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New comment by geopsist in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

geopsist — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:47:26 +0000

I dont think you can get into flow easily - not talking from the dev pov but rather from growth. I find my self multi tasking like crazy and having to click yes yes yes in claude prompts :/ One way is to relax those permissions and have less interruptions. the other is to try and listen good music throughout.

New comment by geopsist in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

geopsist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:59:12 +0000

I've been a founder since before any of this existed, same flavor of small team then and now. What I see now is that anyone can produce more but less due to their skills from scratch (slop?). A big company sees the headlines and a CEO reads that as "fewer people", or force use of LLMs and people seeing it as a preparation for AI processes taking over (and rightfully so). But frankly probably for smaller teams it reads "same people, wider surface". Imo bad CEOs existed before AI and will exist in the future...

New comment by geopsist in "Ask HN: How are you preserving your skills while using AI?"

geopsist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:46:28 +0000

coming from a different pov, I was (am) systems engineer who never became a proper coder, then founder, now mostly product/growrth. So AI and agents dint erode a mastery i had, they gave me one i never had. What you describe though makes sense for the skills I did have and I see a dependency as well. Things I used to work out myself, even slowly, I now reach for the agent first by reflex. The speed effect is indeed there. I get anxiety many times that I don't understand subject matters or I learn them slowly. Haven't found a good way other than keeping some of the writing or critical judgment calls to me. On a happy note i try not to push LLMs at all to my kids as I start reading such dependencies happening there.

New comment by geopsist in "Claude Fable 5"

geopsist — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:05:23 +0000

the post is live now https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

New comment by geopsist in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

geopsist — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:25:39 +0000

considering my journey (systems engineer / not coder -> founder -> product growth) if you are in the "technical side of things" you probably do need a notion of coding. Maybe you don't need to be an expert in Node for instance but at least have some nuances when Claude Code gives you code snippets to run. A good example is having Codex tell me how to repair my car and me not having idea of what is it talking about (I don't, cars are a black box to me). So I believe technical affinity, and flexibility in grasping technical subjects and moving around them is the way to go. At least this is what i say to my kids but I am not Pythia the ancient Greek oracle in Delphi :P

We Benchmarked Claude Code, Codex, Semgrep, CodeQL, Trent on 28 CWE-Bench CVEs

geopsist — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:39:46 +0000

Article URL: https://trent.ai/blog/claude-code-codex-semgrep-codeql-trent-vs-cwe-bench-cve/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308084

Points: 6

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New comment by geopsist in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

geopsist — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:13:17 +0000

Non-engineer here, doing growth at a small company, using these tools on side projects as well. The thing i find expensive is how to trust the output. I am not a coder so i cant rate the code to know if it's right. I end up running a second model to check the first one's output or testing. That takes time as well :)

New comment by geopsist in "Have LLMs made anyone's life substantially better?"

geopsist — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:43:25 +0000

imo helped in a matter of things professionally, as i managed to increase my output by reducing blockers (seeing this not from an eng pov but from a growth/marketing perspective). Have definitely increase anxiety that i am left behind and i don't know the best and latest.

New comment by geopsist in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

geopsist — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:17:34 +0000

windows user, not a dev, engineer doing growth. I use Claude, codex, Gemini in my projects. The failure modes I hit far more are 2: an operational one, ie shell confusion. Claude executes commands that do not work or fail in cmd / PowerShell, permissions issues etc. In code (and marketing / growth stuff) i find it many times that i will ask from claude to verify the code it proposes with codex and then come back with the results. Depending on the task i may ask for consensus from the three models - thats fun!

New comment by geopsist in "Show HN: Trent – Contextual architectural security reviews inside Claude Code"

geopsist — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:52:20 +0000

I'm on the GTM side at Trent, not engineering. I've been running our agents on my own side projects while the team builds this (a euroleague fantasy league app, and an affilaite site). Happy to talk about what that's like from a non-security-engineer angle.

New comment by geopsist in "Tell HN: Do not include co-authored-by Claude in your commits"

geopsist — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:51:50 +0000

You can always configure it per ^^^. And anyone can search by that flag as well so eitherway it should be a good practice.

New comment by geopsist in "Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter"

geopsist — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:03:58 +0000

A lot of people are posting links to microphones/headphones/stream-decks/etc... My personal experience from a series of podcasts at home and with 2 kids, a super duper mic would not solve my problem. A lot of the audio issues you see at events and streams like these stem from bg noise, echo, no pop-filter, stream lag. It's usually a case of repair, not replacing equipment. New microphones bring risk potential with excessive gain, headphones can make you too self-conscious or focus on the wrong thing. Like, rather than spending X amount on a new setup, just use some tools/plugins in post - most can be ran through OBS live, despite initially seeming like a post-production technical thing. I lost a lot of time repairing my audio in various tools when software plugin bundles like this - https://accusonus.com/products/audio-repair/era-bundle-stand... -gave me a way better recording upgrade, as opposed to a new mic.