Hacker News: drdrey

New comment by drdrey in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

drdrey — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:14:49 +0000

Counterpoint: don't read the comments

New comment by drdrey in "The Last Technical Interview"

drdrey — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:03:43 +0000

> And it can pay for itself twice: once in real work shipped, and once again in something else you could probably use more of, which is gravity.

what?

New comment by drdrey in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

drdrey — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:45:35 +0000

as someone who doesn't know how to get better design out of LLMs, can you elaborate?

New comment by drdrey in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

drdrey — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:43:23 +0000

I have finally embraced squashing PRs and realized I wasted my youth trying to write Good Commits.

New comment by drdrey in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

drdrey — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:06:53 +0000

it's tribal, it feels good to rally against a common enemy

New comment by drdrey in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

drdrey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:55:16 +0000

good luck formally verifying everything

New comment by drdrey in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

drdrey — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:37:11 +0000

that ship has sailed

New comment by drdrey in "I’m joining OpenAI"

drdrey — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:05:52 +0000

for me it's that it works remotely and my kids can access it over Discord

New comment by drdrey in "Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era"

drdrey — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:59:16 +0000

this seems like what MCPs should have been from the beginning. If you think MCPs are better, can you explain why?

New comment by drdrey in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

drdrey — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:04:31 +0000

the problem with any approach like this based on usage metrics is that it will be abused to death

New comment by drdrey in "Claude Code CLI was broken"

drdrey — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:16:08 +0000

...but is it good?

New comment by drdrey in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

drdrey — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:01:33 +0000

have you tried adjusting the reasoning effort?

New comment by drdrey in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

drdrey — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:54:36 +0000

5.2-codex just came out. You could use codex with regular 5.2 for a week or so.

New comment by drdrey in "Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1"

drdrey — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:32:54 +0000

ok but these are details, the point is that the operators of the database are external, selfish and fluctuating

New comment by drdrey in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

drdrey — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:49:21 +0000

death before Jenkins

New comment by drdrey in "Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1"

drdrey — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:12:28 +0000

the big difference is the trust assumption, anyone can join or leave the network of nodes at any time

New comment by drdrey in "Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One"

drdrey — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:30:41 +0000

> you don’t have to follow the herd

meanwhile, OP's entire substack post denouncing hustle culture is about plugging his viral tweet and his ebook

New comment by drdrey in "Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial"

drdrey — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:53:07 +0000

it's hard to take the article seriously when the author relies on a fuckgit alias on a regular basis

New comment by drdrey in "Python's splitlines does more than just newlines"

drdrey — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:46:33 +0000

not every line is read from a file

New comment by drdrey in "Apps SDK"

drdrey — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:58:06 +0000

counterpoint: a lot of people around me just type "zillow" in google to access it, so maybe it's not absurd to refer to it by name in a chat interface