Hacker News: gashmol

New comment by gashmol in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

gashmol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:59:12 +0000

Yes it is, but timing is key. Not too early and not too late.

New comment by gashmol in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

gashmol — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:26:35 +0000

Blaming the user again aren't we?

New comment by gashmol in "Tell HN: Somebody please make a faster task management system"

gashmol — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:21:54 +0000

Patience.

New comment by gashmol in "Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers?"

gashmol — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:01:17 +0000

You can do user testing and have developers watch.

New comment by gashmol in "Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering"

gashmol — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:59:59 +0000

Aside - It's funny to me how many developers still don't like to call their craft engineering and how fast LLM users jumped on the opportunity.

Ask HN: When the AI bubble is going to crash?

gashmol — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:27:48 +0000

Following the underwhelming release of chatgpt5 do you think the AI bubble is going to crash soon?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944327

Points: 4

# Comments: 10

New comment by gashmol in "Architecting large software projects [video]"

gashmol — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:57:29 +0000

I'm pretty sure every engineering field calls it designing. Perhaps software devs feel a need to inflate what they actually do.

New comment by gashmol in "Architecting large software projects [video]"

gashmol — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:10:20 +0000

Aside - Why do we need the word "architecting" anyway? Why not just use designing?

New comment by gashmol in "Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?"

gashmol — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:35:41 +0000

In no particular order: Decide on the scope in advance. Beat procrastination. Beat perfectionism.

Ask HN: Will AI push more of us into freelancing?

gashmol — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 10:20:52 +0000

AI tools are automating bigger pieces of software work every month. Do you think that will shift the market away from traditional full-time roles toward contract or freelance gigs?

What’s your current setup (full-time, freelance, hybrid, student, between jobs, etc.)?

How do you expect AI to change that balance over the next few years, and why?

Curious to hear your experiences, predictions, or any data points you’ve come across.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766334

Points: 16

# Comments: 16

New comment by gashmol in "Ask HN: How do you build B2B software that pays living expenses?"

gashmol — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:06:00 +0000

Ideas don't make money, businesses do.

New comment by gashmol in "The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter"

gashmol — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:03:39 +0000

That would be imperfect.

New comment by gashmol in "Is there a way to get a .com domain, or this is it?"

gashmol — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:12:20 +0000

IMHO there are plenty of available and cheap .com domains but you have to be creative. From my experience ai tools aren't creative enough for coming up with unique and good sounding names.

New comment by gashmol in "Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need"

gashmol — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:51:31 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

New comment by gashmol in "Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need"

gashmol — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:27:45 +0000

They are refering to a meme a Dutch guy created

New comment by gashmol in "How should software engineers adapt to AI-driven layoffs?"

gashmol — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:59:01 +0000

The layoffs and/or pay cuts are coming this year.

I don't see companies keeping large engineering head counts when they can get working software in minutes from specs.

So, I suggest you become better in writing software specs.

Writing specs is safe for the foreseeable future because:

1. There is still no ai architecture that is comparable to human brain other than rot memory.

2. There is no enough data to train a model from such architecture if and when it's invented.

New comment by gashmol in "Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language"

gashmol — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:38:43 +0000

I thought it's related to the simplex method in linear programming

New comment by gashmol in "Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?"

gashmol — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:28:47 +0000

So far I've managed to overcome the itch to write my own solution for this problem. It is tempting though.

New comment by gashmol in "Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?"

gashmol — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:37:06 +0000

How do you handle deadlines and setbacks?

New comment by gashmol in "Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?"

gashmol — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:11:22 +0000

Trello was the first tool I used. Drag & drop and the whole UI was fun but it's hard to see the big picture.