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New comment by gusmally in "Claude Fable 5"

gusmally — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:56:01 +0000

lmao! thank you for the update; i was wondering why it was no longer viewable.

New comment by gusmally in "Grok 4.3"

gusmally — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:20:52 +0000

Since you seem interested in the ins and outs of English, I want to say that "retort" has a connotation of anger or sharpness. Your response reads more like a "rebuttal" to me.

This is not a correction; maybe retort is what you meant and I'm not trying to be the English police. I just like discussing the intricacies of language :)

New comment by gusmally in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

gusmally — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:58:35 +0000

Such a fun site, thank you! I was surprised that Seedream4 passed the mermaid test since it's hard to tell whether they are in the water or submerged, and the mermaid has something funny going on with her left hand.

Software Engineer Interviews for the Age of AI

gusmally — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://swizec.com/blog/software-engineer-interviews-for-the-age-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533823

Points: 5

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New comment by gusmally in "Push events into a running session with channels"

gusmally — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:06:15 +0000

Maybe it's less risk for them to offer the individual features. That way if people get inadvertent results, it's easier to blame the user, not the tool/company

New comment by gusmally in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

gusmally — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:41:19 +0000

I guess we work in very different places!

New comment by gusmally in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

gusmally — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:23:39 +0000

> When circumstances eventually require that understanding, when something breaks in an unexpected way or requirements change in a way that demands architectural reasoning, the organization discovers the deficit.

Maybe it's because I work in such a small team on a still-starting project, but even with the chaos of LLM-generated code, I can't imagine such a case as above that the LLMs couldn't also address.

Great read though and I appreciated the article.

New comment by gusmally in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

gusmally — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:21:19 +0000

With the free time gained from not manually writing code, documentation should be part of the workflow. I should start doing this.

New comment by gusmally in "Layoffs at Block"

gusmally — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:26:11 +0000

you don't think LLM impacts on productivity were a factor at all?

New comment by gusmally in "Layoffs at Block"

gusmally — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:24:36 +0000

For real. Very worried about when other CEOs follow suit and there is a flood of people into unemployment.

New comment by gusmally in "Layoffs at Block"

gusmally — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:21:50 +0000

Square payment processing?

New comment by gusmally in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

gusmally — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:41:24 +0000

Which ones have you compared it against?

New comment by gusmally in "I'm 23, building my first startup with $0. Roast my plan"

gusmally — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:17:30 +0000

Who are your competitors? What makes you different?

New comment by gusmally in "Ask HN: Why does no one talk about the H-1B problem?"

gusmally — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:15:27 +0000

I don't have a macro-level answer for you but an interesting anecdote: we opened a job for a Software Designer and looked at the first 9 applicants. All of them were in need of H-1B sponsorship, most were Indian, and most were "software-engineers-turned-designers". So at a micro (company) level, we hire immigrants because those are the candidates we receive.

Note: One of my parents is an Indian immigrant. I have worked with many great Indian engineers and many not-so-great, just like every other nationality.

Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?

gusmally — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:06:57 +0000

In a recent interview with The Pragmatic Engineer, Steve Yegge said he feels "sorry for people" who merely "use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in."

Instead, he recommends engineers integrate LLMs into their workflow more and more, until they are managing multiple agents at one time. The final level in his AI Coding chart reads: "Level 8: you build your own orchestrator to coordinate more agents."

At my work, this wouldn't fly-- we're still doing things the sorry way. Are you using orchestrators to manage multiple agents at work? Particularly interested in non-greenfield applications and how that's changed your SDLC.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993479

Points: 41

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New comment by gusmally in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

gusmally — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:00:12 +0000

It's a great post, I will use it for the same. Thank you.

New comment by gusmally in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

gusmally — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:14:20 +0000

what do you mean?

New comment by gusmally in "The Whole App is a Blob"

gusmally — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:40:52 +0000

I also didn't understand the point the authour was trying to make about this method being superior at allowing a learner to remember things under pressure.

New comment by gusmally in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

gusmally — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:57:38 +0000

Oh my god this article was bursting with them!

>It is not a “Platform.” It is a library.

>It isn’t a heavy observability platform. It’s a simple Python library

New comment by gusmally in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

gusmally — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:48:54 +0000

Yes! They are extremely susceptible to user influence, based on what I have read and experienced in personal use. If your initial message contains a seed, e.g., "Should I break up with my boyfriend? He doesn't listen to me," the LLM will stick with the seed of negativity and not make an objective analysis of the situation or take initiative to challenge your/its original perspective.