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New comment by memjay in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

memjay — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:55:33 +0000

This has been our experience as well. Initially we had a list of tools that the agent could use to manipulate a data structure in certain ways. This approach was quite brittle. Now we are using a small DSL (domain specific language) and a single tool where the agent can input scripts written in the DSL. We are getting more dynamic use-cases now and wrong syntax can easily be catched by the parser and relayed to the agent.

New comment by memjay in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

memjay — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:41:58 +0000

> Not x — but y.

Am I the only one who feels a bit betrayed after reading LLM text? I am not even willing to try out the app after I notice… which is a shame.

At least polishing the obvious parts would help a lot and is not that much work.

New comment by memjay in "Show HN: Link Shortener – Itlinks.me"

memjay — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:16:36 +0000

Because a URL shortener is a one-line prompt today.

You will have to put a lot of effort and attention to detail to make a one-line prompt more worth than it is on its own.

Not sure whether that happened here though.

New comment by memjay in "Show HN: CalcPocket – simple online calculators with no clutter"

memjay — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:11:25 +0000

Why do all of these similar looking websites have weird broken left to right scrolling on mobile?

New comment by memjay in "Ask HN: Non AI Contributor on Project Teams"

memjay — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:08:13 +0000

In addition to your experience I notice that through AI contributions our team reaches sprint goals way too early and PMs aren’t catching up with creating new tasks.

Did you notice a significant decrease in delivery speed (including debugging, fixing stuff in AI contributions)?

I wonder whether reducing AI usage might even help with cognitive load. The last few months I felt increasingly exhausted after pushing through PR after PR (although it is quite fun to do this on personal projects).

Cal.com is going closed source

memjay — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:41:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cal.com/de/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780672

Points: 8

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New comment by memjay in "A map of torii around the world"

memjay — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:48:45 +0000

Have the same problem. Can’t see any “explore” section in the layers on iOS.

New comment by memjay in "Ask HN: How do you find part time work?"

memjay — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:59:29 +0000

Software dev, curious about freelancing here. Just recently deleted my LinkedIn profile out of being disappointed with the value it brought to me over several years of using it. Instead, I now note down relevant contacts in a private “CRM”.

Do you think it is important to have a public facing profile of yourself and your work history for attracting new clients or is a broad in person network more relevant?