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New comment by catzapd in "Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH"

catzapd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:49:13 +0000

Does memory for AI agents basically mean -

- Save everything to disk. Index it or store in vectorDB. - Search the storage for similarity based on the new prompt - include any finding with the new prompt as system/user prompt (or if you find the exact answer skip the llm call)

Or is there more to it ?

New comment by catzapd in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

catzapd — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:34:10 +0000

Given all the hype that LLMs have got and the valuations these AI companies are getting, I am disappointed at how even the "best" coding agents degrade over time.

WTF - I need to implement a review command to guide to do its job properly.

Can you imagine any other industry charging people money for a product like this ?

When you are charging people money - scratching the surface cannot be an excuse.

New comment by catzapd in "Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?"

catzapd — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:24:46 +0000

Rather than switch stacks, better way to phrase it is that one should try to increase breadth and depth of knowledge.

By breadth I mean learning other programming language, frameworks, system design etc.

By depth I mean that - if you claim to know React - then get to know the deep detail of React, TS and the related ecosystem.

You can showcase the expertize by writing code, demoing it or sharing on github. Writing about it is another way

New comment by catzapd in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

catzapd — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0000

Planning to quit by end of the year. That is if I dont get fired earlier.

Place is a shithole. CEO/founders not being honest. Chief architect in India.

Feel that current architecture is broken and will not work.

Privately working on a prototype to demo to CEO/founders. Plan to tell the CEO this is what is possible and changes need to happen. Otherwise it is "sayonara"

New comment by catzapd in "Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java"

catzapd — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:51:46 +0000

Happy to see a post on Java and a book as well.

Will checkout the book.

New comment by catzapd in "Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python"

catzapd — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:14:14 +0000

Recovering the application from failures especially when updating multiple data sources, once and only once execution and such things are in the application domain. They have never been done by relational databases. That is the problem solved by the Python SDK of DBOS ( and typescript SDK)

New comment by catzapd in "Show HN: DBOS – Transactional Serverless for TypeScript Apps"

catzapd — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:47:03 +0000

Agree that Node is easier than SpringBoot, But Writing a simple app is easy. Not so for transactional app that needs to scale and be reliable and be fast. Add to it: docker Kubernetes Provisioning on cloud Log collection Observability ....... and much more

You need a team of several engineers ?