<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: memjay</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=memjay</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:34:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=memjay" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes they are. We just had a workshop where the managers previewed our “software factory”. A big pile of skills, hooks, CLAUDE.md files, an elaborate spec and test system based on many markdown files.<p>All features should now be created via this workflow. It’s basically a ticket going in, a few rounds of questions back and forth with the LLM, then waiting for an hour until it finishes.<p>Then having to read/review 2k lines of AI-generated code. It’s terrible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157580</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Agent-Skills.market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I got a dollar for every time I saw an agent skill market on hacker news…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:23:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149008</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Towards Self-Driving Codebases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This happens way too often in my experience and I tried a lot of things. If the agent has access to an existing codebase it will always try to stay as close to it as possible. It doesn’t diverge from the initial direction the project/code went into, even if it’s already clear that this direction goes nowhere. Somehow agents aren’t able to detach themselves from existing code to come up with completely new solutions.<p>Sometimes I feel like it would be best to only give the agent access to clear API boundaries (say public interfaces to certain modules) and let it work out a new system from scratch given the expected inputs and outputs. Then plug this independent solution into the system. Of course it can still overfit these interfaces but it’s less than having access to the entire codebase.<p>Thinking about it, maybe it’s possible to let one agent extract those interfaces, then use them as grounding for a new session.<p>One less nice way of achieving the same is to tell the agent once in a while that it should think completely from scratch (from first principles). But this relies heavily on instruction following in the reasoning part, which sometimes works and sometimes fails.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:57:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745010</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "A cotton T-shirt takes roughly 2,700 litres of water to produce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And people complain about AI water usage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:38:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379144</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Raycast 2.0 Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wrong url?<p><a href="https://www.raycast.com/new" rel="nofollow">https://www.raycast.com/new</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:50:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372060</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Don't classify, hallucinate!"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have this running in production. Can get pretty expensive and slow. We are trying to replace this with cheaper and faster methods that don’t hammer our LLM and elastic search endpoints as much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:15:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299013</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You're still allowed to do things the old fashioned way you know.<p>Not if your company decides to be "AI-first" and puts agent use on your job results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:36:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093463</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Most of your Hacker News karma comes from comment scores only you can see"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you AI for explaining me how this platform works in the most unnecessarily longwinded way…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:56:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014021</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Reverse-engineering is cheap now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you give Claude access to HA somehow? Or how does it get the relevant device names/ids?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:36:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988836</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is surprisingly delightful to play around with. We have to put some more fun into UIs, not the same type of AI-slop everywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:13:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983513</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hide this in a CLAUDE.md file of your coworker :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:03:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951705</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A self-hosted web app I can reach from anywhere.<p>So you can access the Obsidian markdown files from the web? How are you solving that?<p>Via VPN or do you sync your files with a server?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:14:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935709</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You might enjoy GymBook. I bought their lifetime pro version and have used it for at least 4 years now.<p>No ads, data can be exported, tons of exercises to choose from, live activity on the lock screen, stats, timers, measurements and much more.<p>Was really worth it and they seem to still be updating the app.<p>Edit: lifetime subscription is only ~24€</p>
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<p>Wondering how big of a percentage have global memory across chats enabled. I always feel like those memories would sooner or later have negative impacts on output quality.<p>Nice write up of your findings. Enjoyed reading an article written by a real human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:34:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917456</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Subveris – A clean, free dashboard to track your subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a single screenshot on this AI generated webpage but huge buttons to pay money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:35:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720664</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "Hotels cheat with AI-optimised images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not only hotels. I recently moved and had to endure skipping many AI-generated apartments posted to common platforms for finding new apartments.<p>At least some of them had an "ai generated" tag.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:32:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720613</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "AI Is Dogshit at Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree. Systems like shadcn accelerated this moving towards sameness a lot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720518</link><dc:creator>memjay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by memjay in "AI Is Dogshit at Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have a good example of a website that does not follow flat design that you like?</p>
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<p>You are right, it feels like clickbait for blog posts / articles.<p>And once you notice the bait (via telltale signs) you feel betrayed. Betrayed for your attention, thoughts and time.</p>
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<p>Do you have tips on how to get better at design, now that everything looks like the same AI-slop online?<p>Like how do you come up with a cohesive looking set of components for example?
I use design tokens but they are not enough to get to a coherent design where components look like they belong together and kind of stand out from other designs.</p>
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