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New comment by dgunay in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

dgunay — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:06:34 +0000

Not an "oh shit" per se, but Gemini is a complete leap in terms of actual smarts over Google Assistant.

I was having problems getting it to parse my speech correctly when I was asking about "autolyse" (I was attempting to bake bread). All I had to do to fix it was add this to the system prompt: " I primarily interact with you via a speech to text mechanism. You should consider ways in which my words may not be accurately transcribed and attempt to infer the correct reading in context. When you do this, do not mention it - just proceed as if my words were recorded properly."

Never had that problem again. With Assistant though, if I had any issue like that I'd be waiting months or years for a fix, if it ever came.

New comment by dgunay in "Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?"

dgunay — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:39:43 +0000

For straightforward coding tasks I use gpt-5.3-codex on high or xhigh. Sometimes I try 5.5 but overall 5.3-codex is more than capable enough for most of my needs and quite a bit cheaper.

For more interactive/discussion/planning or orchestration stuff, I find myself going back and forth between Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5. Still not sure which one I prefer.

New comment by dgunay in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

dgunay — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:34:21 +0000

I bought AMD as my last GPU purely because it meant I didn't have to stress out about how I was actually going to acquire one. I just walked into Microcenter, picked one off the shelf, and checked out. It was the crypto craze then, and I get the impression that this hasn't changed much today with AI sucking all the oxygen out of consumer electronics. Didn't care very much about DLSS or any other Nvidia specific features. That AMD works well on Linux only sweetened the deal.

New comment by dgunay in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

dgunay — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:36:12 +0000

FWIW I usually don't structure my Go projects this way unless they're very very small. This is what I usually do for anything larger than 2-3 files:

  ├── cmd
  │   └── binary-name
  │       └── main.go (may subpackage for things like CLI porcelain, etc)
  ├── go.mod
  └── internal
      └── app.go (and subpackages, etc)

New comment by dgunay in "GPT-5.5"

dgunay — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:48:56 +0000

I started seeing this a lot more with GPT 5.4. 5.3-codex is really good about patiently watching and waiting on external processes like CI, or managing other agents async. 5.4 keeps on yielding its turn to me for some reason even as it says stuff like "I'm continuing to watch and wait."

New comment by dgunay in "Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex"

dgunay — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:51:39 +0000

I spin up a lot of agents and don't always get back to them same day, so it helps a lot if my laptop restarts to install updates automatically.

New comment by dgunay in "The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client"

dgunay — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:25:48 +0000

No, there's tons of backlash against the "le reddit chungus" era of memes like doggo pupper smol bean etc.

New comment by dgunay in "I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter"

dgunay — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:23:42 +0000

I wrote exactly this linter a while back after making the same mistake. Very annoying. Unlike you I did try to get it into golangci-lint but the process wore me down. In the age of LLMs maybe it'd be worth another try.

New comment by dgunay in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

dgunay — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:55:55 +0000

This one was funny to me because sure, it was accurate for my particular codebase, but also anyone paying attention to the company Slack would already know how often fires happen.

New comment by dgunay in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

dgunay — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:51:55 +0000

Yeah. I am the top committer at my current workplace, but I'd say that a majority of that gap is because my particular workflow results in many smaller commits than my coworkers.

New comment by dgunay in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

dgunay — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:45:53 +0000

Right? It's infuriating. Nearly all of the agentic coding best practices are things that we should have just been doing all along, because it turns out humans function better too when given the proper context for their work. The only silver lining is that this is a colossal karmic retribution for the orgs that never gave a shit about this stuff until LLMs.

New comment by dgunay in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

dgunay — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:59:47 +0000

my cat would be like "cool desk bro" and then plop themselves right on the keyboard or, even though I'm using a 32:9 monitor, exactly in front of the desktop window I happen to be working on

New comment by dgunay in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

dgunay — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:01:05 +0000

You can probably learn to do these things too with enough determination, but don't sell yourself short. Some CRUD apps can get deceptively complicated. Businesses have a way of coming up with just the right requirements to completely invalidate your architecture if you don't know what you're doing.

New comment by dgunay in "Veevo Health – book a CT angiogram to see plaque buildup in your arteries"

dgunay — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:01:02 +0000

I don't want to discourage anyone from getting a CT scan done but the "what to expect" section does not mention that the contrast dye injection can feel very uncomfortable.

New comment by dgunay in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

dgunay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:04:49 +0000

In a gunfight, you usually have to expose yourself at least a little bit in order to aim and fire. And let's say that you know an enemy soldier is around some corner, unaware, and you can pop out and shoot them. If there is another soldier aiming at your position, unbeknownst to you, you are dead.

New comment by dgunay in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

dgunay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:28:16 +0000

I do parallel agents in worktrees and I don't always constantly keep an eye on them like a fry cook flipping 20 burgers at once. Sometimes it's just nice to know that I can spin one up, come back tomorrow, and some progress has been made without breaking my current flow.

New comment by dgunay in "Honda is killing its EVs"

dgunay — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:31:55 +0000

They don't come close to the variety and quality of cosmopolitan dining you can get in major American cities. A lot of FOBish Chinese people I've met won't even venture too far outside of Chinese cuisine when going out to dinner.

New comment by dgunay in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

dgunay — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:47:13 +0000

It's not going to kill anyone to just switch to a different provider, even for just a few hours. Bad news for Anthropic if their users suddenly realize Claude Code isn't really that much better than the others though.

New comment by dgunay in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

dgunay — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:32:02 +0000

A lot of this is just things that high-functioning human teams were already doing: automate testing, explain your PRs to guide reviewers, demoing work, not just throwing bad code over the wall during code review, etc.

New comment by dgunay in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

dgunay — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:23 +0000

I started off with the original beads and it was definitely a nightmare. However I would recommend using https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust - it's a much simpler implementation of the same concept, without all the random extra stuff thrown on to support Gas Town.