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New comment by buster in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

buster — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:54:43 +0000

Is it fair when the one is heavily subsidized and the other one is not?

I think it's most fair to compare the plain token pricing that is used by everyone.

New comment by buster in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

buster — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:13:32 +0000

No it's probably the most important idea.

New comment by buster in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

buster — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:50:06 +0000

> Forget maintaining stability, AI is a downright destabilizer. It worsens understandability, fixability, debuggability, teachability, guaranteability, all the bloody bilities.

This is just an assumption and the whole article falls flat if this turns out to be wrong. In my limited (as everyone else's) experience, working with agentic AI needs good documentation, good specification (spec driven, you know it's all the hype nowadays). Those alone lead to much improvement. Now take into account that probably your senior dev also has more time to think about the big picture, to improve all those little things that were a nuisance in the past but now are a mere "Claude, fix that" in a worktree away.. I would not bet on the assumption of this article.

New comment by buster in "Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained"

buster — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:02 +0000

I am not questioning the benchmark. But the benchmark is NOT measuring a real world application in a real world setting. Anyway, I am merely wondering IF there is a company out there affected, at all. I understand that this was only measured on a graviton 4 setting with very heavy lifting, without huge tables.

For example, this issue aside, I'd rather split such a workload into multiple smaller instances, naturally. Because the impact of a crash on this single node, heavy load, many cores, many clients scenario would be huge.

New comment by buster in "Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained"

buster — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:11:55 +0000

I'd rather like to know if any real world usage broke, before coming to the conclusion that an edge case synthetic benchmark is worth changing the kernel (back or wherever) where supposedly the change that broke the benchmark had real world benefits.

Since we will never know it might be a good idea to feature gate the change, change the default and let users decide to change it back. This may give some feedback on the lkml or else to decide if the change is worthwhile?

Roo code shuts down, Team will focus on roomote agent

buster — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:21:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mattrubens/status/2046636598859559114

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851734

Points: 28

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New comment by buster in "Claude Code Routines"

buster — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:09:10 +0000

He said "enterprises" not "competent programmers".

New comment by buster in "Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager"

buster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:16:19 +0000

I'm using fman, which is like a lightweight graphical alternative to mc.

New comment by buster in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

buster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:24:17 +0000

I recently had to switch to macos for work and Jesus Christ is this not the pinnacle of engineering. Sure, I'm accustomed to my self configured Linux desktop but boy is Mac OS slow to use and hard to configure. And so keyboard unfriendly.

New comment by buster in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

buster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:20:07 +0000

You hopefully know thats not true. But it's a matter of quality goals. Need absolute robustness? Prioritize it and build it. Need speed and be first to market? Prioritize and build it. You can do both in an agile way. Many would argue that you won't be as fast in a non-agile way. There is no bullet point in the agile manifest saying to build unreliable software.

New comment by buster in "The Terminal I Wished Existed, So I Built It"

buster — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:50:35 +0000

May be I don't understand but I can see that I press a short cut and can connect via ssh, right?

Either you included your own ssh client (battery included and such) and you'll forever be chasing the features your customers are missing from their client or you just launch the standard ssh client (or psql or whatever) but then, what's the benefit as opposed to some shell configuration?

Genuinely asking, maybe I missed it from the first glance or maybe you could include that on the front page..

New comment by buster in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

buster — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:35:29 +0000

I don't understand all the hate about ente, to be honest. Ente seems to try to solve the big tech lock in with their apps. Personally, i'm a very happy Ente Photos user, so what's the problem with Ensu? It's available on desktops and mobile, it's an app trying to give all a little bit more privacy and freedom and yet most comments are just hating on it. If you can vibe code Ensu in a week end, please do. Make a better clone if you want to, but don't hate on someone for their work for stupid reasons.

New comment by buster in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

buster — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:50 +0000

What do you when you say defunct photos platform?

New comment by buster in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

buster — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:37:39 +0000

Keep in mind that kagi offers a wide range of models, not just one. I wouldn't want to have multiple subscriptions (for chatgpt, anthropic, gemini etc.)

New comment by buster in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

buster — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:35:08 +0000

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg1jg8xkmo

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/10/politics/us-will-take-gre...

New comment by buster in "Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve"

buster — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:21:55 +0000

As far as I know sqlite has such tests and probably others.

New comment by buster in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

buster — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:03:00 +0000

But that's not what is in the whole context. The whole context contains a lot of noise and false "thoughts". What the AI needs to do is to document the software project in an efficient manner without duplication. That's not what this tool is doing. I question the value in storing all the crap in git.

New comment by buster in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

buster — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:25:58 +0000

May be the point is, that the one engineer replaces 10 engineers by using the dark factory which by definition doesn't need humans.

New comment by buster in "Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?"

buster — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:04:55 +0000

Domain driven design?

New comment by buster in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

buster — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:13:54 +0000

That or the Kagi Browser... Waiting for a Linux release.