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New comment by boredtofears in "OpenAI Agents API"

boredtofears — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:06:01 +0000

I'm very interested in this but I am confused on what Pi provides you if you are building the harness? What does Pi get you that writing from scratch doesn't?

Any good starting points or tutorials you recommend?

New comment by boredtofears in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

boredtofears — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:22:05 +0000

I never said I believed it was going to save us.

New comment by boredtofears in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

boredtofears — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:38:01 +0000

Yes they are, in the form of lobbying to remove subsidies and adding tax penalties to EV/solar purchases.

New comment by boredtofears in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

boredtofears — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:09:30 +0000

We’re so far past this, technology is 100% the only hope and always was. Getting stuck in the mentality that we can shame our way out of this for a decade was (and continues to be) a colossal waste of time.

New comment by boredtofears in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

boredtofears — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:35:41 +0000

Weird, I'm still using my M1 Pro and it feels just as fast as it always has. MacOS feels almost identical to me as it did 5 years ago, too, except the ugly icon change.

New comment by boredtofears in "Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth"

boredtofears — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:38:21 +0000

Disagree, I want to go to the party hosted by $10 rag guy

New comment by boredtofears in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

boredtofears — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:35:50 +0000

I'm curious how that works - are you actually hand writing specs with RFC level detail yourself completely or is it more of an LLM assisted effort? It seems like writing a comprehensive spec manually would almost be as much (if not more) work than the implementation.

New comment by boredtofears in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

boredtofears — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:32:17 +0000

I have tried prompting it out and providing strong guidelines in my AGENTS.md against it, but I still get _way_ too many useless "explain the code" style comments no matter how much I try. I usually have to do something like "Look at all commits in the past X days and remove (DO NOT TRIM) all comments that are not truly exceptional"

Normally when I can't get claude to follow a prompt I try a lint hook, but it's tough to lint something that subjective.

New comment by boredtofears in "Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration"

boredtofears — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:42:26 +0000

I find well described but concise acceptance criteria does a good job of anchoring the llm to the correct output. Also have them take screenshots of any UI work and respond to the ticket with them as proof.

New comment by boredtofears in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

boredtofears — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:13:08 +0000

I wonder if slight grammar incorrectness (like not capitalizing your sentences or using abbreviations) is going to start becoming a signal of authenticity for people subconsciously. Maybe it already has.

New comment by boredtofears in "The Website Specification"

boredtofears — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:15:32 +0000

That was the exception, the norm was definitely just a page that said, "Your browser does not support flash"

New comment by boredtofears in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

boredtofears — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:21:53 +0000

Artist radios almost inevitably become a mix of songs I’ve listened to the most that have even the faintest crossover with the artist genre. It’s very, very frustrating and my biggest peeve about Spotify. I now ask an LLM for an artist radio playlist and copy it over to spotify, which is kind of a pain.

New comment by boredtofears in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

boredtofears — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:02:37 +0000

The rest of the world, presumably

New comment by boredtofears in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

boredtofears — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:17:48 +0000

I find the "self loathing american on the internet" act to be about as performative as putting a pink ribbon on your social media avatar after a shooting. It's not introspective in any meaningful way.

New comment by boredtofears in "A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games"

boredtofears — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:56:27 +0000

I know there’s a ton of resources out there for this sort of thing but is there any particular sites/books that stood out to you while learning?

New comment by boredtofears in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

boredtofears — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:56:29 +0000

Only on HN will your customers not only tolerate your product once you’ve reached market saturation and started enshittifying it, they’ll write you a whole guide on how to do it!

New comment by boredtofears in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

boredtofears — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:49:14 +0000

Do LLM's not benefit from the abstractions higher level languages like Javascript/node offer?

Perhaps I'm speaking out of depth because I haven't done a lot of Golang, but I've always thought of it as a systems language first, which means by necessity you have you to handle lower level problems yourself. I'm sure there's plenty of libraries that paper over this - but the philosophy of the languages themselves is different. Javascript was designed to solve CRUD like interfaces/problems quite well.

Maybe this is just an outdated argument though that isn't really relevant with modern golang/rust though.

New comment by boredtofears in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

boredtofears — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:15:58 +0000

All of those things are smells imo, you should be very weary of any code output from a task that causes that much thrashing to occur. In most cases it’s better to rewind or reset and adapt your prompt to avoid the looping (which usually means a more narrowly defined scope)

New comment by boredtofears in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

boredtofears — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:02:57 +0000

Its a lot less odd when you remember that he's running an AI company himself.

New comment by boredtofears in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

boredtofears — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:19:54 +0000

Are you telling me that my home assistant enabled humidity sensors in my garden that trigger the arduino hose valve could just be replaced by a watering can??