<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>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:24:56 +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 "Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve had a lot of success in the past with fine tuning STT using synthetic data.<p>I was doing it for Veterinary (ambient recording -> SOAP notes) which has tons of complex domain-specific language AND it is critically important to get right.<p>“CPR” transcribing as “see pee are” just doesn’t cut it in that industry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:15:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335289</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HN highlighting a lot this year, is all</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:59:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307177</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to ccusage I use about $5k of tokens on my $100/mo Claude Max plan and only hit 5-hr windows where I have to switch tools for a couple hours about once a week</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:04:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137363</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a lot of this “research” is a bit overhyped, when even at Anthropic it’s become “please bro find me publishable research”<p>eg <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088205">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088205</a><p>On the other hand, I have a custom harness agent running an ecommerce business 100% autonomously at this point, but have very little to benefit from trying to “publish” anything about it - and without a Stanford or YC stamp, I doubt anyone would care much anyway</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:41:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106738</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "The Productivity Mirage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Writing code has never been the hard part.<p>Writing code has never been the hard part.<p>Not for Bob, not for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:02:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106524</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Good Tools Are Invisible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the age of agents, I’ve found the headline claim is even more true<p>I acquire and operate ecommerce companies, and build a lot of workflows with openclaw-like agents (my own stack).<p>When it’s working really well, there’s literally no interface needed besides iMessage and email. I’ve built a SaaS app interface style largely to show it off for demos because invisible tools don’t make for great demos</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:27:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859633</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here I had Claude rewrite his post into a 300 word version without all the filler.<p><a href="https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d49d81d6-7aab-4730-9c3c-4f45774822cb" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d49d81d6-7aab-4730-9c3c-4...</a><p>Which I’m sharing as a meta point…I think self help books are declining because there’s a better way to get the information without all the filler. But filler makes the books thick enough to sell at the airport<p>Also - aren’t LLMs the ultimate choose your own adventure version of the information?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:06:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567718</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffrwells in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that future is here!<p>I set up my claw to be able to do that and it’s infinitely better than searching through hours of content myself.<p>I set it up as experts on topics I already know and like to reduce noise. So I can say “ask [NAME] what I should do about XYZ” and I get back contextualized info and cited video clips</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:44:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567551</link><dc:creator>jeffrwells</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567551</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>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>
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<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>
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]]></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>
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