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New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?"

fullstick — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:26:34 +0000

I'm finding there is a lot of stuff I can do that has no connection to AI. I've been climbing and drawing and journaling and gardening and going to live concerts, and AI only gives me more motivation to do these things.

For doing tech stuff... Yeah I don't know. Amateur radio is techy without a lot of AI.

New comment by fullstick in "They See Your Photos"

fullstick — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:50:57 +0000

It also suggested my income is about a 3rd of what it really is, but the lower income is more inline with the stereotype.

New comment by fullstick in "They See Your Photos"

fullstick — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:48:58 +0000

The description it generated is a stereotype of who I am. It did correctly asses that I'm white though.

New comment by fullstick in "Why doesn't HN have a mobile app?"

fullstick — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:07:44 +0000

How is a mobile app you have to install from a third party more convenient and accessible than a website in a browser?

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

fullstick — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:07:36 +0000

I do, general license in US.

New comment by fullstick in "Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era"

fullstick — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:29:01 +0000

I'm not sure that's related to llms. Corporate speak has been a thing forever. How do you say a lot without really saying anything? You use cross horizontal collaboration to capitalize on vertical integration capabilities. This allows teams to synergize fully without having to loop in unnecessary resources.

New comment by fullstick in "How will OpenAI compete?"

fullstick — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:45:56 +0000

They are more easily moved than other data honestly. You can use chat gpt to build your own chatbot and then export all of your data from openai and load it into the new chatbot.

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

fullstick — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:40:43 +0000

Yes. My TI-30X has been in my backpack since I started college 17 years ago. It still works flawlessly every time I pull it out

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?"

fullstick — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:31:13 +0000

IMO the bar for success and security is a lot lower when the app is serving one person and it's the person who built it.

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?"

fullstick — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:29:31 +0000

Near/long-term non-corporate benefits I see in AI is the decentralizing of apps. Rather than relying on an app store or having someone build it for us, we can build simple apps that do what we need and don't hand over information to other entities.

Not everyone will make their own apps, but many will and supplement their commercial apps. Like making bread instead of buying it at a store.

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

fullstick — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:10:39 +0000

It works on my repos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by fullstick in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

fullstick — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:04:56 +0000

It feels like all of the "patriots" joined ICE.

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: How is your work making the world a better place?"

fullstick — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:33:53 +0000

Mine helps energy companies make better decisions faster. I suppose this helps supply keep up with demand.

Most of my better place activities are through volunteering and being actively decent to strangers.

New comment by fullstick in "Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything"

fullstick — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:16:54 +0000

I like it when the conversation is new sometimes.

New comment by fullstick in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

fullstick — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:47:06 +0000

I doubt anyone I know who is using llms outside of work knows that there are benchmark tests for these models.

New comment by fullstick in "What do you guys do to improve your focus?"

fullstick — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:42:58 +0000

I go to therapy and she is constantly asking me how I feel and sort of guiding my breathing.

I go to Krav Maga also and sometimes we're going pretty hard and fast striking repeatedly. It can be so tiring, but I find I can enter a zone where I am breathing deeply and slowly while going even faster or harder after I've noticed that I'm tired.

Probably summed up with "Breath Work".

New comment by fullstick in "Ask HN: How are senior SWEs using AI?"

fullstick — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:43:55 +0000

I am a lead software engineer with 12 years of experience and a recent master's degree in cybersecurity.

I use GitHub CoPilot everyday. I usually limit it to a fancy auto-complete. It's really helpful for repetitive refactor tasks, I just have to go to each line and it updates. This way I still see what's happening, but it is faster than manually making those changes that can't be solved with a find and replace.

Sometimes I fight CoPilot because it will continue to suggest something I do not want to do. In those instances I code faster as to outpace the AI's latency.

Other devs are building MCP servers to help access our tools for AI integration. Devops seems heavy on spec driven and test driven development through AI. The spec driven development looks interesting, but a bit of overhead to get started.

Our company has an AI first directive right now where we're supposed to use AI for everything and see what works. I somewhat disdain it, but it's also fun to have a directive to try new things indiscriminately (using AI). The more I drink the Kool aid, the better it tastes.

New comment by fullstick in "Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?"

fullstick — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:31:39 +0000

How do you know there are "literally zero homeless folks" in your area?

New comment by fullstick in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble"

fullstick — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:47:52 +0000

We're building AI workflows at my company. Yes chatbots, but also more interesting/complex workflows that I won't get into. Let's just say we have the data, expertise, and industry structure to leverage AI in valuable and useful ways.

As an engineer, development still comes down to requirements gathering, solid engineering principles, and the tools we already have at our disposal - network calls, rendering the UI, orchestrating containers and job, etc.

All that is to say that I thought AI was going to be sexy, like Westworld, and not so boring...

New comment by fullstick in "Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)"

fullstick — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:12:19 +0000

So they're having Claude run a shop without having Claude pay the people doing the physical labor of restocking? This bodes well for the future...