Hacker News: drpotato

New comment by drpotato in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

drpotato — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:04:12 +0000

Have a single thought, please.

New comment by drpotato in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

drpotato — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:43:06 +0000

I am in a similar boat. Design and product use Claude to vibe design/code a feature/experience and rapidly prototype it, getting it in front of customers to get feedback with minimal engineering time. Amazing! However, you might be surprised to find out it hasn’t really helped us ship stuff faster overall.

The reason, I believe, is we’ve lost something along the way. Thinking. A non-trivial amount of which is now outsourced to a language model. It paints over the cracks in the prompt, hallucinates how things should work when unspecified, what would normally make someone stop and say “this isn’t quite working”, “how should I communicate this idea” or “what happens when…” has gone. Now, these details are left for after it’s been built proper.

Sure, we can improve the process and reflect more on how to utilise this new technique … but is it better than how things used to be? Yeah nah

New comment by drpotato in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

drpotato — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:34:46 +0000

> moving to technology X will solve problem Y

First time?

New comment by drpotato in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

drpotato — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:36:51 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks! This is a great write up and resonates with issues I encountered when trying to productionise a yjs backed feature.

New comment by drpotato in "Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio"

drpotato — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:06:00 +0000

Doesn't appear to work on Firefox or Safari — dialog closes immediately after opening.

New comment by drpotato in "New Tesla Model Y"

drpotato — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:33:15 +0000

Giving major Cylon vibes at the back there.

New comment by drpotato in "Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore"

drpotato — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:50:16 +0000

The original[1][2] articles are a better read IMO. The link is just a summary of the two with added spelling and grammatical errors that materially impact the meaning.

1. https://www.uber.com/blog/how-ledgerstore-supports-trillions...

2. https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-ledgers...

New comment by drpotato in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

drpotato — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:34:04 +0000

Do you have a source on that claim?

New comment by drpotato in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

drpotato — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:58:51 +0000

Get another job or use the money for counselling / therapy, your mental health is more important than the job.

Hell, maybe try work two jobs if you can!

New comment by drpotato in "Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder"

drpotato — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:23:12 +0000

Can weigh in here, we use pgtyped heavily at work and it’s really good. There are some constraints with the type inference on complex queries, but it’s a decent trade off IMO.

New comment by drpotato in "Things to know about databases"

drpotato — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:06:05 +0000

Have you looked at PostGraphile? It’s doesn’t have n + 1 or over-fetching issues.

New comment by drpotato in "Why do you waste so much time on the internet?"

drpotato — Fri, 06 May 2022 21:41:28 +0000

Mate, if you haven’t already, go talk with a therapist. I’ve struggled with avoidance my entire adult life – avoiding awkwardness, pain, risk, “bad”emotions, difficult conversations, conflict – and talking with a professional has really helped me.

New comment by drpotato in "PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL"

drpotato — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:44:04 +0000

Yes, quite a lot I would imagine. I use it extensively at work and similarly sql heavy software companies in the past. That being said, I’ve also worked at places where they’ve avoided it like the plague – largely because few people were competent at it – and were moving away from relational DBs due to scale.

New comment by drpotato in "Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains"

drpotato — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:07:33 +0000

> modern React, which clearly has no long-term future

Curious, why do you think that?

New comment by drpotato in "'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy"

drpotato — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 06:02:24 +0000

Strange… I found the cave full of monsters in Stardew Valley makes it seem way too hard to cut your way through slimes, skeletons and beings of darkness.