Hacker News: grandinquistor

New comment by grandinquistor in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

grandinquistor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:18:25 +0000

I mean you can still scale that? Ask a lighter model to go through every function to find vulnerabilities, take output to bigger model like Opus and classify the critical ones.

New comment by grandinquistor in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

grandinquistor — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:42:40 +0000

Car companies funded highway lobbies and conspired to dismantle public transportation options like street cars see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

New comment by grandinquistor in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

grandinquistor — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:37:16 +0000

I’m at Big tech and our org has our sights on automating product manager work. Idea generation grounded with business metrics and context that you can feed to an LLM is a simpler problem to solve than trying to automate end to end engineering workflows.

New comment by grandinquistor in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

grandinquistor — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:28:45 +0000

What? Over 183K books were pirated by these big tech companies to train their models. They knew what they were doing was wrong.

New comment by grandinquistor in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

grandinquistor — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:46:48 +0000

I’ve been using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) for React/React Native side projects. I have experience with these frameworks so I could guide the AI with individual tasks and catch mistakes, and overall it worked pretty well.

Recently I tried building a native iOS app with zero Swift experience, giving the AI just a markdown spec. This was basically vibe coding, I didn’t understand much beyond general software principles. It quickly broke down: hallucinated method signatures, got stuck on implementing extensions, and couldn’t recover. I would run the app on my device and give it feedback and logs. After hours wasted, I spent some time reading the docs and fixed the issues myself in 30 minutes.

My takeaway: AI will accelerate developers but won’t replace them. Still, acceleration means fewer engineers will be needed to ship the same amount of work.

New comment by grandinquistor in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

grandinquistor — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:46:12 +0000

I think music used for commercials, movie trailers etc will move to be AI generated (taking a revenue stream from artists into soul less corporations).

But for cases where music is the primary product, I don’t for see AI generated music overtaking anything

New comment by grandinquistor in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

grandinquistor — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:46:30 +0000

I think the answer to this is microbility bike/scooter sharing (ex: lime)

Trains to cover the longer distance and micro mobility options to get to exactly where you need to go

Show HN: I built an app to manage acid reflux after struggling with it for years

grandinquistor — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:05:26 +0000

Have been working on a side project to better manage my lifestyle changes to address my chronic acid reflux. Hope it can help others too.

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Ask HN: Competitor launched – reach out or keep going?

grandinquistor — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:49:33 +0000

I've been building an MVP for a startup idea after doing some market validation. It’s a solo side project (currently work full-time). I’ve put together a business plan and started development.

Just a few days ago, I discovered that another solo developer launched a beta tackling the exact same problem, with a similar approach. From what I can tell, they’re a recent grad and appear to be working on this full-time.

Now I’m unsure between two options:

1. Keep going and treat their launch as validation. The downside is they have a head start and more available time, so I risk playing catch-up.

2. Reach out and see if there’s an opportunity to team up. I have more experience, and while I don’t have a working product yet, I do have a solid business plan and partial development. I’m just not sure what kind of leverage or value proposition I’d be offering right now.

Has anyone here faced a similar situation? Any advice would be appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091983

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