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New comment by meetingthrower in "The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies"

meetingthrower — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:33:34 +0000

I like the idea of getting a slice of the action for the country. I mean, to have a nice slice of profits or something would be really nice. You know the equity is nice in that only pays off if there are profits. What would be even nicer is just a nice permanent claim on profits, like 20% or something like that....don't we call that a tax rate? /s

New comment by meetingthrower in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

meetingthrower — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:37:23 +0000

Right. You hire the developer when you want a developer. But if I am building simple agentic workflows -- glorified automations with a small bit of structured "thinking" - I will sure use the cheapest API that can deliver that task at the speed I want.

I wonder where the market sizes will shake out for these different types of use cases? I am guessing right now 1 is bigger than 2 but not for long (by token volume)?

New comment by meetingthrower in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

meetingthrower — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:50:58 +0000

To the others on this reply, I take 1/4 dose of the "clinical dose" and it has been life changing. I've lost 30 lbs. I've done that in the past, but for me that was harder than ranger school in the army.

I LOVE food. Eating out and family dinner were always important to me. I was very worried that I would lose my pleasure in this.

I haven't.

But now I can just eat 1/2 slice of pie. Or 1 scoop of ice cream, etc etc. I don't have the crazy urge to EAT IT ALL.

Also I loved drinking. I actually still love drinking. But I get done at 2.5 drinks. And once a week.

It adds up. Makes you wonder what free will is.Variance in GLPs are naturally occuring. I find the people who say "I forgot to eat" relatable now. Our bodies were not designed for abundance. At least not mine.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs"

meetingthrower — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:13:37 +0000

The tfa says that almost all of this went to big public automakers. Enraging. I initially thought that this was going to some small biz thing that at least would slosh the money around through the owners. But nope - corp welfare!

New comment by meetingthrower in "AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails"

meetingthrower — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:44:32 +0000

Interesting - if you're the author, I couldn't see quickly what data sources I would need to plug into it to make it work well (e.g, with the marketing agents doing account reviews etc?)

New comment by meetingthrower in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

meetingthrower — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:06:08 +0000

Right? Runaway Bunny, Goodnight Moon? Probably 1K times between my two kids.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

meetingthrower — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:30:42 +0000

You are so incorrect here. If you feed it an evaluation rubric it will go after it! You really understimate the technology when in good and well intentioned hands. (Yes lazy people will use it to cheat and get to the answer faster. But it is like a grad student tutor who will do an evaluation in 30 seconds! Rapid iteration and laddering up...)

New comment by meetingthrower in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

meetingthrower — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:27:09 +0000

100% you are so right. Don't rely on the LLM. It is a robot you give tools and context, and then you ask it to do something with that. It's amazing at that.

New comment by meetingthrower in "How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)"

meetingthrower — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:46:16 +0000

on business pages they literally give you access to the posting API.... And you can automate against that. Not that they will give you much action on that without the sweet sweet accelerant of ad money.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

meetingthrower — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:32:17 +0000

Welcome to management!!!

New comment by meetingthrower in "Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?"

meetingthrower — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:10:54 +0000

Right but that margin is tight!? Total rev of $6m, entry cost before anything built of $3m. $3m to play with. 8 units selling for $750k and you want to build them for under $300k a piece? Tight.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Polsia Raises $30M as Its AI Autonomously Runs 7,600 Businesses"

meetingthrower — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:07:20 +0000

How is this not recognized as a complete scam?

New comment by meetingthrower in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

meetingthrower — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:07:16 +0000

So you think "good" management translates? I actually think it very much does. Clear expectations, providing right context and "the why", quick and clear feedback loops, intervening early when they are going off track, not micromanaging too much so they can actually accomplish more. It's all very similar.

New comment by meetingthrower in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

meetingthrower — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:51:02 +0000

And you have discovered the job of managers! There has always been a lot of hate for managers. Wonder if the robots hate us just as much? (I often feel a weird guilt when I tell an agent to do something I know I am going to throw away but will serve as an interesting exploration...I know if I did that to a human they would be pissed...)

New comment by meetingthrower in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

meetingthrower — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:37:21 +0000

Yes x 1000. I find it amazing.

New comment by meetingthrower in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

meetingthrower — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:04:39 +0000

So right. All these guys have never been managers. Do you think humans don't write things that break? Or that teams sometimes take a wrong path and burn a week of work? Or months? Well now you can experience all of that in 30 minutes of vibecoding. As a former tech product manager, it feels EXACTLY the same.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Scouting's Real Crisis Is Not Marketing. It Is Decades of Neglect."

meetingthrower — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:49:34 +0000

Hahah yes. Eagle Scout here! Be prepared!

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

meetingthrower — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:46:05 +0000

I agree it sucks! I thought about vibecoding my own app just to reliably get my data out.

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

meetingthrower — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:39:53 +0000

https://planoptica.com/

Employee benefit plan analytics. Had a huge dataset long ago as a consultant to the industry and finally vibecoded up a decent frontend. All public data but if you know the data there is a bunch of analytics you can do. Just about to launch and do some marketing in a few weeks, so saw this and thought I'd throw it in!

New comment by meetingthrower in "Scouting's Real Crisis Is Not Marketing. It Is Decades of Neglect."

meetingthrower — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:44:41 +0000

Former Eagle Scout here -- I agree a bit with this analysis. The absolute best parts of it for me were the high adventure camps, backpacking, etc. The absolute worst where the Monday meetings. Depending on the vibe of the troop your activities bias one way or the other.