Hacker News: jesse_dot_id

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

jesse_dot_id — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:49:20 +0000

CYA is a powerful drug for the C Suite

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

jesse_dot_id — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:48:41 +0000

I've been slowly moving all of my stuff over to Cloudflare. This certainly does not inspire confidence to continue down that path.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server"

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:40:09 +0000

Played in the UO beta with a CD I got out of a magazine or something. It began a period more than a decade of UO -> EverQuest -> WoW addiction. I sincerely believe that if I never discovered MMORPGs, I would be a billionaire lol

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

jesse_dot_id — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:57:33 +0000

The world would be a much better place if these kinds of engineers had a spine.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

jesse_dot_id — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:27:48 +0000

We are a swarm shop and I don't foresee changing that anytime soon.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

jesse_dot_id — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:09:39 +0000

I suspect companies are deploying bots to shift sentiment around their products. I find metrics like this to be largely useless vs. actually just trying stuff out.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

jesse_dot_id — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:00:43 +0000

Yeah, I do that. I've read many books about it. My particular physiology is just stubborn thus far.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

jesse_dot_id — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:59:02 +0000

LLMs need a competent engineer to create code that doesn't suck. Reality is catching up to the hype.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

jesse_dot_id — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:49:32 +0000

Lucid dreaming is a cool concept but I've never been able to pull it off. I still try, though!

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Copy Fail"

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:30:33 +0000

Good thing nobody is silly enough to let fully autonomous AI agents run as regular users on these affected operating systems. That could be disastrous given a zero day prompt injection technique.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:04:37 +0000

Waiting for customer service to make a comeback. It seems like SaaS is an infinite see of shitty chatbots doing a whole lot of brand damage. Basically for any service that I use, whenever I am forced to interact with a chatbot, that company takes a critical hit to its reputation going forward because the interaction is never anything but enraging.

Increase in Claude Code speed bumps?

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:24:52 +0000

Claude Code seems like it's pausing a lot more than it has previously to ask me kind of frivolous questions about the prompt I've just given it. It seems to be pausing multiple times per step. I've been using CC for quite awhile and have never noticed it until this week in particular.

Am I missing a new setting or something? (I do not and will not use the destructive flag(s))

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954076

Points: 3

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New comment by jesse_dot_id in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:08:44 +0000

This is an abacus-to-calculator situation. Some people still use an abacus. The vast majority do not. It's wild living through one of these technological transitions. People just eschew all common sense and critical thinking as it relates to the adoption of new technologies.

If it's good, lots of people will use it commercially. If it's generationally good, everybody will use it commercially because commercial use is about competition. It either gets banned outright, like steroids, or — if it doesn't get banned — those who use it will have a clear advantage and that will lead to a very small number of people who don't use it (in business).

This is not really something that opinions are required for because if you think LLMs are going away, your opinion is historically incorrect. Things that reduce toil and increase output do not go away.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop"

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:46:44 +0000

That's cool, I'll never see them.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

jesse_dot_id — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:20:08 +0000

AI psychosis is to have a toxic relationship with a chatbot as if though it was a real person. It has nothing to do with engineering. You're muddying your own point by conflating all LLM use with some kind of delusion. There is a lot of nuance in this space and you're not doing yourself any favors by ignoring it if you're an engineer. There is no bubble pop, other than a straight up apocalypse, that is going to put this genie back in the bottle. Models are trained. Tools are built. There isn't a single industry that cares about artistry more than efficiency. It's here to stay, it's getting better, and if you don't know how to use it, you're going to have trouble finding work.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

jesse_dot_id — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:07:25 +0000

We're going to see a lot of this in the near future and it will be 100% earned. Too many people think that move fast and break stuff is the correct paradigm for success. Too many people using these tools without understanding how LLMs work but also without the requisite engineering experience to know even the lowest level stuff — like how to protect secrets.

I don't even like having secrets on disk for my personal projects that only I will touch. Why was there a plaintext production database credential available to the agent anywhere on the disk in the first place? How did the agent gain access to the file system outside of the code base?

The Railway stuff isn't great, don't get me wrong, but plaintext production secrets on disk is one of the reddest possible flags to me, and he just kind of breezes over it in the post mortem. It's all I needed to read to know he doesn't have the experience required to run a production application that businesses rely on for their day-to-day.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

jesse_dot_id — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:51:59 +0000

This is fairly normal.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

jesse_dot_id — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:24:08 +0000

Every time Musk does anything these days, it further reveals the shell game he's playing with his companies. This is going to be an Enron type of story eventually. I truly wish I had a choice to pull my tax money out of this particular subsidy.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

jesse_dot_id — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:02:39 +0000

> How many developers do you think knew that checkbox existed? How many assumed their database credentials and API keys were encrypted by default?

If I don't see asterisks, I'm not hitting save on the field with a secret in it. Maybe they were setting them programmatically? They should definitely still be looking to pass some kind of a secret flag, though. This is a weird problem for a company like Vercel to have.

New comment by jesse_dot_id in "Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite"

jesse_dot_id — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:51:20 +0000

Why would they disclose anything of substance with regards to aliens? Their constituency is religious.