Hacker News: distalx

New comment by distalx in "Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend"

distalx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:01:32 +0000

This article is spot on. I'm feeling the exact same way watching the industry aggressively promote the idea that it's safe to deploy unverified code just because an AI wrote the tests.

We are playing with fire. If we keep treating "I don't read the code I ship" as a feature rather than a liability, it's going to cause a massive, real-world disaster. The resulting regulation will be so heavy that software engineering will end up needing a Bar Council or Medical Board just to ship a basic feature. We're cheering for a trend that is going to regulate us into a corner.

Amazon Opens Its Ad Stack to AI Agents with MCP Rollout

distalx — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:18:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-agentic-ads-model-context-protocol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879478

Points: 1

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New comment by distalx in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

distalx — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:43:31 +0000

This is either going to save hours… or create very educational outages.

New comment by distalx in "LLM Year in Review"

distalx — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:14:02 +0000

Friendly reminder: There is no ghost in the machine. It is a system executing code, not a being having thoughts. Let’s admire the tool without projecting a personality onto it.

New comment by distalx in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

distalx — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:09:46 +0000

What tools or process do you use to optimize your prompts?

New comment by distalx in "Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app"

distalx — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:53:34 +0000

This looks great! I'm not a guitar enthusiast myself, but the design and color tone look very slick.

Congratulations on the launch after a year of work, and I wish you all the best with it!

Just out of curiosity, how much time did it take you to get app store approval from Apple and Google in 2025?

New comment by distalx in "Apple M5 chip"

distalx — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:10:45 +0000

It does feel like planned obsolescence when companies like Apple limit software support for older hardware, Ubuntu run smoothly on much older devices. They could certainly do better by extending support and focusing on sustainability.

New comment by distalx in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

distalx — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:38:43 +0000

Exactly, token per dollar rates are useful, but without knowing the typical input output token distribution for each model on this specific task, the numbers alone don’t give a full picture of cost.

The Imitation Game: Defending Against AI's Dark Side

distalx — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-imitation-game-defending-against.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468994

Points: 2

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New comment by distalx in "Vibe coding cleanup as a service"

distalx — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:25:00 +0000

I bought into that idea a month or two ago, that more control and detailed instructions would deliver a clean result. That just led me down a rabbit hole of endless prompt re-runs and optimization loops. Many time I thought I had the final, perfect prompt, the next iteration slightly worsened the output. And sometimes the output was the same.

The last 20-30% of precision is brutal. The time and tokens we burn trying to perfect a prompt is simply not an optimal use of engineering hours. The problem is simple: Companies prioritize profit over the optimal solution, and the initial sales pitch was about replacement then it changed now its all about speed. I'm not making a case against AI or LLMs; I'm saying the current workflow, a path of least resistance means we are inevitably progressing toward more technical debt and cleanup at our hands.

New comment by distalx in "Vibe coding cleanup as a service"

distalx — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:28:28 +0000

Vibe Coding is accelerating the death of documentation and architectural clarity. Companies are measuring success by tokens generated and time-to-prototype, ignoring the massive, hidden cost of cleanup/maintenance.

The real skill is now cleanup, not generation.

New comment by distalx in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"

distalx — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:55:10 +0000

If you don't mind, could you share the link to your Reddit post? I'd love to read more about your findings.

New comment by distalx in "Code Is Debt"

distalx — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:03:49 +0000

I feel like this post might be a bit clickbaity. It presents a strong statement without much context, analysis or evidence.

New comment by distalx in "GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?"

distalx — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:21:51 +0000

Probably valid sunk cost fallacy, but it makes me wonder what will happen to the applications and systems being built on top of LLMs? If we face limitations or setbacks, will these innovations survive, or could we see a backlash against all thinking machines, reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's cautionary tales?

New comment by distalx in "Self-Signed JWTs"

distalx — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:04:51 +0000

Spot on. The burden and complexity of that cryptographic signing on the client is exactly what OAuth2 was created to avoid. Thanks for making that connection.

New comment by distalx in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

distalx — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 04:27:33 +0000

This is fantastic, the leaderboard is really nice! It reminds me of Paper Planes.

https://paperplanes.world/

New comment by distalx in "Self-Signed JWTs"

distalx — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 04:07:40 +0000

On the B2B2C section, my mind immediately went to OAuth. For a developer like Bob giving his end users access to a service, wouldn't a standard OAuth flow where his users grant permission to his app would be the more conventional and secure solution?

It feels like that model handles key management, delegation, and revocation in a well-established way.

What am I missing here that makes this a better fit?

New comment by distalx in "Kira (Short AI-Assisted Film on Human Cloning)"

distalx — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 05:21:52 +0000

On their Reddit post [0], the creator mentioned that it took them '600 prompts'!! I’d love to see how they managed to organize their prompts! This is actually impressively well done. I think what is holding it together is a good music and documentary-style background voice-over. There are so many uncanny stills in the video, but the well placed music makes you overlook that.

[0](https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1lvtxbg/kira_i_use...)

New comment by distalx in "AI coding tools can reduce productivity"

distalx — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:43:46 +0000

Could you share more about your process and how they specifically help you with your internal frontends? Any details would be great! Thanks!

ML Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track

distalx — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:36:13 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19882

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461155

Points: 3

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