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New comment by mistercheese in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

mistercheese — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:57:41 +0000

I have this exact same fear as an IC.

I wonder if Engineering Managers have this same fear, or they’re used to having to distribute complex tasks to senior engineers and gamble with seeming less risky tasks to juniors that may leave ticking time bombs in their code. Just the nature of code written by agents or humans?

New comment by mistercheese in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

mistercheese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:41:49 +0000

This is a great idea! I’d be curious to learn more about your setup, particularly how it asks your family and follows up with further questions? Does it do it based on a graph of your family it builds real time? Or is it smart enough that you just prompt it to “follow up with more questions”? I’m having a hard time imagining it asking my family engaging questions they won’t just say, “I don’t remember”.

New comment by mistercheese in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

mistercheese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:15:49 +0000

That’s a good point. I think I saw Together.ai with that offering, but for some reason just never think to throw random non urgent coding tasks at it overnight

New comment by mistercheese in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

mistercheese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:13:45 +0000

Wow what kind of hardware do you have? Mac Studio, dgx spark, strix halo? How fast is it?

New comment by mistercheese in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

mistercheese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:09:18 +0000

I use local models for asking about personal financial or health data that I want to keep local and private. Or even just whipping up quick and dirty prototypes for whatever I can think of but not seriously enough to spend tokens that I rather use on real projects.

New comment by mistercheese in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

mistercheese — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:48:38 +0000

Yeah I think there’s benefits to third-party providers being able to run the large models and have stronger guarantees about ZDR and knowing where they are hosted! So Open Weights for even the large models we can’t personally serve on our laptops is still useful.

New comment by mistercheese in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

mistercheese — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:32:30 +0000

Nice! With Anthropic and OpenAI lowering usage limits that’s a big deal. I’ve been considering a Gemini subscription because I’m already paying for the Google storage plan and it would only be $10 a month more for me.

Do you use Gemini 3.1 pro or the flash model or just auto? Any feelings about quality vs other models?

New comment by mistercheese in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

mistercheese — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:30:16 +0000

Out of curiosity, why do you like gemini-cli better than claude or codex? And do you have any comparisons to opencode or pi?

Personally I've really liked OpenCode's TUI, but maybe on a superficial level of "this looks good and feels ergonomic to me".

Gemini cli felt clunky for me when I tried a while ago, but maybe it's better now? I do like how it's open source and I'm wondering if it can be made as model agnostic as OpenCode.

New comment by mistercheese in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

mistercheese — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:52:06 +0000

Is it feasible to run LLM inference comparably without CUDA or Rocm? How much of the cost performance goes away?

New comment by mistercheese in "Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference"

mistercheese — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:51:13 +0000

Would love a zdr option if possible, that’s honestly the main thing I’m going to OpenRouter for.

New comment by mistercheese in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

mistercheese — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:58:29 +0000

Yes I thinks somehow we need a bulldog check gate before it even goes to a human reviewer

New comment by mistercheese in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

mistercheese — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:56:46 +0000

> the most important duty of the submitter is to vouch for it

When shipping pressure comes, I’ve seen this to be the first thing to go. Despite formalizing ownership standards, etc… people on both the submitting and reviewing end just give up understanding Ai slop when management says they need to hit a deadline.

Probably no company would actually do this, but I wonder if we should actually actively test the submitter’s understanding of the code submitted somehow as a prerequisite to moving a PR to ready for review. I’m not sure if it will be actually hopeful, enforcing people to understand the code, but maybe at least we’ll put the cultural expectation upfront and center?

New comment by mistercheese in "QA = Time and Money. How much should you invest?"

mistercheese — Mon, 18 May 2015 20:27:17 +0000

thoughtful article

New comment by mistercheese in "Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?"

mistercheese — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 02:51:38 +0000

How did you find your mix of freelance work initially? Do you go through agencies? If so, how did you find the best agencies starting out?

New comment by mistercheese in "Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?"

mistercheese — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 02:49:40 +0000

As a complete newbie to contract/freelance work, how did you first get started finding good agencies to work with?

New comment by mistercheese in "IPhone app turns your iPhone 5c and case into ‘Connect Four’ board"

mistercheese — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:25:25 +0000

Maybe I'm no fun, but am I the only one who fails to see why this is at all better than a normal, boring Connect Four App? This isn't the correct side board, and for the effort of attaching and un-attaching the case, it only adds a restrictive, small, physical grid which could just as easily have been drawn onto the screen anyway.

New comment by mistercheese in "Ubuntu Edge Gets First Major Corporate Backer, Funding Still Off Needed Pace"

mistercheese — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:22:20 +0000

Forgive my crowd funding ignorance, but what's to stop them from just paying themselves (as a mysterious donor) whatever the gap is at the end so that they keep whatever amount they do manage to raise?

New comment by mistercheese in "Can Someone Turn Me On?"

mistercheese — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:19:21 +0000

I'm curious if the ability to pilot the device is that useful - it can't navigate crowds or do stairs anyway. So for the price, an iPad on a stick that has any always on VC would seem to be much cheaper and just as effective. Easy to move around if you need, and cheap enough to put in every room.

New comment by mistercheese in "The Crucial/Micron M500 Review – 960GB SSD for $600"

mistercheese — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:13:05 +0000

I would wager that even so, drives are replaced in less than 10% of all laptops bought by consumers. Even batteries would likely be a small portion.

Now if we talk about this particular upgrade, how many people would pay $600 bucks for 960 GB of space, I can imagine it's an even smaller fraction.

The size benefit is something that everyone appreciates when they buy a MBP retina. There are enough other laptop choices if you want upgrade-ability and repair-ability, and MBP retina doesn't need to compete on that level.

New comment by mistercheese in "Surfacing Interesting Content"

mistercheese — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:41:09 +0000

This looks awesome, I've been curious to how we might be able to programatically solve for "surfacing interesting content". Upvote solutions are on a decline, and curation/moderation is on the rise as we realize those solutions don't scale all that well. Apply to music, videos, photos, links, comments, etc...