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New comment by codingwagie in "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1"

codingwagie — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:50:43 +0000

Love the comments:

"7/27/78 FIXED BUG WHERE FOR VARIABLE AT BYTE FF MATCHED RETURN SEARCHING FOR GOSUB ENTRY ON STACK IN FNDFOR CALL BY CHANGING STA FORPNT TO STA FORPNT+1. THIS IS A SERIOUS BUG IN ALL VERSIONS."

Not far off from a comment I might make these days

https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm...

New comment by codingwagie in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

codingwagie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:11:09 +0000

Right but you cant expect perfect implementation, as the complexity of the business needs grows, so does the accidental complexity.

New comment by codingwagie in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

codingwagie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:39:02 +0000

I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale.

Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale. Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider.

A classic, Chesterton's Fence:

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”"

New comment by codingwagie in "Notion releases offline mode"

codingwagie — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:55:01 +0000

ive wasted so much time fiddling with notion documents

New comment by codingwagie in "JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language"

codingwagie — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:02:00 +0000

JetBrains product quality has really gone downhill.

New comment by codingwagie in "Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data"

codingwagie — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:03:40 +0000

theres alot of wealthy people in NYC and its only increasing. in neighborhoods like west village or soho, the majority of people are not working corporate jobs. they are paying 7.5-20k a month in rent out of their pockets.

New comment by codingwagie in "Ask HN: Should I Leave Software?"

codingwagie — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:45:26 +0000

I think coding manually is like doing wood work manually, its going away. I am planning my exit, expecting it to take a few years for me to fully leave the field. But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience.

New comment by codingwagie in "Intel CEO Letter to Employees"

codingwagie — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:45:47 +0000

It took me a long time to learn this

New comment by codingwagie in "The great AI delusion is falling apart"

codingwagie — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:17:49 +0000

AI is way underhyped, its just going to take society a long time to integrate this tectonic shift into our existing ways of working

New comment by codingwagie in "Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding"

codingwagie — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:26:57 +0000

hahaha

New comment by codingwagie in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

codingwagie — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:07:32 +0000

the founder went to harvard, is basically the answer

New comment by codingwagie in "Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford"

codingwagie — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:02:51 +0000

Financial engineering is why people are poor. They are literally competing for goods and services with investment firms.

New comment by codingwagie in "Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?"

codingwagie — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:27:09 +0000

I've commonly seen grants like this diluted to almost zero. I would think carefully and strategically about how you can get some sort of value for the equity you vested. Its probably harder than you think to get decent liquidity on it.

New comment by codingwagie in "The death of partying in the USA"

codingwagie — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:17:01 +0000

there are deep reasons for why society is not like this anymore

New comment by codingwagie in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

codingwagie — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:37:16 +0000

This works for UX. I give it vague requirements, and it implements something i didnt ask for, but is better than i would have thought of

New comment by codingwagie in "Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore"

codingwagie — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:49:46 +0000

Yeah but theres also sorts of political implications for admitting that

New comment by codingwagie in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

codingwagie — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:05:47 +0000

The value of these researchers to meta is surely more than a few billion. Love seeing free markets benefit the world

New comment by codingwagie in "Ask HN: Anyone using OpenAI's Agent SDK in production?"

codingwagie — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:10:08 +0000

OpenAI SDK is much simpler to use and understand than langchain etc. I havent deployed really complicated agents, but I have a number of simple use cases that work just fine

New comment by codingwagie in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"

codingwagie — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:33:21 +0000

I love to hate on google, but yeah their models are really good. The larger context window is huge

New comment by codingwagie in "Engineers at our startup don't build features anymore"

codingwagie — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:55:26 +0000

this only works for very early stage