Hacker News: gnz11

New comment by gnz11 in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

gnz11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:07:12 +0000

That is the bait and switch. The end goal is that you are out of the equation. Your perceived effectiveness at using AI as an exchange of labor diminishes over time to the point that you become irrelevant.

New comment by gnz11 in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

gnz11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:17:19 +0000

Adapting implies you are still a part of the environment though. AI is on a trajectory to replace you and take you out of the environment.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: How Do You Relax?"

gnz11 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:06:54 +0000

Force yourself to take time off work. You are human after all. Don’t feel guilty about sitting and doing nothing. Relaxation takes some time to set in, tell yourself you are just out of practice. The constantly online/being available culture we have isn’t sustainable.

New comment by gnz11 in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

gnz11 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:02:52 +0000

Wagtail is fantastic. Pretty much the go to Python-based CMS to use these days.

New comment by gnz11 in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

gnz11 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:49:08 +0000

It's OK to be critical of billionaires.

New comment by gnz11 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

gnz11 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:23:35 +0000

I'm sure there is a lot of nuance but long term healthcare outcomes are generally lower in the US compared to other countries. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...

New comment by gnz11 in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

gnz11 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:19:16 +0000

This is my experience as well. OP is parroting a common talking point from the groups that want to privatize education.

New comment by gnz11 in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

gnz11 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:07:04 +0000

Not to mention that we now know it appears to be especially detrimental during childhood learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U

New comment by gnz11 in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

gnz11 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:49:57 +0000

What’s your point? Journalists have jobs?

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?"

gnz11 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:08:58 +0000

Also litigation. I'd imagine there are a number of patent trolls in the space.

New comment by gnz11 in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

gnz11 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:15:46 +0000

My experience is that the folks in charge of spending and making decisions are looking at AI as another means of outsourcing. Payroll, ERPs and CRMs went from commodity software to subscription services and anything that is subscription based is getting scrutinized much more heavily now.

New comment by gnz11 in "What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?"

gnz11 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:25:25 +0000

I agree with you in the short term but what makes you think companies will even be asking AI to write bespoke software or setup any kind of infrastructure in the long term? Theoretically AI would handle all of this for you with much greater fidelity and accuracy than any human could manage. Any business processes would be handled by the AI which already has all of your corporate data. Why would I need a SaaS service when I could have the AI do the task or generate the answer? Why would I send data to a SaaS when I can just give it to the AI? Granted I don't believe we are anywhere close to such a scenario, but it seems to be the trajectory that we are on.

New comment by gnz11 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

gnz11 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:35 +0000

TBF, open source alternatives don't have the legions of sales teams wining and dining VPs to get the contracts.

New comment by gnz11 in "What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?"

gnz11 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:23:42 +0000

> No one wants to host, maintain, and be liable for shit other people can do better for less money.

I think the point is that AI will be able to do this better and cheaper than the SaaS companies.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: AI Depression"

gnz11 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:21:10 +0000

> You can just mute and ignore them

Agreed, but how do we get the VPs to mute and ignore? They seem to lap that stuff up.

New comment by gnz11 in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

gnz11 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:33:23 +0000

The blogger lists 6 years of experience on their homepage. Safe to take their opinions with a grain of salt.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place"

gnz11 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:32:03 +0000

If you drive, drive safely. Slow down in neighborhoods.

New comment by gnz11 in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

gnz11 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:49:49 +0000

When you pan out, walkable neighborhoods are at the multi generational scale — car centric suburbia is the fad.

New comment by gnz11 in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

gnz11 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:43:26 +0000

Those are often the expensive places.

New comment by gnz11 in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

gnz11 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:41:45 +0000

> management simply doesn't want to be responsible for it

The problem with this kind of thinking is that it strips away all nuance. At some point you have to be responsible for something ... otherwise you don't have a business. You are simply a wrapper around your SaaS providers and tightly coupled to their success. The key is knowing when to offload and when to keep it in house. Quite frankly, your average weekend MBA VP simply doesn't have the expertise to make these kinds of decisions. This is why so many VPs exit before things get bad.