Hacker News: maxalbarello

New comment by maxalbarello in "Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud"

maxalbarello — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:04:22 +0000

congrats guys! how does the automated testing using ChatGPT/Claude clients work?

New comment by maxalbarello in "Reviewing in the Age of AI"

maxalbarello — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:03:32 +0000

What are you working on? Curious to hear more

New comment by maxalbarello in "Reviewing in the Age of AI"

maxalbarello — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:43:33 +0000

interesting! how do you review each other's plans? do you just copy-paste them into chat or something else?

New comment by maxalbarello in "Reviewing in the Age of AI"

maxalbarello — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:03:06 +0000

wondering if the problem is the teammates rubber-stamping or the tool/workflow being outdated

New comment by maxalbarello in "Reviewing in the Age of AI"

maxalbarello — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:58:11 +0000

that definitely helps but i'm wondering if that whole process (via an agent or via a human teammate) should be performed at the plan stage instead of the review stage. this should reduce the back and forth after the pr is opened (avoiding the delays and costs of running the CI several times)

Reviewing in the Age of AI

maxalbarello — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:24:55 +0000

How are you guys ensuring that the code that goes into production is high quality now that the time to review code is significantly greater than the time to generate it.

There is a huge asymmetry between who is generating the code and who is reviewing it, making the review process even more painful than it used to be.

Wondering whether if instead of reviewing PRs, we should instead move towards reviewing plans so that no code is generated before at least another person approves the plan.

Once the code is generated, the users who contributed to the plan can still review it but the fact that both participated in the plan should help reduce the asymmetry.

Feels like we need a way to collaborate and iterate on plans. Would love your thoughts on this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038079

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New comment by maxalbarello in "Batteries Included CLI Framework"

maxalbarello — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:03:47 +0000

the telemetry hooks and the rest is great but i'm wondering why there isn't a service that takes care of all of this. seems to be a problem that everyone building CLI has

New comment by maxalbarello in "Batteries Included CLI Framework"

maxalbarello — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:01:29 +0000

rust, python and typescript mostly

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maxalbarello — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:52:28 +0000

Article URL: https://onfabric.substack.com/p/build-personal-context-into-your

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950129

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New comment by maxalbarello in "The World's Most Complex Machine"

maxalbarello — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:23:45 +0000

yeah but maybe there the stakes are not as high. although i guess it touches the military and so it might be

New comment by maxalbarello in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

maxalbarello — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:20:39 +0000

i find it hard to believe that there is no equivalent anywhere else in the world. there is so much talent out there and the stakes are so high that it seems like an inevitability.

whatever many secrets are involved, information wants to be free and it's hard to believe that others won't figure it out.

by the time they do catch up we better be steps ahead. what's after EUV?

New comment by maxalbarello in "The World's Most Complex Machine"

maxalbarello — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:51:57 +0000

and yet not even close to the complexity of the human brain

New comment by maxalbarello in "The World's Most Complex Machine"

maxalbarello — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:50:42 +0000

Thank you! The video you recommended definitely goes more in depth. I still like Veritasium's style more but it's just personal preference ofc

New comment by maxalbarello in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

maxalbarello — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:47:52 +0000

For anyone interested in the topic I highly recommend this Veritasium video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

New comment by maxalbarello in "Tell HN: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request"

maxalbarello — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:59:55 +0000

What was your request about?

New comment by maxalbarello in "Ask HN: Where are all the consumer ChatGPT apps?"

maxalbarello — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:58:27 +0000

> No one wanted to use those or make them for other people.

but why not?

personally i find it much easier to track my food, workouts, daily diaries etc. in ChatGPT/Claude as I already use them for everything else. no need for a standalone app when the app could simply plugin into ChatGPT.

wondering if it's a UX problem or a more fundamental one like platform risks

New comment by maxalbarello in "Ask HN: Where are all the consumer ChatGPT apps?"

maxalbarello — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:53:28 +0000

independently of whether the app is completely LLM generated or not, my point was more regarding the incredible distribution that ChatGPT offers and why it is not being taken advantage of.

one of the biggest problems of many consumer apps is convincing people to download it and give it a try. For many consumer apps like journaling, fitness tracking, nutrition, ... it seems that letting people use them where they are already spending a lot of time (i.e. ChatGPT) could be a great distribution advantage. Yet I could barely find any purely consumer ChatGPT apps and so I'm wondering what's missing. Any ideas?

Ask HN: Where are all the consumer ChatGPT apps?

maxalbarello — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:58:42 +0000

For several months I've been checking https://track.appsdiscoverability.com which is tracking all the apps built on ChatGPT and Claude.

I'm still surprised to see that there are barely any consumer apps. Loads of business, productivity, retail, etc. But what about all the consumer AI use cases?

I would love to see games, journaling, dating, content apps. Any idea why they are not (yet) there?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910395

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New comment by maxalbarello in "Batteries Included CLI Framework"

maxalbarello — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:30:29 +0000

Thanks a lot for your work on oclif!

What I was looking for is something like a framework + service. Imagine the equivalent of netx.js + vercel but for CLIs instead of for full stack apps. oclif seems to be only a great framework afaik.

as usage of CLIs increases I wonder whether there will be a need for a service that provides everything that developers of CLIs need (auth, telemetry, releases, ...). Something like what Vercel is today for full stack apps. Are you aware of anything along those lines?

New comment by maxalbarello in "Batteries Included CLI Framework"

maxalbarello — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:15:46 +0000

can you provide a bit more info?