Hacker News: gagege

New comment by gagege in "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0"

gagege — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:28:05 +0000

In my experience, this kind of thing is exactly what LLMs are good at, and fast at.

Here's a real example from my job as a BI dev. I needed to figure out how to get counts of incoming products from an ERP with a 1000+ table database schema in a data lake with 0 actual foreign keys. I sorta knew the data would need to come from the large set of "stock movements" tables, which I didn't know how to join, and I had no idea which rows from that table would be relevant to incoming product or even which fields to look at to even begin to determine that. I simultaneously asked a consultant for the ERP how to do it and asked Cursor a very basic "add the count of incoming units to this query" request.

Cursor gave me a plausible answer instantly, but I wasn't sure it was correct. When the consultant got back to be a few days later, the answer he gave was identical to Cursor's code. Cursor even thought of an edge case that the consultant hadn't.

It blew my mind! I don't know if Cursor just knows about this ERP's code or what, or if it ran enough research queries to figure it out. But it got it right. The only context I provided was the query I wanted to add the count to and the name of the ERP.

So, I 100% believe that, especially with something like MCP, the pull model is the right way. Let the LLM do the hard work of finding all the context.

New comment by gagege in "Gemini AI"

gagege — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:41:28 +0000

Microsoft and Google have traded places in this regard.

New comment by gagege in "Homage to Strong Bad"

gagege — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:19:40 +0000

"You shanked my jengaship."

"We're playing Connect 4."

New comment by gagege in "New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly"

gagege — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:03:20 +0000

This happened to my wife. It was torture for her for the first year. It's been almost 3 years now and she's just barely starting to enjoy food again. Most things taste fairly normal for her, but a few things, like mint, onions, and garlic, (which are in everything, unfortunately for her) are still wretched.

New comment by gagege in "The midwit home"

gagege — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:42:16 +0000

Indeed. Wanting things to be dead simple and not need to be fiddled with constantly and take months to learn how to set up is the big brained move. Same reason I switched to an iPhone. I don't have time to nerd out and customize Android till it's usable.

New comment by gagege in "How I stay motivated as a solo creator"

gagege — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:51:54 +0000

This is great advice, and applies to business as well. Make something people actually want.

New comment by gagege in "How I stay motivated as a solo creator"

gagege — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 22:45:18 +0000

I can have discipline, if I'm doing something for a purpose. Losing weight, getting a job, etc. My problem I always lose what the purpose of my solo project is. Or, I shoot so many holes in my own idea that I can't imagine it being useful to anyone.

New comment by gagege in "How I stay motivated as a solo creator"

gagege — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 22:40:22 +0000

I have the same problem. I see all these hackers out there making (something like) the millionth travel blog and sticking with it for years and somehow ending up making a decent income off of it. But I'm sitting here wondering if my potentially cool game idea that has never been done before is something that the world really needs, then I quit after about a week because of those thoughts.

What drives people?

New comment by gagege in "California passes bill to make it easier to delete data from data brokers"

gagege — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:56:33 +0000

So every 45 days, the CPPA will tell these companies to delete your data. I wonder how many people realize that that means the CPPA or these companies have to keep a record of some of your PII, so that they can look you up and delete you from the database. Maybe privacy conscious people are fine with the California government keeping their PII?

New comment by gagege in "Ideas That Changed My Life"

gagege — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:34:01 +0000

No, that’s not what I meant. I’m talking about reading books and lasting life changing things from them, and GP is right, I can guarantee the thing I have in mind probably won’t mean anything to you.

New comment by gagege in "Ideas That Changed My Life"

gagege — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:25:30 +0000

I very much disagree. Some of the biggest changes in my life were driven by the reading or hearing of a few words which suddenly made everything click. These moments led to huge behavior changes.

New comment by gagege in "Spotify's redesign isn't going down well"

gagege — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:36:08 +0000

I don’t know why people suggest Pandora as an alternative to Spotify. They’re completely different things. Unless something has changed in the last few years Pandora doesn’t let you listen to albums, or even songs by a single artist. It’s like radio, and Spotify is like a music library.

New comment by gagege in "Meta and Google are cutting staff"

gagege — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:42:13 +0000

IDK, I wouldn't be able to be distracted from the fact that I'm working for Lord Sauron.

New comment by gagege in "When I made another Monkey Island"

gagege — Tue, 03 May 2022 20:25:19 +0000

I played MI1 for the first time last year and I can tell you it's not just nostalgia. It's just a freaking great game.

New comment by gagege in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

gagege — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:44:10 +0000

I had the exact opposite and it was hilarious. Every time my manager (a great guy and really good at what he did) was away for a week the sprint would go very smoothly.

New comment by gagege in "F# is the best coding language today"

gagege — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:58:26 +0000

Bravo. Yeah, I learned my lesson.

New comment by gagege in "F# is the best coding language today"

gagege — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 15:19:33 +0000

I was that guy too at one job. It was wonderful to work on a few F# projects, but I have no doubt they quickly went away after I left.

New comment by gagege in "Driving with D"

gagege — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:19:14 +0000

I use D every day at work (inherited codebase) and the UFCS bothers me to no end. I try not to use it.

New comment by gagege in "DOOM Captcha"

gagege — Mon, 24 May 2021 21:50:34 +0000

If the aiming in this was only on the x axis, then what you said makes sense. Otherwise, I agree with OP, hitboxes are off.

New comment by gagege in "Why you should NOT use NativeScript"

gagege — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:29:20 +0000

Thank you, you're right. That's an important detail. I haven't tried any Flutter mobile apps, afaik.