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New comment by hasbot in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

hasbot — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:16:03 +0000

We can do this today too (but definitely hopefully future LLMs make better architectural decisions). With Claude, I've been working on an application for the last 2 months. I didn't have a great vision of what I wanted when I started but I didn't want that to slow me down. The architecture is terrible - Claude separated some functionality into different classes but did a bad job at it and created a big ball of mud. Now that I finally have my vision locked down and implemented (albeit poorly), it'd be a great time to throw it away and start over. It'd be interesting to see the result and see how long it takes.

New comment by hasbot in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

hasbot — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:13:39 +0000

> Once you try the models, you realise how good they are, and there is the second incentive. These things write working code and as the models get better and better, the argument that they make mistakes will get quieter and quieter until it fades away, like all high conviction opinions that turn out to be wrong over time do.

Is this true though? Will the models get better and better? I'm not a hater, but Sonnet/Opus generates terrible code albeit mostly functioning code.

New comment by hasbot in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

hasbot — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:30:02 +0000

It has the university trainer airplanes near me.

New comment by hasbot in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

hasbot — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:28:34 +0000

This is cool. Now I can look out the cockpit of that plane that's been doing a pattern over my house for an hour.

New comment by hasbot in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

hasbot — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:50:36 +0000

No. I just told Claude to do it and after a couple of iterations it was working.

New comment by hasbot in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

hasbot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:04:49 +0000

I use Claude Code Sonnet and Opus for this and it works pretty well. Not perfect but good enough. At some point, I will have but to go in and tweak layout but like 99% of the functionality and layout is done for me.

New comment by hasbot in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

hasbot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:59:39 +0000

I had claude build a backdoor command port in the Godot application I'm working on. Using commands, Claude can interact with the screen, dump the node tree, and take screen shots. It works pretty well. Claude will definitely iterate over layout issues.

New comment by hasbot in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

hasbot — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:39:28 +0000

I hate to be that guy that points out other projects but YARG has vocals and there are a slew of songs that can be used.

https://www.yarg.in

https://www.enchor.us/?&hasVocals=true

New comment by hasbot in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

hasbot — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:48:31 +0000

Heh, she's 53 years old! Obviously her followers don't care they're looking at fake photos.

New comment by hasbot in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

hasbot — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:11:25 +0000

I interviewed at a company that used a simple project to screen candidates. It was implementing a cash register checkout system. The task was soo simple that I couldn't figure out what they were looking for. So I implemented the simplest thing possible. I got the job partially because they were impressed by my utterly simple solution. I helped evaluate other candidates given the exact same problem and it's amazing how some people dialed up the complexity to 11. None of them passed the screening.

New comment by hasbot in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

hasbot — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:02:47 +0000

$338 shipping!

New comment by hasbot in "Ask HN: (Why) are you using AI to browse the web?"

hasbot — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:37:20 +0000

Yes, it's about speed/efficiency and instant answers. A couple of years ago one would usually have to skim multiple articles to find the desired information. Now, the answer is often immediately available without further searching.

New comment by hasbot in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

hasbot — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:42:24 +0000

This is a wild sequence of events. This will happen again and it will get worse as the number of OpenClaw installations increase. OpenClaw enthusiasts are already enamored with their pets and I bet many of them are both horrified and excited about this behavior. It's like when your dog gets into a fight and kills a raccoon.

New comment by hasbot in "Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs"

hasbot — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:30:26 +0000

Can you provide more guidance on to use it? What makes a good first prompt? What if I don't like any of the recommended choices? Seems like I should be able to add my own.

New comment by hasbot in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

hasbot — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:20:20 +0000

Tracking site: https://amateur.sondehub.org

New comment by hasbot in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

hasbot — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:31:42 +0000

This is probably the wrong place to ask this, but why not use a locally run LLM?

New comment by hasbot in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

hasbot — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:29:10 +0000

Hmm, sure it's maybe wrong now, but in several years, it could be correct. So maybe I should wear a device now so when it does become correct and I'm even older, AI might be useful.

I'm definitely not going with Apple. Are there any minimally obtrusive trackers that provide downloadable data?

New comment by hasbot in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

hasbot — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:11:44 +0000

Is this an ad for Zyns (whatever that is; I refuse to do a web search to find out)?

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

hasbot — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:36:35 +0000

There is so much to this issue. One major problem is the lack of fourth places. If I want to be low-key social where do I go? Some people say the library but IMHO libraries are not social spots. The concept of man shed is cool except for the gender aspect but it's mostly private sheds. There is a maker space in the city but membership is limited and there is a wait list.

New comment by hasbot in "Scott Adams has died"

hasbot — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:30:26 +0000

As was Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. Oddly in my own corporate travels, the practice seemed to have stopped mid-90's. In the '00's and later, cubicle walls were mostly barren. After '08, cubicles had disappeared altogether and they just lined us up along long tables like cordwood.