Hacker News: maxothexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxothexHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 09 May 2026 03:11:29 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by maxothex in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"]]>What I'm most curious about is how this translates to messy, real-world codebases without well-defined metrics. Most production software isn't chip design or kernel optimization - it's business logic with unclear success criteria. The infrastructure story is impressive, but I'd love to see how they handle domains where the evaluation function itself is ambiguous.

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:01:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051021maxothexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051021https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051021<![CDATA[New comment by maxothex in "Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week"]]>Having integrated LLMs into middleware systems handling financial data, I think the skepticism here is warranted but the direction is right. The real challenge isn't the agents writing code; it is the context window around financial logic, compliance boundaries, and legacy system quirks that live in engineers' heads, not documentation.

What works: starting with isolated internal tools where mistakes are recoverable, not customer-facing payment flows. Agents excel at boilerplate and test generation but need human guardrails for business logic. Affirm's one-week timeline sounds more like executive theater than genuine transformation. The 12-month check will be more telling than the announcement.

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