Hacker News: janejeon

New comment by janejeon in "Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users"

janejeon — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:52:56 +0000

> The worse it performs, the more you pay. That’s a hell of a business model. Will users tolerate that for long?

I mean, AWS seems to be doing fine with that business model.

New comment by janejeon in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

janejeon — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:03:16 +0000

Or, an (over)simplified way to put it:

"All money is made up, but some are more made up than others."

New comment by janejeon in "Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?"

janejeon — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:29:02 +0000

When it comes to things like this, as cliche as it may sound, your best bet is to probably bring up those fears with your psychiatrist to evaluate the pros/cons with them.

Like most things, there is most likely a tradeoff - but your doctor also most likely prescribed the dosages based on the pros outweighing the cons, but only you can bring up how you feel about specific cons to the doctor.

New comment by janejeon in "Altman: OpenAI not for sale, especially to competitor who is not able to beat us"

janejeon — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:31:06 +0000

I think of it more from the perspective that, there are likely people with far less material wealth than him who have achieved much greater heights happiness and lead a more fulfilling life.

All that wealth, power, and influence, and for what - if you can't even be happy about it?

New comment by janejeon in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

janejeon — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:01:13 +0000

Location: US

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes (within US)

Technologies: Mostly full-stack, plus some infra and data (see resume for specifics)

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67g14qq69btngvpjr1gwv/Resume-...

Email: 2024@janejeon.com

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Experienced Generalist SWE | 5 YoE at top-tier HFT and Bloomberg | Product-driven engineering

I’m an experienced generalist software engineer, skilled across full-stack development, data, and infrastructure. I bring high-impact engineering to drive large-scale products from 0 to 1, directly supporting business needs, working across functions/tech stacks/business verticals.

For more on my approach to engineering and product alignment (plus recent work experiences), please see: https://janejeon.dev/effective-enterprise-software-developme...

New comment by janejeon in "The 'Return to Office' Lies"

janejeon — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:15:33 +0000

I don't mind the commute if I live close enough that I can just walk 30-40 minutes to the office, because then it serves as a good exercise (okay, fine. Grass-touching) that I don't have to do separately in the day.

But I realize that this is NOT a luxury most people have. Most people's commute looks like being stuck in the subway, or driving in traffic, for up to several hours every single day, and I just can't think of anything that would justify that type of commute.

New comment by janejeon in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"

janejeon — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:12:49 +0000

Location: US

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes (within US)

Technologies: Mostly full-stack, plus some infra and data (see resume for specifics)

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67g14qq69btngvpjr1gwv/Resume-...

Email: 2024@janejeon.com

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Experienced Generalist SWE | 5 YoE at top-tier HFT and Bloomberg | Business-first engineering solutions

I’m a generalist software engineer with a business-driven approach, skilled across full-stack development, data, and infrastructure. I bring high-impact product engineering to directly support business needs, working across functions, tech stacks, business verticals, and customer interactions.

For more on my approach to engineering and product alignment (plus recent work experiences), check out my article: https://janejeon.dev/effective-enterprise-software-developme...

New comment by janejeon in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

janejeon — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:00:41 +0000

Location: US

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes (within US)

Technologies: Mostly full-stack, plus some infra and data (see resume for specifics)

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67g14qq69btngvpjr1gwv/Resume-...

Email: 2024@janejeon.com

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5 YoE Generalist SWE (top-tier HFT, Bloomberg)

I bring product-focused engineering to directly support business needs, whether it’s optimizing data infrastructures, building full-stack applications, or integrating business services. I’m open to roles across various technologies, industries, and functions - as long as the team fit is right. Open to remote and on-site opportunities.

Reading material: https://janejeon.dev/effective-enterprise-software-developme...

New comment by janejeon in "New embedding models and API updates"

janejeon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:26:43 +0000

I've honestly been surprised by how fast these "AIaaS" companies are competing to bring performance up and prices down. It really feels good to wake up the next morning to find out your stuff is better and cheaper automatically.

New comment by janejeon in "New embedding models and API updates"

janejeon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:13:11 +0000

Is it just me or is the new embeddings model (v3 small) insanely cheap? It's coming out to be ~$0.02/mil tokens (if I'm mathing right), whereas other "embeddings API" services are typically charging at around $0.1/mil tokens

New comment by janejeon in "Open-source AI knowledge database with web UI and Enterprise SSO"

janejeon — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:52:17 +0000

Is it just me or is it kinda weird that a org mostly known for its AuthZ libraries is branching out into seemingly unrelated areas?

New comment by janejeon in "Welcome to Apache OpenDAL"

janejeon — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:51:22 +0000

This is really interesting. For a project I was building I figured out that having a sort of "universal access layer" for all types of storage was a requirement, and this looks like it's right up my alley.

New comment by janejeon in "Ego killed the empowered product team"

janejeon — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:41:21 +0000

I mean also just adapting to rapidly changing environment and requirement is hard. It's a skill, just like anything else. Best not assign reason to why others have trouble doing a thing (not just this) based on our own experiences (referring to "that's ego" bit).

New comment by janejeon in "How Gödel's proof works (2020)"

janejeon — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:31:56 +0000

I think for mathematics a good suspect is probably the Riemann hypothesis, which many other results rely on. We don't know that it's "undecidable", but from what I've read it's probably true and (even more interestingly), we can derive meaningful results from it being "probably"/"mostly" true (e.g. "for 99>% of cases it is true"), even without knowing that it is 100% decideably true.

Super fun stuff, though I'm not going to pretend I understand all of this (I mostly just gleam this stuff from what mathematicians say on Numberphile channel).

New comment by janejeon in "Skunk Works is all about getting to the prototype stage (2018)"

janejeon — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:47:50 +0000

For those interested in this topic, Ben Rich has a book of firsthand account called "Skunk Works" (this is mostly after the Kelly era). I personally found it to be a good read - a mix between government politics, the fight for funding, the culture of shipping, and what worked and what didn't.

New comment by janejeon in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

janejeon — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:02:36 +0000

The way I see it is, it's not going to matter if I "care" about it in one way/outcome or another, so I just focus my attention on 1. How this could affect me (for now, the team seems committed to keeping the APIs up and running) and 2. What lessons can I take away from this (some preliminary lessons, such as "take extra care with board selection" and "listen to the lawyers when they tell you to do a Delaware C Corp").

Otherwise, no use in getting invested in one outcome or another.

New comment by janejeon in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

janejeon — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:28:28 +0000

If the change in $MSFT pre-open market cap (which has given up its gains at the time of writing, but still) of hundreds of billions of dollars is anything to go by, shareholders probably see this as spending a dime to get a dollar.

New comment by janejeon in "OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role"

janejeon — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 21:08:09 +0000

So the discussions are definitely happening it seems: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609

New comment by janejeon in "Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock"

janejeon — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:19:19 +0000

This is a great point.

I get that companies want to price their products in a way that they don't leave surplus value on the table (i.e. the more value a customer gets out of it, the more expensive the product gets), but the fundamental problem is that it's... so hard to actually "judge" the value that's being created by using the product in many cases.

In such cases, probably for the best that companies err on the side of caution with some formula they're sure is below the actual value but isn't too far away.

New comment by janejeon in "Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly planning new AI venture"

janejeon — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 10:05:53 +0000

I wonder if this is going to be like the SVB situation where a bunch of people are putting out fires behind the scenes over the weekend and then somehow on Monday we go back to business as usual (whatever that would mean for this specific case).