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The Great Software Quality Collapse (2025)

ebcode — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841506

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ebcode in "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons"

ebcode — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:06:00 +0000

It's still in beta, and I'm hoping to get more feedback, so feel free to post in the issues or reach out directly if you run into any problems.

New comment by ebcode in "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons"

ebcode — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:38:09 +0000

I’m working on a tool that is a more token-efficient code search than grep. I don’t have hard numbers yet, but it’s been working for me to get longer sessions. https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder

New comment by ebcode in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

ebcode — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:21:32 +0000

so, “yes false Scotsman”?

New comment by ebcode in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"

ebcode — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:37:58 +0000

That’s why we’ve got the tenth.

New comment by ebcode in "Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns"

ebcode — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:42:45 +0000

Can anyone tell me what Yegge is on, so I can try some? Is it just money/tokens?

New comment by ebcode in "[dead]"

ebcode — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:48:39 +0000

too bad about all the ads, this is an excellent comparison of the ends of both Dutch and American empires

New comment by ebcode in "Palantir Crashes Out in Response to GN [video]"

ebcode — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:27:40 +0000

Mr. Smith (GN) goes to Washington (Palantir).

New comment by ebcode in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

ebcode — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:30:53 +0000

SourceMinder: A “code index” tool that finds symbols in a codebase and creates a single table sqlite database for the index. It uses tree-sitter to parse the AST and add the symbols and what they are (function, class, argument, etc) to the db. I currently have it working with TypeScript, C, Go and PHP. I’m working on adding Perl next, after someone requested it here on HN.

https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder

New comment by ebcode in "Show HN: SourceMinder, a Context Aware Code Search for Solo Devs and Claude Code"

ebcode — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:28:35 +0000

Yep! Java, Perl, and Ruby are all on the to-do list. I’ll start with Perl since you asked. And it takes me about two weeks to implement a new language. Check back in January.

Show HN: SourceMinder, a Context Aware Code Search for Solo Devs and Claude Code

ebcode — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:08:39 +0000

Hello HN. Here's the TLDR from the linked blog post: After running into context window issues on my first two projects, I developed a tool for making Claude Code use fewer tokens by creating an indexer that provides context in the search results. Built with sqlite and tree-sitter, it currently supports the following languages: C, Go, PHP, Python, and TypeScript. Get the code here: https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder

Happy to answer any questions about it here, and open to critical feedback. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46308512

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by ebcode in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

ebcode — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:03:55 +0000

Good luck!

New comment by ebcode in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ebcode — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:17:15 +0000

> A 10% improvement every month gets to be a 10x improvement in (math...)

1.1^24=9.85, so yeah, if you could reliably get a 10% speed-up each month, you’d get to 10x in roughly 2 years. (But I’d expect the speed-up per month to be non-linear.)

New comment by ebcode in "50 years of proof assistants"

ebcode — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:18:30 +0000

I picked these up at a used bookstore ages ago, since they had the three-volume set. My recommendation would be to familiarize yourself with just the table of contents that’s printed on the binding, and when you come across something adjacent in your day-to-day work (e.g. Search), review the papers in that section. Those books are an excellent snapshot of the field at the time.

New comment by ebcode in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

ebcode — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:55:15 +0000

low-effort comment with ad hominem and zero rationale. fairly toxic.

New comment by ebcode in "Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)"

ebcode — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:44:09 +0000

The header file does most of the work. I submitted the output of gcc -E (preprocessor only) to ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/69093ba2-ae74-8006-abbb-5c7f24be23... -- and I found out about "tagged pointers".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_pointer

New comment by ebcode in "What GPU pricing can tell us about how the AI bubble will pop"

ebcode — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:11:07 +0000

https://archive.is/aHuRO

New comment by ebcode in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ebcode — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:55:42 +0000

No, not yet. I'm planning on a proper Show HN, once C and PHP are implemented. But if you want to be updated when I release it, I just created an empty repo for it here: https://github.com/ebcode/indexer-c

New comment by ebcode in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ebcode — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:14:12 +0000

A “code index” tool that finds symbols in a codebase and creates a single table sqlite database for querying. It’s my second month using Claude Code, and I see a common pattern where Claude tries to guess patterns with grep, and often comes back with empty results. I’m writing the tool to prevent these fruitless searches. Using tree-sitter to parse the AST and add the symbols and what they are (function, class, argument, etc) to the db. I have it working with TypeScript, and am working on adding C and PHP.

New comment by ebcode in "Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context"

ebcode — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:46:40 +0000

Claude’s memory function adds a note to the file(s) that it reads on startup. Whereas this tool pulls from a database of memories on-demand.