Hacker News: jaxn

New comment by jaxn in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

jaxn — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:06:59 +0000

This ignores that non-developers have gone from 0x to 0.5x.

New comment by jaxn in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

jaxn — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:16:18 +0000

Yes. Because that is where the intent is/was. In the future, as more changes are made, having the history of the intent is helpful context. And in that back and forth there are also details of what you didn't want, and why. Some of that can be captured in decision docs, etc.

when devs work in isolation, that context/memory is siloed. Same is true when working across platforms (codex, claude, etc).

New comment by jaxn in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

jaxn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:12:20 +0000

they are saying the prompt is the source, the code is the artifact. I think it is a valid comparison. when reviewing a PR, I do want to see the prompt(s) that generated the change.

New comment by jaxn in "The Sneakerweb"

jaxn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:37:45 +0000

it’s the wifi hotspot name.

New comment by jaxn in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

jaxn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:58:13 +0000

though Okta is the first provider working on the enterprise mcp stuff.

New comment by jaxn in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

jaxn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:37:18 +0000

agents are pretty good at cleaning up a codebase, finding dead code, fixing bad abstractions, etc. You just have to spend some focusing the agents on that goal.

New comment by jaxn in "The Sneakerweb"

jaxn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:34:29 +0000

my cellphone has been named “sneakernet” for years. it’s a throwback to a time when it was faster to walk a zip disk across campus than it was to send it.

New comment by jaxn in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

jaxn — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:16:36 +0000

Fun fact. My wife and I met on something similar in 2006 or so. "My Blog Log" was a sidebar widget that showed other people who we reading that blog. She was in marketing, I was in tech, and it was a blog at that intersection written by Rex Hammock (RIP).

New comment by jaxn in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

jaxn — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:03:34 +0000

i have been thinking about this from a different direction: how do we make these shared within a company in a way that increases the productivity floor of the team/department/company. Sure, they can still be extended/enhanced by individuals, but we don’t need everyone configuring mcps, building institutional memory, etc.

for me, it’s not about the cost to leave, it’s about lowering the cost of onboarding and change.

New comment by jaxn in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

jaxn — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:40:34 +0000

I think the fourth would be "lie to those who want you to tell the truth".

His father's saying may have been: "There are three honest ways to make a living".

The fourth option is where scams and fraud live.

New comment by jaxn in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

jaxn — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:56:36 +0000

Nashville is paused too. I don’t know why.

New comment by jaxn in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

jaxn — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:50:32 +0000

I assume he is calculating the loss as depreciation - what they would have spent on cloud bills if they hadn’t been doing this locally.

New comment by jaxn in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

jaxn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:22:04 +0000

But copilot code review agent is pretty good at catching when code and comments diverge (even in unrelated documentation files).

New comment by jaxn in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

jaxn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:19:48 +0000

I didn't even know there was a "three em dash". Bravo.

New comment by jaxn in "“Design me a highly resilient database”"

jaxn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:10:27 +0000

i also first thought of point of sale servers

New comment by jaxn in "Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font"

jaxn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:42:03 +0000

I used something like this tool to create 10 different fonts of my handwriting. Then I wrote scripts to randomize which font was used for each character, ensuring that no word had that same variant of a single letter. It worked incredibly well for a personalized printed mail campaign. It really did look hand written.

edit: basically what DANmode replied to the same parent. I did this 10 years ago while running for political office.

New comment by jaxn in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

jaxn — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:48:29 +0000

For some of us, the world has already changed drastically. I am shipping more code, better code, less buggy code WAY faster than ever before. Big systemic changes for the better to our infra as well. There are days where I easily do 2 weeks worth of my best work ever.

I totally understand that not everyone is having that experience. And yet until people live it, it seems they just discount the experience others are having.

I'll take the 12 month bet.

New comment by jaxn in "Google Workspace CLI"

jaxn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:57:29 +0000

the LLM writes that too

New comment by jaxn in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

jaxn — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:50:27 +0000

I have a small-ish vertical SaaS that is used heavily by ~700 retail stores. I have enabled our customer success team to fix bugs using GitHub copilot. I approve the PRs, but they have fixed a surprising number of issues.

New comment by jaxn in "The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?"

jaxn — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:07:04 +0000

I have been using AI to remove tech debt faster than ever before.