<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: jondwillis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jondwillis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:56:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jondwillis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have our doubts about this. Can you share your code or product?
Anecdotally, my mistakes and lack of understanding exponentiate the more I try to parallelize.</p>
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<p>Congrats on the successful advert</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706079</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The time to build your community is now, regardless of the threat of apocalypse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700274</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Until they do start doing identity verification, I think you're good. Frankly, don't be a coward. If you're getting treated like this, why would you even want to use their services in the future?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:01:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695532</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Issue a chargeback.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695517</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Protect your shed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How’d you get out? For the many over-specialized readers like myself…</p>
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<p>I’ve had the exact opposite journey. Native apps, disillusioned and frustrated with the backwards tooling, moved on to more open platforms (web apps and backends)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606025</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Schedule tasks on the web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why doesn’t he merge them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:01:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539500</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think your repo is cool, but I don’t think creating APIs from web apps is at all precipated on academic research and the other things you mentioned.<p>Maybe I’m misreading what you’re trying to say.</p>
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<p>thanks for chiming in with this noise bot</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:38:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463189</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "AI coding is gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If there was an infinite App Store, we wouldn't have scarcity and I'd be doing literally anything else other than selling my time for money. I'd also be killed because there's no point to my owners/the world keeping me around anymore in that scenario, except, maybe for my winning personality/companionship.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432030</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh hey</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:49:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425138</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would love to chat, I recently wrapped up an initial version of an automated real estate appraisal review app which appears to have some of the same technical challenges and risks. <a href="https://getvalara.com" rel="nofollow">https://getvalara.com</a> / jwillis@valara.net<p>Would love to share notes. I was able to get away with landing.ai and some really careful schema design and multi-step workflow with a few agents sprinkled in at the end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:53:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421086</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not that much! Not life-changing. It was my first  startup, and didn’t know what questions to ask when being hired. I was stupid enough to assume that I would be taken care of. To date, it’s been my only successful exit, and I was granted waaaaay below typical equity for how early I was and how much blood and sweat I gave. This was typical for non-founders and below-directors from what I have ascertained.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:54:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412731</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Accelerationists gonna accelerate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:51:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373481</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Literally Pluto TV v1 à la 2013/14.<p>Source: me. I built it with some folks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:30:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370216</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://getvalara.com" rel="nofollow">https://getvalara.com</a> - PDF appraisal document in, grounded appraisal review out in 5-10 minutes to aid in risk management for lending institutions and individual appraisal reviewers.<p>We use landing.ai to parse the PDF, as well as useworkflow.dev to durably perform other work such as rendering PDF pages for citations, and coordinating a few lightweight agents and deterministic checks that flag for inconsistencies, rule violations, bias, verify appraiser credentials, etc. etc. Everything is grounded in the input document so it makes it pretty fast and easy. We’re going to market soon and have an approval sign up gate currently. Plenty of new features and more rigorous checks planned to bring us to and exceed parity with competition and human reviewers.<p>There’s plenty of margin for cost and latency versus manual human review, which takes an hour or more and costs $100 or more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:37:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305516</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Rust: The Unlikely Engine of the Vibe Coding Era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Getting tons of Gell-Mann from this one. On the surface level, a more rigid type system helps, but it doesn't remove all potential classes of bugs. For example, if you're using Rust to interact with LLM APIs, you're still sending strings around. If those prompt string reference code such as a field name as a string literal, and you rename the field name, but forget to update the string, you've got a bug. You can, of course not use a string literal, but hey, it happens. I'm not sure if Rust can reference field names at compile time and get them into string, but I do know TypeScript can.<p>Which brings me to... choosing to throw TypeScript under the bus for having an "unsound" type system ignores the fact that you can <i>just</i> throw more tooling at the problem (e.g., a linter that disallows `any`, since that one example cited in the article), and glazes over the fact that the JS ecosystem has a lot more examples in the training data for many LLMs. The further you deviate from the slop-mean, the worse time you're going to have using LLMs to generate code, slop or otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:38:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265424</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> AI-enabled mass surveillance is fine as long as it isn’t domestic.<p>> We want AI to be aligned with all of humanity.<p>One of many contradictions. Liars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:13:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200307</link><dc:creator>jondwillis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jondwillis in "How will OpenAI compete?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Always, eh?</p>
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