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New comment by jaynate in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

jaynate — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:11:26 +0000

>> Thanks for reading! Let me know if anyone's interested in more posts about this bowling nonsense.

I’d say, “yes!” judging from the upvotes.

You Might Be a Late Bloomer (2024)

jaynate — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:24:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/successs-late-bloomers-motivation/678798/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872343

Points: 4

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New comment by jaynate in "Show HN: Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer"

jaynate — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:43:06 +0000

Are you running in any enterprise environments that you know of?

New comment by jaynate in "Show HN: Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer"

jaynate — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:25:46 +0000

Wow, can’t understand why this isn’t getting more attention.

Zombie Unicorns Are Haunting Silicon Valley

jaynate — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:15:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/21/zombie-unicorns-are-haunting-silicon-valley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628651

Points: 3

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New comment by jaynate in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

jaynate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:49:31 +0000

For clarity, inference is typically a COGS and therefore hits Gross Margin vs model training which would typically be in OpEx (where R&D lives) and would hit operating margin.

New comment by jaynate in "MCP is dead?"

jaynate — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:39:19 +0000

Yes, and the free-for-all building of nonsense (and insecure) apps by non engineers is probably going to slow down as well.

The software rebound is real, but not every big name is back

jaynate — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-software-rebound-is-real-but-not-every-big-name-is-back-chart-of-the-day-121425237.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335883

Points: 1

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New comment by jaynate in "MCP is dead?"

jaynate — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:21:14 +0000

Feels like we’re continuing to trend toward deterministic workflows which may actually be okay in 90% of cases. Reality is there’s a lot of unnecessary token burn happening right now. Simple market dynamics will solve that, i.e., when token cost subsidies begin to fade away and we face the true cost of agent applications.

New comment by jaynate in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"

jaynate — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:35:18 +0000

Simply... amazing

New comment by jaynate in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

jaynate — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:06:50 +0000

Isn’t there coverage on any other site with fewer ads and popups? I could literally barely navigate the article on my phone.

Ask HN: What Vercel alternatives do you recommend?

jaynate — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:37:10 +0000

Having read some of the comments about this company after the breach, I'm concerned about building anything else on this platform as my company needs to maintain several security compliance certs. The platform is obviously slick from a usability perspective and is nearly seamless to use along with Claude Code.

Curious what others are doing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832842

Points: 1

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New comment by jaynate in "Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again"

jaynate — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:11:08 +0000

And I think it’s less about letting agents modify the product source. That’s more of a platform capability which should also be a requirement for certain types of use cases. All comes back to listening to and / or innovating for customers.

New comment by jaynate in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

jaynate — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:36:18 +0000

“Their relationship with the software is one of pure dependency, and when the software doesn’t do what they need, they just… live with it”

Or, more likely, they churn off the product.

The SaaS platforms that will survive are busy RIGHT NOW revamping their APIs, implementing oauth, and generally reorganizing their products to be discovered and manipulated by agents. Failing in this effort will ultimately result in the demise of any given platform. This goes for larger SaaS companies, too, it’ll just take longer.

New comment by jaynate in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

jaynate — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:15 +0000

Good engineers are way more important than they’ve ever been and the job market tells the story. Engineering job posts are up 10% year over year. The work is changing but that’s what happens when a new technology wave comes ashore. Don’t give up, ride the new wave. You’re uniquely qualified.

New comment by jaynate in "Daemon (2006)"

jaynate — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:57:07 +0000

I think about this book often since Nov 2022. It’s a fantastic read.

New comment by jaynate in "In praise of –dry-run"

jaynate — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:50:51 +0000

> The downside is that the dryRun-flag pollutes the code a bit. In all the major phases, I need to check if the flag is set, and only print the action that will be taken, but not actually doing it.

Sounds like a case for the state machine pattern

A collection of my weird, fun, and fast-built side projects

jaynate — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pankajtanwar.in/side-hustles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657103

Points: 2

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New comment by jaynate in "AI is a business model stress test"

jaynate — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:53:11 +0000

I think we are both saying similar things here (believe it or not). Sales leaders turnover with surprising frequency - 18-24 months. About the time the sales team tells you what they “want” and you fine tune it, they will be gone. The next person will come in and probably scrap 50-75% of what the prior leader did. New requirements.

Meanwhile, besides functionality, you’ll want/need to plug in the latest and greatest go to market tools for marketing -and demand gen. But… that’ll be a custom effort, too.

Along the way you’ll also realize that you’re missing out on the most common practices in the industry because you built some idiosyncratic tool that only is relevant to your company.

History may very well prove me wrong, but I think you’re underestimating the expertise that underlies these products and platforms. It’s not just code, and the costs of getting it wrong are more than just an engineer’s time. When you waste time in GTM the impacts on the business and valuation are not linear, they’re exponential.

New comment by jaynate in "AI is a business model stress test"

jaynate — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:18:26 +0000

>> Our sales people can make feature requests

I can tell you with near-100% certainty. This isn’t what you want to happen. Disaster in the making.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. There is very little competitive advantage to be gained from this type of effort in most companies.