Hacker News: greymalik

New comment by greymalik in "An Introduction to Obsidian"

greymalik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:46:58 +0000

> It's difficult to keep personal / business / team separate

I have one vault for personal, one for work. I open each one in a different window. They are both separate and easy to switch between.

New comment by greymalik in "Digg is gone again"

greymalik — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:42:40 +0000

I’m missing something. What’s the incentive for people to pay to upvote or comment?

New comment by greymalik in "Google Workspace CLI"

greymalik — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:57:58 +0000

Paste from markdown (Chrome only) works _really_ well for me. What are the extra steps you’re running into?

New comment by greymalik in "The Future of AI Software Development"

greymalik — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:17:18 +0000

The headline misrepresents the source. It’s not the title of the page, not the point of the content, and biases the quote’s context: “ if traditional software delivery best practices aren’t already in place, this velocity multiplier becomes a debt accelerator”

New comment by greymalik in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

greymalik — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:13:25 +0000

When there’s a gold rush, sell shovels.

New comment by greymalik in "There is an AI code review bubble"

greymalik — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:47:37 +0000

It very much depends on the product. In my experience, Copilot has terrible signal noise. But Bugbot is incredible. Very little noise and it consistently finds things the very experienced humans on my team didn’t.

New comment by greymalik in "Skills Officially Comes to Codex"

greymalik — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:04:08 +0000

I’m probably missing it, but I don’t see how you can share skills across agents, other than maybe symlinking .claude/skills and .codex/skills to the same place?

New comment by greymalik in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

greymalik — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:43:59 +0000

> Anthropic's recent switchboard operator

I don’t know what this is and Google isn’t finding anything. Can you clarify?

New comment by greymalik in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

greymalik — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:38:47 +0000

Cloud only. My employer is still on an ancient data center version. But you can easily write a cli that wraps the REST API.

New comment by greymalik in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

greymalik — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:33:05 +0000

As-is Gemini CLI and Codex. I run my CLIs in VSC and only using it as a file browser.

New comment by greymalik in "Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI"

greymalik — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:25:35 +0000

They will do it with needlessly complexity that is out of step with the competition, as they did with slash commands (toml) and extensions (skills-equivalent).

New comment by greymalik in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

greymalik — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:55:57 +0000

> One could only wonder why they became a programmer in the first place, given their seeming disinterest in coding.

To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself.

> careful configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments

That may be fun for you, but it doesn’t add value. It’s accidental complexity that I am happy to delegate.

New comment by greymalik in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

greymalik — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:13:33 +0000

How is it different from subagents?

New comment by greymalik in "Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023"

greymalik — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:08:01 +0000

I agree with that, but isn’t it also the case that if an employer raises wages enough to get the workers they need, they have to do some combination of passing those costs along to customers and reducing the benefits to shareholders, which in turn reduces their ability to remain a viable business and keep people employed? It’s a balancing act.

New comment by greymalik in "I only use Google Sheets"

greymalik — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:55:27 +0000

It’s amazing to me how well Fred Brooks’ insights from 50 years ago hold up (plan to throw one away, in this case).

New comment by greymalik in "Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]"

greymalik — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:29:00 +0000

It’s unclear which post you’re referring to - can you clarify which book you mean by “this book”?

New comment by greymalik in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

greymalik — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:11:18 +0000

It’s just programming. We don’t use a different word for writing code in an IDE either.

New comment by greymalik in "PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?"

greymalik — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:56:00 +0000

Why and why?

New comment by greymalik in "Designing NotebookLM"

greymalik — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:27:43 +0000

Somewhat related, I also find it bizarre that they all but prevent you from getting information out of the app. Export to/Open in Google Docs seems like a no-brainer, but copy-paste is the only option.

New comment by greymalik in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

greymalik — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:42:03 +0000

Why are you being cryptic about it?