Hacker News: datavirtue

New comment by datavirtue in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

datavirtue — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:48:48 +0000

Way better than the random India dev output. I seriously don't know what everyone around here is doing. All I see are complaints while I produce the output of ten devs. Clean code, solid design.

Spend a few hours writing context files. Spend the rest of the week sipping bourbon.

New comment by datavirtue in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

datavirtue — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:44:16 +0000

Holding it wrong.

New comment by datavirtue in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

datavirtue — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:43:33 +0000

I have enterprise plans for all AI services except Google. GitHub Copilot in VS Code is the best I have used so far. I hear a lot of complaints from people who are holding it wrong. In a single day I can have a beautiful greenfield app deployed. One dev. One day. Something that would have taken weeks with two teams bumping into each other. It's fully documented. Beautiful code. I read the reasoning prompts as it flows by to get an idea of what is going on. I work in phases and review the code and working product quickly after that. Minimal issues.

I'm an executive, the devs complaining are getting retrained or put on the chopping block.

My rockstars are now random contractor devs from Vietnam. The aloof FTE grey beards saying "I don't know, it doesn't work very good on X." Are getting a talking to or being sidelined/canned. So far most of my grey beards are adapting pretty well.

I'm not waiting on people to write code any more. No way in hell.

New comment by datavirtue in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

datavirtue — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:30:38 +0000

I haven't run a Google search in two years. Your comment just made me realize that. Doing a Google search is like trying to watch cable after being on YouTube for years.

New comment by datavirtue in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

datavirtue — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:27:46 +0000

I'm starting to transition how we build software at our company due to the power of AI. No more: five code monkey contractors under a lead. Two top-notch devs are all that is needed now, unrestrained by sprints and mindless ceremonies. There is going to be a giant sucking sound in India.

I can't continue the current model. The dev that gets AI is done in five hours, the ones that don't are thrashing for the next two weeks. I have to unleash the good AI dev. I have the Product team handing us markdown files now with an overview of the project and all the details and stories built into them. I'm literally transforming how a billion dollar company works right now because of this. I have Codex, Claude and GitHub Copilot enterprise accounts on top of Office 365. Everyone is being trained right now as most devs are behind, even.

New comment by datavirtue in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

datavirtue — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:51:04 +0000

Same here in Cincinnati. Lowe's is far better than Home Depot. Everyone at HD clearly hates their job. Probably not their fault.

New comment by datavirtue in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

datavirtue — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:37:00 +0000

Exactly, their site and apps are trash.

New comment by datavirtue in "All it takes is for one to work out"

datavirtue — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:54:34 +0000

Yep, my father, with no business training or college was funded by my grandfather and was in business for years, decades. He ultimately failed without any savings and died in poverty. Being a small business owner was the only job he ever had.

New comment by datavirtue in "Don't push AI down our throats"

datavirtue — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:25:54 +0000

Don't forget about the poor local businesses. Someone needs to pay to keep the executives' lunch spots open.

New comment by datavirtue in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

datavirtue — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:40:42 +0000

Really? Logic wouldn't dictate that if I'm up 300% or more over two years and everyone is starting to get jittery about an AI bubble that perhaps I should pull out now and await the pullback? If it happens in a year, and I can buy back in at a 15-20% discount, that is also a return!! Do you hold for possibly another 5%? That doesn't make any sense. Your cash gets 4% a year just waiting--paid monthly.

New comment by datavirtue in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

datavirtue — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:34:30 +0000

Most investors can time this aspect of the market accurately enough. It's tough for these people to stand by and watch profit being left on the table for a year or two, though. So they get back in, seeing how long they can leave their hand on the got plate.

Myself, I made the decision to go to cash a while ago, right before the recent AI pullback. Things were going great for a week until I started seeing all that money go unclaimed. I get back in, and the pullback I predicted happens. It was my own conscious decision to look past the gorilla in the room to get more free treats. I'll be fine but this is a good anecdote for how these things unfold.

New comment by datavirtue in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

datavirtue — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:21:01 +0000

Right now an elderly person is jamming cash into a Bitcoin ATM for a scammer. Fact.

New comment by datavirtue in "Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor"

datavirtue — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:17:49 +0000

This is the default. I have a few teams like this under my charge, currently.

I ask them to protect themselves by logging what data they will need to troubleshoot a new feature.

Next release comes around and there is an issue and guess what...devs asking for access to prod to troubleshoot because they don't have logs.

It is really difficult to contain oneself when getting on a call to quiet three endless chat threads because someone failed to log basic shit.

Days long anxiety-filled shit storms for absolutely no reason.

I have had other teams that would do this and they had to have the fear of God put into them to wake up and start logging. We have real problems to solve without confounding ourselves...

New comment by datavirtue in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

datavirtue — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:48:32 +0000

I only use it when I want to be tracked.

New comment by datavirtue in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

datavirtue — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:47:27 +0000

Hmmm...YouTube has been getting confused about the language and displaying random languages for the closed captions on videos. This was happening to me across smart TVs but I access YouTube randomly from various devices and browsers...but mostly Chrome when using a browser.

New comment by datavirtue in "FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff"

datavirtue — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:35:43 +0000

Yes, the polygraph has one purpose, instill fear. It's an over the top interrogation. Level 1 torture.

New comment by datavirtue in "FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff"

datavirtue — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:33:21 +0000

No, because I would never talk to them.

New comment by datavirtue in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

datavirtue — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:01:08 +0000

This.

New comment by datavirtue in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

datavirtue — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:39:22 +0000

Well said

New comment by datavirtue in "Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir"

datavirtue — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:37:14 +0000

They are only selling puts...that's a half-hearted short. They have the resources to borrow shares and bag the whole amount without a time constraint...why not do that?