Hacker News: jcmontx

New comment by jcmontx in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

jcmontx — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:10:01 +0000

x86 is dead to me

New comment by jcmontx in "Am I German or Autistic?"

jcmontx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:36:05 +0000

64% autistic 31% German

disappointed

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jcmontx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:29:37 +0000

How scary was the test flight? where did you land?

New comment by jcmontx in "Union types in C# 15"

jcmontx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:39:54 +0000

So they finally took all of the cool features from F#. What's missing? The pipe operator for railway oriented programming?

New comment by jcmontx in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

jcmontx — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:45:19 +0000

Never heard of this game. Is it similar to Warcraft III?

New comment by jcmontx in "Personal Encyclopedias"

jcmontx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:45:49 +0000

Big shout out to the Mormons, whom have been digitalizing ancient birth certificates all around the world. We got a lot of data from them!

New comment by jcmontx in "Personal Encyclopedias"

jcmontx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:14:13 +0000

Main family tree from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In the times of the Virreinato del Río de la Plata.

New comment by jcmontx in "Personal Encyclopedias"

jcmontx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:48:32 +0000

Extremely cool. I'm into genealogy and can trace my family 10 generations back (250 years) to their arrival to Argentina. Documentation is lost or lacking once you reach Europe, other branches of the family with more recent arrivals to the country are very hard to trace. In part due to mismatching surnames and in part due to the wars.

We have started asking old family members to send us whatsapp audios with tales and things they remember from long-passed away family members; and what was life like in the 1930-40-50s. I want to start organizing all the info and data we have, my father has built a couple family trees, but this wiki format is indeed very promising. I'll keep an eye on this and see if we can use it.

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jcmontx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:19:53 +0000

let's say they hike up the price: as long as the performance increase surpasses a dev salary for less of the cost, it's still worth it.

Do you prefer paying 2 devs 100k a year? or 1 dev + 20-30k in tokens?

New comment by jcmontx in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

jcmontx — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:36:00 +0000

My experience with this library has been underwhelming sadly. I have a better experience going raw with any cli agent

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jcmontx — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:57:02 +0000

It's really interesting how delusional people here can get when their livelihood depends on it. It's a game changer guys. I've been working professionally for 12 years. Big companies, small companies, freelance, startup CTO nowadays. It's multiplier. It gives me superpowers. If you don't feel the superpowers, you're either missing out or in denial. Embrace agentic coding.

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jcmontx — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:51:25 +0000

You guys are definitely missing out. I have the perfect army of mid-level engineers. Using codex lately, my own CPU and ram are the ones holding me back from spinning more and more agents

New comment by jcmontx in "GPT-5.4"

jcmontx — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:26:30 +0000

Codex surpassed Claude in usefulness _for me_ since last month

New comment by jcmontx in "GPT-5.4"

jcmontx — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:45:04 +0000

5.4 vs 5.3-Codex? Which one is better for coding?

New comment by jcmontx in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

jcmontx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:10:47 +0000

Sad but true. I'm very strict with my developers and extremely cautious of introducing new "moving parts" to existing systems. I try to keep a single deployment-unit if possible. I like monoliths.

New comment by jcmontx in "MacBook Neo"

jcmontx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:08:52 +0000

This A18 processor, how does it compare to the M series?

New comment by jcmontx in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

jcmontx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:28:12 +0000

It baffles me how skeptical people here are of AI-assisted programming. If you don't see productivity gains I feel you're in deep denial.

It's true that in my company we're not building rockets or defense systems, maybe you guys are and in those scenarios it's less useful. But for typical LoB and/or consumer-facing software, AI is crushing it. Where I used to need 3 devs, now I just need one (and the support team around it: PM, BA, QA, Designer). For my business, AI has been a game changer.

New comment by jcmontx in "iPhone 17e"

jcmontx — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:19:10 +0000

I have an iPhone 13, would this phone be a worthy update?

New comment by jcmontx in "Layoffs at Block"

jcmontx — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:37:05 +0000

I don’t think we’ll ever return to the glory days (2007-2023). Software engineering in the next few years will become as cool as accounting or HR (as in not cool at all). Just a generic white collar profession like it was maybe in the 80s.

New comment by jcmontx in "Claude Code Remote Control"

jcmontx — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:49:29 +0000

I feel closer to realizing my dream of walking by a forest and whispering back and forth to an LLM to get shit done