Hacker News: jacamera

New comment by jacamera in "Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding"

jacamera — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:45:20 +0000

I'm very skeptical of that graph. What does it mean for code to be AI-generated vs human-generated?

If I merge a PR that was opened by Claude do all the changes in it automatically count as AI-generated? How about the individual commits? If I'm reviewing locally and make manual changes but then have Claude create the commit it appears to be AI-generated but might not have been.

The point is that these metrics are easy to game and I've definitely wasted time and tokens refining code with Claude that would have been easier to just edit by hand. It can be kind of fun and when the goal is just "use AI" I don't find it surprising that graphs showing 100% switch to AI-generated code could be defensibly generated without really saying anything about how much manual intervention is happening or how efficient the process is.

New comment by jacamera in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

jacamera — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:43:26 +0000

The crazy thing is how cheap it is to spin up a cloud server, but how little actual processing power you're getting for your money. Even if the business manages to keep their cloud spend in check it's probably going to be at the expense of a terrible user experience because everything in the web app will feel slow and all that matters is individual P95 request latency is within some arbitrary number of seconds.

New comment by jacamera in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

jacamera — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:36:52 +0000

Isn't it also true that the deeper and thicker the quagmire, the more tokens one will have to use to wade through it?

This seems like a path to eventual LLM lock-in once the codebase gets messy enough. These things could end up being like 0% interest credit cards for technical debt. I guess it all depends on how the token usage scales over time. My guess is it will be steeper than linear.

New comment by jacamera in "Claude Opus 4.7"

jacamera — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:31:00 +0000

I don't think there are good analogies to physical tools. It would be something like a nondeterministic version of a replicator from Star Trek which to me would feel much closer to a slot machine than a CNC mill.

New comment by jacamera in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

jacamera — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:11:20 +0000

Lots of hair splitting in the comments. The service is so unreliable at this point that I don’t trust them to not train on private repos even accidentally. You’re one vibe-coded PR away from having all your data scooped up regardless of any policy or intention.

New comment by jacamera in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

jacamera — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:34:25 +0000

I can't even imagine what these exams would look like. The entire profession seems to boil down to making the appropriate tradeoffs for your specific application in your specific domain using your specific tech stack. There's almost nothing that you always should or shouldn't do.

New comment by jacamera in "Digg is gone again"

jacamera — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:53:25 +0000

Results over time are important. Or at least they should be.

New comment by jacamera in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

jacamera — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:39:06 +0000

Great read: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...

New comment by jacamera in "Our response to Disney's request to restore ABC"

jacamera — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:18:17 +0000

Interested to see how this plays out. ESPN is the only reason I subscribe to YouTubeTV.

Our response to Disney's request to restore ABC

jacamera — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:16:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/our-response-to-disneys-request-to-restore-abc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810678

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by jacamera in "Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists"

jacamera — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:51:40 +0000

Exactly! All LLMs do is “hallucinate”. Sometimes the output happens to be right, same as a broken clock.

New comment by jacamera in "More Everything Forever"

jacamera — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:25:46 +0000

I blame the experts. It's their responsibility to explain things to the public and engage in forums that the public is paying attention to (e.g. podcasts). They don't have to bloviate about everything under the sub, but they do have to be able to break down and communicate their ideas to the non-expert public. Failure to do so creates a vacuum that is filled by the Marc Andreesens and Peter Thiels of the world.

New comment by jacamera in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

jacamera — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:18:40 +0000

Yeah I definitely struggle with this. You need downtime to relax but it's easy to "over relax" just like it's easy to oversleep or overeat or overdo any other number of things that are healthy and necessary but only at the right amplitude and frequency. I think that's why it can feel so good to be in a rhythm. You get a nice oscillation going that rides the wave of momentum instead of some monotonic rise or fall that is going to lead to burnout or stagnation.

New comment by jacamera in "Harvard study finds seed oils healthier than butter"

jacamera — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:10:46 +0000

This is the first time I've heard anyone argue that a food product must be good for you because Americans are consuming a large amount of it. How on earth could you come to that conclusion given how unhealthy our population is?

New comment by jacamera in "Advent of Code 2024"

jacamera — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:03:13 +0000

Have you ever tried the LeetCode live competitions? I found those to be really fun with a great community. Just grinding problems in isolation can definitely be depressing.

New comment by jacamera in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

jacamera — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:40:49 +0000

I agree generally, but I feel like we're slowly coming to realize that maximal leisure and safety might not necessarily be the recipe for a happy and fulfilling life.

New comment by jacamera in "Ruby's official documentation just got a new look"

jacamera — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:25:04 +0000

No dark mode? Seriously?

New comment by jacamera in "Micro-agent: make an AI write code until it passes an unit test"

jacamera — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:59:26 +0000

That's exactly what we do now.

New comment by jacamera in "Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website"

jacamera — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:19:55 +0000

Did the site owner remove the malicious ads since this was posted? I wanted my report to count so I didn't use the link in the blog post and instead googled for "notepad++ download" and clicked on the offending website which was ranked third for me. I didn't see any ads on any pages. I don't doubt the complaint but some screenshots and timestamps would be helpful since it's so easy for the site owner to cover their tracks.

New comment by jacamera in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

jacamera — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:59:51 +0000

Yup, I remember when I got a loaner car that had those new momentary switches and I couldn't believe how terrible they were. What made it all the more baffling/disappointing was that earlier BMWs had some of the nicest turn signal switches available that were so satisfying to use.