Hacker News: flurdy

New comment by flurdy in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

flurdy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:12:04 +0000

> There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

New comment by flurdy in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

flurdy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:18:22 +0000

Ask one of the Ylvis brothers

New comment by flurdy in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

flurdy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:32:10 +0000

I was glad when linux went with the .config standard for most dotfiles.

New comment by flurdy in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

flurdy — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:17:52 +0000

That all random game and messaging sites now wants my kids' passport uploaded to some random 'id verification company' is madness.

But now instead, my 11 year old's Roblox thinks she is 18 because she wore glasses in their age verification webcam tool. And it can't be changed unless she uploads a passport, which I will never allow.

Please, gov.uk introduce a gov ID verification service? I could trust that, -ish, I have worked with public sector clients several times...

New comment by flurdy in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

flurdy — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:13:31 +0000

Only when chatting in a large channel at work, did I realise nearly 1/3 of the people there also set theirs as 1/1/1970. Which I presume is the first date that phisers will try to enter to reset people's accounts.

I am fully aware that my standard fake birthday is now used by me in some many places, that I have started to have a fake fake birhday. I should really just randomise and store it in my password manager.

But obviously the context of this OP story ruins all that.

New comment by flurdy in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

flurdy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:58:19 +0000

Many startups that build features which sit on top of Claude/ChatGPT/Codex, etc. And I think:

You are just one new feature announcement from Anthropic/OpenAI away from irrelevance.

Same as it was when people built their busineses on top of AWS a decade ago

New comment by flurdy in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

flurdy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:36 +0000

I may use my own skill to automate this... https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/revi...

New comment by flurdy in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

flurdy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:25:41 +0000

Are people still reading PRs in detail manually?

I am after the automated PR agents have all passed a PR I tend to let Claude Code and Codex give me a summary, with an MCP skill to read the requirement story. I trust their ability to catch edge cases and typos more than me. I just check the general structure of the PR

New comment by flurdy in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

flurdy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:02:27 +0000

It's the same reason why I have, for more than a decade, been so frustrated with people refusing to consider proper pair programming and even mob programming, as they view the need to keep people busy churning lines of code individually as the most important part of the company.

That multiple AI agents can now churn out those lines relatively nearly instantly, and yet project velocity does not go much faster, should start to make people aware that code generation is not actually the crucial cost in time taken to deliver software and projects.

I ranted recently that small mob teams with AI agents may be my view of ideal team setup: https://blog.flurdy.com/2026/02/mob-together-when-ai-joins-t...

New comment by flurdy in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

flurdy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:53:21 +0000

LOL, calling Scott Hanselman a 'VP of something' is funny. Been listening to his stuff for years, even when I despised MS. Always seems genuinely nice. Probably one of the main reasons I these days have a more positive image of Microsoft.

Mob Together: When AI Joins the Team

flurdy — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:57:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.flurdy.com/2026/02/mob-together-when-ai-joins-the-team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915979

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

YAGNI × 100 with AI

flurdy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:30:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.flurdy.com/2026/02/yagni-100-with-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899431

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flurdy in "Agent Skills"

flurdy — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:29:04 +0000

It's why I wrapped my tiny skills repo with a script that softlink them into whichever is your skills folder, defaulting to Claude, but could be any other.

I treat my skills the same as I would write tiny bash scripts and fish functions in the days gone to simplify my life by writing 2 words instead of 2 sentences. Tiny improvement that only makes sense for a programmer at heart.

[1] https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills

New comment by flurdy in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

flurdy — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:46:58 +0000

But it is also really good. I love the completely enclosed platforms, ie shielded from the track and train by a glass wall/doors, like the Jubilee line, but all the way to the ceiling. This makes it both safe and very quiet.

Though the platforms are huge, as the trains are long, you have to really make a conscious decision on which exit to use as they come up very far from each other. Unlike other tube stations, where if you don't pick the most optimal exit, you just have to cross the road.

New comment by flurdy in "Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?"

flurdy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:19:43 +0000

I was so confused. Why is domain driven design especially good for debugging? I guess context is bound within the models... And then all the other comments were just talking about debugging tools. Glad I was not the only one.

New comment by flurdy in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

flurdy — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:45:29 +0000

This smells like Claude's own version of Gas Town by Steve Yegge. Probably more constrained and less of a crazy bull ride.

But seems we are heading this way, from initially:

- a Senior Dev pairing with Junior Dev (2024/25)

- a tech lead/architect in charge of several Developers (2025)

- a Product Owner delegating to development teams (2026?)

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- https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

- https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

AI Agent Filed an Issue as Me

flurdy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nibzard.com/agent-identity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704393

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by flurdy in "The Antarctic Snow Cruiser"

flurdy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:29:51 +0000

Also that they only built one. I think most people with experince of trips in heavy snow conditions or any mountain trip know you go in at least pairs. 2 snowmobiles, 2 dog sleds, etc, so if one gets stuck, the other can help pull it out, or go get help. As you always get stuck.

New comment by flurdy in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

flurdy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:24:02 +0000

Comparing renting a new type of car when you have to figure everything out for 2 days then return it, to owning a car, where you also have to figure everything out, but only for the first days, not the 600 days afterwards, is not really comparable.

Also, when you own a car you charge it at home and work, so you don't really wait for the car to charge very often.

And the next time you rent a car, it will be a bit simpler as you have done it once before. And even quicker/simpler the time after that etc.

New comment by flurdy in "The Antarctic Snow Cruiser"

flurdy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:16:07 +0000

It was built in Chicago. They could have just tested a bit North of Chicago. Wisconsin sees a fair amount of snow, and probably would not have needed to go all the way to Canada before the shortcomings were obvious.