<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: jreynar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jreynar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 17:41:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jreynar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jreynar in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt here. It reminds me of the Google search phenomenon others have mentioned, which culminated in the joke website "let me google that for you." But, I don't think the cause is necessarily that people are dumb or lazy. Both are factors, but another big one is that people are overwhelmed at work. Another question coming in may not be viewed as an opportunity to learn or help a colleague but as just another task to complete as quickly as possible so the task mountain doesn't grow higher. I'd like to think that we'll eventually use AI to automate a lot of the mundane stuff at work so people have the opportunity to dig into questions from colleagues and provide real answers and genuinely have a conversation when they do. I realize that's pretty optimistic and it may take a while to get there but people stopped sending me google search results years ago. That phenomenon was relatively short-lived and hopefully this one is too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:01:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294530</link><dc:creator>jreynar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jreynar in "The Eternal Sloptember"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another problem with perception of AI tools, for coding and other things, is that people often adopt a one-size-fits-all view. If Claude/Codex whatever can fix a bug in my tiny hobby project then it's going to revolutionize all software engineering. If it can write a haiku, then it the great American novel will be dead in a few years and the novelists will starve.<p>There aren't many truly general purpose tools so viewing things this way seems like either a fantasy or an over-reaction. And if nothing else the processes we use will have to change along with the tools.<p>It's the early days so we still have a lot to figure out but one of the most significant is which tools are appropriate for what sort of tasks. I've had good luck refactoring a small code base, building some small hobby projects and building features for our company's product. But, I've also dodged bullets doing greenfield development on some features where Claude (my default) has made what seemed like sound choices early on, and which I approved of, only to build something fragile or with unforseen consequences. I haven't quite figured out what distinguished those situations from the successful ones but I'm trying. But it's complicated by the fact that things are evolving quickly and yesterday's failure mode isn't the same as today's and, for that matter, yesterday's successes aren't guaranted to be repeatable today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266253</link><dc:creator>jreynar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jreynar in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure things could be better and maybe we've gotten lucky or perhaps being part of the AWS startup program bumps you to the front of the queue but we've had two recent issues -- both with cloudfront -- that were dealt with fairly promptly. Not quite as quick as the timeline they suggested but very hard to complain about when we're paying for support and AWS services themselves with credits from their startup program.</p>
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