Hacker News: eddieroger

New comment by eddieroger in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

eddieroger — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:51:50 +0000

> Hey, Z, how's it going?

People have had "weird" or out of the norm nicknames forever. Where do you think nicknames come from?

New comment by eddieroger in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

eddieroger — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:02:43 +0000

What happens when your engineer realizes they can make 10x more at another company? They leave and work stops. You then hire someone else or raise your pay to get better, more reliable engineers. The analogies keep going because AI is a tool, not a replacement. If it's a tool used by a non-technical person, so be it, but it's still just a tool.

New comment by eddieroger in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

eddieroger — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:50:52 +0000

Open your wallet and pay someone who can? We used to call those technical cofounders, right?

New comment by eddieroger in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

eddieroger — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:50:44 +0000

Formatters and linters fix the mistakes made by people who know what they're doing. They do nothing to teach someone how to do something for the first time in a way that supports comprehension, only regurgitation.

New comment by eddieroger in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

eddieroger — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:37:27 +0000

Help desks and canned replies - if a user complains about X, respond with Y. We used to just have humans do it, but turns out machines can do that bit, too, especially if the question is relatively simple or asked a lot or has an answer not up for debate.

New comment by eddieroger in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

eddieroger — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:03:24 +0000

I'm kind of feeling similarly, albeit I've been a Lifetime holder for a while now. So on the other side of the coin is what it would take for me to finally leave. In retrospect, Plex has probably been work $750 for the way I've used it, which I've been doing for easily 15 years now, but if I was not currently a Lifetime subscriber, I'm not sure I'd see the value. That said, I don't want to move platforms, nor do I want to have to set up the family members who steam from my server on something else.

New comment by eddieroger in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

eddieroger — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:29:41 +0000

I disagree it's a cop-out, but I agree it's hard to get good at writing prompts and takes a lot of effort. But so is programming. We're trading one skill set for another and getting a bigger return on it.

I started as a skeptic and have similarly drank the kool-aid. The reality is AI can read code faster than I can, including following code paths. It can build and keep more context than I can, and do it faster as well. And it can write code faster than I can type. So the effort to learn how to tell it what to do is worthwhile.

New comment by eddieroger in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

eddieroger — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:45:09 +0000

> If I know the answer to all these questions, wiring it together takes me LESS time than passing it to Claude Code.

That's just not true, and if it is in your case, then you're not great at writing prompts yet.

> Take the todo_items table in Postgres and build a Micronaut API based around it. The base URL should be /v1/todo_items. You can connect to Postgres with pguser:pgpass@1.2.3.4

That's about all it takes these days. Less lines of code than your average controller.

New comment by eddieroger in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

eddieroger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:13:15 +0000

You're right, I didn't, because that isn't the measure of his leadership, which was my whole point.

> All that matters seems to be "did the line go up?"

Exactly.

New comment by eddieroger in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

eddieroger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:51:32 +0000

Is Zuckerberg retiring already? I'd gladly same the same about him then. But this isn't about any of those companies.

New comment by eddieroger in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

eddieroger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:49:57 +0000

I'm not going to argue your wants with you because they are your own. Don't buy Apple products if you don't like the way they operate as a company. I don't particularly care for appeasing the administration, either, but it's not like Cook broke the system, so I'm not going to dance on his retirement over it.

Where can I get my gold bar, please?

New comment by eddieroger in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

eddieroger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:37:24 +0000

It is so easy to sit on and critique from the sidelines. Steve Jobs had a passion for product, and it showed - he pushed the teams to make things he approved of, and that was the measure. Tim Cook had a passion for growth, and as the article states, Apple's income now rival some GDPs. They're different people with different drives. In fact, Jobs told Cook not to do what he would do, but do the right thing, and to Cook that was grow the company. I'd love to see the critics do better.

New comment by eddieroger in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

eddieroger — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:22:59 +0000

That adds up over time, though, and it works in reverse. AI will always be able to read and write faster than a person can. You may be able to write the script, but in the time it would take to /literally/ write it, you're on to the next thing. And if that script is actually a feature that spans two or three or 10 files, now you're really cooking.

New comment by eddieroger in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

eddieroger — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:45:37 +0000

I say please and thank you to Siri. May I also be on the nice list?

New comment by eddieroger in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

eddieroger — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:33:28 +0000

Do they know who you are? They're the guys who are going to blow your house up ... with the lemons.

New comment by eddieroger in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

eddieroger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:13:51 +0000

`ollama serve` and `ollama run`

The devex is great and familiar to folks who have used Docker. Reading through the Lemonade documentation, it seems like a natural migration, but we're talking about two steps for getting started versus just one. So I'd need a reason to make that much change when I'm happy enough with Ollama.

New comment by eddieroger in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

eddieroger — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:05:48 +0000

I feel very torn between the “make something” or “buy a Slylight” decision, so I’m curious what makes it better in your eyes, so much so that you don’t think it’s worth attempting anymore. I’m struggling to justify a monthly fee for what I perceive is a daily calendar view with chores.

New comment by eddieroger in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

eddieroger — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:03:20 +0000

There’s nothing stopping both from happening together.

New comment by eddieroger in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

eddieroger — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:29:13 +0000

Its presence on Hacker News and Reddit tells you that the folks who use Hacker News and Reddit are fed up with the keyboard. Most people don't care. Tech nerds do, and that's not nothing, but it's not necessarily a majority either. No one I know outside of tech brings up the keyboard to me, ever.

New comment by eddieroger in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

eddieroger — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:06:11 +0000

No it doesn't. I live in a planned neighborhood in the suburbs. I can walk to a branch of my local library, a few restaurants, a bar, a bookstore, I even get my haircut in my neighborhood. And even if none of that existed, nothing has stopped me from being friends with my neighbors, or the parents of my kid's friends. The suburbs are a different model with tradeoffs, but they're also useful for periods and phases of life different from the ones served by urban settings.