Hacker News: broast

New comment by broast in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

broast — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:11:56 +0000

Don't they eventually become managers and tech leads anyway and outsource to their staff?

New comment by broast in "Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone"

broast — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:07:06 +0000

On the discussion of the right or wrong tool, I find it possible that the ability to reason towards a goal is more valuable in the long run than an intrinsic ability to achieve the same result. Or maybe a mix of both is the ideal.

New comment by broast in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

broast — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:57:43 +0000

It's essentially the same as an engineering lead writing a good jira ticket

New comment by broast in "The future of software development is software developers"

broast — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:10:15 +0000

Prompt engineering is just good transfer notes and ticket writing, which is something a majority of the devs I've worked with don't enjoy or excel at

New comment by broast in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

broast — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:01:49 +0000

But what about their two year head start? If everyone is executing at the speed of light, there will still be winners and losers

New comment by broast in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

broast — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:41:19 +0000

So cool, I think all kids would love this

New comment by broast in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

broast — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:19:36 +0000

Hey! Cool! I've been making this too: https://github.com/broast/aipageeditor

Looking forward to trying it and see how far it takes the vision. Tweaks looks capable of very cool and useful things :)

New comment by broast in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

broast — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:20:13 +0000

Good work. I've been thinking about this for awhile and also experimenting with letting the LLM do all the work, backend logic plus generating the front-end and handle all front-end events. With tool use and agentic loops, I don't see any reason this can't work where it meets the latency needs (which hopefully could be improved over time).

New comment by broast in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

broast — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:37:40 +0000

I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version

New comment by broast in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

broast — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:36:21 +0000

I've had a flip 3 and flip 5 which both had screen and hinge problems within a year. I love the form factor but just don't take it to the beach.

My flip 5 inner screen is currently unusable so I'm stuck using the small square cover screen which I'm enjoying quite a bit too. I don't know if my next phone should be a flip phone or a small phone, but nothing gets as small or as good hardware as the front cover of these flip phones, vs other small phones

New comment by broast in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

broast — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:34:48 +0000

It's the cover screen of my zflip 5 with the inner screen being broken. It's surprisingly usable and I find myself wishing more phones were purposefully built at this size and shape.

New comment by broast in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

broast — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:46:17 +0000

My mobile device is a square aspect ratio and thus there is no portrait mode to check this out :(

New comment by broast in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

broast — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:36:06 +0000

So basically what an engineering manager or product manager enjoys doing

New comment by broast in "We put a coding agent in a while loop"

broast — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:29:24 +0000

> it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.

These are my favorite types of code bases to work on. The source of truth is the code. You have to read it and debug it to figure it out, and reconcile the actual behaviors with the desired or expected behaviors through your own product oriented thinking

New comment by broast in "Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine"

broast — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:46:31 +0000

Uploaded my own sci-fi art and was amazed by the result

New comment by broast in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

broast — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:56:42 +0000

I definitely have

New comment by broast in "AI-induced dehumanization (2024)"

broast — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:34:52 +0000

I'm a bot

New comment by broast in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

broast — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:54:48 +0000

The only feature I need that would accelerate my workflow that text file editors don't currently have is a column with the last modified timestamp of that particular line, and maybe some color indication to show which lines were modified the most recently compared to others. And this would be based on change, not based on save or commit.

New comment by broast in "Read your code"

broast — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:23:03 +0000

Reading code is just as fun as writing it, to be honest

New comment by broast in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

broast — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:12:58 +0000

It's taken Cisco 25 years to recover