Hacker News: marcusestes

New comment by marcusestes in "Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare"

marcusestes — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:20:25 +0000

Making a good experience for AI agents also makes a good experience for the humans that are tasked with the management of their agents.

New comment by marcusestes in "Tech people keep falling for the same scam"

marcusestes — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:03:28 +0000

This category of complaint is useless until it is unfolded to contain better economic reasoning.

In the case of a VC-subsidized service like Uber, the subsidization is utilized by the company until a a monopolistic or network effect takes hold and allows for price increases.

LLM economics are very different. If the tokens are being subsidized now, they must stay subsidized until some form of monopoly, network effect, or pure R&D advantage is achieved.

In the case of LLMs, the open weight models are nipping at the heels of the proprietary models, and this may be a fundamental condition. Perhaps subsidizing tokens enhances increases engagement, and thus, equity value of the company training the proprietary models, and they reinvest this value back into the energy costs needed to train them. Perhaps this dynamic gives proprietary models the performance distance they need in order to increase their margins.

Hasn't happened yet. It's not clear that it will happen.

Next time I read this take, I want to see eight to ten more paragraphs of analysis before it feels like a contribution to the discourse.

New comment by marcusestes in "Margin Call"

marcusestes — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:02:57 +0000

It affects everyone, because the aggressive revenue cut prevents entire categories of apps and services from being published to the app store. An app store with a 5-10% cut would be an app store with a much richer choice of apps.

New comment by marcusestes in "Margin Call"

marcusestes — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:50:42 +0000

That's too much margin. They're trading net profits for user happiness and it's hurting their brand more than they understand. The app store cartel must fall.

New comment by marcusestes in "Exe.dev"

marcusestes — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:54:57 +0000

Great answer, thanks for following up with your reasoning.

New comment by marcusestes in "How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)"

marcusestes — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:37:29 +0000

“Drop the ‘how.’ It’s cleaner.”

New comment by marcusestes in "CRDTs: Convergence without coordination"

marcusestes — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:43:15 +0000

Fireproof implements a CRDT and implements E2E. https://use-fireproof.com/docs/welcome/

What the world needs now is groupcore

marcusestes — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.metalabel.com/what-the-world-needs-now-is-groupcore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45608542

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcusestes in "Claude Skills"

marcusestes — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:18:15 +0000

Agreed, but I think it's actually simple.

Plugins include: * Commands * MCPs * Subagents * Now, Skills

Marketplaces aggregate plugins.

New comment by marcusestes in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

marcusestes — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:42:50 +0000

Your holy grail is probably Fireproof: https://fireproof.storage/

Open source, uses object storage without a web server dependency, syncs, and has great DX.

New comment by marcusestes in "AI is propping up the US economy"

marcusestes — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:20:58 +0000

Never totally discount _deflationary_ scenarios.

End of an Era

marcusestes — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:17:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/end-of-an-era.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426845

Points: 215

# Comments: 55

New comment by marcusestes in "Use AI code tools as collaborators, not crutches"

marcusestes — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:23:40 +0000

Appreciate this. But.

Do whatever you want. That’s an option too.

Make a dumb thing, take your hands off the wheel, have fun. It’s your computer.

New comment by marcusestes in "Dithering in Colour"

marcusestes — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:21:05 +0000

Cool project. Sad README update: https://git.approximate.life/fadecandy/file/README.md.html

New comment by marcusestes in "AI is blurring the line between PMs and engineers?"

marcusestes — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:34:02 +0000

Absolutely agree with this observation. And I think it’s a great outcome.

The vibe coding Reddit (http://reddit.com/r/vibecoding) already contains the full spectrum of “first time trying to code” to “just rolled my own custom GPT to optimize this.”

New comment by marcusestes in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

marcusestes — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:40:53 +0000

[IQ distribution chart meme]

* Just use Apple Notes

* No! You can't just use Apple Notes. You need a full ontological graph structure based on an open standard!

* Just use Apple Notes

New comment by marcusestes in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

marcusestes — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:28:54 +0000

lol, that's a nasty combo

New comment by marcusestes in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

marcusestes — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:58:56 +0000

This is why Satya was posting about Jevan's Paradox at 10pm last night. (https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1883753899255046301)

Decreasing resource cost of intelligence should increase consumption of intelligence. That would be the bull case for Nvidia.

If you believe there's a hard limit on how much intelligence society wishes to consume, that's a bear case.

New comment by marcusestes in "Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]"

marcusestes — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:54:29 +0000

Came here to say the same thing. It’s a chilling font choice for a document like this.

New comment by marcusestes in "Building a Local-First AI Agent in Minutes Using Model Context Protocol"

marcusestes — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:59:21 +0000

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI apps connect to private data sources, making it easier to build agent-like systems. This walkthrough shows how to quickly wire up an MCP server with Fireproof to manage a to-do list through natural language commands, demonstrating how local state and AI models can cleanly integrate.