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New comment by maxverse in "Codex Is Down"

maxverse — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:46:55 +0000

What tasks were you doing?

New comment by maxverse in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

maxverse — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:57:12 +0000

I think a lot about a mismatch of effort these days. Here's an extreme example: I spend an hour drafting a doc outlining our engineering strategy for the next few quarters (or if we're in a startup, maybe writing up my product vision.) I share it with you to get feedback and comments. If you plug it into Claude and send me back an AI-formatted list, with sections like "the real insight (read this first)", we have very different ideas about where our value comes from and what deserves our effort, even though on paper I drafted a doc and you reviewed/expanded it.

I think it's fine to provide AI input if you disclose it, in which case you could encourage me to just plug it into Claude myself next time.

And I agree there's gray area: the AI output might be the result of a long conversation, shaped by careful prompting and context and guidance. The writing is AI generated, but the thinking is human.

New comment by maxverse in "French musician Kavinsky found dead"

maxverse — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:46:33 +0000

Would throw Air in there, though it's more chillout/triphop than techno:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVK7Z9AyNM&list=RDZBVK7Z9Ay...

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: 18 Words"

maxverse — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:05:35 +0000

Same

New comment by maxverse in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

maxverse — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:48:11 +0000

Related discussions:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730904

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691346

New comment by maxverse in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

maxverse — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:27:24 +0000

I feel like both the point you quote and your response are valid, and not mutually exclusive. It's great that you were able to avoid lifestyle creep and that $200K felt like a lot of money that "had a huge impact on my later financial condition, and enabled me to do many things". And I think Katrine (from the article) feels like that should be a lot of money. I don't see lifestyle creep playing a role in her life. Instead, another person they quote says:

> [Ms. Gan]she saw the strain on friends who were earning below $200,000, for whom rent, utilities and groceries consume nearly everything that comes in.

New comment by maxverse in "Click (2016)"

maxverse — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:41:26 +0000

I enjoyed playing with this. Wild how much it knows.

New comment by maxverse in "Minimal Structures"

maxverse — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:32:13 +0000

That resonates with me, too. I've tried building beautiful, does-one-thing well projects. I like the way you phrase it:

> I try to be the best, in the list of “that specific feature” providers, not one of them, or one of the good ones.

What have you made, OP?

New comment by maxverse in "They See Your Photos"

maxverse — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:16:46 +0000

> His agnostic leanings and heterosexual orientation align with a more liberal political stance.

That's a very safe guess

> He is susceptible to confirmation bias, in-group bias, the availability heuristic and out-group homogeneity... he may also be prone to excessive phone use, binge-watching TV shows, and impulse buying.

That's literally everyone

New comment by maxverse in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

maxverse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:01:22 +0000

Are you suggesting this was written by AI?

New comment by maxverse in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

maxverse — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:28:51 +0000

I use an M1 for personal development an an M4 for work. I'm a typical dev. I don't feel any difference.

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: Strava for Claude Code"

maxverse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:25:39 +0000

I am genuinely curious what you're hoping to get out of your goal to use claude code daily!

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: Strava for Claude Code"

maxverse — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:23:16 +0000

Thank you for putting my feelings into words. "Really weird" is exactly how I feel. AI output in our work should be measured in engineering progress, not in use metrics, right?

New comment by maxverse in "Privilege is bad grammar"

maxverse — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:40:49 +0000

100%. "Needs more attention to detail."

New comment by maxverse in "Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]"

maxverse — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:04:00 +0000

It's kind of crazy how nice people in multiplayer are. Nobody says anything about my mother or what kind of content I'm downloading to cause lag. Everyone's got the personality of, like, a chill dad now. People are more interested in a good game than just winning. It's really nice.

The other day, I was playing a noob game where one opponent on the other team was way better than the rest of us and rushed. His own team came down on him after.

New comment by maxverse in "Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings"

maxverse — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:39:14 +0000

The Gentleman is my go-to piano library to mess around! I have Noire and a few others, but have always loved its sound.

But also, yeah, NI is to music what... VS Code is to devs, right? Everyone uses/makes Kontakt libraries at some point.

New comment by maxverse in "There is an AI code review bubble"

maxverse — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:52:49 +0000

Maybe I'm buying into the cool-aid, but I actually really liked the self-aware tone of this post.

> Based on our benchmarks, we are uniquely good at catching bugs. However, if all company blogs are to be trusted, this is something we have in common with every other AI code review product. One just has to try a few, and pick the one that feels the best.

New comment by maxverse in "There is an AI code review bubble"

maxverse — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:50:49 +0000

> Today's agents are better than the median human code reviewer

"...at catching issues and enforcing standards, and they're only getting better".

I took this to mean what good code review is is subjective. But if you clearly define standards and patterns for your code, your linter/automated tools/ AI code reviewer will always catch more than humans.

New comment by maxverse in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

maxverse — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:06:20 +0000

Absolutely love this kind of project, combining different data sources to predict/model how you're doing. I also use chess as a proxy for my brain is working!

New comment by maxverse in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

maxverse — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:15:28 +0000

If anyone Googles it and is wondering about Feeling Good (1999) and Feeling Great (2020) by the same author, it seems like Feeling Great is just an updated version of the original book, based on more experience and new insights. Here's the author discussing the difference:

https://feelinggood.com/2020/10/26/213-from-feeling-good-to-...