Hacker News: jondwillis

New comment by jondwillis in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

jondwillis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:18:54 +0000

Yeah unironically just let an agent harness rip with full admin access without monitoring anything it does or using a VM. It’ll be fine, probably. “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the AgentDOS and Only Exfiltrate Secrets Occasionally”

New comment by jondwillis in "Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens"

jondwillis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:28:32 +0000

I think GP is basically saying, bitter lesson applies here.

New comment by jondwillis in "Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git"

jondwillis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:19:40 +0000

Low effort comment: reinventing things that Unix provides is the backbone of the entire western economy.

New comment by jondwillis in "Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git"

jondwillis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:15:12 +0000

This ACP has been rolled into A2A (https://a2a-protocol.org/ ) and shouldn’t be confused (it’s happened multiple times for me, again just now) with Agent CLIENT Protocol https://agentclientprotocol.com/

New comment by jondwillis in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

jondwillis — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:17:43 +0000

I don’t think it’s reasonable to think that privacy regulation is coming with the current admin and weak “opposition”, and lack of capacity to care or understand the stakes by the populace. We need some very effective political organizing, yesterday. And normalized, cheap, scramble suits wouldn’t hurt either.

New comment by jondwillis in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

jondwillis — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:08:42 +0000

And that’s the entire point. Accelerate!

New comment by jondwillis in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

jondwillis — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:47:53 +0000

Halvings? I guess?

New comment by jondwillis in "Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin"

jondwillis — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:18:33 +0000

> I will check out if Claude Code itself has MCPB support.

It doesn’t.

New comment by jondwillis in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

jondwillis — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:30:22 +0000

That’s a decision-shaped comment.

New comment by jondwillis in "- -dangerously-skip-reading-code"

jondwillis — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:13:27 +0000

I’ve been considering this as well, and trying to get my colleagues to understand and start doing it. I use it to pretty decent effect in my vibe coded slop side projects.

In the new world of mostly-AI code that is mostly not going to be properly reviewed or understood by humans, having a more and more robust manifestation and enforcement, and regeneration of the specs via the coding harness configuration combined with good old fashioned deterministic checks is one potential answer.

Taken to an extreme, the code doesn’t matter, it’s just another artifact generated by the specs, made manifest through the coding harness configuration and CI. If cost didn’t matter, you could re-generate code from scratch every time the specs/config change, and treat the specs/config as the new thing that you need to understand and maintain.

“Clean room code generation-compiler-thing.”

New comment by jondwillis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

jondwillis — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:05:02 +0000

1) “AI harness plugin build system” to help improve reliability of and increase compatibility across the fragmented AI coding harness plugin ecosystem.

https://github.com/jondwillis/jacq

2) Claude code plugin based on some ideas found in https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function The main idea is to add hooks that inject “baselines” under some conditions to counteract certain “emotions” that can cause subtle misaligned behavior in agents

https://github.com/jondwillis/functional-emotions

3) Final Fantasy XI custom client remaster in Bevy/Rust alongside an MCP integration that aims to allow agents to play autonomously on private servers à la “Claude plays Pokemon”

Contact: https://jonwillis.dev

New comment by jondwillis in "Our newsroom AI policy"

jondwillis — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:12:20 +0000

No, they don’t. But obviously GP was tongue–—in-–cheek.

New comment by jondwillis in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

jondwillis — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:56:27 +0000

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.

New comment by jondwillis in "Every GPU That Mattered"

jondwillis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:54:44 +0000

Congrats on the successful advert

New comment by jondwillis in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

jondwillis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:30 +0000

The time to build your community is now, regardless of the threat of apocalypse.

New comment by jondwillis in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

jondwillis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:01:39 +0000

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?

New comment by jondwillis in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

jondwillis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:00:13 +0000

Issue a chargeback.

New comment by jondwillis in "Protect your shed"

jondwillis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:09:40 +0000

How’d you get out? For the many over-specialized readers like myself…

New comment by jondwillis in "Apple at 50"

jondwillis — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:20:43 +0000

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)

New comment by jondwillis in "Schedule tasks on the web"

jondwillis — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:01:41 +0000

Why doesn’t he merge them?