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New comment by gits997 in "Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?"

gits997 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:15:35 +0000

Not a code specific review - claude catches more than humans do.

But in cases where context lives in peoples heads, its hard for ai to know whats going on snd whats the main goal of this code chanhe.

if the context is given (or documented somewhere claude has access to) + context of company is not too big ti consume it, there is no use in human review imo.

New comment by gits997 in "Show HN: Is AI Dumber Today? An index of AI model experience from user's opinion"

gits997 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:11:02 +0000

Concept looks great but you just have reddit comments written with no reference to actual comment. How am I gonna know whether its real or made up comment?

For users to trust, Id suggest add links to origin comments and posts and likewise, somehow indicate where and what you scraped so that users know its not a biased channel or fake sentiment

New comment by gits997 in "Ask HN: Why was my Show HN flagged?"

gits997 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:46:38 +0000

Sorry but is it still a promotion if I started an open source, have absolutely no commercial benefit from it and think it may be genuinely useful and helpful for people?

It's like telling linus torvalds to not talk about Linux because its "promotion" (not comparing myself or the scale but principally its exactly like that)

Ask HN: Why was my Show HN flagged?

gits997 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:07:31 +0000

My Show HN was flagged shortly after posting, please help me understand why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292975

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296706

Points: 2

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New comment by gits997 in "Show HN: I built an AI tool that generates click-worthy YouTube thumbnails"

gits997 — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:18:01 +0000

No, I use existing model(s) as a base along with LLMs to: 1. enhance the prompt and add technical details that are important for high quality thumbnails (e.g. high contrast image) 2. validate the generated images and choose the best one.

New comment by gits997 in "Show HN: I built an AI tool that generates click-worthy YouTube thumbnails"

gits997 — Thu, 29 May 2025 19:49:58 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Appreciate the interest.

I did the experiment for my fantasy youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@AIBookBytes) and CTR increased from 1.2% to 2% which for me was a huge deal.

This is probably not the tool for super high subscriber youtube channels but from amateurs to mid size youtube channels could be very helpful. Obviousy it is clear that it's AI generated by many channels use that and still are successful. As long as expressions are clear and text is bold and visible, should be good.

Show HN: I built an AI tool that generates click-worthy YouTube thumbnails

gits997 — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:21:29 +0000

Hey HN! Software engineer here. As an amateur youtuber, I've been struggling with thumbnails, especially since I don't have any design or editing skills.

Decided to give it a try and make my own automatic thumbnail generator. Me being an ADHD person, made sure that there's no parameter tuning and shape choosing and fuss like that, just simply give prompt and generate thumbnail.

Increased my CTR from 1.2% to 2.3% (faceless fantasy books niche on youtube)

Thumbnail X (completely free for now) - https://thumbnailx.com/

Just wanna add that this is by no means a perfect thumbnail maker for huge YouTube moguls with millions of subscribers but I'm sure it's gonna be extremely helpful for beginner youtubers and medium size channels struggling with thumbnails.

Tools used: 1. Cursor for development (shoutout to claude oppus 4.0) 2. Few image generators (primarily ideogram, but leonardo ai, deep ai and gpt 4o as fallbacks) 3. Few llms (chatgpt, claude, gemini for validating images and prompt enhancement) 4. AWS and Redis for storage & caching 5. Digital ocean for hosting and db 6. Python

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120787

Points: 5

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