Hacker News: jverce

New comment by jverce in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

jverce — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:01:24 +0000

That's most likely what's happening. SNR will constantly decrease as LLM content is so much quicker and cheaper to generate, which makes it more statistically significant, which will make it more "relevant" for future models. A positive feedback basically.

New comment by jverce in "DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure"

jverce — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:04:16 +0000

How would Kubernetes work without DNS?

New comment by jverce in "Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI?"

jverce — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:57:54 +0000

I have argued with managers and it's so boring and frustrating. At least with an AI I can start a conversation from scratch, or even practice with a locally running instance.

New comment by jverce in "Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI?"

jverce — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:55:34 +0000

The only reason managers exist is because of their power to fire people. They are essentially clerks that "coordinate" work, as if work needs that much coordination.

New comment by jverce in "Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?"

jverce — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:41:47 +0000

My bet is that engineers will have to go down, closer to the silicon level. The higher-level stuff will become more and more accessible to the non-tech consumer, so building apps and stuff will no longer require tech-savvy people, everyone will be able to make their own app.

New comment by jverce in "Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company?"

jverce — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:29:56 +0000

A dead silent office

New comment by jverce in "Ask HN: What are you doing to fight climate change?"

jverce — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:19:26 +0000

I like you, stranger on the Internet

New comment by jverce in "Ask HN: What are you doing to fight climate change?"

jverce — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:18:01 +0000

I don't use ChatGPT and don't use cryptocurrency. Those 2 are super inefficient, brute force solutions to problems I don't have.

New comment by jverce in "You cannot have exactly-once delivery (2015)"

jverce — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 02:12:32 +0000

Funny how the author later worked on NATS [1] which supports exactly-once semantics [2].

[1] https://nats.io/

[2] https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/developer/develop_jetstream/...

New comment by jverce in "Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products"

jverce — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:06:19 +0000

What does COVID-19 have to do with anything here? They are an Internet company, one would expect they'd be thriving in this scenario.