Hacker News: breckenedge

New comment by breckenedge in "Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to make his dog a cancer vaccine"

breckenedge — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:04:16 +0000

Uses AI and two researchers. Give me a break…

New comment by breckenedge in "CEO Asks ChatGPT to Void $250M Contract, Ignores Lawyers, Loses Terribly"

breckenedge — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:11:21 +0000

Wait these guys made Natural Selection? Damn that was a hot mod.

New comment by breckenedge in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

breckenedge — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:59:57 +0000

This? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313750

New comment by breckenedge in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

breckenedge — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:58:12 +0000

Four years ago I was a reluctant maintainer of a Cloudflare workers setup. At the time, my thoughts were “Cloudflare is not my app, yet because of these workers, it’s performing business logic, which doesn’t feel right. I want Cloudflare to just be a dumb shield preventing DDOS attacks.”

Now that I’ve used it for a few years professionally, my opinions are much more nuanced and hard to put into words. Cloudflare’s products are mostly pretty good, and the cost savings are very attractive. You just have to be willing to work at their level.

New comment by breckenedge in "Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One"

breckenedge — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:08:25 +0000

I use Claude Code on a 900kloc Rails/JS monolith and it’s still pretty pleasant. However if it wasn’t already structured well, I could see that being a worse experience.

New comment by breckenedge in "Running WordPress under a Next.js app as /blog (without SEO penalties)"

breckenedge — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:24:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing. We do the same thing at BiggerPockets but via Cloudflare workers to do the proxying.

New comment by breckenedge in "I program on the subway"

breckenedge — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:36:08 +0000

Claude does this, at least on an iPhone. They added Code to the app about a month ago. I used it to get a Pebble Watch project started.

New comment by breckenedge in "Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern"

breckenedge — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:32:26 +0000

Sandi’s books and conference talks are excellent. My faves:

https://www.poodr.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjHfa5yxlU

New comment by breckenedge in "Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay"

breckenedge — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:12:45 +0000

There’s really nothing in the article that speaks to savings due to “AI” per se, and the timeline really doesn’t work out. I suspect this is just another executive wanting to jump on claiming “we’re AI now!”

New comment by breckenedge in "Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay"

breckenedge — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:06:53 +0000

> with average compensation – including employee-related taxes and pension contributions – rising by 60% over the past three year

> Average compensation for each employee has jumped from $126,000 (£96,000) in 2022 to $203,000 today, Klarna said.

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: What do you think of this Christmas movie idea involving AI?"

breckenedge — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:48:57 +0000

Why not have Veo make it?

New comment by breckenedge in "Help, My Boss Started Programming with LLMs"

breckenedge — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:27:06 +0000

Sounds like a great way for non-technical employees to begin not only wasting their time but engineers’ time too. I gave a clever PM read only access to our codebase and instructed him on using Claude to access it and do research, but he doesn’t have enough context to form correct questions for the LLM. Add in hallucination and it’s a recipe for a lot of time wasted.

New comment by breckenedge in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

breckenedge — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:23:51 +0000

Gotta call them “Weighted Undies”

New comment by breckenedge in "A Word on Omarchy"

breckenedge — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:40:35 +0000

It’s a feature!

New comment by breckenedge in "U.S. Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100k H-1B visa fee"

breckenedge — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:07:16 +0000

The actual press release with a link to the complaint.

https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/u-s-chamber-files-lawsui...

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: How do you assess developers' AI-assisted coding skills in interviews?"

breckenedge — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:53:46 +0000

They’re able to give an honest assessment of the ways that they’ve changed when using these tools. And how these tools changed their own day to day, and possibly their team’s.

We’re still in the early days of this.

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: How do you assess developers' AI-assisted coding skills in interviews?"

breckenedge — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:18:43 +0000

Do you want to hire a developer with 5+ years of LLM experience? Or 3+ years of Claude experience?

Hire learners, or hire people who teach people (evaluate new tools, write guides, conduct training, mentor, etc.).

New comment by breckenedge in "Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API"

breckenedge — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:53:26 +0000

The LLMs are a crapshoot, and probably always will be, for reliable automatic fixing of anything. They save me time 50% of the time. The other 50% they just can’t put enough together to grok what the existing code does, but damn if their code doesn’t look like it should work.

New comment by breckenedge in "Room-Temperature Superconductivity at High-Pressure Conditions"

breckenedge — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:41:43 +0000

271 to 298K

28 to 77F

-2 to 25C

250GPa

Are Cloudflare Workers kind of awful?

breckenedge — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:27:11 +0000

Been dealing with a legacy collection of CloudFlare workers and wondering why anyone would ever choose this technology.

One issue: URL wildcard patters are way too easy to fuck up. Workers won’t match URL parameters without a wildcard, but adding a wildcard will make it start matching unintended paths.

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