Hacker News: lonrenorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lonrenorHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:43:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by lonrenor in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>IMO there has been a regime shift to building things for yourself and what is cool is the output of the tools you make.

I have started building my own Digital Audio Workstation. The point is not to build something to compete with Ableton. The point is to build something and make music with it. If it is a good tool then I should be able to make good music with it and release the music. Actually, the DAW should be the secret sauce of the music and something I wouldn't want to give away.

This feels a lot more like computing in the 90s after taking an odd 25 year detour of an obsession with the tools themselves instead of what the tools can actually do.

]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:20:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559751lonrenorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559751<![CDATA[New comment by lonrenor in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>For me, it is not a matter of trust but that I actually like shopping, planning a trip, deciding what restaurant to go to. Deciding what to buy when shopping is a matter of personal taste and not intelligence.

A human assistant is largely a status symbol. Most people are not really that busy. The real problem with an agentic assistant is if everyone can have one then it no longer acts as a status symbol.

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