Hacker News: mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikert89Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:21:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"]]>People inside deep mind are using Claude code

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:52:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737507mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737507<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"]]>gemini is so far behind. starting to wonder if their strategy is launching the low cost alternative to image/text models. last release was 3.5 flash

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:10:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735819mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735819https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735819<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"]]>the models suck

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:08:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724467mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724467https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724467<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"]]>none of these local models are good for development, complete waste of time. nobody has $100k+ hardware sitting around at home to actually run a good model

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:35:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722320mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722320https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722320<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan?"]]>stack 4/5 jobs, put the money into TQQQ (levered nasdaq), by far the easiest and most certain

]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:22:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711223mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711223https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711223<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"]]>Source: I used fable, can project into the future

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:26:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603424mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603424<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"]]>Anthropic is probably approaching AGI, and everyone wants to be there for it

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:20:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603373mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603373<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"]]>models will get smarter, this wont be an issue

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:22:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529046mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529046<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?"]]>demand for software will increase, but it will become a lower skill job

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:28:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477818mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477818https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477818<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"]]>what would you use instead?

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 02:58:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318463mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318463https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318463<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Software Engineering at the Tipping Point"]]>self driving works

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 21:50:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261349mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261349https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261349<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Software Engineering at the Tipping Point"]]>only on hacker news, do we see the biggest innovation in tech in our lifetimes, and you get this weird cynical negativity

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 21:34:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251772mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251772<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"]]>for now the LLMs will build off human understanding, eventually we will be left behind

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:22:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217036mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217036<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "No more JetBrains products for me"]]>So disappointed in jetbrains.

]]>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:05:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185611mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185611<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Claude for Small Business"]]>This is going to kill Saas

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:17:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134994mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134994https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134994<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"]]>no i mean the opposite, some programming is actually hard

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:05:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003428mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003428https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003428<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"]]>I've come to the conclusion that if AI can do it, its not hard. None of the complicated software i work on can be reliably written by ai yet

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:28:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003144mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003144https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003144<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game"]]>alot of financial engineering happens if the company is raising large rounds, if you leave early as a cofounder, they will absolutely mess with your equity. And even if you are there, youre considered an expense, unless the CEO explicitly advocates for you

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:47:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924849mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924849https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924849<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game"]]>its so common that I am shocked people willing enter roles like co-founding CTO without serious legal protections in place. go spend time in NYC/SF and talk to actual cofounders

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922417mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922417https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922417<![CDATA[New comment by mikert89 in "Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game"]]>Quick equation:

1. is it an ai lab with a well know founder -> equity might be worth something

2. are you the CEO founder? -> equity might be worth something

3. are you a non CEO co founder? -> equity might be worth something, will probably be stolen from you

4. is the company a year or two from a certain IPO? equity might be worth something

5. all other cases likely zero

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:34:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915464mikert89https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915464https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915464