<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jeffrwells</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffrwells</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 21:52:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jeffrwells" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He's not talking about malware awareness. He's talking about a bug i've seen too which requires Claude justifying for *every* tool call to add extra malware-awareness turns. Like every file read of the repo we've been working on</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827661</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another way to think about it: every single user of Claude is paying an extra tax in every single request</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:07:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827653</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminder that 4.7 may seem like a huge upgrade to 4.6 because they nerfed the F out of 4.6 ahead of this launch so 4.7 would seem like a remarkable improvement...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:46:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795054</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic has become a PR vaporware company</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:08:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735062</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started building a similar project for myself, a terminal PTY running through a desktop daemon: <a href="https://youtu.be/6KY-HCn3SaA" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/6KY-HCn3SaA</a><p>The fun part being it worked on mobile too: <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/CmemwDGwpx8?si=xzAJBb8ha7DLIDmY" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/shorts/CmemwDGwpx8?si=xzAJBb8ha7DLIDmY</a><p>It was more of a tool for myself but some interest from others inspired me so iterating on it. People interested in this kind of thing should join my slack! <a href="https://monetworkspace.com/terminal" rel="nofollow">https://monetworkspace.com/terminal</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600979</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Monet – Claude Code Multisession Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://monetworkspace.com" rel="nofollow">https://monetworkspace.com</a>
Youtube Demo: <a href="https://lnkd.in/dTY7CxDn">https://lnkd.in/dTY7CxDn</a><p>Organize and manage dozens of claude code agents for you in a grid.
Alerts when the agents need help. Keyboard driven. Dictation native. 
On Mac at your desktop or iPad/iPhone on the go.<p>--<p>This started as a nagging side project — I wanted to spend less time at my desk, improve my own posture and lifestyle and spend less time sitting at my desk and more time standing and dictating, sitting outside, or just making use of downtime.<p>As Claude Code and other agentic engineering tools have gotten good enough, I spend more time in system architect and product mindset and less time actually writing code..<p>But as they can run autonomously for longer and longer, I get incredibly bored and open a new tab and start on another feature...multiple sessions got increasingly overwhelming and unorganized. So I built Monet.<p>Releasing as an alpha at a discount. It's not a subscription. I'm bootstrapped and intend to stay that way. Just a one-year license, hopefully low enough price engineers can expense it.<p>On that note, it's all SQLlite running on your computer. If you want to use it on your phone you need to use a Tailscale VPN to access it directly. Nothing leaves the machine except to check for updates and validate the license key.<p>Even with some bugs, I can attest as the number one power user...it's a game changer. I encourage you to try it if you use Claude Code a lot.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368568">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368568</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.monetworkspace.com/</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "747s and coding agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I built this entire app on ios + website without opening an IDE.<p><a href="https://www.gophergolfer.com/iphone" rel="nofollow">https://www.gophergolfer.com/iphone</a><p>NextJS, Rails, GraphQL, React Native<p>Certainly wasn't one-shot for all of it but case in point it has dozens and dozens of "features" all LLM implemented</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:27:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204220</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "747s and coding agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could I ask, what did you love about programming that you now don't find this agent thing fun at all.<p>I'm genuinely curious, I feel very differently and excited about this agent thing.<p>Asking because unlike a lot of other commentary, this struck me as being more about the act itself than being depressed/anxious for financial reasons, etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:26:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204208</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think his point is that an even better close friend is…a close friend</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:14:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844179</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "GPT-5 for Developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenAI hiring BCG alumni is all we need to know</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:59:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44832944</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44832944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44832944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who writes a lot of Ruby and has for a long time, I have never thought the metric Ruby optimizes for is “intuitive” (I think it is, but been doing it too long / too close to it so it’s intuitive to me)<p>The stated optimization from Matz (who created Ruby) is “developer happiness”<p>The important optimization for me is “fidelity to business logic”, eg less cruft and ruby syntactic sugar means you could sit at your computer and read your business rules (in code) out loud in real time and be understood by a non-dev</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 02:19:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011555</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LOC or code golf is indeed not a metric to optimize to 0, but hating on importing libraries is a bad take.<p>As CTO at Redo do you demand everything written in assembly? Does your entire company’s code run in one file or do you use abstraction to simplify?<p>I’m not quite clear on how expressing a really complex and paradigm shifting approach of agents in a more concise way is a bad thing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 02:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011533</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why the us vs them mentality? How is that productive? Did people who love Ruby do something to you?<p>Pretty hard to grow and learn new concepts if you immediately label anything you don’t understand yet as “super dumb”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 02:10:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011518</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Hopin, the struggling unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And, it will be doing all of that under new leadership. Badri Rajasekar, who had been CTO and CPO, is taking on the role of CEO from founder and current CEO Johnny Boufarhat<p>Johnny made his $200M and got out.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1518988096976551941?lang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1518988096976551941?lang=...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:33:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018093</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Ask HN: Laid off –> solo founder. Do I look like I'm trying to hide something?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I took a year off building a startup that went nowhere. I was incredibly worried this hole in my resume would hurt my job prospects and it didn’t at all, even in this market. No one ever asked.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theringer.com/2023/6/6/23750435/why-so-many-young-men-are-lonely-sexless-extremely-online-richard-reeves-of-boys-and-men">https://www.theringer.com/2023/6/6/23750435/why-so-many-young-men-are-lonely-sexless-extremely-online-richard-reeves-of-boys-and-men</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36314506">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36314506</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:21:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.theringer.com/2023/6/6/23750435/why-so-many-young-men-are-lonely-sexless-extremely-online-richard-reeves-of-boys-and-men</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36314506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36314506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Show HN: Pitch Decks for Founders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The submitted link 404s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:25:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35062856</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35062856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35062856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Daszak of Eco Health Alliance Faces Calls to Quit]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/peter-daszak-u-s-funds-wuhan-institute-virology-aided-cover-faces-calls-quit-ecohealth-alliance-1636103">https://www.newsweek.com/peter-daszak-u-s-funds-wuhan-institute-virology-aided-cover-faces-calls-quit-ecohealth-alliance-1636103</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34443540">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34443540</a></p>
<p>Points: 30</p>
<p># Comments: 22</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:13:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.newsweek.com/peter-daszak-u-s-funds-wuhan-institute-virology-aided-cover-faces-calls-quit-ecohealth-alliance-1636103</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34443540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34443540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Ask HN: How do you decide what to eat/mealplan?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats on taking the initiative! It’s hard.<p>I have ADHD and I eat healthy and track macros semi-successfully. Here’s my advice:<p>Ignore 99% of advice out there.<p>Personally, I try to cook as little as possible. Some people enjoy cooking, that’s great! Even I do sometimes. But for most meals, the slog of buying groceries, preparing, cooking, then cleaning is no fun and I end up throwing away food and eating out.<p>Things like meal prep can be extremely taxing for a neurodiverse person — I’m sure you <i>can</i> do it but it’s probably harder than it is for most people and you can put all of that incredible creative energy into something more productive.<p>Find a few healthy snacks that you like and buy those. Healthy = not junk, don’t overthink this part. These are just to curb cravings. Baby carrots, lettuce + deli meats, chickpea popcorn, watermelon, whatever. Set up a recurring order from an online grocery delivery or Amazon and call it a day. Eating these when you’re hungry will make all of your other food decisions more deliberate.<p>Get all of your groceries delivered. Safeway has it, FreshDirect, Instacart, many other options. It makes it quick to reorder the same things, you avoid indecision in the grocery store, and you save lots of time.<p>Buy healthy microwaveable food. I use The Chicken Pound [1] or you might like Freshly [2]. Trader Joe’s and other grocers have pre made stuff that’s pretty good too. Don’t cook rice the 45 minute way on the stove, buy microwaveable rice.<p>All of these <i>could</i> be healthier: watermelon has sugar, pre made has extra sodium, etc. If you get to the point you have extra time and space to optimize for these things then go for it, but to start out, the <i>only</i> thing that matters is calories + not eating junk.<p>Probably just not eating junk will make a world of difference, but if you want to dive deeper, track calories. Figure out what your baseline is using TDEE Calculator [3] and choose the slow loss. I use Keto app [4] for tracking (I don’t do keto) because I like searching by barcode and voice.<p>There are lots of rabbit holes to dive down and I anticipate if you get the basics on “easy mode” then you might view some of these smaller optimizations as actually fun!<p>But ya, as someone with ADHD the biggest thing for me was just letting go of the shame of not being able to meal prep like a normal person. Instead, I spend some extra money on premade and grocery delivery, set myself up to be 80% healthy on autopilot, and then spend my energy on much more engaging and productive (and high leverage / high return financially) activities.<p>[1] <a href="https://thechickenpound.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thechickenpound.com/</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.freshly.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.freshly.com/</a>
[3] <a href="https://tdeecalculator.net/" rel="nofollow">https://tdeecalculator.net/</a>
[4] <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keto-diet-app-macro-tracker/id1406879426" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keto-diet-app-macro-tracker/id...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 15:07:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31959647</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31959647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31959647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "U.S. court rejects Tether’s bid to conceal reserve records from the public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No need to be rude smoovb, I was genuinely curious</p>
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