Hacker News: johnwheeler

New comment by johnwheeler in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

johnwheeler — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:04:20 +0000

What a naïve article. People don’t write software this way anymore. A Gannt chart? We don’t use those anymore.

People have to stop promoting this narrative of the AI doesn’t make you move faster as it’s not helping anybody.

I get it. We all worked hard for our skills and it’s really difficult watching them get automated away, but it’s been this way since the printing press assembly lines and the industrial revolution itself. Things change, and you have to adapt to them and stop thinking about it from a centric point of view. The narrative people should be pushing is that you can build great things with AI.

Of course you might not have a job for a while and yes, that’s a big deal but it doesn’t mean that AI is wrong or stupid. It means you have to adapt.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

johnwheeler — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:03:47 +0000

All the AI hate... Of course they use Claude. What do you think? They're idiots? They use computers too...

New comment by johnwheeler in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

johnwheeler — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:36:54 +0000

I read that at first, it says, "Clawed.ai unbelievable." And I thought, "It is, it's a liar."

New comment by johnwheeler in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

johnwheeler — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:35:54 +0000

You're going to crash the server.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"

johnwheeler — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:56:48 +0000

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing, kind of an unfortunate name. Why? It makes you think of a DILD*. Then you have to remind yourself, they probably mean armadillo.

New comment by johnwheeler in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

johnwheeler — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:36:11 +0000

You're thinking is like everyone else's, and it's backwards. The world will learn to accept it as the standard way of doing things and people will appreciate one generation over another and look at manual image creation as a niche activity like blacksmithing vs assembly-line manufacturing and automation. With the latter, you appreciate the intent and the end result. Same thing here, people are just adjusting to it.

New comment by johnwheeler in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

johnwheeler — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:40:03 +0000

Yeah, it's funny. I would expect to see more enthusiasm versus just basic run-of-the-mill, "oh, there it is". Leave it to the HN crowd. This is incredible. I don't even like OpenAI.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Claude Opus 4.7"

johnwheeler — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:23:13 +0000

Exactly. God, it wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't gaslight you and act like it was nothing. Just put up a banner that says Claude is experiencing overloaded capacity right now, so your responses might be whatever.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Claude 4.6 Jailbroken"

johnwheeler — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:43:35 +0000

Are you saying that Claude will help you perform malicious attack against infrastructure if you ask it to and that anthropic should be able to stop that? I could see reasonable use cases for this like penetration testing against your own infrastructure. That’s not the same as making weapons or meth.

New comment by johnwheeler in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

johnwheeler — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:21:54 +0000

Sounds like OpenAI trying to control another narrative.

New comment by johnwheeler in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

johnwheeler — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:49:06 +0000

That's what happens when you're so untrustworthy as Sam Altman. This is coming to roost now. Ever since Paul Graham even said he'll get whatever he wants by any means necessary, basically. And then his board turns on him.

He's a constant liar.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%"

johnwheeler — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:02:16 +0000

That's what I call a feature wishlist.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

johnwheeler — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:14:43 +0000

Not millions. Many many billions. (not on virtual events, but on the platform itself--that's the crazy part)

New comment by johnwheeler in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

johnwheeler — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:59:58 +0000

Max subscription and "extra usage" billing

New comment by johnwheeler in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

johnwheeler — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:46:41 +0000

This is incredible. I just blew through $200 last night in a few hours on 1M context. This is like the best news I've heard all year in regards to my business.

What is OpenAIs response to this? Do they even have 1M context window or is it still opaque and "depends on the time of day"

New comment by johnwheeler in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

johnwheeler — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:42:13 +0000

Exactly. How ridiculous. The world doesn’t owe ‘principal engineers’ shit. I hate to work with people like this.

—- from a ‘principal engineer’

New comment by johnwheeler in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

johnwheeler — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:58:58 +0000

I wanna understand this, but it's gone from a bunch of people talking about how great it is to a bunch of technical people talking about how worthless it is. So I think it's probably not that great. Who cares if I can chat remotely with my AI? What's the difference?

What's so good about that?

New comment by johnwheeler in "Stackoverflow launches a new AI-first experience (Beta)"

johnwheeler — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:24:45 +0000

Were they bought by private equity or something? This seems like something private equity would do.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

johnwheeler — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:14:10 +0000

More Sam Altman lies. Can’t believe anything that jerk says

New comment by johnwheeler in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

johnwheeler — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:17:13 +0000

I know the money is good, but if I were you (or any OpenAI employee), I'd move over to Google or Anthropic posthaste.

Is it really worth the long-term risk being associated with Sam Altman when the other firms would willingly take you and probably give you a pay bump to boot?

It doesn't make sense to me why anyone would want to associate themselves with Altman. He is universally distrusted. No one believes anything he says. It's insane to work with a person who PG, Ilya, Murati, Musk have all designated a liar and just general creep.

Defending him or the firms actions instantly makes you look terrible, like you'll gladly take the "Elites vs UBI recipients" his vision propagates.

Shame on you people. What a disgusting vision.