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New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: When to Open a Beta?"

growbell_social — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:38:04 +0000

works !== production quality imo

New comment by growbell_social in "Modern Node.js Patterns"

growbell_social — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:21:49 +0000

I'm just happy to see Node.js patterns as a #1 on HN after continually being dismissed from 2012-2018.

New comment by growbell_social in "Show HN: I Taught an LSTM to Trade So I Could Sleep Better at Night"

growbell_social — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:46:52 +0000

How many people have tried it out so far? We're building something in a tangentially related space (backtesting) and love the idea.

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

growbell_social — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:43:00 +0000

haha. I've been writing code professionally for a very long time. The vibe-coded comment in my original post wasn't really necessary I guess. There's still plenty of design/logic/architecture to be done to ensure robustness.

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: When to Open a Beta?"

growbell_social — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:34:09 +0000

No concern with chasing away potential early adopters?

Ask HN: When to Open a Beta?

growbell_social — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:21:51 +0000

Looking for general advice on when to open up a Beta. There's a balance between features/polish and getting early feedback.

We have ~tens of people on our waitlist and are interested in how experienced companies/founders manage their Beta releases.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779426

Points: 4

# Comments: 6

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?"

growbell_social — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:15:26 +0000

Many of these still exist today, though is not as large of numbers. Maybe it's the same for software engineers. I still don't recall hearing of bank tellers accelerating the pace of ATMs or Travel Agents encouraging their clients to use Expedia.

New comment by growbell_social in "Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming"

growbell_social — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:59:52 +0000

> At this point, I’ve even stopped reviewing the exact code changes. I just keep pushing forward until the task is done.

I think this is becoming more normal. I wrote about it [1], but I have the opposite takeaway. This makes programming for me _vastly more_ enjoyable. It might come down to the type of programming you do.

1. Do you build and ship whole products? 2. Do you work mostly on non-user facing code (backend etc)

I'd be interested to know which of these you work on.

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/growbell/p/i-dont-care-what-th...

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?"

growbell_social — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:29:19 +0000

I don't disagree it's a naive take, and I would love to read about some examples where this happened.

I haven't seen too many industries be automated away first hand, and I'm sure there are historic examples. I wouldn't expect the lamp lighters to have been championing the rise of electric lamps. Maybe they did though because it meant they could work less hours.

Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?

growbell_social — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:22:00 +0000

Amidst the nascent concerns of AI replacing software engineers, it seems a proxy for that might be the amount of code written at OpenAI by the various models they have.

If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend. I personally don't view it as a threat, but some people (non engineers?) obviously do.

I'd be curious if any OpenAI engineers can share a rough estimate of their day to day composition of human generated code vs AI generated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553379

Points: 68

# Comments: 67

New comment by growbell_social in "I Messed Up My Google PM Vibe Coding Interview"

growbell_social — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:28:07 +0000

I expect this to become standard for many roles. This is the future. It's hard to say when or how but for anyone who has spent > 6 months, interacting with LLMs on a daily basis, it's clear this is the way.

I don't care what the code looks like anymore

growbell_social — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/inbox/post/168163753

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544501

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Is Launch HN only for YC backed companies?

growbell_social — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:26:37 +0000

I've sen the periodic Launch HN posts, but it was't ever clear what the rules around them were. Are they YC backed companies only or anyone can "launch" here? Requirements on a Beta vs Generally Available?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543958

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: What's Your Experience with Vibe Coding?"

growbell_social — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:24:55 +0000

I've been writing code professionally for 10+ years and I love vibe coding. It's brought back the joy for me in creating things. All the tedious tasks can get farmed out and I can just think about the hard problems and direct the minions to build it.

New comment by growbell_social in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

growbell_social — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:14:49 +0000

If you can make 6k per month. You can probably get to 60k per month.

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

growbell_social — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:19:31 +0000

Exciting to see so many clearly vibe coded projects here.

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

growbell_social — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:24:01 +0000

Do you have a link? Is it www.signalbloom.ai from your profile?

New comment by growbell_social in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

growbell_social — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:06:24 +0000

AI assisted algorithmic backtesting & trading. https://www.growbell.com. You describe your strategy in plain language and we'll do the rest. Pretty charts included.

Alpaca's MCP Server for Trading/Quotes

growbell_social — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:25:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199744

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by growbell_social in "We'll backtest your trading strategy for you"

growbell_social — Fri, 30 May 2025 22:47:26 +0000

The 2 years is only temporarily. To get more years of data we have to either A) pay Polygon $$$ or B) pull poor quality data from Yahoo finance. Until there's more product/market fit, we're refraining from A.

Your additional correlations are on point. Those fundamentals will be coming in before the end of summer. Sign up for the beta waitlist if you want to give it a go.

Or if you have a strategy you want to see tested, happy to give it a go and return the link!

And good luck on your next opportunity. You'll find something great.