Hacker News: jdc0589

New comment by jdc0589 in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

jdc0589 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:24:19 +0000

some models do ok with instruction, some don't. You still have to review pretty thoroughly and make corrections or re-prompt.

For the most part I use claude code w/ opus plan mode + sonnet implementation mode, and it does pretty well. I go through the planning process for anything other than the most basic changes.

New comment by jdc0589 in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

jdc0589 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:59:32 +0000

> You go from formulating unique solutions to flagging things that look wrong and then just picking an alternative LLM generated one.

totally depends on how you use the tools. Plenty of people fall in to that scenario, but plenty of others explicitly tell the LLM tools what and how to build something.

New comment by jdc0589 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

jdc0589 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:35:44 +0000

A good generic terminal UI app for reviewing git diffs, making comments, etc...

Lots of these have started popping up, but almost every single one of them is a TUI interface for github, or gitlab. What I'm building is for local git by default, but has an extensible plugin system to support integrating with github/gitlab/azure ado/etc... for their PRs and approvals, but forced in to a single consistent UX and workflow.

Its good enough for basic diff reviews that it has become my daily driver for about a month for reviewing my own stuff before I push changes remotely.

New comment by jdc0589 in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

jdc0589 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:13:54 +0000

I kind of disagree. You are describing a kind person who is extremely valuable, a person who is proficient in SWE but also has domain specific skills in some niche.

That's great, but its nowhere near the norm, and people have been doing generalist software engineering for decades. There has been a sufficient amount of work for a long time to be performed by generalists that it has been a very reasonable career.

IMO AI is the first thing that has ever actually challenged that.

New comment by jdc0589 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

jdc0589 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:25:34 +0000

I dont need to see stuff like this. I have too many hobbies already

New comment by jdc0589 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

jdc0589 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:52:37 +0000

I wish it made sense to do residential solar where I am. It probably does technically, but i hate the idea of spending a ton on a system and then STILL have to pay my power company; if you are connected to the grid at all where I am, you pay the power company $5/kw/month of solar capacity and your excess sell-back rates are insanely bad (0.03/kwh, vs billed usage rate at $0.17/kwh)

New comment by jdc0589 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

jdc0589 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:49:08 +0000

I use it as my main platform right now both for work/swe stuff, and person stuff. It works pretty well, they have the full suite of tools I want from general LLM chat, to notebookLM, to antigravity.

My main use-cases outside of SWE generally involve the ability to compare detailed product specs and come up with answers/comparisons/etc... Gemini does really well for that, probably because of the deeper google search index integration.

Also I got a year of pro for free with my phone....so thats a big part.

New comment by jdc0589 in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

jdc0589 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:36:51 +0000

same, but honestly OSRS is so good at this point I'd probably wanna be there.

New comment by jdc0589 in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

jdc0589 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:38:04 +0000

invest in manual mills now, profit later.

New comment by jdc0589 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

jdc0589 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:57:39 +0000

the scaling and UI framework issues are by far my biggest pain point. I will inevitably end up with an app with tiny and/or blurry UI elements every few weeks and have to spend a ton of time figuring out the correct incantation to make it better.

This is on a pretty clean/fresh install of current ubuntu desktop

New comment by jdc0589 in "Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C"

jdc0589 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:23:31 +0000

I thought Boo was a .net/mono clr thing? whats the relationship

New comment by jdc0589 in "Linux from Scratch"

jdc0589 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:39:53 +0000

agreed. I haven't done LFS, but ive done arch and plently of other distros for a good while and I definitely wouldn't say I have a rock solid understanding of the fundamentals.

New comment by jdc0589 in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

jdc0589 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:06:22 +0000

its probably a charity, no money there.

New comment by jdc0589 in "Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C"

jdc0589 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:10:56 +0000

man I haven't heard anything about Vala in ages. is it still actively developed/used? how is it?

New comment by jdc0589 in "A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine"

jdc0589 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:52:31 +0000

I can't wait for the town hall meetings in areas where a datacenter is coming "you want us to live next to supersonic jets powering a datacenter?"

New comment by jdc0589 in "Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor"

jdc0589 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:46:35 +0000

> How to build a Faraday cage for your bedroom

10/10

New comment by jdc0589 in "Basalt Woven Textile"

jdc0589 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:49:16 +0000

I refuse to touch the stuff unless its been soaked in water, and I have gloves

New comment by jdc0589 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

jdc0589 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:02:31 +0000

I didnt know, its not a term I use frequently/ever

New comment by jdc0589 in "Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop"

jdc0589 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:01:00 +0000

I got a couple bug reports years ago on https://github.com/jdavisclark/jsformat for not dealing unicode emojis correctly when used in variable names in javascript. people are weird.

New comment by jdc0589 in "The Death of Arduino?"

jdc0589 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:57:45 +0000

this is what made me rage quit on Arduino IDE about 1 hour after starting any embedded dev (esp32) for the first time. I've got no clue what im doing with embedded stuff, but I am a SWE, and I expect to be able to test sweeping changes and have them be isolated in branches/git-stash/etc...

Having to remembering everything I played with tweaking in a UI is a hilarious no-go.