Hacker News: jamwil

New comment by jamwil in "Please Use AI"

jamwil — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:44:57 +0000

The author’s point was more nuanced than ‘tool bad’.

New comment by jamwil in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

jamwil — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:22:45 +0000

Without studded tires it’s very difficult to ride a bike on snow or ice.

New comment by jamwil in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

jamwil — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:10:22 +0000

What does it mean to be ‘in intelligence’ in this context?

New comment by jamwil in "Show HN: A deep dive into Kubernetes internals"

jamwil — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:47:06 +0000

This is a bucket of slop.

New comment by jamwil in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

jamwil — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:55:15 +0000

What is wrong with you. This isn’t a customer/employee thing at all. That’s, like, the entire point of Burning Man.

New comment by jamwil in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

jamwil — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:51:05 +0000

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” —Jobs

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

jamwil — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:16:28 +0000

Of course. My point is that your profit still decreases as you approach max usage, ceteris parabis. It may be acceptable but it is less. Your costs are variable and your revenue is fixed (at least on a unit basis).

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

jamwil — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:58:22 +0000

Within each tier, each marginal token is an expense with no marginal revenue to offset. So yes. The platonic ideal for any subscription business model is zero usage.

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

jamwil — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:07:56 +0000

Not when their customers are paying a flat rate subscription.

New comment by jamwil in "Trump's Canada trade war hits Jack Daniel's/Jim Beam with devastating $143M loss"

jamwil — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:49:12 +0000

100%. Trump’s going to do his tariff thing and we all understand that. But the sovereignty threats were an outrage, and most of the Canadian response is motivated by a sense of deep betrayal.

New comment by jamwil in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

jamwil — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:09:58 +0000

Please say more; this is breaking my brain.

New comment by jamwil in "OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API"

jamwil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:19:05 +0000

Yea. It’s greed, pure and simple. And also a major misstep on the part of the inference providers to offer these subsidized plans and not anticipate these slop mills.

New comment by jamwil in "OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API"

jamwil — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:12:56 +0000

That as well. But everyone reading GP’s posts knows in their bones that it’s unsustainable. It’s economically unsustainable and environmentally unsustainable, and in that context it strikes me as pure hoarding behaviour. Taking as much as they can for themselves before the house of cards crashes down.

I have no sympathy for OpenAI or Anthropic as corporations, but if these are the new tools of the trade, then platform abuse like GP is bragging about serves only to destroy the livelihoods of the rest of us who are content to use our fair share.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and the bill always comes at the end.

New comment by jamwil in "OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API"

jamwil — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:43:44 +0000

I’m vague on a specific reason for this feeling because there are a few to choose from and no one overpowers the other, but the emotion that comes to mind when I read this is disgust. As a society I feel we will look back on the subsidized opulence of this moment with total and utter contempt.

New comment by jamwil in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

jamwil — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:02:04 +0000

This is such obvious LLM slop.

New comment by jamwil in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"

jamwil — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:32:15 +0000

Huh? If I need 10 bananas and my local shop only has 5 bananas available I need to go to multiple stores to satisfy my ravenous banana craving.

New comment by jamwil in "Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws""

jamwil — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:41:09 +0000

Pay no mind to this miserable mob. You do good work. It’s thorough and balanced. They don’t realize it because they don’t actually read anything you write.

New comment by jamwil in "Facebook is cooked"

jamwil — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:35:01 +0000

Found a clanker

New comment by jamwil in "Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?"

jamwil — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:53:49 +0000

s/peace/subjugation/g

New comment by jamwil in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

jamwil — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:08:07 +0000

Many of them might have been troubled by the fact that they couldn’t afford a tractor. Many small farms became a few big ones, and so it will go in software.