Hacker News: mindwok

New comment by mindwok in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

mindwok — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:03:05 +0000

I’d push back on this, I think people have a very intrinsic sense of what is valuable and often if you think it’s “perception” of value being rewarded, it’s just that you value something different than that person.

Even in performative scenarios, like say someone gets promoted at work over another person because they are a great “performer” and always make noise, whereas the other actually delivers - they’re being promoted because the promotion is defensible and legible for their superior. That is true value for them, just not to another viewer.

New comment by mindwok in "Apple Core AI Framework"

mindwok — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:36:58 +0000

I think GPT 4.5 showed that there is indeed a practical limit we're close too. That was supposedly a high-trillions of parameter model that was deprecated almost immediately because it was slow, insanely expensive, and had questionable benefits over the smaller models. Though apparently the new Mythos and whatever GPT Spud is (if it wasn't 5.5) are back up in the high trillions.

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

mindwok — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:59:39 +0000

They are fundamentally different, but people desire they be aligned. The public expects the economy to producing higher quality of life for us, otherwise what is it doing? And for whom? But whether it actually does so is a function of other things. That gap seems bigger than usual right now with AI and tech eating the whole economy.

New comment by mindwok in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

mindwok — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:56:37 +0000

The fundamental difference is that email you host yourself requires ongoing maintenance and expertise to work at a basic level, and people would rather outsource it.

AI inference is different. You get the outcome by passing text through some weights at the time you need it. There's no ongoing work besides training and releasing new models. If I had something that rivalled Opus 4+ I could use locally, I would switch in a heartbeat.

New comment by mindwok in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

mindwok — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:28:49 +0000

How many times can I read the same shallow guidance written by AI on using a coding agent? Good god when will it stop

New comment by mindwok in "The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble"

mindwok — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:25:43 +0000

Something else I've been thinking about which makes the economics of AI weird: The more powerful you make AI, the easier you make it for everyone else to make AI. I probably wouldn't bother to train an LLM from scratch, but I'm sure if I spent a few days with Codex/Claude Code I could do it (like GPT-2 level) easily. Obviously the capital moat is massive at the moment, but in like 50 years that probably won't be true.

New comment by mindwok in "Ask HN: How do small teams securely share env files?"

mindwok — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:09:20 +0000

IMO env files are a bit of an anti-pattern, env vars should be set outside the context of your app so that your app doesn't need to care where they come from, it just uses standard env var APIs to read them. This means developers can choose how they load them and what tools they use to do so.

With that said, the problem still exists just one layer higher. If they are secrets, I use Infisical (https://infisical.com/) which is free and self-hostable, and let's you inject secrets at runtime via their CLI. Very handy for small teams.

On top of that, I use direnv (https://direnv.net/) with a hook to infisical's export command. This means when I 'cd' into a project, infisical runs and injects the secrets for my developer environment.

Everything that isn't secret just lives in .envrc and gets loaded by direnv, and you can just send those files however you want because they aren't sensitive.

New comment by mindwok in "Learn Harness Engineering"

mindwok — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:08:38 +0000

This is AI slop written primarily with the intent to promote the authors, not to actually educate. So sick of this kind of content.

New comment by mindwok in "Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm"

mindwok — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:19:26 +0000

Interesting idea and there's clearly something real here, but I am extremely skeptical this played out like the article suggests. The authors are hand-waving some pretty complicated actions... Like how did Mona access supplier pages and place orders? How did she design custom merch? When she held a Google Meet with another agent, what even happened there, how did she connect to Google Meet... does she have the ability to join a persistent session like that with voice?

Interesting experiment but the article feels like it's deliberately withholding those kinds of details to hype the capabilities a little.

New comment by mindwok in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

mindwok — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:30:59 +0000

You say this like it's a bad thing, but wouldn't you rather they overindex on the danger of their models?

New comment by mindwok in "Schedule tasks on the web"

mindwok — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:13:42 +0000

I think Anthropic will launch backend hosting off the back of their Bun acquisition very soon. It makes sense to basically run your entire business out of Claude, and share bespoke apps built by Claude code for whatever your software needs are.

New comment by mindwok in "Apple Business"

mindwok — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:22:59 +0000

I had the same thought. When you're a B2B and B2C company and you have to make a bold decision, the B wins because they hold the enterprise $$$.

New comment by mindwok in "Framework doesn't matter"

mindwok — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:49:14 +0000

I've always chosen frameworks for their abstractions and their design decisions, rarely their performance. Great research by the author, I feel better about that decision now.

New comment by mindwok in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

mindwok — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

I quit my job and went out on my own freelancing.

So far, it's been fantastic. I can do more things for clients, much faster, than I ever dreamed would be possible when I've attempted work like this before.

I think the biggest problem with AI coding is that it simply doesn't fit well into existing enterprise structures. I couldn't imagine being able to do anything productive when I'm stuck having to rely on other teams or request access to stuff from the internet like I did in previous jobs.

New comment by mindwok in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

mindwok — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:24:21 +0000

British democracy and government is cool. It's not enshrined in some document they got together and wrote down like the US constitution, it's this organic thing that they've stumbled towards over the last ~800 years with small changes like this one gradually evolving them into a modern liberal democracy.

New comment by mindwok in "GPT-5.4"

mindwok — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:59:57 +0000

They don't need to be impressive to be worthwhile. I like incremental improvements, they make a difference in the day to day work I do writing software with these.

New comment by mindwok in "Google Workspace CLI"

mindwok — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:46:07 +0000

They already have a HTTP API, but the real reason is that CLIs are emerging as the most ergonomic way for the current wave of AI agents to do stuff. There's a few benefits over APIs:

- No need to worry about transport layer stuff at all, including auth or headers. This is baked in, so saves context.

- They are self describing with --help and then nested --help commands, way better than trying to decipher an OpenAPI spec. You usually don't even need an agent skill, just call the --help and the LLM figures it out.

New comment by mindwok in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

mindwok — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:12:43 +0000

Would you be bothered if a stranger struck up a nice conversation with you? Most people like it! And even if they don’t, that’s ok, trust people to tell you their boundaries and respect them when they do. Nothing wrong with bothering someone if they tell you or send a strong signal and you respect it.

New comment by mindwok in "Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise"

mindwok — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:57:40 +0000

It’s not articulated in depth because nobody knows what opportunities there are on the other side.

AI and My Crisis of Meaning

mindwok — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:22:13 +0000

Article URL: https://brids.bearblog.dev/ai-and-my-crisis-of-meaning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144940

Points: 2

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