Hacker News: mayas_

New comment by mayas_ in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

mayas_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:55:47 +0000

"just typing it" would be more error prone for the average human

New comment by mayas_ in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

mayas_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:08:14 +0000

we entered the "brain rot software" era

New comment by mayas_ in "Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents"

mayas_ — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:13:17 +0000

With this type of products, I feel like spamming nuisance will dramatically increase if mitigation doesn’t catch up

New comment by mayas_ in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

mayas_ — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:51:14 +0000

Not quite sure about the affordability part.

Cars are becoming prohibitively expensive. Housing is becoming a luxury.

Even consumer products are becoming increasingly expensive.

Safety largely improved but not craftsmanship.

New comment by mayas_ in "Texting myself the weather every day"

mayas_ — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:54:56 +0000

this might come in handy for dumb phone users

New comment by mayas_ in "Thoughts on thinking"

mayas_ — Sat, 17 May 2025 13:56:04 +0000

for better or for worse gen ai has is fundamentally changing how ideas are expressed and shared

afaic it's a net positive. i've always been lazy on writing down/expressing my thoughts and gen ai feels exactly like the missing piece.

i'm able to "vibe write" my ideas into reality. the process is still messy but exciting.

i've never been this excited about the future since my childhood

New comment by mayas_ in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

mayas_ — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:46:02 +0000

I guess it depends on the type of tasks you give it.

They all seem to work remarkably well writing typescript or python but in my experience, they fall short when it comes to shell and more broadly dev ops

New comment by mayas_ in "Writing Your Own Code Considered Harmful"

mayas_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:06:28 +0000

interesting

i've been writing code for my employers for the last 10years and i feel liberated

now i almost cheer when the product guys report bugs, mainly pre-llm legacy codebase i slice through like butter

well except on a few rare instances to be fair

i assume it can be counterproductive in the hands of an inexperienced dev?

New comment by mayas_ in "Writing Your Own Code Considered Harmful"

mayas_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:02:25 +0000

only anecdotal evidence

with gemini 2.5 pro combined with a good https://docs.cursor.com/context/rules directory i've had consistently impressive quality code,

i spent quite some time crafting the .cursor directory though

i tried to be as exhaustive as possible in capturing the subtleties of our codebase and what our team considers good taste

Writing Your Own Code Considered Harmful

mayas_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:33:50 +0000

In modern, well-structured codebases with decent linting and tests, human-written code is often the weakest link.

Tools like Cursor, properly configured, consistently produce higher-quality code than humans—cleaner, faster, and bug-free. We’ve moved past the age of hero coders and into the era of high-leverage guidance.

The best engineers don’t write code—they steer it.

They shape context, define intent, and curate constraints.

Coding has become a meta-skill: less typing, more thinking.

Your job is to describe problems clearly, not solve them line by line.

Cursor doesn’t replace you—it promotes you.

Welcome to the age of the micro product manager.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833244

Points: 2

# Comments: 9

Show HN: Be There: The First Event Planner Built for Slack

mayas_ — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:32:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.be-there.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580324

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mayas_ in "I'd rather build my house with my own earth than go into debt [video]"

mayas_ — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:17:14 +0000

they talk about water around timestamp 4:23

New comment by mayas_ in "High-documentation, low-meeting work culture"

mayas_ — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:17:43 +0000

I'm a CTO in a startup and all our docs are in .md files, mermaid diagrams with dynamic Table of Content generation.

We have two repos: Product (to anything relating to product) and Wiki (anything else, ranging from onboarding checklists, brief design documentation of key parts of the code ... to meta documentation)

Although our team is small by many standards (8) everyone likes it.

We spend a ridiculously small amount of time on meetings.

The obvious and great upside is the code/documentation integration which has virtually 0 context loss.

One downside however is indeed the difficulty of git branching to non-developers.

Once in while I find myself debugging a messed up version.

But I'm willing to pay that price.