<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: brandensilva</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brandensilva</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:15:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brandensilva" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Claude Code Routines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic is burning their good will faster than the tokens we use these days. It  is hard to be excited about these new features when the core product has been neutered into oblivion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:20:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773911</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Claude Code Routines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. I've been creating a local first open source piece of software that lets me spin up different agent harnesses with different runtimes. I call it Major Tom because I wanted to be set free from the imprisonment of Claude Code after their DMCA aggression for their own leak and actions leading to lock down from open source adoption.<p>Don't put all your eggs in one basket has be true for me and my business for ages.<p>I could really use the open source community to help make this a reality so I'll release this soon hopefully to positive reception from others who want a similar path forward.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:27:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773571</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's the thing though. Where do you draw the line from the hitman and the one who ordered it legally in their official capacity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734736</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been thinking about this a lot about what are the benefits of UI, GUI, TUIs in the wake of AI.<p>I've come to the thought that we built interfaces honed to the way we visualize and work. We simplified many things down to just clicks. A really good UI captures intent and use very well. It doesn't require constant written language input when one mouse click is enough. Also it appeals to the aesthetic experience too in some ways to enhance the brand.<p>Design might be subjective but that's a good thing to act as a differentiator for companies.<p>Too many people assume pretty or nice looking is what design is. It's a very empty statement that disguises how important design works to make our lives easy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:50:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646475</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "The CMS is dead, long live the CMS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup, even without multiple users I took an open source speed reading app and quickly found myself a month deep in features just to expose it to multiple integrations  for maximum accessibility. OAuth, MCP, CLI, API keys, secure and rate limited endpoints for content ingestion, parsing engine, a nice CI/CD pipeline that builds cross platform, a marketing site and it just kept going.<p>It was a test to see how much work was involved and what vibe coding felt like in one month. I plan on releasing it soon because I feel like it is the best speed reading app available but man it's a lot of work for even what seem like simple cases.<p>I'd be worried for anyone touching what I did if they did not have experience doing this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641306</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They found luck and success and continue to compound that. However it's easy to make so much money when you have that much already. Just promise the world or invest in companies that do and ride unicorns with private investments into the sunset. The risk they take now is very low.<p>I feel like they will never suffer the consequences of their actions in any negative way should they get it wrong.<p>Rarely do we see billionaires not become billionaires because they know how the game is played because they shaped the game so they only ever fail upwards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628889</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ccleaks.com seems to be "temporarily paused" from Vercel.<p>Here is another one that goes in depth as well: www.markdown.engineering for anyone going deep on learning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599236</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Slop is not necessarily the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even the prompt history is notoriously weak given how little Claude Code and some of the others display to give developers confidence in the process.<p>There needs to me more design rep indeed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:24:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595651</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On top of that, Palantir has been designated as a multi year contract and they use Anthropic under the hood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:58:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538276</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think people are having a hard time figuring out use cases so yeah the AI is the most exciting part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:09:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512316</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ultimately the conclusion will be humans are the bottleneck somewhere along the path and no amount of agents will replace that person because you don't run businesses on vibes and code.</p>
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<p>Propaganda state run networks are for dictatorships, not democracies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:20:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383263</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Vite 8.0 Is Out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Man the perf changes for this version are awesome. Thanks Vite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361134</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm finding it in some cases I'm dealing with even more code given how much code AI outputs. So yeah, for some tasks I find myself extremely fast but for others I find myself spending ungodly amounts of time reviewing the code I never wrote to make sure it doesn't destroy the project from unforseen convincing slop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:25:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326996</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even banks are backing out of AI data centers as the risk is too great. Tells you right away that they know the risk exceeds even their willingness to finance the wealthiest ambitions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:20:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305426</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We can go all the way back to the Patriot Act honestly. All admins have perpetuated this. Trump is just end game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:15:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203641</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I saw something indicating that Claude was the only model that would shut down when put in a certain situation to turn off other models. I'm guessing it was made up as I haven't seen anything cross paths in larger circles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:46:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175254</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm afraid that all the foxes are in the chicken coop at this point. Which is a nice way to say we're probably hosed until the people rise up and force change.<p>It does seem like Anthropic is at least the only big AI company that is pursuing some safety discussions around their technology like not using it for surveillance and war for killing people autonomously.<p>This administration is wielding a power that was meant to serve Americans in the past by forcing companies to conform to an agenda that is anti-democratic/freedom/constitutional.<p>I'm just not confident they will stand against this administration when the going gets tough but let's see what happens this Friday I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:37:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164672</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We might be witnessing some survivor bias here based on our own human conditioning. Successful PRs aren't going to make the news like the bad ones do.<p>With that said, we are all dealing with AI still convincingly writing code that doesn't work despite passing tests or introducing hard to find bugs. It will be some time until we iron that out fully for more reliable output I suspect.<p>Unfortunately we won't be able to stop humans thinking they are software engineers when they are not now that the abstraction language is the human language so guarding from spam will be more important than ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:48:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154967</link><dc:creator>brandensilva</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brandensilva in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I totally feel this. Prior I never had time for doing this but now I just do it without even thinking about contributing.</p>
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