Hacker News: facundo_olano

The system I no longer know by heart

facundo_olano — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.antonsten.com/articles/the-system-i-no-longer-know-by-heart/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264541

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Lingering While the Agent Runs

facundo_olano — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://seanvoisen.com/thinking/2026-10-24-lingering-while-the-agent-runs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230872

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by facundo_olano in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"

facundo_olano — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:24:59 +0000

> If you want a reliable system you should know when to fail

I think the main problem is that most people pushing for heavy AI delegation either

1. Don’t really care about system reliability or 2. Don’t understand the difference between code and system, and assume that a system must be reliable if some automated checks pass

Markdown in /Src

facundo_olano — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:19:21 +0000

Article URL: https://htmx.org/essays/markdown-in-src/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787640

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by facundo_olano in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

facundo_olano — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:36:59 +0000

Peter Chan was the concept artist for this game (as well as several other LucasArts and Double Fine ones)

A group of Gandalfs protest outside the home of Peter Thiel in Argentina

facundo_olano — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:35:27 +0000

Article URL: https://dangerousminds.net/weird-news/gandalfs-protest-outside-the-home-peter-thiel-argentina/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345438

Points: 30

# Comments: 1

Jorge – minimal site generator with Markdown and org-mode support

facundo_olano — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:47:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/facundoolano/jorge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233637

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

facundo_olano — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110308

Points: 214

# Comments: 275

New comment by facundo_olano in "Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks"

facundo_olano — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:32:10 +0000

Most orgs never get to that scale

New comment by facundo_olano in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

facundo_olano — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:30:26 +0000

Absolutely annoying to have it assuming that I want to use this when I type workflow in the prompt. Like thats not already a thing in half of the software projects

New comment by facundo_olano in "--dangerously-skip-reading-code"

facundo_olano — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:18:11 +0000

Author here. I'm surprised to see this surfacing now. I just wanted to clarify, since apparently the post doesn't do a good job at it, that what I discussed there is not a methodology I advocate for. The point of the post was: ok, since there are organizations mandating to maximize speed by reducing time spent on typing code (or even mandating to maximize agents usage), is there a way we can meet that requirement while still preserving the rigor somewhere else?

This was a follow up to a previous article[1] and the pair tried to express what I still think today (using AI daily at work): every time I use AI for coding, to some capacity I'm sacrificing system understanding and stability in favor of programming speed. This is not necessarily always a bad tradeoff, but I think it's important to constantly remind ourselves we are making it.

[1] https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/