Hacker News: itomato

New comment by itomato in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

itomato — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:25:57 +0000

And why are they so “threatened”? Are they in the Core AI Org?

New comment by itomato in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

itomato — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:13:39 +0000

GenAI tools absolutely suck at pixel art from my experience. They can mimic aspects of the look at the display layer, but they are fundamentally bogus.

Sprite animation in particular is bad unless you build a bespoke engine to spit out sequential PNGs.

A poser will give, but not withstand (and internalize) critique. An artist is too busy producing or suffering to care.

New comment by itomato in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

itomato — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Making something appear digitally that only exists in the far-away analog world still gets 'em.

If it's indistinguishable from the real thing but made without any of the traditional tools, it's remarkable, even if you think it's lame in any way at all.

New comment by itomato in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

itomato — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:59:08 +0000

"Our affiliate solution partner"

New comment by itomato in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

itomato — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:16 +0000

I feel threatened by Product placements disguised as "Tips".

We're not remotely even.

New comment by itomato in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

itomato — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:25:23 +0000

What did you first order at the bar? Did it burn? Did you become a teetotaler?

Latecomers lack the hundreds of iterations and the experience that comes with it. The senses haven't been trained.

There's a business here. Not one I want to be in, or one without major ethical drag, but a viable one. Fend off extinction, get fit.

New comment by itomato in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

itomato — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:59:35 +0000

with all the potential vulnerabilities of 400 npm dependencies (I'm guessing. It's probably higher)

New comment by itomato in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

itomato — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:10:21 +0000

And the viewpoint is from the development of such "product" with "manufactured virality".

It's bunk.

New comment by itomato in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

itomato — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:07:25 +0000

Nobody is saying they're ready for production in 30 minutes, just that there is something real where an idea used to be.

Something much closer to production SDLC patterns than a Figma mockup.

New comment by itomato in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

itomato — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:49:12 +0000

It's something that many readers feel should be burned to a crisp.

Let it be.

New comment by itomato in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

itomato — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:45:17 +0000

Twitter is gone. X is a facet of an aggregate technology that is ultimately self-serving. It should die. "Like a dog..."

New comment by itomato in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

itomato — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:20:48 +0000

Prioritization and workforce realignment. Old hat.

Replacing headcount with technology? Also old hat.

If the cuts ate into the good parts of the business, I will worry. I doubt that happened.

New comment by itomato in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

itomato — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:17:47 +0000

The Java ones have been done since version 6 or so. We’re up to what, 11?

Stagnant, yes. Mature also.

New comment by itomato in "The MacBook Neo"

itomato — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:09:30 +0000

Take a look at a Sam's Club or Costco. The Windows PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo outnumber the Macs 4:1 or more.

I have never seen a shopper testing out the wares.

New comment by itomato in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

itomato — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:28:07 +0000

Until you try to leave with your data.

New comment by itomato in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

itomato — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:26:52 +0000

They just announced GA of agentic assignees. It suggests a year or more of maturation. Rovo Dev has already been a thing.

The Java products are almost EOL.

They have already been assigning JAC tickets to Rovo and $TEAM is down.

What else should be done with the surplus headcount?

New comment by itomato in "Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors"

itomato — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:10:38 +0000

It really is slop isn’t it.

New comment by itomato in "I built a pint-sized Macintosh"

itomato — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:57:19 +0000

You can build an SE or Se/30 on a new PCB with a replacement transparent case and analog board.

I think he is 3d printing a 1/2 size classic Mac chassis for the oi2040 rig

New comment by itomato in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

itomato — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:25:51 +0000

Is this what it feels like to be slapped by an LLM?

New comment by itomato in "Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code"

itomato — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:36:17 +0000

All the design hints required for this or any other type of agentic "set it and forget it" development are interesting to me, because they enable the result but also lock in less-than-desirable results that exhibit a miss "like simulating a 2Mhz clock".

What if Agents were hip enough to recognize that they have navigated into a specialized area and need additional hinting? "I'm set up for CP/M development, but what I really need now is Z80 memory management technique. Let me swap my tool head for the low-level Z80 unit..."

We can throw RAGs on the pile and hope the context window includes the relevant tokens, but what if there were pointers instead?