Hacker News: codyswann

New comment by codyswann in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

codyswann — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:58:29 +0000

This doesn't make sense. I think you mean "If you are really good at something, you'll find AI might not be as good as the something you are really good at"

New comment by codyswann in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

codyswann — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:57:37 +0000

Ask it to take control of a browser using something like Playwright and use the UI itself like an end user would and evaluate whether it is a good experience.

New comment by codyswann in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

codyswann — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:22:30 +0000

Code isn't the moat and it hasn't been for quite some time. Data is the moat.

New comment by codyswann in "Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic"

codyswann — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:52:02 +0000

It's very problematic for companies, mainly because of the tooling. Large companies are equating lovable, replit, bold, V0 with Claude Code, Codex, etc all under the "Vibe Coding" banner.

I try to fit the former under the banner of "Prompt-to-app Tools" and the latter as "Autonomous AI Engineering"

New comment by codyswann in "Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself"

codyswann — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:52:53 +0000

Alternate headline: "Parents failed to dissuade son from killing himself"

New comment by codyswann in "Responses from LLMs are not facts"

codyswann — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:50:04 +0000

Even if everyone on earth agrees with an opinion, it's still an opinion. There is a material difference between a fact and an opinion.

New comment by codyswann in "Responses from LLMs are not facts"

codyswann — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:49:04 +0000

No. Facts are facts. Opinions are opinions. And statements of fact are unverified facts.

I wish people would start understanding the difference.

"Ice cream is cold" is an opinion.

"Ice cream melts at 50 degrees Fahrenheit" is a statement of fact.

New comment by codyswann in "AI assistance is only making coders dumb, lazy and prone to replacement"

codyswann — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:03:36 +0000

Agreed. If your identity is your ability to bang away on a keyboard writing instructions to a computer in Python (or any other "language"), you're in for a bad time.

If your identity is solving difficult, domain-specific software-based problems, efficiently and securely, it doesn't matter if your instructions are written in English, French or... Python.

New comment by codyswann in "Show HN: Wispbit - Linter for AI coding agents"

codyswann — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:54:26 +0000

Is that a "yes" on lint rules? AI needs determinism to block commits because once the slop hits code review, it's already a gigantic waste of time. AI needs self-correcting loops.

New comment by codyswann in "Ask HN: What's your opinion on weekly 1:1s?"

codyswann — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:04:50 +0000

As a manager, I think weekly 1:1s are a waste of time.

As an employee, I think weekly 1:1s are a waste of time.

New comment by codyswann in "Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them"

codyswann — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:49:46 +0000

Man. People complain that JavaScript sucks as a language and then complain when it evolves too quickly to appease these same people.

Oh well.

New comment by codyswann in "List of school shootings in the United States"

codyswann — Wed, 25 May 2022 16:13:16 +0000

The Taliban could fend off the West because the West adheres (mostly) to rules of engagement.

A tyrannical government attempting to subjugate its own citizenry would have no such compunction.

New comment by codyswann in "Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?"

codyswann — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:24:07 +0000

They were on the wrong side of a massive bet and lost.

Let's take the reverse and say they were on the right side of the bet and made millions and left everyone else behind to wallow relatively "poor".

Would they feel sorry for those who didn't take the bet?

New comment by codyswann in "Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?"

codyswann — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:21:52 +0000

But wasn't that the big pull of crypto? Decentralized, unregulated, blah, blah, blah?

New comment by codyswann in "You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it"

codyswann — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:35:53 +0000

What type of usage volume are we talking about here?

New comment by codyswann in "Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?"

codyswann — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:47:45 +0000

I reject the premise

New comment by codyswann in "Ask HN: Is it worth it to learn C to better understand Python?"

codyswann — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:00:54 +0000

None of that pays the mortgage, though.

New comment by codyswann in "CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers"

codyswann — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:02:35 +0000

That was my thought. What is this rag?

New comment by codyswann in "Former U.S. president Donald Trump launches 'TRUTH' social media platform"

codyswann — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:27:02 +0000

78% of Republicans is actually pretty dreadful. I would expect that number to be closer to the mid 90s for a party's former president. Can you imagine what the numbers would be for Obama?

New comment by codyswann in "Netflix braces for staff walkout and LGBTQ rally over Chappelle special"

codyswann — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:41:05 +0000

Not true. Freedom of speech in the US prevents the US government for levying consequences against you for what you said. This is not the case in North Koreas