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New comment by billylo in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

billylo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:18:20 +0000

I spend time to add extra observability, cross-checking and alerting at runtime to offset the risk.

Show HN: Select text, right click to fact-check

billylo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:32:18 +0000

Article URL: https://evergreen-labs.org/products/credibility-analyzer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909545

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New comment by billylo in "Tell HN: Firebase service causing iOS crashes across many apps"

billylo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:03:05 +0000

I am seeing crashes too.

New comment by billylo in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

billylo — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:39:26 +0000

Thank you, mathematicians: for thinking deeply about this and sharing your thoughts!

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x"

billylo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:50:48 +0000

I am looking forward to your findings on home-field advantage. It's natural that Claude Code will work better with Anthropic models. If we know by how much, it will inform many of us.

New comment by billylo in "Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?"

billylo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:38:09 +0000

The shift of a craftsman from making products by hand to designing machines that make products is a transition from manual maker to system architect. It happened before.

New comment by billylo in "Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?"

billylo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:19:08 +0000

Different kinds of logic puzzles. They are also good stimulus to our brain and valuable skills.

New comment by billylo in "Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?"

billylo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:57 +0000

I use this primarily to exercise my brain. https://cs336.stanford.edu/

New comment by billylo in "Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?"

billylo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:45:16 +0000

I switched gear to learn how to train AI, design evals and explore neuroscience so we can further apply how our brains better in the new world. I enjoy coding, but it's time to adapt.

I came to this realization after I used Cursor to rewrite a 10-year old codebase (I knew every bit of the details.) and it was done in 2 days. Better, fewer technical debt and I was happy to archive the old repo.

New comment by billylo in "NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions"

billylo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:20:52 +0000

This pattern of using original source code and rewrite to improve them (and get rid of technical debt) is very real. I did one for an old app in Objective C, move it to Flutter and said goodbye to my old //TODOs. And get an Android build as a bonus. :-)

New comment by billylo in "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"

billylo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:19:57 +0000

I made my own to prioritize these 4 things:

1. Fact-checking built-in 2. Declutter the page 3. Lightweight 4. Ability to listen to the saved articles when I want to

https://hopper.evergreen-labs.org

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

billylo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:25:42 +0000

There are very few apps on app stores that don't need network these days. Feel free to check out the details on the settings page on the app.

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

billylo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:27:54 +0000

This is unusual. It does have libraries from MLKit for selfie segmentation. So, maybe missing access to Play Services.

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

billylo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:12:16 +0000

Somewhat related... I made an indie app called TwinCam which combines front-and-back camera images to create a combined selfie. Free. No strings attached. Cheers!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/twincam/id6448645623 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.evergreenl...

New comment by billylo in "Ask HN: How to enforce engineers to understand the code they are shipping"

billylo — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:55:00 +0000

Add them to the on-call schedule.

New comment by billylo in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

billylo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:12:58 +0000

I ran a comparison using this OPF with what I have in clarity.evergreen-labs.org (it's a Tauri app with local PII redaction.)

A few things jump out:

1) Dates are aggressively redacted, creating false positives. 2) Non-English names are not working yet.

New comment by billylo in "Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid"

billylo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:26:05 +0000

love this. thanks for sharing!

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.