Hacker News: jackblemming

New comment by jackblemming in "Don't become an engineering manager"

jackblemming — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:18:35 +0000

It’s how good you are at politics, that’s it. Big modifier if you’re tall and attractive.

New comment by jackblemming in "Microgpt"

jackblemming — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:41:42 +0000

Case study to whenever a new copy of Programming Pearls is released.

New comment by jackblemming in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

jackblemming — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:37:19 +0000

Death by KPIs. Management makes it too risky to do anything but benchmaxx. It will be the death of American AI companies too. Eventually, people will notice models aren’t actually getting better and the money will stop flowing. However, this might be a golden age of research as cheap GPUs flood the market and universities have their own clusters.

New comment by jackblemming in "We Will Not Be Divided"

jackblemming — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:10:11 +0000

So big tech wants to court Trump with millions in donations and now that the big bully they supported is bullying them.. we’re supposed to feel some kind of sympathy? Am I missing something here? Why did Anthropic get involved with the military in the first place?

New comment by jackblemming in "Layoffs at Block"

jackblemming — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:09:19 +0000

> What's the last 10,000+ employee org you founded and scaled?

A lot of smart and talented people could do this if given the opportunity. Jack was at the right place at the right time and had enough talent. Same with Elon and others. That’s kind of what happens when you have a population of hundreds of millions, a few get lucky and have enough talent to not screw it up.

It’s best to avoid being delusional and acting like billionaires are 5000 IQ geniuses. They’re regular people too, albeit, yes they are smarter than the average person you pull out of Walmart.

There are also plenty of smart people who simply do not care to run or start businesses.

New comment by jackblemming in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

jackblemming — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:19:17 +0000

Enough is enough. Executives need to do jail time, no bullshit slap on the wrist nonsense.

New comment by jackblemming in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

jackblemming — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:16:41 +0000

So what you’re saying is technology can be abused by bad actors and the solution is.. stop developing technology?

Good luck with that.

New comment by jackblemming in "I’m joining OpenAI"

jackblemming — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:59:51 +0000

I appreciate the author’s work and he seems like a good guy.

In spite of that, it’s incredibly obvious OpenClaw was pushed by bots across pretty much every social media platform and that’s weird and unsettling.

New comment by jackblemming in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

jackblemming — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:36:49 +0000

Godspeed you legend.

New comment by jackblemming in "Systems Thinking"

jackblemming — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:19:21 +0000

People misinterpret this and think they can incrementally build a skyscraper out of a shed.

New comment by jackblemming in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

jackblemming — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:01:03 +0000

With technological improvements, we could work far less than we do and enjoy a nice quality of life. Those excess gains were slurped up by the ruling class instead. And the 2nd question looks like American propaganda where if you don’t spend trillions and trillions on defense, the Chinese, Russian, whatever boogeyman will get you.

New comment by jackblemming in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

jackblemming — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:45:00 +0000

You’re doing God’s work. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. Keep building.

New comment by jackblemming in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

jackblemming — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:25:53 +0000

A feel good article where you can choose to self insert as the wolf or the wise manager who knew to be “hands off”.

To someone actually running a company this looks like absolute corporate nonsense. Don’t categorize people like this, it’s demeaning and weird. Why can’t we just treat people like adults.

Instead of “Oh yea he’s a total 10xer wolf,” try “Yea Mark, has some good ideas for a test framework we should consider”.

New comment by jackblemming in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

jackblemming — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:14:54 +0000

You have to give credit to Sam, he’s charismatic enough to the right people to climb man made corporate structures. He was also smart enough to be at the right place at the right time to enrich himself (Silicon Valley). He seems to be pretty good at cutting deals. Unfortunately all of the above seems to be at odds with having any sort of moral core.

New comment by jackblemming in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

jackblemming — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:10:28 +0000

They should open source GPT-4o.

New comment by jackblemming in "Prism"

jackblemming — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:10:25 +0000

There is zero chance this is worth billions of dollars, let alone the trillion$ OpenAI desparately needs. Why are they wasting time with this kind of stuff? Each of their employees needs to generate insane amounts of money to justify their salaries and equity and I doubt this is it.

New comment by jackblemming in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"

jackblemming — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:56:26 +0000

How is this not considered destruction of property? How about big tech plays by the same rules as everyone else?

New comment by jackblemming in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

jackblemming — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:02:28 +0000

So no different than management up to the CEO who simply “delegate” to the underlyings?

New comment by jackblemming in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

jackblemming — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:02:14 +0000

Where I come from, nerd is a term of endearment buddy.

> And even with this comment you literally do not understand that you have some skewed view of the world.

I’m well aware I don’t have a perfect view of reality and the map isn’t the territory. Do you?

New comment by jackblemming in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

jackblemming — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:59:01 +0000

The person replying was trying to turn the conversation into some sort of IQ pissing contest. Not sure why, that seems like their own problem. I was reminding them that there is always someone smarter.