<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: kingkongjaffa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kingkongjaffa</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:09:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kingkongjaffa" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingkongjaffa in "Ferrari Luce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The whole thing looks amateur, this is what every product design student has in their design portfolio when they needed to add an automotive concept. There's chairs and lamps, and they tagged on this car in their PDF.<p>Looks like a school project not the kind of thing from a proper automotive designer.<p>Nothing about this conveys fast, lightweight, Italian sports car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:30:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278870</link><dc:creator>kingkongjaffa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingkongjaffa in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Business can get too big to fail and instead of being allowed to fail get bailouts from the government, thus are not truly capitalism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 20:10:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240954</link><dc:creator>kingkongjaffa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingkongjaffa in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> general aversion for strong spices<p>You can get very hot spicy katsu curry in most Japanese cities.</p>
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<p>One heuristic I used during my masters degree research thesis was to look for the seminal people or papers in a field by using google scholar to find the most cited research papers and then reading everything else by that author / looking at the paper's references for others. You often only need to go back 3-4 papers to find some really seminal/foundational stuff.</p>
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<p>wtf have you guys been doing. Get on a fixed team plan ASAP instead of paying per token via API pricing.<p><a href="https://claude.com/pricing#team-&-enterprise" rel="nofollow">https://claude.com/pricing#team-&-enterprise</a><p>Standard seat
All Claude features, plus more usage than Pro*
$20
Per seat / month if billed annually. $25 if billed monthly.<p>Premium seat $100/month<p>5x more usage than standard seats*</p>
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<p>Thank you!<p>I was more looking for signal that him + Anthropic might yield something beyond a step-change from Opus 4.7 (disappointing so far). We have not gotten to use Mythos yet, I wonder if that will become Opus 5 or something.</p>
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<p>> creating magic everywhere they go<p>Like specifically what has he done?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:36:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195638</link><dc:creator>kingkongjaffa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingkongjaffa in "Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you're focusing on all the wrong things and come across a bit naive IMHO.<p>- Your PC specs don't mean anything to anyone.<p>- 'top 2000 technicaians in the Nation from Stellantis of North America.' - This doesn't mean anything to anyone hiring for a coding position.<p>- 'Everyone assumes abs module because...' - This is a cute curiosity that doesn't mean anything to anyone.<p>1. does printmakerai.com actually work? It seems like a vibecoded landing page.<p>2. has it made any money? Your pricing tiers don't make any sense to me.<p>3. > even being this smart ...  - start from a more humble position.<p>> im seeking advice on what I should do.<p>- You should make a github profile and write code and put it there.<p>- Take CS50x <a href="https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/" rel="nofollow">https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/</a><p>- Take a data structures and algorithms course<p>- Do some LeetCode<p>- Apply to jobs on hackernews 'who's hiring' thread, and other places.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 08:53:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082179</link><dc:creator>kingkongjaffa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingkongjaffa in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This book is a good read for anyone building anything, software, hardware, whatever: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things</a><p>Design is its own thing. Fundamentally it's problem solving, but design is thinking about the user of the 'designed' thing and how will they use it, what will they do with it, what will it enable them to do, how will they learn how to use it, how can it be ergonomic to the environment it will be used in and the user.<p>A lot of people can conceptualise a factory making widgets or a programmer writing code, but drastically few people really see the design process: sketches on paper, wireframes in figma, design as a solution to a problem, design as story telling, or aesthetics. But those outputs are not the point.<p>The output of a few hours in figma is not really the images of a website made, it's more about communication or articulation of the the problem being solved and the solution that will solve it.<p>Which is why it doesn't really matter about the tool, design is an expression, the medium whether it's a sketch or a figma mock up or a vibe-designed UI in claude design is less critical than the thought that went into it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:36:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841184</link><dc:creator>kingkongjaffa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingkongjaffa in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just one more anecdote:<p>I'm on the enterprise team plan so a decent amount of usage.<p>In March I could use Opus all day and it was getting great results.<p>Since the last week of March and into April, I've had sessions where I maxed out session usage under 2 hours and it got stuck in overthinking loops, multiple turns of realising the same thing, dozens of paragraphs of "But wait, actually I need to do x" with slight variations of the same realisation.<p>This is not the 'thinking effort' setting in claude code, I noticed this happening across multiple sessions with the same thinking effort settings, there was clearly some underlying change that was not published that made the model get stuck in thinking loops more for longer and more often without any escape hatch to stop and prompt the user for additional steering if it gets stuck.</p>
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<p>>  Insofar as you're a music-enjoyer, listening to music, the only question should be _is it good_. It shouldn't matter if it was created by duck or slug.<p>What an awful take. Music is inherently a human act, there's been lots written about this, but the point, and especially for music with lyrics is story telling, emotion, connection, empathy. Things a duck or slug or large language model have not business mimicking.</p>
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<p>>  the advanced customization I have found makes weaker models more capable.<p>Like what?</p>
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<p>- I'm seeing lots of internal apps to help our customer success teams.<p>- I'm seeing prototypes escape Figma and live as code for a faster/closer demo experience for product managers.</p>
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<p>It feels lower.<p>Last 2 weeks I was using it more or less all day on Opus running skills to write PRDs and then code and tests to solve the PRDs, never hit the session limit.<p>Last 2 days I hit the cap in about an hour of kicking off my skills workflow.<p>On the paid enterprise team plan this is really bad.</p>
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<p>If you have mapped the research space and understand it very well then what does it matter how you got there?<p>For example when I was doing my master's degree in the UK, I realised my research topic had about 10 people around the world working on similar problems and I had read all of their papers.<p>I could trace the early research and seminal works in the field from the 1960s until now and knew by name (and often email correspondence) the 10 or so researchers working in the hyper-niche space.<p>If you can get to some kind of intimate understanding about your body of research the method is not really relevant. But take the LLM away can you still hold a conversation with an expert? LLM cannot read the papers for you.</p>
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<p>Frankly it's a total non-issue because you now have your train ticket on a mobile app on a mobile device with synchronized internet time anyway. Most people are wearing mechanical watches today as jewellery and a physical piece of craftsmanship that's nice to keep time that's directionally correct, but if it's out by 30seconds it's no big deal and you just reset it against the time on your phone and get on with your day.</p>
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<p>I’m not saying you’re wrong but as a senior PM, the engineers I work with see about 10-20% of what I actually do in a week, so in general engineers are not a good judge of the utility of product management.</p>
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<p>> Coming from Thoughtworks it also gives a bit of gravitas<p>Why? I thought the opposite. Consultancies, of which thoughtworks is one, publish thought leadership as marketing material.</p>
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<p>> What I need is 3 months of runway so I can do exactly that.<p>I think you need to be more realistic about your priorities right now, you need a job, any job, and a roof over your head mate.<p>The OS and runway for a start up can wait. This is not an investable proposition for anyone, what happens after 3 months of runway on a vibe coded OS?<p>Where's the go to market plan, where's the viable business here? I'm not saying none of that exists but you need to put yourself on more stable footing before working on it, otherwise it will remain a pipe dream.</p>
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<p>Sorry to hear about your situation.<p>Have you spoken to <a href="https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/</a> you should be able to get some help and advocacy. And they will help you find accomodation and apply for the benefits you are entitled to.<p>If you can get a proper diagnosis you can also claim PIP for more support: <a href="https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-payment-pip/pip-health-conditions/claim-pip-for-autism" rel="nofollow">https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-paym...</a><p>You're obviously smart and probably present as high functioning to someone working in the job centre who is not motivated to help you and frankly anything they give you, you will be massively underemployed.<p>---<p>I will say something feels off with the project itself just by looking at the stats.<p>Obviously an LLM is doing the heavy lifting to write 1.3m lines in 4 months, but 3,900+ tests seems an order of magnitude too small to me.<p>What LLM are you using to generate this much code? Priority 1 right now is to get accomodation, not pay for expensive LLM API costs or subscriptions!<p>Best of luck!</p>
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