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New comment by chillacy in "Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?"

chillacy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:54:10 +0000

A classic but I think relevant pg essay - https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

The closest I attained to flow state vibe coding involved building UIs with claude 4.6 fast mode low thinking, a local TTS model (nvidia's), and hot reloading browser.

Arguably maybe I could have done better on higher thinking and then done more in parallel but it is more tiring.

New comment by chillacy in "Claude Code Routines"

chillacy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:08:09 +0000

If SWE Bench is public then Anthropic is at a minimum probably also looking at their SWE bench scores when making changes, I'd trust more a tracker which runs a private benchmark not known to Anthropic.

New comment by chillacy in "Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?"

chillacy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:29:45 +0000

Yes, sometimes I have found it hard to sleep if I'm close to building something I want to build.

I think there is kind of a meme going around about multitaskers doing very well with vibe coding, and I can see it. Although, as someone who has the opposite problem, it can be tiring if I try to do more than two things at once.

New comment by chillacy in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

chillacy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:28:12 +0000

I've found this to be true so far, junior engineers with AI can be super productive but they can also cause a lot of damage (more outages than ever) and AI amplifies the sometimes poorly designed code they can generate.

I suspect a lot of it best practices will be enforcing best practices via agents.md/claude.md to create a more constrained environment.

New comment by chillacy in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chillacy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:30:22 +0000

My take: openclaw should not run on a mac (even though looking at the skills it ships with it clearly was made to)

It should run on its own VPS with full root access, given api keys which have spending limits, given no way for strangers to talk to it. I treat it as a digital assistant, a separate entity, who may at some point decide to sell me out as any human stranger might, and then share personal info under that premise.

New comment by chillacy in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chillacy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:18:20 +0000

Check out https://x.com/jianxliao/status/2020667822800818253?s=46

Just uses claude. I haven't tried it much but it seems to be what you're describing.

Openclaw uses pi agent under the hood. Arguably most of the codebase could be replaced by systemd if you're running on a VPS for scheduling though, and then its a series of prompts on top of pi agent.

New comment by chillacy in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chillacy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:03:14 +0000

Pi's great. I really noticed it when trying some of the openclaw clones which try to be smaller in binary size and end up not using pi.

New comment by chillacy in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chillacy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:56:39 +0000

Boris has been very open about the 100% AI code writing rate and my own experience matches. If you have a typescript or common codebase, once you set your processes up correctly (you have tests / verification, you have a CLAUDE or AGENTS.md that you always add learnings to, you add skill files as you find repeatable tasks, you have automated code review), its not hard to achieve this.

Then the human touch points become coming up with what to build, reviewing the eng plans of the AI, and increasingly light code review of the underlying code, focusing on overall architectural decisions and only occasionally intervening to clean things up (again with AI)

New comment by chillacy in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

chillacy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:13:43 +0000

> Singapore’s free speech restrictions, whatever you think of them, no longer seem so far outside the box. Trump is suing plenty of people. The UK is sending police to knock on people’s doors for social media posts, and so on. That too makes Singapore more of a “normal country"

That seems like it should make Singapore _more_ cool, at least my personal theory is that this changed a lot of perception of China (at least in some parts of gen z social media, "it's a very Chinese time").

New comment by chillacy in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

chillacy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:24:46 +0000

Korea has a similar demographic shape, and Japan already passed its peak in 2005ish https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2024/

New comment by chillacy in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

chillacy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:15:44 +0000

I heard it's because the labs fine tune their models for their own harness. Same reason why claude does better in claude code than cursor.

New comment by chillacy in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

chillacy — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:12:45 +0000

Hmm, I once transited in Heathrow in a return flight from europe to the US and had to go through Heathrow security for whatever reason, where they subjected me to liquids rules way stricter than either my source or destination did.

E.g. 1 day use contact lenses and prescription creams all having to fit in a tiny plastic bag. So I'm happy for this change.

New comment by chillacy in "France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking"

chillacy — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:31:52 +0000

You can make still money off untargeted ads (just not as much).

New comment by chillacy in "France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking"

chillacy — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:27:38 +0000

Afaik the apps don't have to ask you, they could just request the OS-level permissions. They don't do that because if you reject the request at the OS level, they can't request it again, you have to go to the Settings app to enable it and it's harder to do. So apps prefer to just nag you again and again until you say you're ready.

New comment by chillacy in "Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased"

chillacy — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:21:26 +0000

Also not the easy kind of 1990's LED soldering, like tiny surface mount soldering.

New comment by chillacy in "Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased"

chillacy — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:20:15 +0000

2M units globally, so maybe generously 1M in the US (assuming you're from there but multiply by some factor proportional to your country's consumeristic tendencies), divided by the population is only something like a .3% rate of ownership. So not quite as prevalent as gopro, which has sold something like 35M in the US over the past 10 years [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/688306/number-of-gopro-u...

New comment by chillacy in "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages"

chillacy — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:01:42 +0000

The fiber is afaik a big factor for slowing rate and amount of sugar absorbed (amount because apparently some of it makes it far enough to feed gut bacteria in the large intestine).

New comment by chillacy in "Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model"

chillacy — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:57:50 +0000

Ironic that the NYT's article here focuses on the political angle instead of just the "facts" so to speak...

> It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

New comment by chillacy in "Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model"

chillacy — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:56:37 +0000

The idea of some kind of universal fact is also misleading, some statements of fact are only statements of belief, others are so ill-defined that people end up debating two different things.

New comment by chillacy in "Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model"

chillacy — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:39:00 +0000

I think prediction markets (polymarket et al) get this right. Every question as vague as "is the earth warming" has resolution details which define some way to resolve the question such that all parties (even those with economic interest to disagree) have trouble disputing the outcome.

For a question like the earth warming, it would usually be something like "according to ___.org website on Y date", which in that case the final prediction becomes: will the average temperature in the period from 2016-2026 be greater than Y on ___.org, which is a bit different than the original but easier to arbitrate.