Hacker News: marwann

New comment by marwann in "Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI"

marwann — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:14:14 +0000

> Has everyone really become so stupid now?

I wouldn't mistake stupidity for ignorance. A lot of "tech-sensitive", yet non-technical people are using agents/vibe coding these days. Their level of understanding is very basic ("JSON is structured data", "I need to reformat this to fit my need"), but they wouldn't get that the best way of doing things does not necessitate burning tokens.

New comment by marwann in "Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI"

marwann — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:45:04 +0000

I believe many non-technical people are spinning up AI agents nowadays without having a basic understanding of what happens behind the scenes, and usually, with no interest in learning. They prompt, watch the agent work and see the magic, without questioning the structure even a little.

I don't think we should blame them, as they are non-technical, but either educate them or put guardrails at the system prompt level.

Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI

marwann — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:36:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vybe.build/blog/learn-what-not-to-tokenize

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811403

Points: 24

# Comments: 18

Doing YC 9 years apart: what changed, what didn't [video]

marwann — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:35:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-JCr6xIl7I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456100

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by marwann in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

marwann — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:19:47 +0000

My European stack: - OVH for object storage, domain names and simple Wordpress websites - Scalingo/3DS Outscale for PaaS (looking for alternatives here!) - Mailjet used to be EU but they've been acquired by Mailgun - don't know if that's an issue. Brevo is okay as an email service provider but they could be way better.

New comment by marwann in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

marwann — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:33:15 +0000

I am working on a document collection app called Superdocu (https://www.superdocu.com), currently adding automated validation features for specific document types.

Sam Altman Hires Dylan Scandinaro as Head of Preparedness

marwann — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:44:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sama/status/2018800541716107477

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877752

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by marwann in "Major roll out of LaSuite Meet in the French administration"

marwann — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:48:17 +0000

Good to see Frenchies/Europeans innovate for more sovereignty

New comment by marwann in "Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People"

marwann — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:31:42 +0000

Very impurrtant work

New comment by marwann in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

marwann — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:18:07 +0000

https://www.superdocu.com

Trying to make document collection a breeze for the last 5 years. Still not quite there, although we're making progress.

How HashiCorp evolved its cloud infrastructure

marwann — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://platocommunity.substack.com/p/22-how-we-evolved-our-cloud-infrastructure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143061

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

Coda Acquires Plato

marwann — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://coda.io/blog/about-coda/coda-acquires-plato

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40317009

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to thrive as an engineering leader

marwann — Mon, 06 May 2024 06:45:14 +0000

Article URL: https://platocommunity.substack.com/p/14-how-to-thrive-as-an-engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271858

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

We evaluate engineering performance at Gusto

marwann — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:34:48 +0000

Article URL: https://platocommunity.substack.com/p/9-how-we-evaluate-engineering-performance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39683146

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to land a board role

marwann — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://platocommunity.substack.com/p/how-to-land-a-board-position-simi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535593

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Playbook for hiring engineers in the AI era

marwann — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:47:11 +0000

Article URL: https://platocommunity.substack.com/p/webflows-playbook-for-hiring-engineers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39427427

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by marwann in "Show HN: I made a site that easily lets you generate AI images using templates"

marwann — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:12:01 +0000

Neat. You might want to either filter words or blur NSFW pictures that were generated :P

Elevate Winter Summit for engineering leaders

marwann — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://elevate.platohq.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29242747

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Digging in rails base code to render ActionMailer previews in HTML views

marwann — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 15:24:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.skelz0r.fr/posts/render-emails-in-web-browser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367986

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by marwann in "Show HN: Chrome/Firefox add-on that finds cheap flights from your home airport"

marwann — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:44:48 +0000

I wanted to spend less time looking for my next trip and decided to create myself a Chrome Extension that shows me cheap flights at random dates from the nearest airport.

Finally decided to submit it on both Chrome and Firefox [1] extension stores. The app is made with Vanilla JS and jQuery and is currently translated into English and French.

I used Skyscanner's API for the flights, Google's Geocoding API to get the location, Lufthansa's API to get the nearest airport IATA code and Unsplash for the background pictures.

I'm pretty sure there is much to improve, so looking for feedback!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/your-next-tri...