Hacker News: campbel

New comment by campbel in "Microsoft Agent Framework"

campbel — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:11:57 +0000

Anything beyond this is usually a play to trap you into an ecosystem. No reason to adopt any of these frameworks, especially if you already have a mature workflow system.

New comment by campbel in "Why top firms fire good workers"

campbel — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:54:39 +0000

This is why an org should have skip-levels. You can't put anyone on an island with that kind of unchecked authority and expect good results.

New comment by campbel in "Project Euler"

campbel — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:54:10 +0000

Back in early 2000s, before hackerrank and similar coding sites, this is what my professors recommended for training programming skills.

New comment by campbel in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

campbel — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:52:48 +0000

Given that this space is so rapidly evolving, these kinds of posts are helpful just to make sure you aren't missing anything big. I've caught myself doing something the hard way after reading one of these. In this case, the framing is basically man pages for CLIs was a helpful description of sills that gives me some ideas about how to improve interaction with an in-house CLI my co. uses.

New comment by campbel in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

campbel — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:07:13 +0000

As a technologist, you should always avoid MS. Even if they have a best-in-class solution for some domain, they will use that to leverage you into their absolute worst-in-class ecosystem.

New comment by campbel in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

campbel — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:48:31 +0000

I did angular for many years and just recently came back to doing frontend work for a recent project. This is my experience with react, its not perfect and there are a few react-isms to learn, but it tends to make you do the right thing.

New comment by campbel in "I miss using em dashes"

campbel — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:58:51 +0000

100%. I use em-dashes a decent amount and plan to continue. If someone wants to incorrectly assume it was AI writing so be it.

New comment by campbel in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

campbel — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:31:50 +0000

Normal people are just weird people you don't know very well.

New comment by campbel in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

campbel — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:27:38 +0000

I wish I had the courage to post and talk like this more. I really resonated with the authors words as these kinds of feelings make up a lot of my internal monologuing some days.

New comment by campbel in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

campbel — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:17:56 +0000

Do you take requests? We need to see how well this model works with some fine-tuning :D

New comment by campbel in "How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase"

campbel — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 05:40:53 +0000

The author describes a lot of directives they found useful. Be aware Claude has the concept of `slash commands` https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/slash-command...

New comment by campbel in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

campbel — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:37:16 +0000

I think the intention of it, as weird as it may seem, is to punish people for engaging with content the other subreddit mods feel is distasteful enough to warrant the effort.

I can't speak to whether this is a useful tactic on their part, or whether its fair to you, but IMO this is just another kind of "free speech" that exists.

New comment by campbel in "Self-Adapting Language Models"

campbel — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:29:29 +0000

Is it some form of least-recently-used approach? I'm running tests on my own mind trying to figure it out now :D part of what I love about this area of computer science.

New comment by campbel in "Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors"

campbel — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:06:25 +0000

From the linked Programmer blog [1]:

> It might seem lowly to be a Programmer, but in a world where so much is driven by computers there's nothing shameful in being the person who makes them go.

I find it interesting that in 2012 he thought the title of "Programmer" was shameful. In 2012 I was a somewhat recent grad and definitely more junior, at that time I thought programmers were the smartest folks at my company, exactly because they were "the [people] who make [computers] go".

[1] https://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/programmer.html

New comment by campbel in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order"

campbel — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:58:20 +0000

"Strange" times is a bit of an understatement.

New comment by campbel in "Tilt: dev environment as code"

campbel — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:47:57 +0000

Tilt is useful for local-dev where you are going to be modifying code / k8s configs and want live reload when you make changes. That is almost the entire appeal.

New comment by campbel in "Tilt: dev environment as code"

campbel — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 03:12:30 +0000

I did a blog post for Linkerd showing some of the benefits of using Tilt https://linkerd.io/2024/12/02/tilt-linkerd-nginx-part-1/.

TL;DR you can run some of your infra in local-dev that provide parity with your production environment.

New comment by campbel in "OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours"

campbel — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:19:58 +0000

This is the difference between open source to share useful code and open source to build leverage for a business.

New comment by campbel in "LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies"

campbel — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:25:46 +0000

They define it in the same file https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb...

> An agent is an AI model configured with instructions, tools, guardrails, handoffs and more.

Agents can hand off to other agents, but even the hand-off is decided by the agent itself, not a pre-defined orchestration.

New comment by campbel in "LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies"

campbel — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:37:47 +0000

This link is also referring to the nodes as agents. So its a system of agents interacting to product an outcome. I'm not saying this system is bad, just that I think it deserves another name rather than calling the whole system an "Agent". It's many agents working in a coordinated fashion.