Hacker News: foolserrandboy

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

foolserrandboy — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:21:57 +0000

yup, the standard way of thinking about agents seems backwards and probably costly. Use LLMs to write scripts, then stick all your scripts in your own looping harness and call out for LLMs for those parts that are too hard to automate with some deterministic validation at the end.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:42:28 +0000

Can you describe how you work in this higher level? Sounds like scratches a similar itch that traditional programming offers.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:47:13 +0000

See payolla for the radio era equivalent.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:46:27 +0000

When reading this I immediately thought of them. Anyone I know who plays an instrument said their socials are flooded with them.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:52:21 +0000

Are they admitting they may be enslaving conscious beings?

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:07:57 +0000

Yup, strange to see people still don’t understand LLMs massively speed up coding greenfield pet projects. Anytime you see a bee web app it’s better to assume AI use rather than not anymore.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:00:29 +0000

It actually gives you warning in an overlay first that the favicon would change if you open a new tab. I did and I got "zuckerberg nudes"

New comment by foolserrandboy in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:36:03 +0000

The executives are, not the devs.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "LLMs can be exhausting"

foolserrandboy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:00:55 +0000

Yup, and we arr wasting our weekends worried about keeping pace in an imagined red queen's race. Another similar post today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:56:47 +0000

they fantasize about unpaid interns writing specs and nobody ever needed to look at the code in a few years

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Codegen is not productivity"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:40:18 +0000

New comment by foolserrandboy in "The Brand Age"

foolserrandboy — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:34:10 +0000

https://www.econtalk.org/seiko-swatch-and-the-swiss-watch-in...

New comment by foolserrandboy in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:22:12 +0000

Isn’t this the type of work interns used to do? Prototype hackathon type things?

New comment by foolserrandboy in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

foolserrandboy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:06:14 +0000

Are ethnic Chinese from Taiwan still allowed? If so it's probably just about the US' geopolitical rivals not being allowed perceived competitive advantages.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days"

foolserrandboy — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Probably many SICP or "Write Yourself A Scheme" readers have pushed basic scheme compilers to GH.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

foolserrandboy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:23:04 +0000

We know because we're not shooting rockets at them.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

foolserrandboy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:58:53 +0000

I get the following on safari on iOs: A problem repeatedly occurred on (url)

New comment by foolserrandboy in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

foolserrandboy — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:12:45 +0000

The people of the US mostly wouldn’t like it the people of VZ mostly did and consider Maduro a thug who lost and stayed in power not their president. Ideologies like Paul have trouble with exceptions to their world view.

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

foolserrandboy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:25:25 +0000

I thought it was RFK

New comment by foolserrandboy in "Danish postal service to stop delivering letters"

foolserrandboy — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:47:04 +0000

Will companies be willing to pay more to send junk mail if it is no longer largely subsidized? In this regard it could be a good thing assuming they don’t already have a regulation against junk mail there.