing such accomplishments anymore (last was the Iranian nuclear hack). I doubt if America has any powerful spy network in places in Russia or China. But hey, I am just a dumb citizen.

New comment by bg24 in "So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?"

bg24 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:42:49 +0000

This is the point. Right tool for the job. Kubernetes was incubated at Google and designed for deployments at scale. Lot of teams are happily using it. But it is definitely not for startups or solo devs, unless you are an expert user already.