<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: eithed</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eithed</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:34:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eithed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eithed in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Be the change you want to see :)<p>I've created myself a pre-commit harness hook to explicitly discard superfluous or too lengthy comments. Within code-review I also added comment review as blockers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:52:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343821</link><dc:creator>eithed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eithed in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tests would have caught it = <a href="https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint</a> injection check</p>
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<p>The problem is that while I'm more efficient while utilising LLMs, I'm given more work. This is nothing new - it's just more spinning plates at the same time; previously though I'd just say "I have so many things I'm doing, I cannot accept anything more". Now I've more tasks that I'm waiting for response and need to keep track of.</p>
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<p>It's interesting that I had to close 3 popups just to read this article, two of them were for tracking cookies</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:46:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246229</link><dc:creator>eithed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eithed in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm looking at these reports and then at my sessions with Claude. In latest one, it got stuck in a loop fixing one thing and breaking another for 10 iterations, until I've noticed and gave it the insight. Or where it started continuously writing "echo", I don't know for what purpose. And I ask how, how can you not be the driver; how can you let these agents roam free and actually accomplish things.</p>
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<p>It's not cynical - I read it like that as well. My agent is more dangerous than your agent and all that jazz</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122907</link><dc:creator>eithed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eithed in "White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lol if Trump is convicted of treason because some researchers didn't get a grant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:15:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009105</link><dc:creator>eithed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eithed in "Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you suggesting that Europeans should continuously use third party models be it American, Chinese or whatever?</p>
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<p>The only place it make sense to me is the validation = at the route level you want to ensure that the given model exists / request attributes defining relationship (pivot), are there. This is how Laravel does this. Having said that this should be responsibity of domain rather than application</p>
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<p>Mostly agree with the author. Would add, most importantly, dont trust anything LLM does or says. Today I asked Claude to uniform behaviour of 3 components. I asked to do it 5 times, because at the end of each go there was something still unaligned that Claude found a way to rationalize. Sure - when asked the way it would say "This is on me", or "I thought it was a concious choice". Not once did it surface a question on what to do, nor did it mention any of the issues. So yeah, short leash, look at its thinking, correct his shit. This is today, Sonnet 5. Probably tomorrow it will be better or worse - thats another thing. The way you talk to Claude today will give you different results tomorrow</p>
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<p>Same; the most infuriating parts - Claude caused the issue and Claude misdiagnosed the issue, making me spend more time than if I was debugging it myself.</p>
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<p>Yes and no.<p>If I were to ask you - what convention you want to follow for your database columns - camelcase or snakecase? There's no correct <i>global</i> answer. There's no overarching truth that should apply to all databases in existence (even if you'll focus on a certain type of database). Hence the no.<p>But yes, because in the context of existing system there is a convention. If it's snakecase, you create new tables with snakecase column names.<p>LLMs will generally follow conventions, but sometimes they will not, because indeed - global truths (or at least, the "last article it read" truths) sometimes win over (I assume)</p>
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<p>I agree and indeed externalize everything you know *that matters*.<p>Want to follow certain pattern, or convention - define it, ie active record vs repository pattern, stick is as an ADR! You don't know what you want? Look at what Claude produces and then acquire taste, mark this as convetion that future sessions will follow, but stick to *one* convention!<p>Treat your LLMs as junior developers willing to apply various patterns willy nilly, caring only about fulfilling the ACs of given task and not about the longevity or well being of the system in general. They will not look at bigger picture to check if given pattern applies globally, or even if there are any other patterns.</p>
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<p>> They conflate domain expertise with coding expertise, and then assess that people with domain expertise demonstrate great success at coding tasks<p>I didn't read it as such - I read that people with expertise have more success in reaching the goal of the session. Still your point stands = how is this news?<p>What baffles me, is that expertise of writing code is not important and is hand waved away = non-technical person can reach their goal and the session will be deemed successful. They don't conflate that domain expert = developer, and they dismiss that expertise (ie. updating legal rules matters, not how they are implemented) so i'm confused. Shouldn't both matter?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:31:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582036</link><dc:creator>eithed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eithed in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for things they do and not being held accountable for their actions - politicians mostly; for example - currently in Poland there's a controversy around Zondacrypto (read here: <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/a-missing-investor-millions-crypto-the-poland-scandal-engulfing-donald-tusk-karol-nawrocki/" rel="nofollow">https://www.politico.eu/article/a-missing-investor-millions-...</a>); I'm so disillusioned that I believe nothing will come out of it - it will again be a case of "nobody did it, it just a thing that happened". Or our politicians escaping to Hungary (and USA) to avoid prosecution (and still being paid out money even though they're not in Poland and cannot possibly attend parlamentary sessions) where they'll live to spew hatred and how they were wronged. Sure, you did nothing wrong and these are just repressions, nevermind the millions that you stole during political campaign.<p>And generally people thinking about themselves and not considering that we're living in society: "let me blast music so that walls shake and fuck neighbours", "let me just leave my mattress here on the curb blocking the path, somebody will pick it up", "let me not clean after my dog shitting on the sidewalk", "I'm seeing people queuing to get on a train, let me just not notice the queue", "let me just walk down the street with my eyes on the phone, surely other people will accomodate me and get out of my way". This is the variation of the above, but to the civic level; just don't make lives of others harder.</p>
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<p>Is it enshittification, or is USA simply turning into fascist state?</p>
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<p>Leaving this here, as I couldn't leave it on authors blogpost:<p>I grew accustomed to these choices, so would navigate through them on autopilot. Once I was quick enough to get "We noticed suspicious activity indicating that you're a bot"; had to retry everything from beginning and hesitate when clicking :)</p>
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<p>Ah, I see what you mean now. Yes, my mind went straight to static analysis and testing (unit, feature, uat, mutation). Thanks for expanding on your point!</p>
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<p>Don't forget that LLMs are trained on human code. If they cannot understand what your code does then they cannot make changes to it, or at least - having them understand your codebase becomes expensive (more trips to Anthropic servers)</p>
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