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New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"

jakelsaunders94 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:25:30 +0000

That’s a great use of Hermes. Had it concluded if your A/C is undersized?

Before this little experiment I generally used it as a very specific search engine for houses, ‘Find me a house in the country but close to amenities with a workshop barn but close enough on the train to Manchester’. It’s great for this!

I’ve never been on the Hermes subreddit I’m gonna go check it out. I agree with the commenter below, it’s fine when I need no record my reps but don’t really care how. It writes tests but I don’t verify. It’s a manual ‘works or it doesn’t’ Thing. I’d never sell the code to anyone.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"

jakelsaunders94 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:15:45 +0000

Apologies, I was trying to choose between a snappy title and the whole story.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"

jakelsaunders94 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:13:05 +0000

Just read the intro post, it’s a good read! I’ll read the rest when I get home from work. It’s nice to see others have had the same idea.

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

jakelsaunders94 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:27:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-factory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390463

Points: 74

# Comments: 48

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk"

jakelsaunders94 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:29:52 +0000

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New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:25:25 +0000

Taking this as a good faith engineering argument. What does that mean? What do you constitute a pollutant and how much is zero?

I guess as a contrived example your breath releases 40k PPM Co2. Have you tried aiming for no pollution?

The reality is we make things which involve pollutants, which we create laws to govern the safe disposal of. Engineers optimise for these constraints the same way you do. You wouldn’t have one k8s pod per request to ‘strive to keep the response times as low as possible’.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:12:05 +0000

Thank you for the rec and review, I’ll take a look!

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:51:10 +0000

> What I miss is people showing off their hand-crafted libraries or frameworks.

Saame. I wonder if the use of AI will lead to less invention and adoption of new ideas in favour of ideas with lots of training data.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:48:55 +0000

Hey, I don't think this sounded like snark at all. Super grounded take.

> I think what’s interesting about AI, and why there’s so much conversation, is that in order to be a good user of AI, you have to really understand software development.

This I agree with completely. You can see it in the difference between a prompt where you know exactly what you want and when things are a little woolley. A tool in the hands of a well trained craftsperson is always better used.

> So I think we’re going to keep talking for quite a while Me neither, and to be clear I'm okay with that. This was mostly a rant at the lack of diversity of discourse.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:44:30 +0000

Hey :)

> And this one will be different? I think you're talking about my blog post here, in which case no, I'm afraid not. Hence the admission at the bottom.

>Umm. ??

> It’s all positives. So what’s the problem? The article is trying to say that these things are great, but the level of conversation leads to a lack of novelty.

> It’s just the discourse around it is “boring”. And the managers are lame about it. Exactly.

> OP can’t even resign himself to being a Type. Sigh. “I know what I just did hehe” Very self-aware.

Is this sarcasm?

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:37:57 +0000

This is a really intersting take, and maybe shows that I haven't been thorough enough with my reading. My guess is that the deep technical articles are few and far between and the higher level 'hot takes' are what fills the room. Do you have any recommendations for interesting places to start?

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:35:02 +0000

Agreed, LinkedIn is a cesspit of this. But then it always has been so nothing new there.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:34:06 +0000

I've been meaning to try Mastodon for a long time (I was never really a Twiiter user). As others have said elsewhere though, I'm not sure where to start. Did you just download the app and join mastodon.social?

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:32:34 +0000

I think in most places on the internet the negative comments are the ones that will win out. Same for AI I suppose. I tried not to bemoan the whole concept here, just the amount of 'airtime' it gets. Sort of like when something happens in the news (lately it's been the Epstein files for me), and you wish you could see a more balanced picture of world events.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:30:17 +0000

This is a great saying, thank you for sharing it. Out of curiosity, do you have any links to intersting AI articles you've read recently? Maybe I'll change my mind.

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:28:18 +0000

This is really interesting. I've been out of education for a long time, but I was wondering how they were dealing with the advent of AI. Are exams still a thing? Do people do coursework now that you can spew out competent sounding stuff in seconds?

Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

jakelsaunders94 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:31:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/is-anybody-else-bored-of-talking-about-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508745

Points: 746

# Comments: 527

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

jakelsaunders94 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:55:37 +0000

I use it all the time and have worked in several startups which do. For me personally, inline styling is the point. I can open up any tailwind project and see exactly how that element is styled without cmd + clicking around through layers of CSS.

Obviously it’s all personal taste, but in my mind it feels like the successor to bootstrap in a lot of ways.

Publish Your Work

jakelsaunders94 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/you-should-publish-your-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759107

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

New comment by jakelsaunders94 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jakelsaunders94 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:56:30 +0000

https://jakesaunders.dev