Hacker News: jkkola

New comment by jkkola in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

jkkola — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:51:55 +0000

Looking at the recent decades-old-brand renaming bonanza with MS Office I'm pretty sure they're still in Redmond.

New comment by jkkola in "AI is making me dumb"

jkkola — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:18:56 +0000

I'm a data analyst and a bit of a data engineer,which comes with the territory. I maintain some unholy pipelines that I wrote a few years back and they were due for refactoring for a long time. I do the AI-fueled refactoring in the most basic way - paste the code, ask for suggestions, implement the ones that are sensible, ask for clarifications whenever something's new to me. The last part is absolute gold. I've learned so much with the help of AI that I think the more I use it the less I need it, rinse and repeat.

I'm at the other spectrum of what the author feels. I feel smarter and more capable with AI, and I'm actually surprised how helpful it is in my workflow. I still write code by hand but I know way more than I would without it.

Granted, I'm the "accidental programmer in a team that's completely non technical" and AI is simply a senior I'd never have otherwise. YMMV but I think if you use the tool as a more expressive Google search it can be a great companion.

Pure vibe coding is not far from "let's outsource everything", it's just a bit cheaper and more available.

New comment by jkkola in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

jkkola — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:46:38 +0000

Scratching my own (and my employer's, but they don't know that) itch and building a knowledge management system as a nerdy way of spending evenings. I refused to learn JS for years, but turns out it's not as bad as I thought, and TS makes it really nice, plus I like (to my surprise) SolidJS' JSX interpretation quite a lot. Half vibe-coded, half breaking things and learning a lot.

New comment by jkkola in "Learn to play Go"

jkkola — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:49:22 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_Lake_District

New comment by jkkola in "‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI"

jkkola — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:15:10 +0000

There's a YouTube video titled "AI is a hype-fueled dumpster fire" [0] that mentions OpenAI's shenanigans. I haven't fact checked that but I've heard enough stories to believe it.

[0] https://youtu.be/0bF_AQvHs1M?si=rpMG2CY3TxnG3EYQ

New comment by jkkola in "Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available"

jkkola — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:46:25 +0000

I absolutely love Polars. I work on some unholy dirty data and the ease of use, chaining, speed are a godsend. One dataset that previously took 40 minutes in Pandas now takes two minutes in Polars. Granted, the Pandas query could be optimized, but out of the box, Polars eats pandas when it comes to speed and efficiency.

I basically ditched SQL for most of my analytical work because it's way easier to understand for my juniors (we're not technically a tech team) so it's a total win in my eyes.

New comment by jkkola in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

jkkola — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:19:39 +0000

This is why I cannot switch to neovim despite my attempts. I love the workflow, but the delay is too noticeable for me, and nothing helps. It's not a long delay, but long enough for me to feel like I have to wait for hours compared to Zed.

New comment by jkkola in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

jkkola — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 04:58:34 +0000

I have one too and I swear by it, but let's face it - it's not £16. But thanks for the tip about the cable!

New comment by jkkola in "Microsoft became incompetent in IT"

jkkola — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:58:14 +0000

I just wanted to say that's equally impressive and terrifying. Good job though!