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New comment by bubbamack in "Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list"

bubbamack — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:19:44 +0000

Nope.

I made that same mistake a long time ago. Fortunately after many years I slowly stopped getting texts and emails - probably cuz it was a just a small donation.

Unfortunately I still constantly bombarded by one of the parties - because a long time ago I was registered as one - even though I changed it to no party affiliation a years ago. Once you're on those types of list you are f'd.

New comment by bubbamack in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

bubbamack — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:08:39 +0000

Back in 2023 I wanted to create a corp dashboard - simple auth and rbac, charts, summaries, etc - and wanted it done with sveltekit. Me and the other dev planned on working over the weekend to have a simple prototype to demo on Monday and planned on a week or so to get the whole thing done.

I was shocked when it built a usable version in one shot and instead of having a prototype to demo, we basically had the whole thing done in a few hours.

New comment by bubbamack in "Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS"

bubbamack — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:24:54 +0000

A lot of developers focus on the build part because that's what they know best. Selling and marketing a new product is really hard and takes way more time than you think - unless you get lucky.

If you believe your SaaS can actually make money then you should continue but I would focus on outreach. Things like articles and online posts are fine to establish your credentials and make a potential customer comfortable paying but they aren't good for getting sales. I'm not sure I would spend time on SEO unless you already have a ton of experience with it - personally I think the combo of chatGPT and Google search getting worse made people use search engines less.

If I were you I would prioritize finding gig that pays and use your free time to market your SaaS.

New comment by bubbamack in "Build and deploy hosted sites from Codex with the Sites plugin"

bubbamack — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:28:35 +0000

It says its only open to business and enterprise accounts and I'm not sure I would trust this for anything meaningful for a business, especially since they are hosting the site.

Would folks here want to have dashboard or similar internal sites with internal data hosted on OpenAI?

Would you be comfortable with non-techs having the ability to spin up sites?

I see problems on the business side and it seems better as a consumer-focused Wix or Squarespace alternative for portfolios and those type of personal sites.

Ask HN: Do you give AI agent the specs and have it start building unattended?

bubbamack — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:03:00 +0000

I use Cursor and I usually put it in plan mode and feed it the specs so I can review the plan and make sure the implementation will be done the way I want it to or to make sure the plan "feels" right.

When I hear or see that people feed the specs, let agents handle things and then do some quick tests to make sure things work as expected, that sounds way too risky. I still have bad experiences where the agents made bad assumptions and included things I didn't need or ask for or had to stop the agent during implementation because it was going down a path that was needlessly complicated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364162

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New comment by bubbamack in "Ferrari bungled the design of its first EV"

bubbamack — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:06:34 +0000

"What if I made the apple magic mouse into a car?"

It would've been cool if it was a sporty version of a Toyota Prius but it is not cool as a Ferrari. It's hard to believe a "car person" designed that thing. I saw somewhere that Ferrari gave LoveFrom the initial design but who knows since I doubt anyone is going to take responsibility for something that is universally panned.

New comment by bubbamack in "Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?"

bubbamack — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:54:27 +0000

I think tech meetups still happen all the time and covid mainly caused them to occur in online and differently. Now you seem them on youtube, streaming, discord, etc. They're different from the pre-covid days but they still exist imo.

New comment by bubbamack in "Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?"

bubbamack — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:58:57 +0000

It really depends on what you are building. I remember asking a Jr Dev to put up a simple static website of just a few pages and they were getting lost in react. Being an OG dev, I had to show them how to get it done faster and in a more lightweight manner with plain HTML, javascript and CSS. It was a simple site but the dev didn't know better cuz everything was done in react at the code camp they went to.

Conversely, I had Claude build a webapp for internal purposes to help translate some content we were creating. It was done in HTML, JS and tailwind with no framework. After a while, I could see that the jank it kept adding would be a problem so I had Claude refactor it using sveltekit.

New comment by bubbamack in "Ask HN: Are recent tech layoffs affecting mostly Sr and Jr devs?"

bubbamack — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:47:26 +0000

I think companies are starting to realize that big AI companies were partially subsidizing the costs and that it is more expensive than they realized. They will probably start to monitor token usage.

I use AI for a lot of coding and it takes effort and experience to reduce some of the excess cruft it likes to add.

Ask HN: Are recent tech layoffs affecting mostly Sr and Jr devs?

bubbamack — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:57:09 +0000

I keep hearing, anecdotally, that tech layoffs due to "AI productivity gains" seemed to targer senior/older (ie expensive) devs and jr/recent-grad devs, and the rational is something like "we gotta cut costs and be lean but it's cool cuz AI makes us get more done with less." If it really is about cutting costs and getting more done with less then I would rather keep a mix of Sr and Jr devs - and trim between those levels and non-engineering product teams.

I wonder if Jr devs were let go to blunt lawsuits around age-discrimination?

What are people here seeing or hearing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287623

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New comment by bubbamack in "Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?"

bubbamack — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:03:40 +0000

Sounds like they have an established culture that works for them and you are feeling like you might not be a good fit. The Manager had a 1:1 with you to make sure you stay in your lane and it sounds like they just want someone who will do their assigned tickets. You'll need to decide if it's the role, environment and culture you want.