Hacker News: jcmartinezdev

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

jcmartinezdev — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:58:25 +0000

Even though those pop ups and paywalls are annoying, you shouldn’t be injecting custom CSS and JS like that. It’s just wrong.

And the location… well, if one day they need you, they’ll sure be glad they know your each steps and current location .

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

The case for becoming a manager

jcmartinezdev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.thelongcommit.com/p/the-case-for-becoming-a-manager

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508078

Points: 58

# Comments: 54

I Think a New Role Is Emerging in Tech

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:40:08 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.thelongcommit.com/p/i-think-a-new-role-is-emerging-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443038

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:28:19 +0000

Rule 6: Never disagree with AI slop

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:53:19 +0000

Mistral is doing some really great stuff lately. Sure, it's hard to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic and their models, but they are taking up some interesting takes and designing their product in unique ways.

I like a lot what they are doing and I'll be watching them a lot more closely. I'd love to work for them btw!

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:41:16 +0000

We are all on the same boat now, whatever it takes us!

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:40:23 +0000

And that’s the thing… it’s good at writing down my ideas in way that I can’t as a non native English speaker.

But it needed the judgement, the experienced and suffered input to know what to help me write

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:16:18 +0000

When that happens, we'll having nothing else to do.

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:03:22 +0000

That's true! that make me feel better lol. The internet is so sensitive to AI slop, it's hard to know what's the right balanced of usage when writing.

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:52:42 +0000

yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol.

it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them"

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:52:28 +0000

I worry about that too, but I'm not sure we are close to that yet. Maybe we'll end up working on legacy systems where AI would break more than it would fix, or maybe we would become prompters. Idk!

I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.thelongcommit.com/p/i-have-30-years-of-career-left-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342378

Points: 28

# Comments: 17

The Quiet Surrender to AI

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:32:37 +0000

Article URL: https://jcmartinez.dev/post/the-quiet-surrender-to-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981370

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "An Update on Heroku"

jcmartinezdev — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:17:00 +0000

Auth0 is constantly releasing new features, including a new major offering now for AI agents. Plus is still very active in the development community, with open source like OpenFGA, frameworks, contributions to standards and so much more.

Not sure where the maintenance mode is coming from...

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Ask HN: How are you enforcing permissions for AI agent tool calls in production?"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:11:19 +0000

I've seen solutions implementing authorization in multiple ways, some still rely on the underlying services that map to the tools, guaranteeing the AT sent to those services is acting on behalf of the user.

Other's do checks at the tool level, systems like openfga can help make that easier by centralizing the authorization policies.

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Ask HN: How do you authorize AI agent actions in production?"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:05:12 +0000

There are multiple ways, you can use known authorization methods like RBAC, or if you want something more fancy ReBac (tools like openfga, https://openfga.dev).

But there's only so much that you can do with that, if you need to call third party APIs on the user's behalf I'd recommend going with a solution revolving around custom token exchange (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693).

You can check something like Auth0 offers: https://auth0.com/ai

Which would cover things like token exchange for third party APIs, human in the loop, and also authorization methods.

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Handling the Dual-Write Problem in Distributed Systems"

jcmartinezdev — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:01:46 +0000

This is a really solid primer. I appreciate that the author didn't just jump straight to the most complex solution (CDC/Event Sourcing) but actually laid out the progression of strategies.

While "Sequential Dual-Write" is technically flawed, I think it's fair to admit that it's where 90% of projects start (and stay) until the pain becomes real.

That said, the section on the Transactional Outbox is the highlight here. It really is the most pragmatic middle ground for most engineering teams.It's as good as it gets without kafka.

Great read!

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?"

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:44:40 +0000

For what it looks, this is something where DCR (https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0.htm...) could be helpful.

Some auth providers like Auth0 have support for it: https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/applications/dynamic-clie....

There are some caveats and security concerns when using DCR, so you should research more into that. Another option may be CIMD (https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-parecki-oauth-client-i...) though I'm not totally familiar with it.

What you also mentioned, like using proxys, or wildcards, is also widely used, at least for what I've seen.

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

jcmartinezdev — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:18:19 +0000

I'm hiring for a senior developer content advocate, and Okta/Auth0 has more open positions.

Here's my currently open position: https://www.okta.com/company/careers/marketing/senior-develo...

New comment by jcmartinezdev in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

jcmartinezdev — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:33:15 +0000

In Germany you also have the UG which is like a small GmbH, with 1 eur minimum capital requirement, that is if you like like the 1k (and up to 2k) it cost to set up.