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New comment by jmkni in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

jmkni — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:17:41 +0000

FYI you can open Claude code in the terminal, point it at this article and just tell it to "do it", if you're feeling extra lazy

New comment by jmkni in "A PDF that changes based on how its read"

jmkni — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:12:40 +0000

Cool, can I see it?

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New comment by jmkni in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jmkni — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:57:57 +0000

Construction working entirely with wood

If only there was another word for that...?

New comment by jmkni in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jmkni — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:08:17 +0000

Depends what you mean by woodworking

I work with a guy who does decking (gardens, caravans, etc) and builds sheds, fences, things like that and he does very well indeed (he's also incredibly good at it to be fair)

New comment by jmkni in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

jmkni — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:25:23 +0000

This is an active conversation going on at my day job right now (and I suspect many other peoples too)

Every developer (we have about 100) has Github Copilot, and interestingly some barely use it while others use it a lot (about 70% of usage comes from a handful of devs), and the dashboard shows you exactly who is using which models, and how much

I definitely don't think they will just go along with paying 10/20x more than before without seeing some sort of return on that investment

We've already had the we're spending all this money on AI, why aren't we shipping software faster conversation multiple times

My prediction is that those high users, costing the most money, will be watched carefully (one colleague even suggested half-jokingly that whoever tops the leaderboard should have to give everyone else a presentation on what they spent all those AI credits on)

The sweet spot is to have good competent developers who users AI when it actually makes sense, but aren't dependent on it

New comment by jmkni in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jmkni — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:55:48 +0000

Not coding, but reading logs.

I was trying to figure out a nightmare bug that only happened in production and Claude code was able to connect to Google Cloud and read the logs in real time

I recreated the bug in the UI and it was instantly able to see ion the logs what the problem was, then because it had the context of my whole codebase it was able to point me to the exact line of code causing the problem

That was certainly an "oh shit" moment

New comment by jmkni in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

jmkni — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:38:48 +0000

I wonder if they're losing money on the actual units to get more people into the ecosystem?

New comment by jmkni in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

jmkni — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:48:19 +0000

Ha I reached that and thought to myself "do I need to read any more?"

New comment by jmkni in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

jmkni — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:43:55 +0000

In my day job, we commonly create prototypes to sell the idea/concept to the higher ups, then if we get the green light, we throw the prototype in the bin and start from scratch to build it out properly.

I find this is where AI is genuinely useful, it lets us prototype an idea a lot faster, make no bones about the fact that it is a buggy proof of concept but lets people see the potential and get an idea for what the final product might look like.

New comment by jmkni in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

jmkni — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:36:13 +0000

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New comment by jmkni in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jmkni — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:27:19 +0000

Could also have been a prank played on somebody who wasn't even aware

New comment by jmkni in "MCP is dead?"

jmkni — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:13:50 +0000

It blew my mind as a kid

I was maybe 10/11 when the Nokia 3330 came out, and being able to use the internet while not in front of a computer just felt like magic

New comment by jmkni in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

jmkni — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:43:02 +0000

Yeah none of this is new if you've been working in this industry for a while

We've always been having these debates over whether my choice of tech is better than your choice of tech, same holy wars, different type of tech

The advice today is the same as it was 10/20/30+ years ago, pick what works for you and build something good with it

Nobody will actually care how you built it, regardless of whether its good or crap (although if it's crap you can blame your tools)

New comment by jmkni in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

jmkni — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:40:28 +0000

There's a small caveat to this, technically in the UK the police are allowed to speed if they are heading to an emergency, they don't need livery on their cars or even sirens

So if you're in the outer lane and the person behind you wants to go faster than you and get past, get out of their way.

It's safer anyway, and also you don't know who they are or where they're going.

New comment by jmkni in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

jmkni — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:19:48 +0000

What is this, Reggy?

New comment by jmkni in "GitHub Actions down again today"

jmkni — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:30:11 +0000

I was actually shocked when I saw what our org pays for Github, not cheap and defo not free

New comment by jmkni in "[dead]"

jmkni — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:15:46 +0000

So how do I run it? the readme is pure AI slop

New comment by jmkni in "AI Wearables Are Coming but They'll Need to Pass the Coffee Shop Test to Survive"

jmkni — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:10:20 +0000

There must be a name for that offputting feeling , when you are reading something, and the more you read it, it just feels less human?

Sorry Connor, I'm sure you're a lovely bloke, but a lot of this scream "AI"

New comment by jmkni in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

jmkni — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:42:58 +0000

For sure, I just like learning about cool people and also knowing they are still around to do cool things

New comment by jmkni in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

jmkni — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:12:58 +0000

I've never heard of you Cliff, but still glad to hear you're still with us lol