Hacker News: kajman

New comment by kajman in "Pros and Cons of Solo Development"

kajman — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:37:47 +0000

Counter question: where's the useful production-grade software that's been made entirely with "agent swarms"?

Personally, I don't think useful business problems can be solved entirely with LLM loops. If you choose not to pay others to handle part of that then it's all on you.

New comment by kajman in "Right to Local Intelligence"

kajman — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:03:42 +0000

"I am eighteen years old, have a good set of passkeys, and believe in Sam Altman, the star-spangled banner, and the fourth of July. I have taken up a BLM lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year, and placed top of it a bitcoin mine. My vibe coded drop-shipping startup looks first-rate, and the conversion rate and total addressable market are bully.

New comment by kajman in "Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime"

kajman — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:32:42 +0000

I would be very surprised to see any "make it safe" solution that does not render these models useless for programming. I assume posts like this are mostly clout-motivated, but I really dislike the implied vision for what LLMs should offer here.

New comment by kajman in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

kajman — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:02:44 +0000

The U.S. is becoming like the place that keeps releasing the best open weight models?

New comment by kajman in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"

kajman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:19:29 +0000

I'd be really happy to come across this in a project I were interested in. So much hobby OSS is infested with slop that I don't even want to skim the code if I pick up a hint that there's no humans at the wheel.

New comment by kajman in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"

kajman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:11:11 +0000

Stars are a really bad metric for quality/popularity but they're something here. I think some sort of impact score when combined with repo age, # contributors, etc would be pretty valuable.

New comment by kajman in "AI has already killed academia as we know it?"

kajman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:59:24 +0000

I worry the sort of core classes that are in massive lecture halls (and everyone remembers hating) would be more of a "blind leading the blind" situation if run like this. Maybe not with lavish funding and small classes. I had a couple classes like you describe, but they were on specific topics I was very interested in near the end of my undergrad program.

New comment by kajman in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

kajman — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:44:59 +0000

I'm sure investors thought one or two of the ISPs laying all that fiber would be collecting fat rents on them until the sun burnt out. I'm glad they got so much in the ground before there was a reckoning. I hope this industry ships more very expensive models, ASAP.

New comment by kajman in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

kajman — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:21:16 +0000

You aren't ready to get that job until you've truly accepted your role as a genderless machine that turns salary into personal validation for the hiring manager.

New comment by kajman in "Deno Desktop"

kajman — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:31:58 +0000

I never thought I'd defend Electron, but I'd rather use the bloated web UI than a vibe coded Qt/GTK version I'm positive will not have seen any human QA.

New comment by kajman in "The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends"

kajman — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:45:28 +0000

> zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned resumes that happen to perfectly match our listing

How often do you interview candidates with bad or mediocre resumes, though? My impression is that a perfectly tuned (and almost certainly dishonest) resume is just table stakes now.

New comment by kajman in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

kajman — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:12:41 +0000

That is interesting. Half a year is not nothing and I expect it's harder to keep a project functioning when the base is vibe coded rather than having mature abstractions and architecture already.

I am still skeptical on this method's ability to deliver polished products though. I've kept an eye out on it in the OSS world and don't think I've seen big anything yet.

New comment by kajman in "Identity verification on Claude"

kajman — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:07:56 +0000

I'm just a petty conspiracy theorist, but my assumption is their use of Persona was part of "the deal" they've been encouraged to make, and what you're seeing is a company being brought to heel.

New comment by kajman in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

kajman — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:45:25 +0000

I'm always curious when I see these stories. How long have you been doing this, for what sort of work, and was the codebase mature before you began working like this?

New comment by kajman in "There are no instances in ATProto"

kajman — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:41:22 +0000

I think email is a pretty poor example of decentralization in the modern internet. I pay a company to not have to worry about hosting my own and I've still had emails blackholed by the massive providers for unknown reasons I can only assume are some combination of the custom domain* and the provider. I went back to using Gmail on my resume and for applications after nearly missing out on an interview because of it.

*: Not an .xyz, has proper SPF and DKIM records

New comment by kajman in "There are no instances in ATProto"

kajman — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:31:28 +0000

I haven't used Mastodon, but my experience with Lemmy was a lot of petty fighting about who should be defederated. The OP's reference to warring fiefdoms was very spot-on for that scene. I imagine it's a huge turn off to casual, well-adjusted people exploring the space. But I wouldn't know.

There's, of course, another sort of grossness to corporate moderation from above, but at least with ATProto you can take your identity and content to another AppView, if it wasn't shown there already. AFAIK, any fediverse migration tooling requires a cooperative host server you haven't already been banned from.

New comment by kajman in "There are no instances in ATProto"

kajman — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:08:47 +0000

> So, anyone who wants to index it gets a copy and you have no control over what they do.

How does this differ from scrapers hitting the blog directly?

New comment by kajman in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

kajman — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:03:35 +0000

Is the idea that we're just one OTA update from them turning into bombs? Considering the quality of software in the auto industry, I would be about as worried about any domestically assembled EV.

New comment by kajman in "GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks"

kajman — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:30:02 +0000

I'm cautiously optimistic that anti-conpetitive action against hardware will fail. There's a lot of money willing to fight for cheaper inference. The same can't be said for providing consumers with cheaper cars.

I can't say I'm as optimistic about there continuing to be an open market for foreign LLMs.

New comment by kajman in "Reservations are open for XREAL AURA"

kajman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:30:19 +0000

I'm not excited to see that the smart glasses are apparently competing on their number of conspicuous cameras now. I used to be really excited about wearable displays, but the current regime of mass surveillance and its consequences is way too vile. I hope the negative sentiment from Meta's glasses keeps rolling, because it might be one of few places where consumer distaste can actually harm mass surveillance.