Hacker News: keithba

New comment by keithba in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

keithba — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:13:20 +0000

Obviously, we aren’t going to agree on this at all. I hope you have a good day.

New comment by keithba in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

keithba — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:53:43 +0000

In the US, the copyright office (as the article you link to says), has declined to define “meaningful” contribution. If you want to argue that the user doesn’t own it for incredibly trivial prompts, I won’t argue (though I consider that to be non-useful code).

Every developer I’ve seen use these tools has have engaged in a meaningful contribution: specific directions across multiple prompts, often (though not always) editing the code afterwards, manually running the code and promoting for changes, etc.

Until the courts, legislators, or the copyright office define something otherwise, I’m highly confident of my assertion. (Mostly because of the insane number of hours I’ve spent with counsel on this. And, as a disclaimer, since I am biased: I worked on Copilot and Google’s various AI assisted coding products as an SVP and VP.)

New comment by keithba in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

keithba — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:36:31 +0000

That’s now how it works. The human using the tool (like claude code, etc) owns the copyright of the code generated.

New comment by keithba in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

keithba — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:16:08 +0000

This comment is both wrong and mean-spirited.

I’ve worked with ashtom for over a decade. He’s a coding machine - easily one of the most technical executives (who ships real production code.)

Conductor: Context-driven development for Gemini CLI

keithba — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:17:25 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/conductor-introducing-context-driven-development-for-gemini-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315618

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by keithba in "FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter"

keithba — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:03:32 +0000

LLMs can definitely write programming languages. I used Gemini CLI (once it came, AI Studio before that) with Gemini 2.5 Pro to create one with Rust and LLVM:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether

This was completely vibe coded - I never had to edit the code, though it was very interactive. The whole thing tool less than a month of some evenings and weekends.

(Note: it’s ugly on purpose, as I’m playing with ideas around languages that LLMs would naturally be effective using.)

5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI

keithba — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/5-things-to-try-with-gemini-3-pro-in-gemini-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968104

Points: 104

# Comments: 43

New comment by keithba in "Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec"

keithba — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:16:34 +0000

I’ve also experimented with using rust to create a new programming language where I vibe coded (eg never wrote myself). My opinion is that it’s quite capable with disciplined management.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether

Note: the syntax is ugly as a trade-off to make it explicit and unambiguous for LLMs to use.

New comment by keithba in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

keithba — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:21:56 +0000

I made an image, then a video of this…it felt cute

https://limewire.com/d/ShyFU#hGrEzdZegs

Google's Gemini CLI Agent Comes to Zed

keithba — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/googles-gemini-cli-agent-comes-to-zed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039415

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment

keithba — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:39:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35413054

Points: 153

# Comments: 174

New comment by keithba in "AI Won't Cause Unemployment"

keithba — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:20:25 +0000

Stopped reading after the patently false “communist inspired universal basic income”. A casual knowledge of the topic would lead one to understand it’s a capitalist, Milton Friedman inspired, idea.

New comment by keithba in "GitHub was down"

keithba — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:13:06 +0000

Hi all - I'm the head of engineering at GitHub. Please accept my sincere apology for this downtime. The cause was a bad deploy (a db migration that changed an index). We were able to revert in about 30 minutes. This is slower than we'd like, and we'll be doing a full RCA of this outage.

For those who are interested, on the first Wednesday of each month, I write a blog post on our availability. Most recent one is here: https://github.blog/2021-03-03-github-availability-report-fe...

The Future is Tiny

keithba — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:55:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@bryancostanich/the-future-is-tiny-44dea02e4517

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941637

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by keithba in "App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud"

keithba — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:20:46 +0000

Right this second, we offer the ability to export your analytics to Azure Blob Storage, and Application Insights, where you can then join the App Center analytics with other data.

We are looking at what we can do to make the SPA + mobile workflow super easy, though. Stay tuned on this. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to me as I'd love to ask you some more questions.

New comment by keithba in "App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud"

keithba — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:42:35 +0000

Most of the services are free. You don't have to use the test service if it is outside of your budget. For instance, you could push your successful builds directly to beta testers, if you'd like.

We've gone out of our way to make sure everything in the product is accessible via our REST API, and we also have a CLI you can install from npm.

New comment by keithba in "App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud"

keithba — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:39:10 +0000

We are highly focused on rich client apps right now, especially iOS and Android, but also Windows and macOS.

Feel free to reach out to me and we could discuss your scenarios in more detail. There are other tools that may fit your scenario better.

New comment by keithba in "App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud"

keithba — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:36:54 +0000

The team is extremely passionate about creating developer productivity tools. App Center's creators include the founders of HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, and CodePush. This is something we were all iterating towards individually, and when we met up at Microsoft, we realized we now had the team and ability to make it happen.

Microsoft is very serious about creating amazing developer tool across any app, platform, and language for a variety of reasons. Making Azure the most productive place to power your app is part of it, of course. But, in the long run, the easier we make development, the more the world benefits.

New comment by keithba in "Visual Studio App Center"

keithba — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:28:36 +0000

We support the Intune company portal and we will be taking a look at other services.

We offer a full REST API and webhooks, so this also something you could cook up as an extension to the product in the meantime.

New comment by keithba in "App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud"

keithba — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:26:50 +0000

We are investigating what it would take to support RN with Windows. I'm a huge RN fan (and we include CodePush inside of App Center.) If you have a moment, shoot me an email as I'd love to ask you more about your scenarios.