Hacker News: mentos

New comment by mentos in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

mentos — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:22:41 +0000

Same. I let the LLM work inside a framework that I made.

Of course I only arrived at the framework after trial and error with an LLM showed me the shape of the problem and the framework presented itself to me.

New comment by mentos in "Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?"

mentos — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:39:06 +0000

I think as we move forward the answer to the question ‘is it critical?’ will just move to support vibe coding everything.

New comment by mentos in "GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow"

mentos — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:53:13 +0000

ha well what happens philosophically when bots pass the turing test and no one can actually tell the difference in their behavior vs human?

New comment by mentos in "What even is an OS now?"

mentos — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:31:39 +0000

Had this thought this morning after seeing DHH announcing that Basecamp isn't writing code by hand anymore and they're using AI to write Rust for Hey's backend.

To me they're failing to see the even bigger picture that maybe even Hey itself is outdated in the Ai era and not only is its Ruby framework antiquated... the whole Hey service is too.

New comment by mentos in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

mentos — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:16:57 +0000

Lately on my hobby projects I've been lazily committing work with the prompt 'add the relevant files to git and commit with a message that explains why' - only because I remember 15 years ago reading an HN comment from someone complaining that too many commit messages answer 'what' but not 'why' haha

So far I haven't had a reason to go back through commits to isolate any issues but if I do hoping the 'why' messages may come in handy for my LLM lol

New comment by mentos in "Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs"

mentos — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:45:13 +0000

My biggest issue with halting AI progress right now is we are in a dangerous place where AI is only just good enough to be dangerous. So I see an argument to continue development until its competent to depend on.

New comment by mentos in "iPhone Duo"

mentos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:21:43 +0000

I’m curious to see how using Windows Remote Desktop iOS App will feel at this size if I can be productive or not.

My previous thought was to use XReal glasses with my existing iPhone but that’s not realistic in an office environment.

New comment by mentos in "What will our economic future look like?"

mentos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:32:27 +0000

Prices will fall to their raw material costs?

New comment by mentos in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

mentos — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:59:19 +0000

How many programs can dispense with 50% of their complexity by just offering an API for LLMs to execute?

By way of example I use Kdenlive 90% less and just use Codex to issue the ffmpeg CLI commands directly when I want to crop/format video on my PC.

New comment by mentos in "Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD"

mentos — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:15:23 +0000

The Yoink used in the end was a word/action I first came across in Ultima Online when players would yoink steal an item from another players backpack.

Curious if that’s coincidence or if players of UO brought that over most likely from MUDs.

New comment by mentos in "ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux"

mentos — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:37:06 +0000

I’ve got a long running chat in the Windows app that becomes completely unresponsive for minutes on end. Complete travesty.

New comment by mentos in "A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS"

mentos — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:28:15 +0000

“This domain is somewhat worn.” -UO joke

New comment by mentos in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

mentos — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:31:33 +0000

These photos are incredible.

Would love to see a show with the seriousness and production quality of Mad Men but set in the 90s.

New comment by mentos in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

mentos — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:11:18 +0000

I’m a huge fan of UO which MUDs inspired.

Curious if in the spirit of

"Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structures], and I won’t usually need your [code]; it’ll be obvious."

If you would share your data structures for your MUD?

New comment by mentos in "Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++"

mentos — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:32:15 +0000

How many hours a day over the couple months?

New comment by mentos in "In defense of not understanding your codebase"

mentos — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:13:25 +0000

Whats the discussion around architecting a codebase where you don't need to understand the whole thing to operate inside of it?

Which large/massive codebases are considered the best to work in and if we examine their architecture what provides for that?

New comment by mentos in "My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable"

mentos — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:01:24 +0000

Now just make the cable a few miles long and call it Nvidia GeForce NOW?

New comment by mentos in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

mentos — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:27:12 +0000

Generally probably shouldn’t try to innovate in too many places at once

New comment by mentos in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

mentos — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:26:11 +0000

Shouldn’t the next model focus not be on code but system design?

Seems like the work from a good system design to code is practically solved.

Now it’s a matter of the design of the system. Or is that represented in these evals?

New comment by mentos in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

mentos — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:54:12 +0000

Probably.

Pandora’s box didn’t just have social media in it.

https://www.overyondr.com