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New comment by billylo in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

billylo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:02:01 +0000

Thank you. The learning aspect of reading how AI tackles something is rewarding.

It also reduces my hesitation to get started with something I don't know the answer well enough yet. Time 'wasted' on vibe-coding felt less painful than time 'wasted' on heads-down manual coding down a rabbit hole.

New comment by billylo in "Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?"

billylo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:11:10 +0000

I upgraded from M3 Air to M5 Pro 14". Not for LLM, but for faster build times. The disk access time is much faster on M5 Pro. My build time (iOS/Android) was reduced by more than 50%. So, that alone is worth the upgrade.

New comment by billylo in "Overview of AppFunctions – agentic interfaces for apps"

billylo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:25:38 +0000

This will foster multi-app collaboration.

Google devs: Please consider doing this on Firebase to make it work on iOS and web too.

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billylo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:50:18 +0000

Great idea. Addresses a real need. Best of luck with your launch!

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE"

billylo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:10:41 +0000

Thank you! This is brilliant. I have it bookmarked.

New comment by billylo in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

billylo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:33:23 +0000

Thank you for your service.

New comment by billylo in "The happiest I've ever been"

billylo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:11:32 +0000

I use my spare time helping kids at a FIRST robotics team. It's fun.

New comment by billylo in "Mobile-MCP: Letting LLMs autonomously discover Android app capabilities"

billylo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:39:26 +0000

The technical strategy is sound. However, I anticipate major mobile apps will add MCP capabilities to their app very soon too, making less use of intents going forward.

Hope this helps.

New comment by billylo in "The Future of Software Engineering Isn't What You Think"

billylo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:24:39 +0000

Thanks for a great write-up!

Production-quality software can now be made in weeks (instead of months and quarters.) I anticipate an exciting period of fast innovation in all industries, supported by lots of good product-engineers with different levels of experience. The areas I am the most excited about is healthcare (as we live longer) and sustainability. It will be fun to be a part of.

New comment by billylo in "AI Is a Lethal Threat This Year"

billylo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:31:49 +0000

It's real struggle. Nations will not likely put the brakes on because of its need for self defence. I ponder your question too.

Show HN: Collective-AI.org Multiple line-of-sights for high-stakes questions

billylo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:14:13 +0000

Article URL: https://collective-ai.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123350

Points: 1

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New comment by billylo in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

billylo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:56:47 +0000

Inception

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: Terminalcore – The Rhythm Game for PC"

billylo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:37:19 +0000

This is fun. Thank you!

New comment by billylo in "Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide"

billylo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:27:35 +0000

Time it takes to go from 100m users to 5 billions: Internet (25 years), Smartphone (13), AI? (tracking to achieve that in ~6 years!)

https://evergreen-labs.org/assets/Acceleration.jpg

New comment by billylo in "Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide"

billylo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:14:31 +0000

We learned computer languages so we can ask computers to do work for us. It was out of necessity because there are no other ways.

If we can instruct computers with natural language 50% of the time, that's 50% less translation work for our human brains. I have no problem with not needing to write instructions in computer languages (no regex, no sed/awk, no python even) for day-to-day stuff.

Critical thinking, reasoning are another story. We can't let those skills atropied.

New comment by billylo in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

billylo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:19:24 +0000

We should ask how the traders manage this. It's essentially 24/7 markets in the world. For them, the FOMO effects are even stronger... actual money earning opportunity.

New comment by billylo in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

billylo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:19:46 +0000

I wonder how best we can measure the usefulness of models going forward.

Thumbs up or down? (could be useful for trends) Usage growth from the same user over time? (as an approximation) Tone of user responses? (Don't do this... this is the wrong path... etc.)

New comment by billylo in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

billylo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:02:59 +0000

That's why benchmarks are useful. We all suffer from the shortcomings of human perception.

New comment by billylo in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

billylo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:15:45 +0000

xcode has been getting better bit-by-bit. No major regression.

New comment by billylo in "Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?"

billylo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:46:01 +0000

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/apis/phi-silica