Hacker News: milowata

New comment by milowata in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

milowata — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:05:43 +0000

Yes. Elon has a massive controlling share in SpaceX, complete control over the board. SpaceX will be double the size of Tesla after a successful IPO, then they can swallow it and then he has the control over Tesla he’s constantly fighting for.

Ask HN: How can I avoid the "It's not just X, it's Y" writing

milowata — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:49:26 +0000

Every single blog post now. Half of news articles. All tweets over 140 characters. This sentence structure is everywhere and it's driving me absolutely bananas. It's so obvious to me when something is written by ChatGPT and I find it shocking that people are putting this work out there and thinking it's okay.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153145

Points: 5

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New comment by milowata in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

milowata — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:56:40 +0000

I had this moment recently with implementing facebook oauth. I don’t need to spend mental cycles figuring that out, doing the back and forth with their API, pulling my hair out at their docs, etc. I just want it to work and build my app. AI just did that part for me and could move on.

New comment by milowata in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

milowata — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:51:39 +0000

> no amount of AI is going to help you debug why your auth flow suddenly broke.

What? Coding agents are very capable at helping fix bugs in specific domains. Your examples are like, the exact place where AI can add value.

You do an update, things randomly break: tell Claude to figure it out and it can go look up the breaking changes in the new versions, read your code and tell you what happened and fix it for you.

New comment by milowata in "AI's Lending Risk Getting Tougher to Compute"

milowata — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:02:32 +0000

Repeating 2008, where nobody had a good sense of who actually owed what where. This is how Martin Casado can say this isn't like dot-com, because "there isn't as much debt". It's there, just shoved behind the couch.

New comment by milowata in "How vibe coding is killing open source"

milowata — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:45:13 +0000

Yeah interesting...so the libraries don't necessarily go away, they just change shape into skills.

New comment by milowata in "How vibe coding is killing open source"

milowata — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:26:10 +0000

I actually started writing a very similar essay, but the hyperbole got too out of hand – open source isn't dying anytime soon.

I do think that SDKs and utility-focused libraries are going to mostly go away, though, and that's less flashy but does have interesting implications imo.

https://meelo.substack.com/p/a-mild-take-on-coding-agents

New comment by milowata in "F Apple, Marry Anthropic, Kill Microsoft"

milowata — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:00:22 +0000

Hence, "arguably" :)

For me, the current state of technology in society was impacted the most by Apple and their vision. Could definitely debate between Apple and Google, but I don't think another company is really in the conversation.

F Apple, Marry Anthropic, Kill Microsoft

milowata — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:39:21 +0000

Article URL: https://meelo.substack.com/p/f-apple-marry-anthropic-kill-microsoft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856553

Points: 2

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A Mild Take on Coding Agents

milowata — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:07:09 +0000

Article URL: https://meelo.substack.com/p/a-mild-take-on-coding-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818815

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by milowata in "Trump threatens tariffs on French wines to get Macron to join Board of Peace"

milowata — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:56:10 +0000

Hopefully the Supreme Court takes away Trump’s tariff toys soon and we can stop doing this.

New comment by milowata in "Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine"

milowata — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:51:22 +0000

I wish the article had a quote from a resident who voted against it, saying why they did so.

New comment by milowata in "ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests"

milowata — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:14:51 +0000

It’s better for them if you don’t know how long you’ve been talking to the LLM. Timestamps can remind you that it’s been 5 hours: without it you’ll think less about timing and just keep going.

New comment by milowata in "Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company"

milowata — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:56:37 +0000

You’re right – the way I phrased it assumes “having a plan” is a possibility for him. It isn’t. The best he was ever going to do was get talent in the room, make a Thinking Machines knockoff blog post with some hand wavey word salad, and stand around until they do something useful.

New comment by milowata in "Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company"

milowata — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:42:47 +0000

Wang is a networking machine and has connected with everyone in the industry. Likely was brought in as a recruiting leader. Mark being Mark, though, doesn’t understand the value of vision and figured getting big names in the same room was better than actually having a plan.

Show HN: Instant Messaging in VSCode

milowata — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:23:11 +0000

I built live IM chat as a VSCode extension for those who miss the AIM days, or who wish they could chat with dev friends the way finance folks chat through their Bloomberg terminals.

The messages are ephemeral and stored locally only. Pick a username, tell your friends to pick theirs, and chat with friends while your coding agent runs :)

Have fun!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264805

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by milowata in "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence"

milowata — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:48:37 +0000

The case against this EO is not “banning new technology”. It’s not allowing the federal government to ban any state regulation. And states having the power to make their own rules is maybe the most American value.

New comment by milowata in "Ask HN: Failed launching my SaaS as a Student. Should I open source "bad" code?"

milowata — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:02:28 +0000

You can do both. Make it public, and it’ll be something to point to for job interviews in the future. Frankly, if it didn’t get interest as a business, the codebase won’t either, so you can still have it for a time when you may want to build on top of it.

Show HN: Aim-Style Instant Messaging in VSCode

milowata — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:32:23 +0000

As an old, I miss the AIM days of getting home from school and turning on the computer, waiting for friends to come online, and chatting with them live (and basically only saying "hey, sup, nm u, jc")

We don't get that with messaging now because everyone is on mobile. Folks with Bloomberg Terminals can have this IM experience, because they are sitting with it open all day. Slack is like this too...but only for people within your company.

And as a developer, me and the rest of us are sitting with our IDEs open all day; why can't we have IM back? Thus, devchat: an extension in VSCode that brings back the IM experience of yore.

It's all live, and messages are only shepherded between clients but never stored/viewed on a server. It's got themes for you to feel like you're back using AIM, or a Bloomberg Terminal, or for those who like iMessage.

Find devchat IM in VSCode extensions, tell your friends to join you, and enjoy chatting while you work! Any and all feedback is welcome, thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136498

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by milowata in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

milowata — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:39:30 +0000

The missing piece here is Anthropic is not playing the same game. Consumer branding and larger user base are concerns for OpenAI vs Google. Personal chatbot/companion/ search isn’t their focus.

Anthropic is going for the enterprise and for developers. They have scooped up more of the enterprise API market than either Google or OpenAI, and almost half the developer market. Those big, long contracts and integration into developer workflows can end up as pretty strong moats.