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New comment by big_man_ting in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

big_man_ting — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:23:39 +0000

Totally agree re note taking. We treat our notes way too lightly, just as an attic or a basement leads to hoarding more stuff than you'll ever need.

Most things do not need to end up in your notes, and LLMs add too much noise, one that you likely never personally verify/filter out at all.

JA Westenberg made a good video essay about it a few days ago:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3E00ZNdFbEk

New comment by big_man_ting in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

big_man_ting — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:04:14 +0000

that's for PCB design, it's not a 3D CAD tool

New comment by big_man_ting in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

big_man_ting — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:16:54 +0000

you don't see the products because not all AI-assisted dev products are AI wrappers. These products look like regular software, both internal company tools and external customer facing ones.

There are people all over the place building stuff that would've either never been built, or would've required a paid dev++.

I built a whole webshop with an internal CRM/admin panel to manage ~150 products. I built a middleware connecting our webshop to our legacy ERP system, smth that would be normally done by another software company.

I built a program with a UI that makes it super easy for us to generate ZPL code and print labels using 4 different label printers automatically with a simple interface, managed by an RPi.

I have built custom personal portfolio websites for friends with Gemini 3 in hours for free, smth that again would've cost money for dev or some crappy WP/Squarespace templates.

As the other user said, the progress/changes are not distributed evenly, and are impossible to quantify.

But to me whose main job is not programming (but who knows how to code) but running a nom-software business, the productivity gains are very obvious, as is the fact that because of LLMs I have robbed developers of potential work.

New comment by big_man_ting in "Odoo: Open-Source ERP"

big_man_ting — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:33:16 +0000

also i'm seeing a bunch of youtubers i follow doing ads for them.

New comment by big_man_ting in "All Delisted Steam Games"

big_man_ting — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:39:18 +0000

woah, sick track!

New comment by big_man_ting in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

big_man_ting — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:23:23 +0000

i'm in the same boat as you. i really wanted to like OpenCode but it doesn't seem to work properly for me. i keep going back to CC.

New comment by big_man_ting in "Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf"

big_man_ting — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:15:11 +0000

there is a detailed video on Disney Research's YT channel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-L8OFMTteOo

New comment by big_man_ting in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

big_man_ting — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:24:25 +0000

have you checked OpenRouter if they offer any providers who serve the model you need?

New comment by big_man_ting in "Google Antigravity"

big_man_ting — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:53:30 +0000

you'd hope so, the same way you'd hope that AI IDEs would not show these package/dependency folder contents when referencing files using @ - but i still get shown a bunch of shit that i would never need to reference by hand

New comment by big_man_ting in "Google Antigravity"

big_man_ting — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:19:04 +0000

perhaps you were feeding into its the context your whole node_modules folder? :/

New comment by big_man_ting in "Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times"

big_man_ting — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:22:44 +0000

I would love this so much.

New comment by big_man_ting in "Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights"

big_man_ting — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:13:07 +0000

Indeed, if you try to get them to refund you by yourself, they will keep saying that it was out of their control. But I've gotten several refunds over the past years by going through one of several companies who specialize in getting airlines to give refunds. Granted they take a % cut, but you still get most of it without lifting a finger.

New comment by big_man_ting in "A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel"

big_man_ting — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:44:52 +0000

This is a terrifying prospect indeed, especially being located in the Netherlands, plenty bikes are getting stolen left and right already.

But I guess this is inevitable, so we'll just have to devise better solutions than the simple locks which in their working principles have not changed in the past 100+ years.

Great market opportunity around the corner I suppose.

New comment by big_man_ting in "Is It Dry Yet?"

big_man_ting — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:42:23 +0000

How about you hang your clothes indoors when it's raining inside? I've been doing that for years in a rainy country in a tiny studio apartment. No issues.

New comment by big_man_ting in "GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding"

big_man_ting — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:29:20 +0000

API ftw. I just started playing around with big-AGI (https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI) UI and it's really incredible.

New comment by big_man_ting in "GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding"

big_man_ting — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:27:10 +0000

Claude is a bit more expensive though, no? I felt like I burned through 5$ worth of credit in one evening, but perhaps it was also because I was using the big-AGI UI and it was producing diagrams for me, often in quintuplicates for some reason. Still, I really like Claude and much more prefer it over others.

New comment by big_man_ting in "Show HN: Directories Where You Can Submit Your Product"

big_man_ting — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:03:39 +0000

Nice, thanks, didn't know this one!

New comment by big_man_ting in "Show HN: Directories Where You Can Submit Your Product"

big_man_ting — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:09:14 +0000

I was wondering what would be the best way to post on HN or another platform a kind of a blueprint for an idea?

I'm in the ideation/design phase of a nylon-based linear actuator project and would love to gather some feedback from people (semi)-related to any adjacent fields that could give some additional feedback on the theoretical/practical side of the product.

I guess it would fit "Ask HN" best, right?

New comment by big_man_ting in "TimeLapze: Open-source screen recorder"

big_man_ting — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 08:08:57 +0000

I think it's more that his comment did not contribute to the conversation in any way, as per HN guidelines. The idea is to keep the threads as clean of superfluous answers as possible.

New comment by big_man_ting in "Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing"

big_man_ting — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 07:02:24 +0000

Thanks for elaborating. I hope you're right, and after I'm finished with hypertrophy I'll try to tip the balance more in the direction of plant-based again. Cheers.