Hacker News: lherron

New comment by lherron in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

lherron — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:41:28 +0000

Reality is Ant can supply X tokens and they see demand for 10*X tokens. So they’ll charge whatever the top 10% of users are willing to pay, and slowly degrade the value of the subscriptions until everyone has moved to another supplier or migrated to the 10% price point. The draconian ToS that they sometimes enforce is their mechanism to degrade subscription value over time. Expect agent-sdk to be next on the chopping block, moving from oauth supported to api only. When they switch it they will rightly point out the docs never explicitly said it was allowed.

New comment by lherron in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

lherron — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:31:32 +0000

I think maybe you are not familiar with what /loop and the Claude cron tools do.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks

New comment by lherron in "Levels of Agentic Engineering"

lherron — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:41:16 +0000

I was surprised the author didn’t mention Yegge’s list (or maybe I missed it in my skim).

New comment by lherron in "I program without syntax highlighting"

lherron — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:28:25 +0000

Gross.

New comment by lherron in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

lherron — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:22:37 +0000

Oh I think you misinterpreted my comment! I am very much a fan of this, wasn't throwing shade. I am just remarking on how my side-project scope today dwarfs my side-project scope of a year or two ago.

New comment by lherron in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

lherron — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:32:45 +0000

Somehow every 15 line shell script I write now turns into a 50kloc bun cli or tui app. Apparently there are many such cases.

New comment by lherron in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

lherron — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:11:57 +0000

They buried the lede. The last half of the article with ways to ground your dev environment to reduce the most common issues should be its own article. (However implementing the proper techniques somewhat obviates the need for CodeRabbit, so guess it’s understandable.)

New comment by lherron in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

lherron — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:01:37 +0000

Why would the self-hosted runner fee be per-minute instead of per-job? I don’t get it.

New comment by lherron in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

lherron — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:04:10 +0000

Freaking awesome. You should extend clicking on a link, similar to how this article describes infinite content:

https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/solving-amazons-infinite-shelf...

New comment by lherron in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

lherron — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:43 +0000

Gemini 3 = Skynet ?

New comment by lherron in "Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI"

lherron — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:22:10 +0000

Gotta be better than codex literally writing a python script to edit a file multiple times in a single prompt response.

New comment by lherron in "Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI"

lherron — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:51:09 +0000

Building an interactive shell inside their CLI seems like a very odd technical solution. I can’t think of any use case where the same context gathering couldn’t be gleaned by examining the file/system state after the session ended, but maybe I’m missing something.

On the other hand, now that I’ve read this, I can see how having some hooks between the code agent CLIs and ghostty/etc could be extremely powerful.

New comment by lherron in "Claude Code on the web"

lherron — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:39:37 +0000

Still a toss-up for me which one I use. For deep work Codex (codex-high) is the clear winner, but when you need to knock out something small Claude Code (sonnet) is a workhorse.

Also CC tool usage is so much better! Many, many times I’ve seen Codex writing a python script to edit a file which seems to bypass the diff view so you don’t really know what’s going on.

New comment by lherron in "Vibe engineering"

lherron — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:11:27 +0000

I would add to the list of the vibe engineer’s tasks:

Knowing when the agent has failed and it’s time to roll back. After four or five turns of Claude confidently telling you the feature is done, but things are drifting further off course, it’s time to reset and try again.

New comment by lherron in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

lherron — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:25:56 +0000

Need someone to do this with the old THX test sound.

New comment by lherron in "AI's $344B 'language model' bet looks fragile"

lherron — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:41:33 +0000

This “article” is clickbait. Controversial title with no substance, asking “why are companies investing heavily in a technology that works for some (limited but valuable) use cases, when they could invest in pure R&D for something that might be better someday”.

New comment by lherron in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"

lherron — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:59:44 +0000

Progress, but the real unlock will be local MCP/desktop client support. I don't have much interest in exposing all my local MCPs over the internet.

New comment by lherron in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

lherron — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:50:43 +0000

Wow, I thought they would feel some pricing pressure from GPT5 API costs, but they are doubling down on their API being more expensive than everyone else.

New comment by lherron in "GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding"

lherron — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:21:41 +0000

Did I miss the total cost for each run in the article? Can't seem to find it.

If Sonnet is more expensive AND more chatty/requires more attempts for the same result, seems like that would favor GPT5 for daily driver.

New comment by lherron in "Cursor CLI"

lherron — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:07:27 +0000

Yeah but I still want a general purpose chatbot subscription also. So I’d have to buy Cursor + something else.

I guess Cursor makes sense for people who only use LLMs for coding.