Hacker News: dinvlad

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

dinvlad — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:14:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147597

Points: 324

# Comments: 226

Microservices is the software industry's most successful confidence scam

dinvlad — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1998785569468399819

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220551

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by dinvlad in "AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out"

dinvlad — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:59:20 +0000

This is the best take

New comment by dinvlad in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

dinvlad — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:50:36 +0000

This is such a deep rabbit hole! Other alternatives include CDN and residential proxies, no VPN required

New comment by dinvlad in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

dinvlad — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:23:34 +0000

Jeez. Thankfully I carefully avoided almost any and all of that political driven craziness there, as my bubble is just other solopreneurs

New comment by dinvlad in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

dinvlad — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:04:22 +0000

This. I’m on X myself a lot (because everyone else in my circles is, not because I wanted) and it’s just such a bubble. Sometimes I want to just quit it all and touch grass

New comment by dinvlad in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

dinvlad — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:50:03 +0000

Not a single VM possible to request on Azure us-east for over a month now though :-(

New comment by dinvlad in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

dinvlad — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:48:49 +0000

Right now, we can’t request even a single (1) non-beefy non-GPU VM in us-east on Azure. That’s been going on for over a month now, and that’s after being a customer for 2 years :(

New comment by dinvlad in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

dinvlad — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:45:26 +0000

The cloud is also not fulfilling its end of the promise anymore - capacity on-demand. We’ve been struggling for over a month to get a single (1) non-beefy non-GPU instance on Azure, since they’ve been having just insane capacity issues, where even paying for “provisioned” capacity doesn’t make it available.

New comment by dinvlad in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

dinvlad — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:43:09 +0000

And now, on cloud it’s the same but much more expensive and worse performance. We’ve been struggling for over a month to get a single (1) non-beefy non-GPU VM allocated on Azure, since they’ve been having insane capacity issues, to the extent that even “provisioned” capacity cannot be fulfilled ;-(

New comment by dinvlad in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

dinvlad — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:14:03 +0000

The whole business model even for OAI/Anthropic is unsustainable.. they are already running it at a huge loss atm, and will do for the foreseeable future. The economics simply doesn't work, unfortunately or not

New comment by dinvlad in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

dinvlad — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:10:08 +0000

Another one bites the dust :-( I hope at least Windsurf stays the same..

New comment by dinvlad in "Serverless Horrors"

dinvlad — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:26:28 +0000

Andras (author of Serverless Horrors) knows what he’s talking about.

The amount of brainwashing that big cloud providers have done, is insane.

New comment by dinvlad in "My AI had fixed the code before I saw it"

dinvlad — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:44:35 +0000

Saw this too, but seems a little too good to be true tbh. I don't doubt it helped them, but it's just so hard to make these agents work reliably. And the more "rules" one accumulates, the less reliably they follow all of the rules and details. Heck, Claude can't even follow a single rule of not inserting comments everywhere.. Plus, code often ends up in a mess, without strict human oversight.

Perhaps I'm overlooking something though, it would be great to see more concrete details of their implementation, rather than this high-level inspirational description..

Claude Code uninstalls itself if unsubscribed

dinvlad — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:47:47 +0000

After a month of waiting, I got partial refund for Claude Code and then.. it uninstalled itself.

(Claude icon disappeared from Cursor too)

Creepy stuff, never seen this happen with any other subscription before.

Joke on them though – I still used more credits than I paid for :-)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44447397

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dinvlad in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

dinvlad — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:37:39 +0000

> when the "right" format and "right" time are essentially, and maybe even necessarily, undefined, then aren't you still reaching for a "magic" solution?

Exactly the problem with all "knowing how to use AI correctly" advice out there rn. Shamans with drums, at the end of the day :-)

New comment by dinvlad in "The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering"

dinvlad — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:35:26 +0000

> already research allowing LLMs to use millions of different tools

Hmm first time hearing about this, could you share any examples please?

New comment by dinvlad in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

dinvlad — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:32:40 +0000

I feel like ppl just keep inventing concepts for the same old things, which come down to dancing with the drums around the fire and screaming shamanic incantations :-)

New comment by dinvlad in "Gemini CLI"

dinvlad — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:11:04 +0000

Thanks a lot for clarifying in plain language! Makes sense re basically anything paid is NOT used for training, free - does.

Off-topic, but I wish this kind of plain language doc existed for Google One vs Google Workspace as well.

New comment by dinvlad in "Containers are available in public beta for simple, and programmable compute"

dinvlad — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:53:47 +0000

Egress is $25/TB unlike their other stuff. No thanks