Hacker News: i_have_an_idea

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "What if users start cloning SaaS using AI"

i_have_an_idea — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:35:38 +0000

You just discovered the SaaSpocalypse that began around January this year.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

i_have_an_idea — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:01:57 +0000

I am currently working with a non-dev startup CEO that's fully embraced Claude Code and vibe coding.

90% of my work is to run code review workflows and steer his CLAUDE.md into the correct architecture choices and away from past mistakes.

So far it's working pretty well -- I'm able to unslopify the code and maintain the agent's performance. And the CEO is happy, he's able to develop his product pretty fast and not hit any walls.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

i_have_an_idea — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:42:05 +0000

In my experience, the delta in agent performance is substantial if the codebase is littered with dead code, redundant code, unreachable fallbacks, leaking abstractions and half-baked design patterns vs if the code is well-organized, with clear data flow, with good encapsulation and clean architecture. Like, I've seen all the frontier models have to do several rounds of code review / QA and fix when the code is bad vs just getting it right at the 1st/2nd attempt.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Claude Tag"

i_have_an_idea — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:23:15 +0000

This is like what you can setup with Hermes or OpenClaw within a few minutes with your ChatGPT subscription or an open weights model, except they handle the Slack setup for you and bill you at API rates.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "MAI-Thinking-1"

i_have_an_idea — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:37:36 +0000

Just because it is performing rather poorly by comparison, it doesn’t mean it isn’t benchmaxxed. It can still be worse than it appears.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "MAI-Thinking-1"

i_have_an_idea — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:35:43 +0000

Is it a frontier player though, or perhaps a new benchmaxxed model? People were saying similar things about Grok but it ultimately amounted to little.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

i_have_an_idea — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:33:08 +0000

maybe it was coded by Claude

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

i_have_an_idea — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:20:00 +0000

so, at a 8% discount at current prices.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Where the goblins came from"

i_have_an_idea — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:20:46 +0000

What if you substituted "steel" with "asbestos" in your argument.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

i_have_an_idea — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:30:18 +0000

Dude, the agent didn't 'confess' anything. It doesn't understand anything, it's just fancy autocomplete. It's a math function we've armed with tools.

Yes that can be very useful, and can speed you up a lot. But someone must check the output.

If you let it operate on a prod system and it messed up, it's on you.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code?"

i_have_an_idea — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:15:40 +0000

vim

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

i_have_an_idea — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:44:18 +0000

That's true, but a lot of these people are also competitors. I can't imagine it'll be attractive going to the OpenAI media channel to talk about Gemini or Grok.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

i_have_an_idea — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:13:17 +0000

To be honest, until a month ago, I hadn't even heard of TBPN or seen any of their content. But, seemingly, out of nowhere, they managed to get all the leaders in AI to appear in their programming.

The core of the information they present isn't much different than what you'd hear on Dwarkesh or other industry podcasts, the presentation is some weird mix of ESPN and Mad Money that I personally don't get, but maybe makes sense to a US audience.

I don't see why that is interesting to OpenAI, but maybe I'm missing something.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

i_have_an_idea — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:38:20 +0000

will all my custom Wordpress themes and plugins run on EmDash?

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?"

i_have_an_idea — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:29:03 +0000

For what is worth, Codex would be able to fix that. Claude is pretty bad at backend / architecture.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?"

i_have_an_idea — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:27:10 +0000

I thought about it for a moment, but the real reason I got the new M5 Pro with 64GB is to be able to run several large projects concurrently in Docker envs.

I didn't go for a Max chip because I value the better battery life on the Pro more than I value the additional GPU cores.

Personally, I think until the LLMs start to plateau, it will always be more valuable to run a frontier LLM vs just a very capable local LLM. I have no idea when that will happen, so I simply decided to not overbuy the hardware now.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

i_have_an_idea — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:35:31 +0000

> i just gave my favorite LLM a screenshot of one of those components and it recreated it perfectly. i paid $0.

Because it's most likely in the training data. I.e., it stole it for you.

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Ask HN: Codex is too slow. Is there any solution?"

i_have_an_idea — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:30:44 +0000

this seems like a crazy idea as the cli client has nothing to do with how many tokens per second the api streams

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

i_have_an_idea — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:35:59 +0000

if the quality of search results today is anything to go buy -- clearly no

New comment by i_have_an_idea in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

i_have_an_idea — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:07:51 +0000

> I've consistently found Gemini to be better than ChatGPT [ because ] Google has crawled the internet so they have more data to work with.

This commonly expressed non-sequitur needs to die.

First of all, all of the big AI labs have crawled the internet. That's not a special advantage to Google.

Second, that's not even how modern LLMs are trained. That stopped with GPT-4. Now a lot more attention is paid to the quality of the training data. Intuitively, this makes sense. If you train the model on a lot of garbage examples, it will generate output of similar quality.

So, no, Google's crawling prowess has little to do with how good Gemini can be.