Hacker News: coip

New comment by coip in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

coip — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:51:56 +0000

“Cursive knowledge”, as an old boss told me. Was incredibly ironic when he leaned into my misunderstanding.

New comment by coip in "Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores"

coip — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:39:03 +0000

Sounds necessary given they must to meet some utilization quota or risk termination.

Kinda like how cobras were bred once there was an incentive to turn in their heads lol

New comment by coip in "Rob Pike: Tech industry losing its soul"

coip — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:18:48 +0000

Those of us trying to keep the soul in it seem to be losing the fight, if not lost already.

Do all roads lead to Rome? When will the snake finish eating its tail?

New comment by coip in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

coip — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:21:20 +0000

Ah, the good ol Inter Continental Business Machines

New comment by coip in "Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?"

coip — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:53:52 +0000

GitHub trending is one that comes to mind

New comment by coip in "An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs"

coip — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:14:27 +0000

If 80% is “done by the AI”, who is responsible for the certain failure on behalf of the AI? Given inference often is, >0%, wrong — in a word… hmm.

How many 9s until you’re comfortable? Even then, knowing 1000 tasks could likely have at least 1 foundational issue… how do you audit? “Pretty please do the needful” and have another “please ensure they do the needful”. Do you review the 1000 inputs/outputs processed? Don’t get me wrong, am familiar with the “send it” ethos all too well, but at-scale it seems like quite the pickle.

Genuinely curious how most people consider these angles… was tasked with building a model once to perform what literally could’ve otherwise been a SQL query… when I brought this up, it was met with “well we need to do it with AI” I don’t think a humans gonna want to find that needle in a haystack when 100,000 significant documents are originated… but I don’t have to worry about that one anymore thank goodness.

New comment by coip in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

coip — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:20:00 +0000

Spooky, this is not exposure if using Linux?

New comment by coip in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

coip — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:34:47 +0000

This connects some many sparse dots on the map for me. Finishing it right now, thank you for commenting w the link. What a perspective, and well-written parable to communicate it.

New comment by coip in "Show HN: I Built a Sandbox for Agents"

coip — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:09:52 +0000

Anyone have any thoughts on this path if using macOS? Been using it, seems to do the trick pretty well out of the box.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Virtualization/run...

New comment by coip in "Professional software developers don't vibe, they control"

coip — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:07:36 +0000

You're totally right! It's not steering systems -- it's cooking, apparently

New comment by coip in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

coip — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:19:12 +0000

Hear hear

New comment by coip in "Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?"

coip — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:14:59 +0000

It is a mindset thing insofar as my opinion is that there are more interesting things to practice with, sure. Grindy endeavors aren’t bad, just grindy. Given how much of the practical application side of that practice is handled by libs/pkgs @ runtime for a lot of product dev I’ve been involved with, it can seem a bit much. It isn’t so black and white of course, but this is just an off the cuff musing. I miss whiteboarding sessions, and I feel like the lc grind does a disservice to both sides of the hiring table in a lot of cases. Sure, “what’s a better alternative at scale” comes to mind, but I’ll digress lol

New comment by coip in "Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?"

coip — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:27:22 +0000

Are lc problems puzzles? Could see p.e. being close to that but lc has always felt so much more grindy and less creative.

Merry christmas

New comment by coip in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

coip — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:33:49 +0000

I bet

New comment by coip in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

coip — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:13:57 +0000

Ah, to have any real amount of time to work on something. Sounds surreal.

New comment by coip in "Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS"

coip — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:56:57 +0000

Have you seen/used the webGPU spaces?

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/en/guides/webgpu

eta: its predecessor was using webGL

New comment by coip in "Ask HN: 15 Years of Burnout"

coip — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:06:52 +0000

Oh and get sunlight. Morning and evening walks every day for me made a night and day difference. Not to trivialize burnout or depression. It is a… fickle thing, passion.

New comment by coip in "Ask HN: 15 Years of Burnout"

coip — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:04:39 +0000

Take care of your bag of meat: sleep, eat, sweat with regularity and sufficient amounts. Socialize productively. Isolate productively. What does that mean? Talk with someone who you know/knows you. About whatever. Spend time alone doing comforting things that are not exciting as much as relaxing. Get bored. Don’t run away from yourself. Rather, return.

New comment by coip in "The AI Creative Destruction Wave"

coip — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:02:03 +0000

I imagine Schumpeter would be proud

New comment by coip in "Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”"

coip — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:37:31 +0000

Could customize the user call out

Maybe something like “I know this is the opposite of socializing but I want to give in the the mindless algorithmic manipulation for a little longer anyways”